This BBC series released in 1999 is an excellent source of information on our solar system. We are fortunate to be living at a time when so much is being revealed about our neighboring worlds.
But as more information comes in at an ever-increasing rate, it is always a matter of a 'snapshot' of what was known at the time the series was produced. 1999 now seems like such a long time ago.
The Mars-rovers were still in the works, as was Cassini-Huygens, and thus there is no material from those missions.
And while many of the first-person interviews are interesting, I have a bit of an issue with wasting screen-time on a talking-head astronomer/planetary scientist gushing how "I was the first person to see (X or Y or Z), and that made me feel so special." I did not purchase this DVD set in order to hear someone stroke their own ego.
And why was it felt necessary to re-dub the narration from a British male to an American female (who sounds just like NBC's Anne Curry)?
But as more information comes in at an ever-increasing rate, it is always a matter of a 'snapshot' of what was known at the time the series was produced. 1999 now seems like such a long time ago.
The Mars-rovers were still in the works, as was Cassini-Huygens, and thus there is no material from those missions.
And while many of the first-person interviews are interesting, I have a bit of an issue with wasting screen-time on a talking-head astronomer/planetary scientist gushing how "I was the first person to see (X or Y or Z), and that made me feel so special." I did not purchase this DVD set in order to hear someone stroke their own ego.
And why was it felt necessary to re-dub the narration from a British male to an American female (who sounds just like NBC's Anne Curry)?