I'm not here to compare it to GOT or any other show, why would I? I take everything at face value and see it for what it is. This had such a wonderful novel, backstory and enticing characters, but everything from the casting, acting, pacing of the story, dialogue , cinematography etc. is all wrong. Good actors could have saved it in some areas, but they never showed up. The poor storyline and uneven pacing has it doomed to be another netflix crappy original. It's even worse when you consider the high budget. I root for anything that isn't a 50th marvel remake to make noise, but this won't be it and I hope they put money for future seasons into something meatier with actual actors, not fringe british drama school thespians. The worst part is to come here and see it has a 9 rating... shows you nerds and fanboys will vote something a 10 no matter how bad it is, and why we have 25 superhero movies that make billions of dollars while original ideas never come to the surface.