IMHO, remakes are awful when they try too hard to follow the original. At most, give the original actors cameo roles as minor characters. The original series went really far downhill after the first seasons. I agree, I love watching the series on Netflix right now. Dated, but still bizarre and creepy, like that mutant dude who squeezes into your house’s ventilation to kill you.
I agree, do something original and stop with the attempts to recreate decades past.
I watched the pilot for the 12 Monkeys series the other night. It was really just an abbreviated version of the movie with a couple of changes and not very good. The pilot would have been better referring to the movie and moving forward with the story.
An original basic plot isn’t so hard. Plenty of sci fi Freepers could come up with something good if we worked on it.