Yeah it hasn't been blowing me away by any means, really just a gap filler till the juicy stuff comes out. My gf and I both found that it has finally found something after the 7th ep, so I'll see it through to the end of season 1.
Game of thrones was easily my favourite series of the year so far. Been reading book one and finding it easily as good as expected. Really filling in some of the gaps from the tv series. In saying that, so far the series has done a pretty good job of sticking to the book's story.