Most of my Games of Thrones fun is derived from coming into the office to hear a few people rant about the shocks they get from certain episode.

I think in book four and five Martin realized that he had the potential for another continuing saga like Wheel of Time and tried to maybe a little to hard with introducing a few too many new characters and running with multiple tangents all at once but I still enjoy reading stories where not even the main characters are safe from extinction. Makes for real drama.

With great power comes Awesome irresponsibility.