Good point, Jared. ------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 10:19 AM MDT Jared Smith wrote:
I very much enjoyed the first episode. It took a while for me to figure out what was unsettling about it though - for a show focused on reality and truth, 98% of the show was CGI. I'm not sure there was a single photo or video of celestial objects that was not computer generated. Certainly we have many amazing real-life images of objects they could have used. They didn't even use real photos of the sun, moon, or earth. And some of the depictions (Saturn's rings, the asteroid belt, etc.) were pretty far-fetched, thus supporting misunderstandings many have about such objects. Of course these are quite minor things, but I found myself increasingly uncomfortable with its artificial depictions, especially of things that are directly observable.
Jared
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM, M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> wrote:
According the this Salt Lake Tribune story
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/57608648-223/cosmos-fox-science-...
it has 13 episodes. Seth McFarland, the creator of Family Guy is also a producer which explains the cartoons about Giordano Bruno.
My only objection to the series is the placement of ads, or should I say the timing. They were always interupting an important thought line with those ads instead of waiting for a transition between thoughts. It was particularly irritating when the ads at one point were only 5 minutes apart.
________________________________ From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Cosmos
1st and 2nd gen! Yeah!
On Monday, March 10, 2014 12:23 AM, "jcarman6@q.com" <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
If they are sticking to the original, there should be about 13 episodes. I'm not sure they have ever mentioned a number of episodes for Tyson's Cosmos. Did you notice in the opening credits "Executive Producer: Ann Druyan"? Ann is Sagan's wife/widow. Pretty sure she worked on the first generation Cosmos. Is that what we call it now Cosmos First Generation, Cosmos Second Generation? lol _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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