Just watched the first episode of season 4, amazing stuff going on. I think people are being too critical either because they have to wait each week to see the next episode or because of changes from the book. I thought this first episode was awesome. Things slow down a lot now that the War of the Five Kings is over.

Looking back at some of the complaints posted in this thread, I have to say a lot of it is a bit nit-picky.

The Thenns being cannibals made them all the more frightening and it makes sense since they live north of the wall where food is scarce (never made sense how 100k wildlings fed themselves for years).

The change in actors does throw you off a little, but it's not that bad. Kinda surprised there's a new Daario Naharis.