Since I read the book I am quite excited for several characters to appear, some of them just on the side at first but man... there will be some stuff happening (if they stick to the book).

First off, I only watched until episode 4 so far but I wanted to write this review early as usually the last 10 minutes of a season brainwash me too much and cloud my general judgment too much as those last 10 minutes almost always are an "amazing" part. And sometimes I find it poor film making if besides this moment I've been bored.

Some people here find the show to fast, others too slow. Well, I guess everyones taste is different.

The thing about giant time jumps is a thing in the book though. It's written like a history book so sometimes in 2 sentences a king or princess is introduced and put aside at the same time. That's how the book works and I can accept it therefore in the show.

If I look neutrally at it I gotta say though that if it wouldn't have GRRMs stamp on it I probably wouldn't continue it with much excitement. It feels to me like a normal fantasy-medieval series. Nice as I like the genre but nothing I would recommend too eagerly.

The graphic brutality is in my opinion less stromg which takes some of the excitement for me. Also much more of the CGI is obvious in this series: cities and creatures mostly. The dragons for me also look less real than in the last moments of GoT.

Overall I feel the quality is quite a bit lower in this series. But to be fair that's how it is usually jn a first season of a new series (but is this series really new?)