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Hey dudes, though it's not premiering until next year, I figured I start a thread for the new Cosmos show hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's being produced by Ann Druyan (wife of Carl Sagan) and Seth McFarlane. Now slated for a Q2 release in 2014, episodes will premiere on Fox and also air on National Geographic Channel on the same night. From wikipedia quote:The original 13-part Cosmos: A Personal Voyage first aired in 1980 on the Public Broadcasting System, and was hosted by Carl Sagan. The show has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming". The show has been watched by at least 400 million people across 60 different countries, and until The Civil War documentary in 1990, remained the network's highest rated program I was in attendance at New York Comic Con this year and Neil was there with Ann and they premiered some animation footage from the upcoming show. I don't think this has been posted anywhere yet, so enjoy. (skip to 3:10 if you just want to see the animation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERmsazb40Y [edit] And of course me being away from SA for a while, forgot to click off the appropriate banner. If a mod could change it I would be grateful. If not I understand
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If this was just Tyson stream-of-consciousnessing about the Universe for 13 episodes, I'd watch it. I've been jonesing for some good astronomy stuff ever since Brian Cox's "Wonders" series. Can't wait for this.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:46
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I wonder if they are going to tone down the 'there is no god' parts, esp. since its on Fox?
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Oct 28, 2013 18:29
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Oh man, this is going to be awesome, thanks for the heads up. I had always wished for a new "Cosmos" hosted by NDGT, and my wish is coming true.PowerBuilder3 posted:I wonder if they are going to tone down the 'there is no god' parts, esp. since its on Fox? It's certainly interesting that FOX, of all networks, will be airing this. I would have expected PBS, or maybe even NBC or ABC.
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Oct 28, 2013 19:34
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Apparently Seth MacFarlane of all people arranged it. And since FOX is his bitch that's where it's airing.
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Oct 29, 2013 02:56
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Less than two months until air date!
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Jan 17, 2014 20:38
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I'm psyched for this because
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Feb 4, 2014 01:07
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I'm semi-excited for this, I guess. Although NDT wishes he were 1/10th the science explainer dude guy that Carl Sagan is. NDT honestly kind of annoys me. This will not be anywhere near as good as the original. I'm slowly getting more pessimistic as this post goes on. I'll stop now.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:09
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I'm sorry we can't dig up Sagan's corpse and rig it with some wires to host the show but SOMEONE has to try and educate people on the universe in this day and age.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:19
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Damo posted:Although NDT wishes he were 1/10th the science explainer dude guy that Carl Sagan is. I completely disagree with you but then again I actually understand the science they are trying to explain (and inevitably dumb down) so maybe that has something to do with it. Sagan may have been slightly better at the poetry (and that's all it is, poetry,) but NDT gets a little more to the heart of the issue. A part of me dies inside, just a little, when any pop-sci show starts talking about virtual particles.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:44
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It is not a remake of Cosmos, it is a sequel. It'll be all flashy and such to keep the modern day crowd interested. I'm sure we'll get a lot of facts and information but hopefully it is a hit with the general populous who don't get exposed to much science in their lives. Anything to promote education is good, which is why I think it's quite amazing that Seth Macfarlane pushed to get this on Fox at a primetime slot.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:45
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Damo posted:I'm semi-excited for this, I guess. Although NDT wishes he were 1/10th the science explainer dude guy that Carl Sagan is. Out of curiosity, have you read his books? I think that his books would be much easier for a non-intellectual audience to read, without really sacrificing content. He also talks like an ordinary person you'd meet on the street. He doesn't have the grandiose language or poetic delivery or weird voice, but those are turn-offs with non-science people just as often as otherwise.
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Feb 10, 2014 15:52
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drunkill posted:Anything to promote education is good, which is why I think it's quite amazing that Seth Macfarlane pushed to get this on Fox at a primetime slot. He needs this goodwill to balance out the trainwreck that will be Bordertown.
