I was watching Cosmos on Twitch. All the little experiments replicating what scientists of old performed to unlock knowledge, its appreciation of context, simple visuals like gathering all the naturally occurring elements, things like those enticed Twitch chat and myself. It was an appreciation of the scientific method. Hypothesis, experiment, and observation.
Sagan delivers it in a way that is more earnest than Bill Nye or NDR. He knows that these things convey themselves.
I feel like popular culture and things like the science march have shifted into taking up science as some team to root for, like you would root for the Marvel cinematic universe. Sagan's cosmos had a refreshing lack of self-awareness and conveyed an appreciation for the actual practice and discipline of science.