Malintent
Veteran Member
National geographic is starting a series on March 26 called "One Strange Rock", narrated by Will Smith, directed by Darren Aronofsky.
My first thought about this was that it will be a "Morgan Freeman" style of pop science, kowtowing to creationists and philosophical coconspirators.
Then, I watched the trailer for the series. It is being billed as "the story of Earth, told by Astronauts".
I may be impressed... it was highly visual, and gorgeously captured (like, Blue Planet 2 quality). There was little narrative content in the trailer that can be used to judge the quality of the science being presented, but I am starting to think it may be good quality.
Here is the trailer, what do you think?:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrC4vDcWmxk[/YOUTUBE]
My first thought about this was that it will be a "Morgan Freeman" style of pop science, kowtowing to creationists and philosophical coconspirators.
Then, I watched the trailer for the series. It is being billed as "the story of Earth, told by Astronauts".
I may be impressed... it was highly visual, and gorgeously captured (like, Blue Planet 2 quality). There was little narrative content in the trailer that can be used to judge the quality of the science being presented, but I am starting to think it may be good quality.
Here is the trailer, what do you think?:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrC4vDcWmxk[/YOUTUBE]