Neil Degrasse Tyson's Cosmos (spoiler alert)

[Bucky]

The universe is only one year old. Take that, young Earth creationists!

Seriously, I thought it was a fun recap of Sagan's original, although the commercials kind of interrupted the flow of the host's thought--unlike the original (which ran 56 minutes per hour on PBS rather than the 43 minutes that commercial TV alots). Mad props for zeroing in on Giordano Bruno, the wily Renaissance mystic. The cartoon was a fun approach. Sagan's original started with Kepler, the guy who figured out planets moved in elliptical orbits rather than circles, which led me to a lifelong obsession with Johannes Kepler and his fussy mentor Tycho "Silvernose" Brahe.

[HarveyDarkey]

1. I agree about the commercials

I remember the uninterrupted original & the commercials really detracted. That being said, I think it was really well done, and a fitting tribute to Dr. Sagan. I enjoyed the segment on Bruno & appreciated how Dr. Tyson waited to the final minutes to bring up his personal relationship with Dr. Sagan.

[Wounded Bear]

2. It was pretty well done...

and opened and closed with an homage to Carl Sagan, which is as it should be.

The new age graphics are better than back then, of course, but NdG is pretty good on the presentation side. He, like Sagan, has a bit of the flair needed to carry off a project like that. There's a showman in there amongst all the scientific genius.