User blog comment:Opark 77/Season 1 rewatch: Episode 1 "Winter is Coming"/@comment-867479-20120126124024

Nice review, and I agree with most of it. Especially the stuff about the title sequence and the effectivness of the music. HBO is really great at that, I think the " Sopranos" title sequence was very important to keep me around in the first season...

I also agree with the passage of time thing, though that is a problem many adaptations of fantasy novels suffer from. Those among my friend who never read the books were suprised to learn how much time went by between the beginning and end of "Lord of the Rings".