One of the first rules of narrative writing is "to show, not tell." This opening episode showed us very little, but it put us through verbal explaination in scene after scene. It was painful to watch the actors work with such a weak script. The storyline was loaded with stereotypical tropes and came across, to me at least, as a poor man's GOT. They tried to cram in every conceivable trope from other more successful series into one episode. It came across as a troubled mess. I've got one more episode in me, just out of a sense of obligation, but I didn't enjoy this first one much at all.