Just ignore the hyped 10 star reviews. This is not Game of Thrones. House of the Dragon is not great yet, but isn't bad either. We'll see.

It's a solid start for a series and the production quality is just as fine as GoT, but it's still unclear there this is going.

GoT had a lot of story elements left out from the books, and right now it doesn't look like House of the Dragon is picking up on any of those fantasy elements, and just sticks to intrigue and power themes we all have seen enough of in GoT.

Hope there will be more to see than the plain old queen and her brother storyline.