‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ will make you feel a little small

Telling a story 13.8 billion years in the making is an epic responsibility, but Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is able to narrate that and more in 40 minutes using a mix of vivid CGI and animated cartoon sequences, coupled with a colorful script that will make you "feel a little small". Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 13-part reboot of the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, hosted by Carl Sagan, a renowned science communicator, astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. The latter was known to be the most watched documentary series in the United States. The latest Cosmos series is hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, whom children of the Internet know as the “badass” meme that first circulated in comedy site 9gag. In reality, he actually is a “badass” astrophysicist and science communicator who was heavily influenced by Sagan. The first episode of the Cosmos series introduces Tyson and his "ship of imagination" that journeys through time and space. The ship rockets through space, from the Earth, to the solar system, to the milky way, to the bubble that is the known universe, all the way to the possibility of other universes existing alongside ours. Through the Cosmic Calendar, Tyson also tells of the story of the universe from the Big Bang to the present day: how everything that exists came about from the explosion of stars., Instead of telling the story of Copernicus and Galileo, well-known first believers that the Earth was not the center of the universe, Tyson narrates the story of Giordano Bruno, a less-known Dominican friar who had a vision of a boundless universe as infinite as its Creator. Cosmos goes beyond narrating facts and going through the linear history of the universe, but tells a story that leaves even the non-scientific, non-nerdy bunch wanting more science. The documentary series is produced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow. "The expectations are very high because of Seth MacFarlane being a producer because this is a global premier of all of the top networks," said Jude Turcuato, Senior Vice President at Fox International Channels, Philippines. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey premiers on Fox and the National Geographic Channel on March 12, Wednesday at 10PM. — DVM, GMA News