I watched the last three episodes of the current season of Game of Thrones last night and was blown away by George R. R. Martin's total disregard for the lives of his major characters. Maybe he just gets bored easily but building up the lives and stories of characters over three seasons (books), making them central to the plot, making you care about what happens and then simply taking a bunch of them and having them slaughtered, is a piece of genius.

Up till now I've been watching the series then following up with the books to add in the background detail. Looks like my book reading is now going to have to overtake the tv production process because I can't wait a year to see who gets it next.