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Anyone still watching Cosmos?

Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:18 pm
Posted by LSUSUPERSTAR
TX
Member since Jan 2005
16347 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:18 pm
It seems to have turned in to a show for global warming. I am sad.
Posted by mizzoukills
Member since Aug 2011
40686 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:22 pm to
It sucks. Very disappointed in the direction the show took.
Posted by Cole Beer
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
4590 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:22 pm to
"Science" is now a code word for liberal propoganda
Posted by TROLA
BATON ROUGE
Member since Apr 2004
12501 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:28 pm to
It really has become a Global Warming show without any counter evidence nor any real solutions. They dont even touch on the wrong predictions of the ones they hold up as soothsayers from years past.
Posted by Melvin
Member since Apr 2011
23535 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:31 pm to
Haven't watched the latest one but yes I am still watching and it's great.
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83664 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:40 pm to
Yes, I still watch it and love it.
Posted by JabarkusRussell
Member since Jul 2009
15825 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 12:47 pm to
I gave up after 3. They have a lot of fat they could cut each episode like the cartoons. Needs to be a 30 minute show especially for such heavy material that takes a while for the mind to wrap around without feeling exhausted.
Posted by Methuselah
On da Riva
Member since Jan 2005
23350 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:17 pm to
I've watched each of the shows. Generally not on Sunday nights though. (that was a suicide time slot to put it in).

I've enjoyed the series and I haven't found it to be overly biased. It deals with the scientific method and I think we've become so accustomed to the point/counterpoint style presentation of things that some people find it a bit jarring.

Then again, lots of stuff that is accepted as proven now were once hotly disputed.
Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2013
22229 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:49 pm to
It took a back seat to GoT but I still watch it on Monday nights.
Posted by northLAgoomba
The Cooper Road, Ratchet City, LA
Member since Nov 2009
3802 posts
Posted on 6/2/14 at 5:44 pm to
I have watched every episode, but honestly I enjoy Neil DeGrasse Tyson's youtube lectures and debates much more.
Posted by MasonTiger
Mason, Ohio
Member since Jan 2005
16292 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 5:25 pm to
To me, it's just more of the same of what we see on so many other networks available to us today. Nothing special. The original Cosmos was fresh and new in its day, and Sagan's narrative kept you interested whereas Tyson's puts you to sleep, although that could be a result of the dull scripts. With that and my DVR memory at a premium, I've given up on it.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 5:57 pm to
I've given up on it. The original Cosmos was Sagan delivering the script/book he'd written in his own voice. It worked and was brilliant because it was Sagan's thoughts about the world around Sagan.

This Cosmos is NDT reading someone else's words in a manner that is decidedly not what makes NDT usually such a fricking fantastic speaker and champion of science to the layperson and is unwatchable. I had such high hopes, but once I realized that NDT really didn't have much to do with the script and was just hired to read what was on the teleprompter I didn't feel so great about this series. Once I'd seen that the way the show was presented didn't even let NDT's usual personality and delivery come through, I pulled the eject lever and punched out.
This post was edited on 6/6/14 at 6:03 pm
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
424965 posts
Posted on 6/9/14 at 8:36 am to
i couldn't make it through episode 2. the episodes are not structured well and NDGT isn't a good host

also, as observing as my roommate watches, they do focus on AGW too much. this is a multi-episode show on the universe...it shouldn't be dominated by any one subject like that, regardless of your faith in the science behind it
Posted by CockHolliday
Columbia, SC
Member since Dec 2012
4530 posts
Posted on 6/10/14 at 3:45 pm to
It wasn't really as far-reaching into the "cosmos" as I hoped the show might be...it seems to focus mostly on the history of our earth and the people who have shaped the voyage of how we got to where we are today in our understanding of various sciences. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just not quite the scope of what I hoped it would be.
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