I watched rest of the season 1, and the first episode of season 2. It got somewhat more interesting (I admit I was even surprised by one death). Maybe I'll keep watching it, but there is no big drive for me to do it. I have a bit lukewarm feeling towards it: it isn't a bad show and it is very professionally done, but it isn't terribly good or exciting show either for me. Still it perplexes me that it has a 9.5 score on IMDB, so some people obviously love it. I don't recall other shows or movies getting that high scores in IMDB.
My wife seems to find it interesting though, but her attention span is maybe too short to grasp everything that happens on the screen, as she is half of the time looking at Facebook on her phone. Then I have to explain later to her why someone is angry to someone else etc. :)
Chandoraa: How is it illegal to download something that has been broadcast for free on TV?
Coelocanth: It's not broadcast for free on TV. If you didn't pay to have the TV channels so you could potentially watch it for 'free', then it's illegal. Basically, if you just jump to a torrent without paying for the right to see it, then yeah, it's not legal.
Not disagreeing with you for being illegal to obtain it for free from torrent sites, but just an interesting tidbit that here in Finland they've been actually airing Game of Thrones on the free(*) national TV stations (YLE), even in HD quality. When the first season was aired back in early 2012, I first mistook it for
Tudors (which had been running earlier and which I didn't watch either).
When I later learned about the hype for the show, I think they were already showing season 2 or so here so I decided not to jump in in the middle of it. Now that they aired it from the start fast, I was happy I didn't because I would probably have been overly confused over all the characters and their relationships (just like my wife is now).
(*)"Free" in the sense that it is not a pay channel, but we all have to pay for the YLE channels in our taxes. So it is free in a same sense as a public school or hospital is free.