The acting is great, the set designs are great but the script felt very draggy through a lot of the episodes. The main comparison I would have with HOTD and GOT is that GOT, especially in earlier seasons, did an excellent job at building with character development and dialogue tension. With HOTD it seems a lot of the script tries too hard to reach GOT level, and as a result the dialogue in some scenes just felt lacking with how slow it seemed.

The character development was decent however, although I agree with many others in that the time jump seemed a bit messy. I was also a little disappointed we didn't get to see more classic medieval fight scenes especially with how much conflict there is in the series, but maybe we'll see more of this with season 2.