I think the series is a product of its time. For all the good and bad that entails. I wasn’t able to watch it at the time it aired, but I somehow got a copy of a catalog filled with show-related merch, and that lived in my imagination for a long time. When I finally watched it a couple years ago, it was… a fairly painful experience. I was only able to get through it by using it as background noise while I played games on a handheld console (Vita, 3DS) or worked. After the first season, it did kind of improve for the next couple seasons, but never enough that I’d consider it anything more than average TV (and even that would be generous for most of it). The last three seasons were bad enough that if I didn’t already have the full series on hand, I simply would’ve dropped it altogether.
I do appreciate the way the show expanded the mythos, though. Having all those factions, both mortal and immortal, was a good decision.
I think a full reboot could serve this well, and I’d be excited to see what they can with a decent budget on a streaming platform (for example), without all the constraints of broadcast TV standards and practices.
I think the series is a product of its time. For all the good and bad that entails. I wasn’t able to watch it at the time it aired, but I somehow got a copy of a catalog filled with show-related merch, and that lived in my imagination for a long time. When I finally watched it a couple years ago, it was… a fairly painful experience. I was only able to get through it by using it as background noise while I played games on a handheld console (Vita, 3DS) or worked. After the first season, it did kind of improve for the next couple seasons, but never enough that I’d consider it anything more than average TV (and even that would be generous for most of it). The last three seasons were bad enough that if I didn’t already have the full series on hand, I simply would’ve dropped it altogether.
I do appreciate the way the show expanded the mythos, though. Having all those factions, both mortal and immortal, was a good decision.
I think a full reboot could serve this well, and I’d be excited to see what they can with a decent budget on a streaming platform (for example), without all the constraints of broadcast TV standards and practices.