I remember snippets of the show, but didn't always watch.

Sagan was an great presenter, and the show was good, but I wasn't a huge fan and didn't always watch. There seemed to be an almost cult-like atmosphere created by parts of the press and some of the "Cornell Mafia" at the time. I never would have suspected that science shows on TV would nearly dry up after he was gone. :-(

It looks like we were more similar than I thought - http://en.wikipedia....39_World.27s_Fair

1939 World's Fair[edit]

Sagan recalls that one of his most defining moments was when his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair when he was four years old. The exhibits became a turning point in his life.

Heh. The 1964-1965 Worlds Fair did that for me. Seeing the dinosaurs at Sinclair's Dinoland left an impression! http://nywf64.com/sinclair01.shtml

A couple of shows that stuck with me more than Cosmos (maybe due to the time more than anything else) were James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" - http://www.amazon.co...ke/dp/B001RCL5SQ/ and "I, Leonardo" (aka "The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci") - http://www.amazon.co...HS/dp/6303400396/ And of course just about anything done by David Attenborough...

Here's hoping NdGT gets the writers and production assistance the topic deserves. It's good that Fox is pushing it; I hope 9 PM on Sundays (or 10 PM Mondays on NatGeo) isn't too late for school kids to see... :-(

I do wish that Fox hadn't seemingly retouched his photo to make his skin lighter in the promo pictures - http://www.cosmosontv.com/ (vs https://www.google.c...3&bih=670&dpr=0.9 ). :-<

Fingers crossed for him. I hope it's a great success.

Cheers,
Scott.

Guess I cut Sagan's mannerisms a bit more slack, though I viewed the series as, for the neophytes and judged it on those apparent results.
Also, didn't pay enough attention to peripheral stuff to catch the Cornell effect; expected hype, though.

(Had already realized the gulf/chasm?? between most folks and anything beyond junk-science.--so my interest was self-serving.)
I mean.. who wants to live amidst folk who see sci. as magick (they don't want to learn about) or fearful-doings (they'd rather imagine about?)

Neutral on Fox's 'lightening' -?- lots of shades on Google, too; there's no 'STP' for color temp across all photogs, right? Gotta see him Live..
(Not that it wouldn't occur to Fox to pander to Its Base, of course--but so blatantly, in 2014?)
Many good posters/quips in that collection,

There is no shame in not knowing.

The problem arises
when irrational thought and attendant behavior
fill the vacuum left by ignorance

Think T. will do fine--exceed Sagan, except extemporaneously perhaps, peripheral to the Show: clearly he doesn't suffer fools at all, and there are many around/in-suits or grungies.

PS: Gotcher Tickets to the '39 Worlds Fair right chere! A bit early por moi to go. $3.75 for face-value $5.40 !!!
(Aunt legacy--seems they used a few of them.) Inside also too: a Ration Coupon for 5# sugar (Rev. 2-44)
If The Doctor times it right, on 6/10/39 George VI + Elizabeth will be there too!

So we're good to go, if the Tardis stays on schedule.

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