I had such high hopes for this show. I was legitimately intrigued and loving the story the first few episodes. Once the first time jump happens you can tell the timing, characters, story, and general intrigue starts to take a decline. I was holding out for the much built up finale and seriously expecting something awesome to pay off the long dragged out and honestly boring couple of episodes leading up to the finale, and was heavily, heavily disappointed. The last 2 episodes are basically just there to set up the next season to drag out viewership. I honestly feel cheated. The entire season is built up to absolutely nothing. No pay off, no satisfaction, no resolution to anything set before it, just....nothing. The "finale" legitimately disappointed me enough that I am not even interested in watching the second season when it eventually debuts. You get the feeling that this is a very greedy cash grab and viewer baiting to drag out the GOT magic and its fanbase as long as they can to drain as much profit as they can. I'm still in awe that they ended this much promising show the way that they did. Started out so amazingly, with so much potential, only to go out with a whimper of "well...that was a thing I was expecting way more more from and it never came through"