Ok, so I just watched the first episode of a new series. Guess which?

[oneiriad]

It features a woman cop, who during her most recent murder case finds evidence tying in with her mother's murder a decade earlier and a mysterious inhuman figure who saved her life at the same time. Following the evidence, she meets a man, a doctor who joined the military and was part of a form of super soldier program, which turned out to have a minor side-effect: when his adrenaline starts pumping, he changes physically, turning into a raging monster. Now, he is pretending to be dead, while working on an antidote for himself and doing good, oh, and hiding from the secret government conspiracy looking for him.

So yeah, I'm still pretty much convinced the scriptwriters were developing a series based on the Hulk and did little more than change the names to suit the show they were supposed to be remaking...

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[oneiriad]

But when you then turn the whole thing into science experiments and conspiracy theories instead of star-struck lovers and urban fantasy underground world, you just risk getting worse reviews than you'd otherwise get, since people will usually expect a touted remake to, well, be a remake, at least a little bit. Branding works both ways, after all.

Anyway, watched ep2 and I'm not bothering with any more - unless the internet suddenly explodes with rampant squee and I have to investigate, of course, but I kinda doubt it.