The Genetic Dynasty storyline is entirely original and it’s easily the best part of the show, one of my favorite sci-fi concepts ever. Lee Pace is just so fucking good as Empire in all seasons. Demrezel is also right up there as the best character in the show.
Just can’t get enough of this.
Season 3 is streaming rn and it’s amazing so far. Absolutely phenomenal performances from Lee Pace and Laura Birn. I highly recommend watching it if you like sci-fi.
I bet you could do it sort of like those anthology shows where its the same cast but a different set of characters. Like, each generation/era you recycle the cast into new roles that either complement or contrast their role in the previous generation/era. It would still have some wiff of “Great Man” to it, but at least you could probably get closer to the actual themes of the book.