I heard a lot better voice overs. The huge pauses in dialague with next to no sound just made me think the writer/producer just didnt have enough dialogue so editior had to stretch everything out to fill time. It just looks like a very very bad PBS docmentary. Here is a transcript of one part....figuring out to keep muscles and bones from weakening and thining out through exorcise and nutrition..............(music)................(shot of floating ketchup bottle and possible catfood can)...................(more music)....................... Just as important they are working on technologies to ensure clean air and water. shelter from solar radiation and flexible space suits to work and explore in hostile envirements like the moon..............(music)................The surface of the moon first came into focus 4 centuries ago. ......(music)............ The Italian physisist and philosopher Galileo Galilei heard of a device built by dutch opticians that could see far away things as if they were near by. I had to stop watching after the " a device built by dutch opticians that could see far away things as if they were near by. " part. The whole show was produced as if talking to complete idiots that apparently don't know what a telescope is amoung other things. The show runs 17:41. If you cut out the highly annoying and channel turning dead silence through out the show would probably ran 8 minutes. I love this kind of show and material but this is very poorly done. It was like listening to William Shatner's dull second cousin that keeps falling asleep during the story he is telling. The Universe was very well done for the most part. This made me long for the old science films with the scientest talking to cartoon characters on a big fake tv screen. I will give one of the later episides a chance but its amazing what goes to air and not in a good way   See 15 other replies

..Wishing there was an edit button for comments. I wanted to state when I referred to the dislike of the narrator, I was referring to the man they used for all the other shows within this series. The man the used for the show "Cold Sparks and Black Holes: Energy Scales of the Universe" is just fine. I actually enjoy his voice.   See 15 other replies

Umm...what music?   See 15 other replies

I know. He is soo annoying. I cannot stand they way he pronounces Saturn because of his emphasis on 'turn'. And don't even get me started on how he says Titan. He almost makes it into 2 words 'Ti-tan'. *shudders*
My most favorite narrator is whomever is used on the History Channel's "The Universe". I love his voice. When I had cable I used to fall asleep listening to him. Yeah.   See 15 other replies

Are all of you DEDRATER??? The narration is perfect. So much character in his voice & it goes perfectly w/ the music. I wouldn't have it any other way.   See 15 other replies