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Feb 11, 2014 00:08
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Oh Neil  
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Feb 14, 2014 07:53
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As a huge fan of the original series and Carl Sagan the human being, I am cautiously optimistic about this new series. I'll admit that I kind of expect a lot of the heart and soul to be lost in translation, replaced with a bunch of expensive graphics and flashy editing. I was always blown away by the original Cosmos' earnest and scholarly presentation, but I guess John Q Public doesn't have the kind of attention span or tolerance for that in 2014. I always found Cosmos charming because a lot of scenes would just feature Carl Sagan strolling through a field or sitting on a large rock, as if musing to a group of classical toga-wearing apprentices.
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Feb 14, 2014 08:42
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I think the fact that updated information might be present is all I need to know. I'm a sucker for science, and anything NDT. I also sort of feel his podcast, startalk, has fallen off a bit, so Maybe with this being done, we'll get better quality over there too.
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Feb 14, 2014 22:32
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How out of date is the info in the original series?
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Feb 14, 2014 23:01
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All the people complaining about unneccesary flashy graphics must not remember that roughly 1/3rd of the original Cosmos was cheesy special effects shots of a spaceship traveling through space with Sagan's narration and a Vangelis soundtrack in the background.
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Feb 14, 2014 23:01
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Hakkesshu posted:How out of date is the info in the original series? Well, it was made in the later 70's early 80's. Let's just say a fuckton. The entirely of the mars rover mission, Cassini-Huygens, NGC 1987A, hubble deep fields, all of the exoplanets discovered, that were never confirmed but only hypothesized about in a whimsical way. I love Cosmos the original, but common, do I have settle for SciCh's Planets, and to a lesser extend History's The Universe? Going further back, sure Sam Neill did an excellent narration of Hyperspace, but still, these can be considered out of date with how much new information has been discovered. Through the wormhole and Hawkin's universe were awesome, but I think those still can be considered somewhat out of date. Not like what any of these shows are saying is any less factual, but I think with newer more advance studies it paints a better picture to those without some hyper-imagination to be able to understand it much more clearly. I guess, I just don't understand why anyone would ever want less of this programing on TV. ...of SCIENCE! posted:Vangelis soundtrack in the background. I love the songs that plays during his speech about the constellations changing in the future, perhaps thousands of years from now.
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Feb 14, 2014 23:23
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I'd say Brian Cox's "Wonders" series ("... of the Solar System", "... of the Universe" and "... of Life" to a lesser extent) is worth checking out, they're fairly recent and contain some new and relevant info and pretty good production values too if you want eye candy.
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Feb 16, 2014 16:45
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Exploder posted:
So...it'll be exactly like that clip out of family guy then? The universe is hundreds of years old and made by goooooooooood.
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Feb 16, 2014 17:07
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Right, Fox, the network that people used to joke about slowly turning into a hardcore porn network and went all the way to the Supreme Court over an indecency fine a few years ago, follows the exact same standards that the editorial standards of their national news uses.
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Feb 16, 2014 21:19
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WMain00 posted:So...it'll be exactly like that clip out of family guy then? News Corp owns a chunk of National Geographic. That's why it's airing on both channels.
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Feb 16, 2014 21:34
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...of SCIENCE! posted:All the people complaining about unneccesary flashy graphics must not remember that roughly 1/3rd of the original Cosmos was cheesy special effects shots of a spaceship traveling through space with Sagan's narration and a Vangelis soundtrack in the background. I'm not complaining at all, just musing. Part of the original's charm was the cheesy special effects, although at the time it was released, I suppose it was the latest poo poo too. Vangelis is awesome.
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Feb 17, 2014 04:38
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Spaceship of the Imagination then and Spaceship of the Imagination now are both lame. My imagination is too vivid for their minimalist designs 
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Feb 17, 2014 04:46
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I caught a split-second glimpse of a tardigrade in an ad for this tonight. That confirms that this will be totally awesome.
