Cosmos - Another season for 2019!

[Thebobo]

I cant wait a year.

 

[TheVrolok]

Awesome.

 

[umbrella39]

Great News - see sig

 

[Thebobo]

I'm frothing

 

[darkswordsman17]

Good, although I hope that its a little more coherent than their original attempt. Which I defended it at the time, but it had flaws that could definitely be worked out. In comparison, Bill Nye's Netflix show (which I felt was flawed quite a bit as well) was more focused, while Cosmos kinda meandered (between NDT sitting in imaginary spaceship, animated segments, and other stuff), which I think causes them to lose effectiveness in transmitting ideas. And yes, I realize Sagan's show was similar in having re-enactments and mixing other random clips, and I think its frankly overrated (hell it puts me to sleep everytime I watch it just because its like a droning monotone most of the time). Sagan could be great at getting ideas across, but I don't feel his show was as effective, which is disappointing since you'd think him being able to setup more elaborate means of explaining things would be better, but it was like he just used it to choose random places to shoot short clips (that often didn't have anything to do with where he was shooting the video at, or if it did it was minor), and then the elaborate (but still lacking) re-enactments.

I recall someone at the time pointing out how there's quite a few others (think they linked some other British cosmologist that did a video), that were capable of delving into even headier concepts, but because they presented it in a better way, made it more accessible and did a much better job of actually imparting knowledge.

Cosmos just seems a bit too abstract, especially for reaching younger audiences. And some of their parables weren't entirely apt for their point or were even wrong (I recall that being a common criticism).

 

[local]

The first one was forgettable, not excited for more of it. In fact it took me two days of seeing the title of the thread to remember the show at all. I preferred Tyson in that episode of Stargate: Atlantis where McKay bitches at Tyson for demoting Pluto and making kids cry.

 

[Thebobo]

Official trailer out

 

[Rifter]

Nice!

 

[Thebobo]

just warming up the thread with a little show and tell

COSMOS: Possible Worlds will premiere on FOX and the National Geographic Channel in March 2019.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Looking forward to it. Season 1 was a little underwhelming, but maybe my expectations were just unrealistic. Even mediocre science shows are better than 95% of other programming.

I just got done binge watching season 6 of TDC's "How the Universe Works".

 

[brianmanahan]

 

[darkswordsman17]

They'll need to really step things up. There's frankly been quite a bit of backlash on Tyson, with people starting to think he's a jerk (and its from people that normally would be for championing a person like him - minority role in a very white male dominated field). I think a lot of that is stupid, but he's pretty abrasive sometimes, so he could use a bit of a foil. I would love if he got some of the people that helped on Bill Nye's show, as they were standouts (Derek Mueller and there was a woman that was great on the segments she did as well, although I think most of them were solid). People that can feed off each other and excitement over science. Both shows could use less Star Talk mannerisms and more of the old school science excitement. They flashed it some but its like they need to string it together and build some sustainable thing. Like Nye should do a season long experiment where each episode provides some aspect of the larger experiment. Get people like Woz (kids won't know him, but I think he could be a great character on a show like that, he has a child-like wonder to him, but he knows his shit too) as guests, and have pieces at like SpaceX (maybe ask to have someone other than Musk be the rep though...) and other stuff. For a segment about religion, have the guys that were getting all the images and then using cloud processing to stitch them together in order to preserve historic sites, in the midst of religious zealots (ISIS) trying to tear them down. Have discussions about the give and take about preserving the past vs the future (stuff like China's Three Gorges Dam, where they flooded historic sites that may never be seen again). Show that while it can be contentious it doesn't have to be vitriolic, and that working together can help both sides. Show people about stuff like Raspberry Pi, and other tinkering projects that could really help kids. Maybe have a contest, where in exchange for the free publicity, they give a certain amount of free ones to kids that come up with ideas they'd like to try and do using them. Go to science fairs (there's a documentary that I believe came out recently about a science fair). Maybe at the end of each episode give them a riddle/puzzle thing to solve, or an experiment to try, and then show the method and results in the next one.