The show will try to make us care who sits on the iron throne. I personally dont think I could care less. And I don't see how the show aspires to awake interest either.

But given the garbage shows out there, this will always be a decent watch. The CGIs are going to be good, the dragons and war sequences are going to be appealing. But it definitely is not GoT. The casting, the dialogues, the acting, the plot or the characters themselves don't seem to command as much reverance as GoT did.