HOTD is 175 years BEFORE GOT, yet HOTD looks and feels more advanced and less primitive than GOT. It should be the other way around. Paddy is very good actor but he is extremely poor in this show. There is so much dead time during the course of the first 2 episodes where the actors just stare at each other or off in the distance. The dialogue feels forced and the script is poor. The first episode of GOT had you sucked in immediately and the characters were developed just as quickly. It does feel like this show is on a seriously low budget. The CGI isn't great but the dragons look pretty good. HOTD is more like a soap opera. I'm very disappointed, but I'm hoping for a change in the action soon.