I thought the white hair just looked daft on the characters unlike in GOT. There are no beauties or handsome men like there are in GOT, except for the wife of the king who obviously doesn't have a long contract. There is a reason why actors become popular and it is usually about their look's whether they play a good guy or a bad guy. The scene with violence felt like it was just slotted in to give the impression it was like GOT and being as we didn't get to know the people being butchered beforehand, it fell flat. GOT kings and queens all had a presence with booming voices and it felt like they had power in their own mind, the king and prince in HOTD were lacking that. Whereas I couldn't wait to watch GOT every week I'm not sure I will be so excited to watch this, it just felt like a weaker repeat without the aesthetics, nor the emotion for the viewer that is accompanied. I don't feel I care about what will happen to any of the characters and hopefully they wiont stretch out the irritating prince character for too many episodes which will become annoying and make me want to switch off from watching it. But so far without him they don't really have much of a storyline, albeit one we have seen before in GOT. Too much hype has gone into this series so I was expecting something special and am disappointed with the same stuff.