Wonders of the Universe

[gallsman]

Anyone see this show last night? Professor Brian Cox's follow up to the excellent Wonders of the Solar System from last year.

Looks very good again.

[ziggysego]

Sky+ it. Looking forward to sitting down to watch it, hopefully tomorrow night.

[highorlow]

It will never top an idiot abroad...

[theskull1]

A bit to much posing on top of things whilst the helicopter panned around him for my liking. Do we really need that much "style" to encourage people to absorb the "substance"? Maybe we do

Still enjoyed it though

[deiseach]

I can't watch it. Brian Cox's manner gets on my wick. Pity

[Tony Baloney]

A bit to much posing on top of things whilst the helicopter panned around him for my liking. Do we really need that much "style" to encourage people to absorb the "substance"? Maybe we do

Still enjoyed it though

Same as that. He must have blown the BBC budget for the year. Did enjoy it even though some of the stuff would make your brain hurt.

[Olly]

Green eyed monster on this thread.

He's such a dreamboat.

[Hardy]

A bit to much posing on top of things whilst the helicopter panned around him for my liking. Do we really need that much "style" to encourage people to absorb the "substance"? Maybe we do

Still enjoyed it though

Same as that. He must have blown the BBC budget for the year. Did enjoy it even though some of the stuff would make your brain hurt.

That stuff gets irritating OK. I don't see the point in flying to South America just to walk along a beach towards a hill. The whole presentation style seems to be about scenery. It seems stupid to me to be showing panning shots of a mountain range while trying to explain entropy when you should be maximising the power of the visual medium you're using by deploying computer graphics and animation to illustrate the concept. 

As regards his personal presentation, he seems to be trying hard to lose the smirk, so a B+ for effort.

[deiseach]

As regards his personal presentation, he seems to be trying hard to lose the smirk, so a B+ for effort.

Might give it a second chance then, previously he came across like a used car salesman

[Hardy]

A word of warning, though - he hasn't fully succeeded.

[deiseach]

When I'm driving around in a lovely litle mo'ar only ever owned by a little ol' lady who used it to go to the shops, then the exhaust falls off, I'll come gunning for you Hardy

[AFS]

Really like Brian Cox, unsettling smirk and all, but was disappointed by the show. While there was the odd interesting bit, far too much of the hour was taken up by very tenuously related scenes of glaciers and shipwrecks and turtles. Cox needs to lay off the Sagan DVDs too, there are only so many millions and billions that you can throw out there before people stop even trying to compute.

[Tony Baloney]

It will never top an idiot abroad...

Millions and billions?! He used the following sentence "It's 10,000 trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years". He could have just said a long time - who can prove it will be that long?

[bennydorano]

Really like Brian Cox, unsettling smirk and all, but was disappointed by the show. While there was the odd interesting bit, far too much of the hour was taken up by very tenuously related scenes of glaciers and shipwrecks and turtles. Cox needs to lay off the Sagan DVDs too, there are only so many millions and billions that you can throw out there before people stop even trying to compute.

As someone who watches anything cosmologically related on the Documentary channels I have to agree, I dont know how he's going to stretch it to four shows either, there's going to be some fierce padding.  Still a relaxing hour's viewing thou.

[upmonaghansayswe]

I can't watch it. Brian Cox's manner gets on my wick. Pity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/

On the right hand side.. "Jon Culshaw mimics Ricky Gervais".. Does a good Brian Cox.