EDIT: Video link replaced.
The Neil DeGrasse Tyson/Ann Druyan helmed sequel to COSMOS, which airs in 2014, has a trailer. I love everything about it, right down to the updated “spaceship of the mind”.
Now to find out when exactly it starts airing, so I can spend the preceding thirteen weeks rewatching the original COSMOS….
SQUEE!
Hm. It says something, I think — although I haven't yet decided what — that the lyrical, contemplative, almost melancholy tone of Carl Sagan's Cosmos has now evolved into something resembling an action movie. Or at least that the update is being advertised as if it were an action movie, with the thundering music, rapid edits, etc. I'm not saying that's bad… just an observation.
And is it just me, or does the new Ship of the Imagination remind anyone else of the Fett family's Slave One?
"This video is private." Arrgh.