![]() ![]() 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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