Did Daenerys give birth to her son in an episode? I feel like I missed an episode since one moment she's pregnent, the other they announce that her son is dead, I never saw her son, apparently he was deformed or something.

I feel like the series is missing half of the exposition scenes. I don't need everything to match the books, but I feel like characters are thrown into situations without having a logical build up. Passing lines are supposed to cover multiple pages of exposition, there's no time to care for any of the characters since there are so many. In the books, you got a full chapter with the character to learn about them and grow with them. That's also how Lost did it with it's 15 main characters (amazing series even today, amazing pacing). I really felt the series needed about 3 episodes worth of content to explain things properly. <

As it is, I get that it's like Lord of the Rings for the silver screen, but the story feels so rushed. There's no time to appreciate any moment of it because it tries to cover so much content on so few episodes. The direwolves are supposed to be super important and share a deep connection with the children, but we only see Sansa's wolf for 2 scenes, once to remind us that she has a wolf, and once to have it killed. There's absolutely no attempt to convey the deep connection with her, nor any other, except maybe Bran.

I'm very disappointed. Can anyone tell me if the later seasons get better?