I started watching the new Connections they made sometime last year. Still with James Burke, although he's old af so it's basically him talking in front of a green screen with a ton of CGI and some reenactments.
Most of the episodes are decent, and similar to the original, although like Connections 2 and Connections 3 the actual connections are far more tenuous. But near the end of each episode it goes off the fricking rails into some absurd futurism shtick. Like one episode was ending talking about these really cool nanomachines that we've made that can rearrange singular atoms, which is neat, but then he extrapolates it to basically be the magic fabricators from Star Trek and how they'll herald in a post-scarcity world, as if manually arranging atoms is in any way an efficient way to mass produce foodstuffs.
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I started watching the new Connections they made sometime last year. Still with James Burke, although he's old af so it's basically him talking in front of a green screen with a ton of CGI and some reenactments.
Most of the episodes are decent, and similar to the original, although like Connections 2 and Connections 3 the actual connections are far more tenuous. But near the end of each episode it goes off the fricking rails into some absurd futurism shtick. Like one episode was ending talking about these really cool nanomachines that we've made that can rearrange singular atoms, which is neat, but then he extrapolates it to basically be the magic fabricators from Star Trek and how they'll herald in a post-scarcity world, as if manually arranging atoms is in any way an efficient way to mass produce foodstuffs.
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