Remember how GoT started? The first encounter with the white walkers? And then with the beautiful Stark family that you instantly loved, unaware of the mayhem awaiting them? I've watched the whole series 3 times and the beginning even more often than that. It's was such an excellent start of the series, that kept you on your toes every episode. Every character had beautiful depth, whether you liked them or not and you wanted to know what happened to them. Yes, dragons, but even they had a secundary role as far as the abundant storylines went. Nothing of the HotD reminds me of this. Sometimes I wonder if I'm watching Shrek enacted by ridiculously whigged puppets. I'm watching this with my eyes rolling every two minutes and apparently the music has to warn me that some important scene is going on. Every episode seems to skip 5 years in time which I can understand because the whole story is a dull as a door nail. I got an HBO subscription for this ffs. For the life of me I can't understand why it has such a high rating on imdb, certainly I'm never gonna trust any imdb rating again, thanks a lot. It even irritates me that they're allowed to use the GoT tune, bc so far they're not worthy of it.