It is an amazing and outstanding series. The characters are very well created, and brilliantly played by their actors. The story had the potential to be epic. But unnecessary killing of characters made it lose the potential of becoming a masterpiece. I know it's important to kill some characters or their loved one's so we can understand a tiny fraction of the remorse that they would feel, but killing without any need is not the right way. It pains me to state that this could have been a masterpiece. Only if they went in a little different direction.