They had a well written, good story, a huge budget, and a decent amount of time. There's really no excuses for how bad the show was. Characters decisions are terrible, out of character, and seemingly random. The changes that they made to the book almost always worsen the plot. And don't even get me started with the fight scenes. Ever fight scene looked like a group of 10 year old boys got nerf swords and made a youtube channel. They adapted things that shouldn't have been adapted and left things that could have been. Extremely disappointing.