So, uh, I watched the pilot, and let me tell ya, it ain't great.

It's sort of like if someone watched Lord of the Rings and said "Yeah, this is okay, but the Balrog needs an ipad."

After you get past the grungy neon cyberpunk aesthetic, the characters sort of bother you a bit. If you want to focus on a Watch that doesn't want to do its job, why would you cut out Sgt Colon and Nobby? That's...kind of what they are, and they're hilarious at it.

They drop references to all the books as if it's some kind of oddball fan service, but I don't really want a one line reference to a story, I'd like to watch an actual story. And in the pilot, nothing much really happens. We get to meet our cardboard cutout characters, and the main plot is, uh, the bad guy deals drugs to get a book that summons dragons, but none of that or how it happens makes a great deal of sense.

For all the talk about the guilds, we never actually get to see them working much. Why was this made, and for who?