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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7679653" data-attributes="member: 177">I think we ought to differentiate between &quot;based on a popular book/comic&quot; and &quot;based on a book/comic nobody heard of, such that to the majority of the target market, it is new&quot;.&nbsp; I this category, we get things like iZombie.&nbsp; In the past few years, there are also things like Grimm and Sleepy Hollow, which take some inspiration from classics, but are so far from the source material that they are mostly new content.But, to answer your question:&nbsp; This season there's Blindspot (arguably genre), Scream Queens, Into the Badlands, The Bastard Executioner, American Horror Story: Hotel (each season is a different story and characters, so I'll count it as new), Angel From Hell.Also, things that may be based on properties that few have heard of, there's The Man in the High Castle.I'm sorry, but that seems like a bit of rose-colored glasses.&nbsp; Remember that it was Theodore Sturgeon, classic sci-fi writer, who made the observation that, &quot;90% of everything is crap,&quot; back in the early 1950s!&nbsp; There has not been a time where the majority of genre work was awesome and deep.&nbsp; In all ages, most of it is weak, shallow, unoriginal, and otherwise lackluster.&nbsp; The same is true for stories in pretty much all genres and medias.&nbsp; Genre has never been a guarantee of quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7679653, member: 177"] I think we ought to differentiate between "based on a popular book/comic" and "based on a book/comic nobody heard of, such that to the majority of the target market, it is new". I this category, we get things like iZombie. In the past few years, there are also things like Grimm and Sleepy Hollow, which take some inspiration from classics, but are so far from the source material that they are mostly new content. But, to answer your question: This season there's Blindspot (arguably genre), Scream Queens, Into the Badlands, The Bastard Executioner, American Horror Story: Hotel (each season is a different story and characters, so I'll count it as new), Angel From Hell. Also, things that may be based on properties that few have heard of, there's The Man in the High Castle. I'm sorry, but that seems like a bit of rose-colored glasses. Remember that it was Theodore Sturgeon, classic sci-fi writer, who made the observation that, "90% of everything is crap," back in the early 1950s! There has not been a time where the majority of genre work was awesome and deep. In all ages, most of it is weak, shallow, unoriginal, and otherwise lackluster. The same is true for stories in pretty much all genres and medias. Genre has never been a guarantee of quality. [/QUOTE]

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