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Feb 24, 2014 02:02
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I wonder if the series will open with (or contain somewhere) another short message from Ann Druyan like the re-broadcast Cosmos had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6Ktq22E8U And for those that don't know, the series will be composed by Alan Silvestri, who has worked on a Carl Sagan project before, scoring Contact. drunkill fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Reviews are starting to come in from preview showings of the first episode. They seem to be overwhelmingly positive. http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/tv-zone-1.811968/seth-macfarlane-s-cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey-review-basic-yet-beautiful-1.7290395 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/space/a-successor-to-sagan-reboots-cosmos.html?_r=0 http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/05/3673695/for-reboot-of-sagans-cosmos-neil.html http://time.com/13005/review-of-cosmos-on-fox/ http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-seth-macfarlane-neil-degrasse-tyson-bring-cosmos-back-to-life-on-fox http://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/Cosmos-returns-with-a-Big-Bang-5293899.php
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Nail Rat posted:He doesn't have the grandiose language or poetic delivery or weird voice, but those are turn-offs with non-science people just as often as otherwise. Yeah, that's why the original Cosmos was so popular 
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NatGeo has been running Cosmos all day and roughly every 10-15 minutes there's something that makes me go "or so we thought" or "at the time" or even "not even close." I'm rather surprised how out of date this is, but at the same time...any time something is on TV that's space-related and the channel guide has a date earlier than 2009, I know its probably not worth my time.
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Mar 8, 2014 22:20
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I don't know if the Natgeo ones do this, but I remember the Cosmos episodes on Hulu all had updates at the end from a very old looking Carl Sagan explaining what science had figured out between then and whenever he taped the updates. Seeing a lot of the progress science has made between then and now is mostly why I'm excited for this.
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Mar 8, 2014 23:22
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Farecoal posted:Yeah, that's why the original Cosmos was so popular Maybe the Blu-ray release will replace Neil deGrasse Tyson with Oprah, or Sigourney Weaver, but only in the US.
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Mar 9, 2014 00:06
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Maduo posted:I don't know if the Natgeo ones do this, but I remember the Cosmos episodes on Hulu all had updates at the end from a very old looking Carl Sagan explaining what science had figured out between then and whenever he taped the updates. Seeing a lot of the progress science has made between then and now is mostly why I'm excited for this. They seemed to be the original 80 ones not the later updated version.
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Mar 9, 2014 00:18
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Even the updates would be incredibly out of date considering he died in '96. But I'm still loving watching this, I'd only seen bits and pieces before.
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Mar 9, 2014 00:20
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I finished the old series last year on Netflix so I'm looking forward to this beginning.AwkwardKnob posted:I always found Cosmos charming because a lot of scenes would just feature Carl Sagan strolling through a field or sitting on a large rock, as if musing to a group of classical toga-wearing apprentices. It looks like there will be a lot of him walking around: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/mediaindex?ref_=ttmd_md_sm
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I watched the preview screening of the first episode for this on Tuesday. It's really good. The first episode was by turns both a grandiose exploration of the universe and a sincerely heartfelt introspective of science and humanity. There were more than a couple of sequences that had me teary-eyed. NDT's narration and personal flair are fantastic. Everything about the production is beautiful -- from the CG shots, to the real footage, to the animation sequences that serve as replacements for Sagan's Cosmos's live-action historical bits. It feels equal parts remake, homage, and sequel. It is a great, worthy continuation of Cosmos, and it's great to see that Fox and Nat Geo are really throwing their weight behind it to really sell it to the general populace. I'm really excited to see where it heads from here.
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Mar 9, 2014 07:44
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So if I want to watch this online are my only real options Hulu Plus?
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Mar 9, 2014 12:39
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What, no mention of Obama doing a lead-in announcement of the show?
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counterfeitsaint posted:So if I want to watch this online are my only real options Hulu Plus? That would be pretty funny because the premier is going to be on 10 US channels today and 220 channels internationally. I'm not kidding. It's going to be playing on Fox Sports 1, even.
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Apoplexy posted:What, no mention of Obama doing a lead-in announcement of the show? All the people who would refuse to watch something because Obama was introducing the series premiere, probably weren't going to watch a science show hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson in the first place.
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