Remember those (very few) episodes of GoT that felt like filler? Well, 80% of the first season of House of Dragon feels like that. The first 5 or 6 episodes are very slow paced and could easily have been squeezed into an episode or two.

None of the deaths feel particularly sad as we barely get anytime with the characters so don't really care when they die. The decisions of many characters were often illogical and reminiscent of the later stages of GoT.

The acting is pretty average, nothing special.

Should you watch this? Unless you are super interested in the targaryens I'd hold fire until another few seasons are released. On the plus, the finale was a little interesting and season two will certainly be better than season one.

There won't be another show like GoT anytime soon, and this wasn't even close.