An animated adaptation was and still is the way to go, in my opinion. No issues of characters aging out of their roles over years of production and more effort can be put into telling the entire story. I think Amazon's 8 episodes per season formula is definitely the biggest failure of the series aside from some really poor creative liberties being taken. 16 episodes at like an hour each would have made it much easier to tell the story more in-depth and given all of the characters more scope and the screen time for their much needed development.