>>123857310>Technically Legion, but it was still a great seriesI have this burning hatred of all these shows and things that don't just alter some things for the sake of adaptation, but are clearly a different story stuffed inside the corpse of a known IP. Like the Preacher TV show. Every character is unrecognizable, the events are altered so much they barely resemble the source, etc. Watchmen, Riverdale, the Powerpuff Girls show that flopped before even being released, the inevitably shitty Velma thing from that unfunny comedian, all of that.
But Legion is the single one thing that did it right. It uses just the most bare basic aspects of Legion's story, only features 3 X-Men characters, and does entirely its own thing in terms of story, style, atmosphere, lore, etc.
I think at least part of why it works so well is that it doesn't try to milk the brand name, you could watch it and barely realize it's an X-Men show. It just takes the core concept and runs with it.
I guess it just felt sincere, as opposed to the cynical brand abuse of all those other things I mentioned.
