re: Anyone still watching Cosmos?

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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.

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Is it that you never watched the original Cosmos series? I ask that, because Sagan's original did exactly the same thing. Much of whatever that episode's lesson was about would be told through stories. In 1980, they were done with live actors portraying various individuals from the time period instead of cartoons, but he did it a ton. They are clearly trying to mimic that system.

Sagan also went off into what people now seem to feel are very "political" topics...and Sagan himself was FAR more vocal about his own personal politics than Neil DeGrasse Tyson is.

If there is a complaint to be made about this iteration of Cosmos is that it's trying TOO HARD to be what it's predecessor was, in a time when we are, thankfully, FLOODED with science programming...so Cosmos seems boring to some in comparison to faster paced shows on The Science Channel. That is actually funny, considering we live in a world of science programming made possible by the original Cosmos, and that programming is what is, in large part, making a Cosmos-like show seem quaint.