A Game of Thrones on HBO - I guess this is really going to happen.

[Martinus]

Ugh, I hate Bran (and Sansa) as POVs. I just found most of the children POVs pretty boring.

My favorite ones were Tyrion and Jaime.

[Martinus]

I like Sandor and Jaime. When Jaime first appears he is so in your face.

Do you like guys coming in your face?

[The Larch]

Ugh, I hate Bran (and Sansa) as POVs. I just found most of the children POVs pretty boring.

My favorite ones were Tyrion and Jaime.

Sansa's are interesting because of the situations she's in. She gets to witness lots of key stuff, and you get a unique perspective of Littlefinger's actions through her.

[Camerus]

Oberyn and Davos were my favourites. Oberyn in particular - I loved how he lived completely outside any of the norms of his society, training for a while to be a maester and then just traveling the world.  And throughout it all, he was a devoted brother, biding his time and secretly intent on revenge for his sister's death.

Anyway, too bad Martin will never finish the series.

[Iormlund]

my favorite POV characters are bran, davos, and theon

Why Theon?

His arrival at the Islands is hilarious, though that is mostly due to his sister. My favourites are Jon, Tyrion, Oberyn and Davos.

[The Brain]

There's a few too many near death experiences with major characters. IMHO it would have been better if more of them had been actual deaths (although thankfully there is a fairly decent number of actual deaths). Eg Bran falling and Arya being held by the Tickler, and in all likelihood Briennne hanging.

[LaCroix]

Why Theon?

mostly because of his character flaws; i liked how highly he regarded himself, and how he completely botched a pretty well conceived plan through his own hubris

i liked the sansa chapters quite a bit in the first novel, same with arya, but in the last few books i've been losing interest in their subplots (though i'm interested to see what happens with littlefinger). i never liked jon, he seemed to be from the start the main character, and his "loner, dark figure with lone, albino wolf--so unique" never appealed to me. his plot is entertaining, though, i just don't like the character

@brain: still less than a turtledove series 

[Martinus]

For the record, I liked Oberyn and Loras a lot as well, but I thought we were talking about POV characters.

[The Brain]

For the record, I liked Oberyn and Loras a lot as well, but I thought we were talking about POV characters.

Try not to think and maybe you'll be more correct in life.

[grumbler]

Try not to think and maybe you'll be more correct in life.

He has tried that for years, here, and it didn't work out for him. 

[MadImmortalMan]

Honestly, I think this show should not be made until we find out how much of the series Martin will actually write.

[The Larch]

Honestly, I think this show should not be made until we find out how much of the series Martin will actually write.

Pfft, as if HBO would let it run beyond 3 seasons anyway.

[Berkut]

Honestly, I think this show should not be made until we find out how much of the series Martin will actually write.

Pfft, as if HBO would let it run beyond 3 seasons anyway.

If this show ever ran into the problem of "Oh crap, we caught up to the author, whatever shall we do?" it will be the greatest series on TV ever.

[Viking]

Honestly, I think this show should not be made until we find out how much of the series Martin will actually write.

Pfft, as if HBO would let it run beyond 3 seasons anyway.

If this show ever ran into the problem of "Oh crap, we caught up to the author, whatever shall we do?" it will be the greatest series on TV ever.

Slow pace. One season per book, That means he has four years to finish the second half of the fifth book. Then he has to knock off one book per year. This might force him to get is act together. Either that or his twinkie binge will bring on diabetic shock and we can get Brandon Sanderson to finish it for him.

[MadImmortalMan]

Looks like it's official. Next Spring.