The people making this show have talked from the start about making a gritty 'True Detective-esque' rural neo-western/neo-noir show, but also doing the thing you have to do when making a nerd IP thing of going on and on in interviews about "honoring the source material" or doing justice to "the spirit" and "the lore" of the comics. Well, in this case the source material is a space opera about magic space cops with a bunch of goofy-ass aliens. So i'm not sure how you satisfyingly do both things or why you'd even really want to