Game of Thrones was so gripping right from the outset; this is just a terrible, generic period drama. It might as well be some am-dram rendition of Jane Austen. It's like they have gone out of their way to make a show and fill it with characters you don't care about and slender suggestions of plot. GoT was full of iconic characters, this is nothing but absolutely a mediocre, terribly acted lazy imitation that things throwing in the odd bit of graphic sex and violence somehow makes it compatible to GoT - it doesn't, and it makes me think that had no idea why GoT worked when they set out to make this. I'm really, very disappointed.