I absolutely loved the Game of Thrones series and honestly had high hopes for the House of Dragons prequel. I know that this is done by different writers and I approached the new series with an open mind. That being said, I can't believe that a big budget series has such horrible writing and only shadows of character development. There are several good actors in the cast, but they are all shackled by the horrible dialogue and poor excuse for a story. The only redeeming quality of the series is the special effects of the dragons themselves. It seems that more emphasis was placed on the eye candy and the story was an after thought. I kept hoping that the story would improve with each episode, but I have been sadly disappointed and there's not one character in the series that I care about.

I'm going to bail out on this series and go back to watching the original Game of Thrones.