This is like GOT's season 8, where the story runs on cliff notes moving from plot point to plot point. Yet at the same time, the story is thin and empty. By the time the story builds to the point where it gets interesting, the season ends. The rest are token power struggle cliches... some plotting, some counter plotting, some secret spy network of urchins/prostitutes, some murders, some marriages, some prophesying, and some dragons. Just peripheral fluff unattached to an actual story.

Only a few characters are developed. The rest are clearly sacrificial lambs with no plot armor. Sadly, it's also very obvious which characters have plot armor and which don't, and the lack of character development makes deaths irrelevant to a story that hops from plot point to plot point.

It's still a decent show, if only to offer just enough GoT-esque elements that trick the viewer into hoping for a repeat of early GoT greatness.