Data Graham posted:

Though maybe the foremost thing that I notice about it, and most ruefully, is how it has that 50s-B-movie-esque hero-worship of prominent scientists, like they're dominant pop culture figures whose opinions are treated with breathless adulation and whose personal safety is the concern of the whole of society. Professor Mortinson is supposed to be like post-WWII Einstein or something, basically a celebrity and national hero whose every utterance is news.