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Chloe Zhao was a huge Buffy fan and her enthusiasm for the show got Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign-on to her reboot.
Hollywood loves franchises and reboots because of the built-in audience, but her pilot was so bad they scrapped it entirely.
Nothing about this project is at all comparable to The Expanse, which was adapting a series of books, with the authors involvement.
This is adapting a few chapters, without the deceased authors involvement.
A much more relevant comparison would be The Rings Of Power, which was similarly based on an extremely limited scope of Tolkien's work and while I'm sure some people enjoyed that show, it was broadly very much disliked, as evidenced by it being canceled.
While others are free to disagree, I think it's fair to say that every Tolkien project, after The LotR trilogy, has been bad, or at best, just not very good.
I'm not saying that this is destined to be bad, I was just taking issue with the notion that it's guaranteed to be good.