Pulping a dude's head. Slaughtering citizens with explicit dismemberment. Hacking open a woman. A casual orgy. A little extra nudity. Yay?

Why am I supposed to care about any of these people? The show had to hook me with a character because I know how this story ends already. I know what happens to the last of this family's line! But I don't care about any of them.

The creators of this show seem to think GoTs was a hit because of sex and gore. But it was a hit because we were invested in the characters. How could they be dumb enough to not get this? We will watch shows about bad people but we have to care about those people (Tony Soprano, for example). Episode one of this show gave me nothing to care about.

This show was already a bad idea because the outcome is a given and we've been told this family is a hotbed of incest and madness. But they could have grabbed us a little with a character that mattered. But they blew it. Badly.

Dragons aren't enough.