You miss a lot of the specatcle of it watching on iview, I've just watched it with the kids in HiDef and it really makes a big difference.
Though my eldest daughter doesn't like the host, says he is too freaky-looking and holds her hand in front of the screen whenever he is on!
Both girls were mesmerised by the imagery and information though, it has rekindled their interest in peering through the scope, and the binoviewer has also made that more attractive too them. The driveway is currently decorated with chalk drawings of all of the planets and some crazy looking nebulae as well, and their borrowings from the library this week were all astro-related.
So even if the information was a bit 'light' on the show, it has prompted them to explore in more detail, which is a great thing.
Nice to see some money spent on a science program rather than reality TV.
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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Hmmm.. just caught up with this on ABC's iView.
Not really impressed this time. The word "shallow" comes to mind. There's no substance and a great reliance on pretty pictures and seeing Brian wistfully looking off into yet another Namibian sunset. The concept of entropy can be reasonably explained in a couple of minutes, so where was the rest of the show?  |