Wonders of the Universe

And in the next rant David Attenborough goes to look at Lemur's in Madagascar when he could have done it in Chester Zoo.
Get a life people - it's great TV and my license money well spent.
 
As much as I agree with the above, I still think Universe would've been ever so slightly better if it was reigned in slightly. Despite being visually stunning, the locations just seemed a little over the top in terms of quantity and I did find myself chuckling at the tenuous links. Whereas in Human Planet, it is expected, the subject matter seems slighty incongruous with the locations, although I appreciate they're trying to establish a bigger picture.

The money - in my opinion - would've been better spent on removing a couple of locations and investing in a little more CGI for learning tools, etc.

But yes, if the fee is being used to produce gems like this and Human Planet, etc. recently, then that can only be a good thing.

Hopefully Cox will entertain the notion of doing similar programming on things such as the String theory, or even something a little more grassroots such as how the space industry today actually works.
 
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Nix said:
I don't see how what WotU did stylistically was any different than what they do with Top Gear every week. At least with this, I didn't have to listen to Clarkson making a pretentious tit of himself again.
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This is a very good point. Top Gear is guilty of the same things in terms of unnecessary (subjective) CGI, unnecessary location filming, its often highly tangential presentation or 'reviews'. Admittedly it doesn't profess to being a serious car programme anymore, but still does far worse than Wonders, and for longer.
 
Doohickey said:
This is a very good point. Top Gear is guilty of the same things in terms of unnecessary (subjective) CGI, unnecessary location filming, its often highly tangential presentation or 'reviews'. Admittedly it doesn't profess to being a serious car programme anymore, but still does far worse than Wonders, and for longer.
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I bet it costs less for them to do than Top Gear too, given that a lot of it is reused footage. I wonder if something like this could work on the radio...
 
Fenris said:
Is it me or is a good half of this show going consist of shots of Mr Cox walking along a road or gazing at something off camera?

Also isn't it "Wonders of the Universe", not "Wonders national geographic have already spent the last 20 years telling us about"?

More cool spacey physics stuff, less soppy "ooo aaaaah isn't this lovely" garbage.
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I agree. I love the subject matter but dislike this style and I dislike Cox.
 
Vanquished007 said:
Lol, thats really quite good, Ricky didn't seem to like it when he became the impersonated though did he?
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You think so? Didn't come across that way to me. As he said, it was really a David Brent impersonation.

I liked the the final Brian Cox bit. 'The thing is with space it's like...dead big...there's loads of it'. :D
 
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