Due to the popular success of the first season they are upping the budget significantly for season 2.

Let's hope they don't start getting lost in all the fantasy trappings that ruin just about every other fictional series. What made the first season good was they didn't try to overwhelm us with magic and physics-defying stunts. As it is fiction I can forgive the whole dragon/fire thing but I almost get the impression these whitewalkers have teleportation abilities so hopefully the series doesn't get dragged down the road of nerdy dialogue and cartoon fight scenes.

Awesome series. But that's nowhere near as good as the Malazan Empire series by Steven Erikson and the companion books by Ian Esselmont.

Guys, do yourself a favor and read the books. While the HBO show was good, it is nowhere near the books, which are astouding and I think there are no fantasy books surclassing them, at least until now.

No time to actually read so I got the audio books yesterday, start listening when I go back to work