I'm writing this review in the middle of episode 10...because I'm bored beyond belief...though admittedly this is the most (only) interesting episode of the series (great dragon battle).

The beginning of episode 10 was laughably dominated watching and hearing yet another gruesome, screaming, blood and ooze filled birthing scene, as if that somehow passes for engaging television. It's as if the director knew how boring the program was, and had a list of "shocking" scenes to add in whenever the paint dried too much (dragons, birthing, beheading, sodomy...and random time jumps).

Throw in a few shots of the iconic map of the land, a few mentions of buzz words like Stark, Lannister and Baratheon and voila....some people apparently soak it up with the original brilliant theme song like a rag used to wipe up one of Rhaenyra's afterbirths. Maybe some people actually enjoyed this, but there's no way the real world rated this any higher than 6.