Mass Effect TV Show

It's interesting because a lot of the articles I've read talking about this list reasons why it needs to be Shep focused, and why it shouldn't at the same time. I'm leaning more towards not Shep-focused, because it will just conflict too much. Not even trilogy-adjacent; just stay away from the trilogy as much as possible for everyone's own good. It's why it worked for Fallout - they could do their own thing (with heavy oversight from Bethesda). The people behind TLoU were incredibly faithful to the game, which is why that also worked.

I like the idea of a show focusing on Anderson and adding in bits of Saren getting indoctrinated, maybe throw in Alec a little, some Cerberus bits here and there - Anderson and Kaylee would be a great series. But, I think this would still require oversight by BioWare, and I doubt Amazon wants that...but if they were smart, they'd do so, since it worked for Fallout. If they want no oversight, then Andromeda is the way to go - it's a giant sandbox for them to do whatever they'd like.

A Mass Effect TV series probably ditches the Shep times to avoid contentious opinions. Plus, It's a TV show = different audience. This implies a low tech procedural show, which may work best. Think Castle + NCIS format with some pew-pew weapons so as not to scare the newbie TV audience. 

So a low budget. A core group with weekly guests. We'll have the drama, mystery, action and interpersonal banter. I'm thinking a six episode series and go from there.

Perhaps they may go for a HALO format. Though, that series lasted  what two seasons?