Riverworld is a tv show based on one of my very favorite books ever, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (and its sequels) by Philip Jose Farmer.

It’s also one of the best concepts in science fiction history: everybody who ever lived is resurrected on the banks of a many-million mile river. Food is provided, nobody gets sick, nobody ever ages, no death is permanent and even limbs grow back.

There are lots of nitpicky details that the show messes up, including people being resurrected fully clothed (thus ditching the symbolic rebirth of everybody resurrecting naked and setting up the many flawed characters for some good, old-fashioned redemption) and the presence of technology and animals (both of which are mostly nonexistent on the river, at least at first).

But whatever. It’ll probably suck, just like the last attempt they made.

Note to Hollywood: your movies and tv shows based on already-extant, popular works are always more successful when they stick to the source material. The original author made those dramatic and narrative decisions FOR A REASON.