Saturday, June 14, 2014

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Complete Series [TV Review]

I've already reviewed the firast epsiode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. So this will not be my longest review ever.



The Cosmic Calender.
This review is about the entire series as a whole, not the single individual episodes.

5 out of 5 stars
This was an absolutely amazing, utterly stunning, masterpiece of a television series. Each episode delves into the depths of science, and illuminates them. There is history, biology, astronomy, cosmology, and so many more. Almost all, if not all (but I doubt that), of the branches of science are represented.

The Ship of Imagination zooming through DNA.
Through the course of 13 episodes you will experience the wonder of science, see things and learn things that you may never have known. You will delve into history and learn about scientists you may have heard of, and many scientists you have mostly likely not heard of. For each famous scientist you most likely have heard of, you will be introduced to one or more that you probably have not.

A recreation of the Great Library at Alexandria.
Earlier I reviewed one single episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

- Standing Up in the Milky Way
There are 12 more, I never reviewed (because of Game of Thrones).
- Some of the Things that Molecules Do. (An old quote by Carl Sagan).
- When Knowledge Conquers Fear.
- Hiding in the Light
- A Sky Full of Ghosts
- Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
- The Clean Room
- Sisters of the Sun
- The Electric Boy
- The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
- The Immortals
- The World Set Free
- Unafraid of the Dark

All of these are already available on Bluray and DVD. I've never seen nor heard of a TV series that ended one Sunday and was out on disc the very next Tuesday. Cosmos was, and yeah... I've already got my BDs. You should get yours. 

It is a moving, powerful series. It is filled with knowledge, with passion, and with warnings. It makes you sit down and think about the scope of humanity compared against the scope of the cosmos. It is both humbling and uplifting. I'm not ashamed to say that there were times I actually choked up a bit. This is an amazingly powerful series.  

Neil deGrasse Tyson.



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