I've started to watch Game of Thrones recently, I'm at season 5, episode 6 at the moment. So far so good, I like it and I'm going to watch the rest as well. I'm glad I've bumped into your post, but I'm afraid I have to come back later and read it as it might contain spoiler and still have one and half season to watch till I get to the point where you are.
Congratulations for the curie vote though :)