I've wanted to gut this ever since I read an utterly snotty review by some proscribed wanker on Amazon.co.uk. I loved the TV series, the music especially made it resonant in a way that a documentary series almost has no right to be. It's truly gripping on a scale appropriate to a study of the solar system. Why Amazon's pet moron criticises it's special effects and the presence of sounds during animation even though sound doesn't travel in space (get a clue, no one gives a shit) is as absurd as it is irrelevant. The wrongly employed Roger Thomas can go to Hell and be forced to watch this excellent series in perpetuity as a fitting punishment for his confounding stupidity and lack of taste.
Watching a program about the Casini mission to Saturn brought back some memories of this series, the music has a feel to it reminiscent of Alien, I bet the original music for the films was inspired in part by The Planets by Holst. There's plenty of information to keep the genuinely interested occupied and it has a feel to it that conveys the sheer vastness of it's subject. Even the ten minute short unnarated mini programs had good soundtracks. This is probably a one off in the history of documentary making.
The Planets is hot. Roger Thomas is not.
