Carl Sagan

I quite enjoyed this. A lot of people seem to try and pin some weird political agenda on it for some reason. An agenda that really doesn't exist. Unless you expect all women in this show to be begging the male cast to get back in the kitchen. No-one is made into a Mary Sue. Plenty of relevent attitudes from the period are brought to bare. If you have some issue with the environmentalism of it (which is pretty thin at that) then you might need therapy. The actual plot is about as I expected from the source material. I'm not sure what people were expecting. Some CGI masterpiece where we get to see 15 hours of gun battles? It's a 3-hour mini series. It holds up from the perspective of the protagonists. I never expected it to be much more than a point-of-view style premise. What there is, is perfectly acceptable and watchable. The Fox remake that came out in the same year is better, but for totally different reasons. Mainly because of a complete reinterpretation of the material and a higher budget. If you want an exact match for HG Wells novel... then what's wrong with you? Go listen to the LP record. If you want some endless CGI fest, go watch the stupid Tom Cruise version. This has elements of haunting terror, nothing over the top. But it captures the sinisterness of the material, which is what I was looking for. And it adapts the events of the original story well enough to make it not seem stale. I like it. I just wish they'd put some more effort into the score as it lacks some of the cues from the musical that would make it a little bit more nostaligic. But it's fine for it's purpose.