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After his global warming/Marxist anti Catholic romp on Cosmos. I have had just about enough of hammy Mr Tyson. He was better when he commented on 1 cosmological topic on one of the astronomy shows on discovery or history channels.
He jumped the shark nebula.

That remake of the Cosmos TV series was awful: The gratuitous bashing of Christianity with its total unhistoricity of Giordano Bruno (he was never persecuted because of his cosmological ideas, it was because of his heretical beliefs that Jesus was merely a magician and not a savior). Just more cheap shots of 'science beats religion!' from the peanut gallery, with childish CGI scenes of Star Wars asteroid fields. All the lazy tropes were on display.

Now, a real honest-to-goodness remake of Cosmos could have been truly wonderful, given all new and exciting things that cosmologists have discovered since the 1980s: dark matter, dark energy, the UDF, the Big Rip, the oceans of Europa, Fermi's Paradox (where are the aliens?), virtual particles, the mystery of the 10 perfect physical constants (why are they all exactly right?), the four forces (why is gravity so weird?). It could have been a celebration of the simple majesty, the sheer elegance, the pure aesthetics, and the grand intelligence behind the design of the universe.