Cosmos was... a once in a lifetime experience. No matter how much effort is put into this remake, it can only be a dim reflection of the original for those of us lucky enough to enjoy it. It broke so many moulds and set so many standards for factual programming that anything else is just a derivative. Any attempt to redo it or 'extend' it just feels... wrong somehow.Consequently, this remake thus has a very faint scent of blasphemy about it that leaves many people feeling equivocal. We'll probably get over it eventually but... ah, somehow it couldn't be the same.
I understand the feeling. I felt the same as the new Battlestar Galactica aired season 1. But it didn't take long before I was completely hooked!
The people who say with disdain and disgust: "It's appearing on Fox? Their viewers don't know any science!" And I simply reply, "If true, that makes Fox the best network of them all on which to air this series."
I enjoy Tyson. My concern is that the show will most likely have to refrain from scientifically speaking on the origins of the universe and on the origins of life. One pet peeve about these shows is their depiction of black holes as actual black spheres.... in reality they would almost certainly be shrouded in million degree hellishly bright vortex of many suns worth of matter. Quite the opposite of blackness.
Just got finished reading Frank Borman's book, he was NOT kind to Sagan at all, and what I read really lowered my opinion of the man )Sagan, that is).