Was interesting to be back to Westeros and the GoT setting. But was a few things that made the show feel okay, but not great.

1. The pacing off the first episode felt off, it jumped from scene to scene quite fast without time to linger on the scene or what happened, each scene felt like it was fast forwarded or parts were cut out. Giving you no real time to care or process what happened as now it was somewhere else.

2. Without the names from GoT and slight view of dragons, it didn't feel like it was set in the same "universe". Just that they tossed out names to make you feel "Oh I know that one". It didn't feel like I was watching GoT , more that I watched a generic fantasy and someone kept telling me it was something else. World didn't have the same weight or atmosphere, no tension and felt more like a quick copy, while the person hadn't seen GoT before and had to do a story from what he has heard of it.

3. The visual is beautiful... But also feel so much like CGI or polished with it that parts are like watching a game or you immediately tell its fake that take you out of immersion, something GoT didn't have issue with. Even just gazing around the Citadel and buildings, something just felt cgi of it, like they polished it up too much

4. Shock value scenes were... Not wow. Even if former had these shock value scenes, these ones felt like a cheap version they tossed in to fill runtime and then as mentioned before, speeded it up so you don't actually get to be in the moment and process it

5. Asked to care about characters, when you barely know them or they've had so little runtime so you go "Okay" when something bad happens. Not asking for that you must be emotionally invested immediately to every character, but when you barely know one, they had no impact to the story yet, then asked to care when something happens. You just don't

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Tho it wasn't bad, just decent. Still worth a watch and hopefully next episodes become better.