As an adaptation, this is poor. It strays from the source in dramatic and jarring ways and invents whole new plots that don't exist in the original books.
There have been much more faithful adaptations of books in other series and films.
However , if one has never read the books, and judged in isolation, this is a decent, albeit slightly cliched sci-fi epic space opera that is vast in scale, and has a compelling story to tell.
I understand why particularly readers of the books are very negatively reviewing this series, but some of the critiques seem overly negative because of the deviation, rather than about the actual story told here.
This is more like Dune, or Babylon 5 than Star Trek or star wars. It's not quite as good as The Expanse, but better than a lot of the recent Star Wars series or Star Trek:Discovery .
