I read the books and they were complicated and hard to follow. So I knew making a tv series from this story was going to be difficult but these people have years of experience and they produced this? It is literally the equivalent of watching a train wreck in slow motion - you know it is horrible and painful but you just can't stop looking. The casting was based on star power and not who actually fit the parts as written in the books. Carvill's acting is based on a dead person. If you didn't read the books, you will Be confused as the timeline jumps and the writers dont bother to explain why. The action sequences are random and childlike- violence just for the sake of having violence. This is not the next GOT so don't believe that. This could have been if the producers where more interested in the story than profit. Maybe someone will try again in 10 years and get it right...it can't get any worse.