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Cosmos, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson - In which we learn that FOX is not the same as Fox News
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Yeah, I'm just trying to help. I'm a crazy person who reads every post, but I guess I need to remember that not everyone does that.
Cosmos, though, I'm behind a week but it sounds like it really picks up in this next episode, I'm excited for that! Someone posted earlier they wanted a second season, I don't think this is the kind of show that lends itself to season after season. It's more like this is the second season, just decades later. So, a third season in 2035 or so?
I would like to see an epilogue show that talks about the discoveries that have happened since they filmed, probably focusing on the background radiation discovery from last week. Unless something else amazing happens by the end of the show!
if SIG, or anyone, has posted that ink earlier in the thread, then fair enough. but there's a difference between reading every post and remembering every post. maybe keep in mind that we were all just trying to help.
I'm willing to watch it legit, with ads, online, but I can't seem to find a way to play it.
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You can install something like MediaHint on your Chrome browser, and watch it on Hulu.
Alternately, here: http://www.globaltv.com/cosmos/
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Another great episode on why science and the scientific method is so god damn important, but is this the first without a direct, overt Carl Sagan reference?
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
And if it ends with an updated Pale Blue Dot, I'll be a little teary.
Don't get me wrong, I love Neil, but I don't know if he has the right gravitas in his narration for this to work. I would be satisfied with Sagan's version over new visuals.
starstuff seems a pretty direct reference.
Not nearly as overt or direct as "Carl Sagan's day planner" or "This animation and audio from the original show."
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It might be. Doubt itll stay on Fox Sundays though
You guys are making my deranged alphabet combined with Rosicrucian cipher look positively bush-league.
Edit: neutrinos! Even cooler!
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At this point I actually prefer it to Cosmos because Tyson is talking a lot more looser and faster than how he's been doing for primetime, where he's still got visual assistance but he's giving the audience a little bit more respect about what he's saying.
And I think that's what's making me feel like the recent Cosmos episodes have been streets behind; on top of a few spots feeling redundant and the abundance of animation that I'm not too keen on, it feels like Tyson is kind of condescending when he's constantly using his rhetorical device to explain stuff. Maybe not condescending but it almost feels like they're playing the soundtrack when Tyson was filming his segments and he's waiting for cues or something and there's always an impetus to deliver something grand and flashy with the CGI when all I really want is for the smart guy to show why he's smart and not just look at the CGI stuff himself.
With Inexplicable Universe he seems much, much more enthusiastic about explaining science.
Cosmos is designed for people with almost no understanding of modern science and its more cinematic and repetitive as a result. Its a teaching tool.
The lectures on netflix are for a different audience thats more familiar with the subjects
The animation is just as bad as the live action in the originals
Holy shit you weren't kidding.
Looked like a 1999 Silicon Graphics demo.
That part didn't even make any sense. Who's idea was it to portray the process with weird Rube Goldberg machinery? That was so jarring, I barely noticed how crappy the effects were.
They were following the conceit of machinery to explain how it works through the whole segment on photosynthesis. And while I too ended up thinking about old VHS 3D demos of fish trying to hang out with birds... the actual function of the machine was appropriate, and all the "parts" were accomplishing the atomic dance that comprises photosynthesis.
We may not be the right audience for a simple visual like this, though... but if it helps a younger (or less educated) crowd grasp the concept of the generation of fuel/energy via photosynthesis, then it works.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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I immediately thought of the old "Animusic" videos.
Though looking at it now even it looks a bit nicer than the Cosmos segments.
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Simple visuals work pretty well.