Everything from the script, acting, visuals, and story is just as good as game of thrones original four runs.

However there is a constant hypocrisy in many reviews of this show stating how they dislike the show for seemingly random and mostly inconsequential reason such as bad wigs being responsible for a 3/10 rating . A more commonly stated argument being that they liked game of thrones but didn't like house of the dragon because the show was slow and "boring". Anyone who has made this point obviously was one of the people who liked only the action (or just didn't really watch most) of game of thrones, as the parts of the show widely considered the best/most iconic were the slower, more dialogue, and character focused first four seasons.

The whole goal of this new show is to capture the original feel of the GOT series and the ASOIF books that was acclaimed for it's subversion, realism, dark tone, deep politics, well placed and consequential action, and twisting storytelling. House of the dragon captures all of these elements almost perfectly and does some elements even better than the prior works.