I am not describing Carl Sagan’s default facial expression when on camera during his series, which I would describe as more of wonder and curiosity and “hey look at this cool thing I found out!”; this I enjoy and empathize with completely.
I am talking about those specific scenes which are patterned after the Star Trek television show on the set of the bridge of the starship Enterprise where the big video display has the stars whooshing by. In those scenes in Cosmos they have astronomical features—images of galaxies and nebula and planets and asteroids—on his “spaceship” monitor and they have closeups of Carl Sagan’s orgasm look. The look the guys have in porno when they tell her “oh baby it’s never been like this before”.
Not that I have any provable idea what Sagan looked like when he had an orgasm. But I believe I do have a pretty good idea what Sagan’s O face looked like after watching those scenes in Cosmos. I find that disgusting.
That is the risk with an appeal to emotion. If it is ineffective you can turn your audience off. Disgust them. The Enterprise bridge staging may have worked great in a cartoon Cosmos with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. In the real series it did not work for me at all.
Perhaps I’m just being dense, but I don’t really get what Carl Sagan’s look has to do with praise, or why you should find it disgusting.
I am not describing Carl Sagan’s default facial expression when on camera during his series, which I would describe as more of wonder and curiosity and “hey look at this cool thing I found out!”; this I enjoy and empathize with completely.
I am talking about those specific scenes which are patterned after the Star Trek television show on the set of the bridge of the starship Enterprise where the big video display has the stars whooshing by. In those scenes in Cosmos they have astronomical features—images of galaxies and nebula and planets and asteroids—on his “spaceship” monitor and they have closeups of Carl Sagan’s orgasm look. The look the guys have in porno when they tell her “oh baby it’s never been like this before”.
Not that I have any provable idea what Sagan looked like when he had an orgasm. But I believe I do have a pretty good idea what Sagan’s O face looked like after watching those scenes in Cosmos. I find that disgusting.
That is the risk with an appeal to emotion. If it is ineffective you can turn your audience off. Disgust them. The Enterprise bridge staging may have worked great in a cartoon Cosmos with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. In the real series it did not work for me at all.