Game of Thrones

I belatedly discovered HBO's Game of Thrones and promptly got sucked in.  It was stellar!*  Arya Stark is my favorite by a mile, followed by Tyreon Lannister and Jon Snow (with his sad puppy eyes).  Now I want to read the books, so I suppose that's mission accomplished for this adaptation.   Season 2 in spring 2012 has now been added to the list of long-range fandom things I'm looking forward to, especially since that finale had more loose ends than a yarn store invaded by kittens. 

Random note (very mild spoilers):  at the moment in one of the episodes where Arya is going down a staircase in the palace and I thought, hey, for some reason this reminds me of Merlin going downstairs to visit the dragon.  Moments later, Arya found a giant frickin' dragon skull.  I'm inordinately proud of myself for randomly calling that. 

*I give it that thumbs-up despite ( cut for spoilers and mention of rape )