![]() ![]() The bridge of the "spaceship" he flies from the farthest reaches of the universe to the shores of our own planet is straight out of Blake's Seven.īut then the real business got started, and it was breathtaking. Sagan himself, in the early episodes, seems to deliver his lines in a contemptuous drawl, not unlike the Matrix's Agent Smith. ![]() The music was corny, the opening sequence in which Sagan strides along a clifftop above a rocky shore felt like a documentary cliché, his introduction was painfully drawn-out, the promised poetry was turning the sea air purple. To be honest, my first impressions were not favourable. Would it live up to such high expectations? The 13 one-hour episodes of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage have just been re-released, digitally remastered and with updates on scientific progress in the quarter century that has passed since the series was created. I've heard science journalist colleagues talk about the series almost with reverence, describing Sagan's commentary as "poetry". I was at boarding school in 1980 when it was released, so my TV watching was restricted. I never got to watch Carl Sagan's epic science documentary Cosmos as a child. ![]()
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