Drat, does this mean I should write up a tl;dr review? I spent a bunch of time babbling with my roommate about it -- what am I saying, she's currently poring over the first book to see what they left in/cut out/changed and we're still babbling -- but I should probably write a bulletpoint review anyway.

Okay. Um. Overall in brief: the only plotline's handling I took MAJOR issue with was Daenerys', for several reasons. The rest of it, while I took issue how individual things were handled, was decent and could be fixed, but didn't have nearly enough infodump or the right emphasis on the right things. It was confusing. The characters were all the wrong ages, especially proportionate to one anothers -- I mean the adults here mostly, too, I get the difficulties with casting the kids. But I approved of Tyrion and Jaime's casting so I'll live.