If you stick with it through the initial half of the first episode; with it's contrived dialogue that sounds like a bad novel & clichés that appear to have been lifted directly from the rest of the genre that have come before; then this episode does end on a high with enough of a hook to drag you back, well..at least for the next one.

Haven't read the books so unsure as to whether the dialogue is mirroring the original writing style. I'm hoping once it's found it's feet, (a couple of episodes on maybe?), That the initial awkwardness of the speech patterns will fall away. The leads did their best with what they had. Some supporting cast questionable.

I was a tad underwhelmed to be honest; had Bad Wolf studios not been "bigging themselves up" as producing only "high-end" productions I might not have expected that they'd have tightened up on the writing to make the dialogue a little more natural. That oversight lets down the fantastic look of the piece; (locations, SFX, sets, camera etc) where they've clearly invested the "high-end" production values.