I've not read shit. I think world building in televisions shows is very, very difficult. It seems balancing world building while finding the right mix of character development over eight episodes seems impossible. I agree with others who said it probably should have been more.
You just get thrown at the five dragon types and there is no personal attachment and truthfully it is difficult to care or be interested in any of them. It might be because most of them can't act. At all.
That's not a problem if there is some background or depth into the quest of the blue lady which there was not other than the dragon is going to join or stop the bad guy.
Which is not a problem if there is some buildup to the political intrigue they try to create at the White Tower. I mean the blue girl is royalty? What the hell does that mean? Oh she's sleeping with the Amber seat, why the hell does anyone care? Yellow are healers, red goes after people using powers that shouldn't, blue are spies, what the fuck are greens?
Which is not a problem if there is some background or depth into the bad guy and what he's been up to over the years.
I mean I was half paying attention after the first few episodes so I probably missed some things, but in general it just seemed like a poorly acted mess that was extremely poorly written.