I finally decided to check out Game of Thrones -- I'm enjoying it! I've blown through Season 1 and Season 2 to-date, (Eps.6), in the last week. Very entertaining.

It's pretty intense dramatically, maybe too much so. Shakespeare understood the value of a little relieve from a comic character or two. Maybe that's why Tyrion Lanister seems to steal the show; perhaps it's dwarfspoitation but there are comic aspects to his character. Minor as those comic aspects might be, there the only ones going in this story.