# Sagan Cosmos v. NGT Cosmos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagan-cosmos-v-ngt-cosmos/819108>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 5, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagan-cosmos-v-ngt-cosmos/819108 "2018-08-05T00:10:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagan-cosmos-v-ngt-cosmos/819108/21 "2020-07-26T22:44:13Z")

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NTG’s drinking and selling the “Pluto shouldn’t be a planet” Kool-Aid made me regard him as a poser. He jsut blindly spouts the IAU party line with not even so much as a mild counter argument. Whoever posted that he sounds like a teleprompter reader hit the nail on the head. I thought it sucked. It needs to be remade by PBS and by any of the myriad of serious astrophysicists out there who have just as interesting personalities.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagan-cosmos-v-ngt-cosmos/819108/22 "2020-07-26T22:51:49Z")

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BwanaBob, what do you have against Pluto? It doesn’t deserve that kind of abuse. It’s finally gotten the recognition it deserves, and you want to take that away from it?

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**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagan-cosmos-v-ngt-cosmos/819108/23 "2020-07-27T15:11:25Z")

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I liked both versions. The original Cosmos, wasn’t it a PBS production? But the current NdGT version, that’s from Fox, right?

So the new version maybe speaks more clearly to a younger audience, raised on special effects and anime, and does a fine job. The focus is a bit tighter–in other words, less material, but done more prettily. The original Cosmos might be better suited for high school and college students, and grown-ups.

As for Pluto the planet, I’m fine with it, provided that we add in the 3 (or more?) similarly sized planets to our elementary school teaching of what’s in the solar system. Why stop with Pluto?

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