TheBloviator 
9, DecemberOk – I’ll try and be delicate in how I phrase this, as I am, and have been, an avid fan of NatGeo’s programming for years now. I am an amateur astronomer and avid science, physics, and space geek. This being said, it is understandable that I’ve spent many waking hours either watching educational specials on TV and many more hours actually looking at the cosmos through my own telescopes.
I have been excited about the “Journey to the Edge of the Universe” for weeks now, my TiVo has been waiting many, many days to record this special. To my glee, I found it was a 2 hour program. Jackpot, right? Two hours of great National Geographic programming about my favorite topic, the cosmos.
Less than five minutes into the show, however, I am sitting dumbstruck by how, well, bad, this program is. Maybe “bad” is the wrong word, as I see lots of positive comments by other posters here, but at the very least, I am disappointed. Weeks of anticipation have culminated in Alec Baldwin’s poor attempt to recreate what the great Carl Sagan did decades ago on his own program “Cosmos.”
I am glad so many people seem to have gotten some pleasure out of this program, and I hope a lot of people have learned something from it, however at only 38 minutes in I have concluded that there is nothing new this “Journey” has to offer.
I hope not to offend anyone who thinks this was a great program. I hope your eyes have been opened to the vastness of the universe and what we know…what we think we know…and what we don’t know about it, but I promise you, there are scores of better produced, more educational, and less trite and non-patronizing programs out there.
To National Geographic: If you think of this program as a “gateway,” an attempt to get those not proficient in the lore of space interested in the cosmos, good for you. I only wish you would have billed the program as such and I could have saved some time on my TiVo’s hard drive. However, if you see this program as your triumphant gift of education, knowledge, and wonder to the world, then you should truly be ashamed.