We have watched it from the beginning. Normally I am not into that kind of story line/genre, but as I've stuck with it and learned the characters, I really enjoy it. Neither of us has read the books. Tyrion definitely our favorite character, though we like Danerys and Aryra too. Love to hate Cersei and Joffrey. What I like about it is you never know what is coming next. No character is safe. Yes, it can be gory, but that's what it was. I do think they probably have women with more responsibility than what they would have really had at that time. Enjoy seeing women with "real" bodies, though they are mostly European and have a different look and attitude than what an American would have. If any of you are fans of Ben Mankiewicz from Turner Classic Movies, he does reviews of the show literally right after they play on a Show called "What the Flick." Of course, you can always watch them later. The panel discussion is helpful for those of us who have not read the books. We learned a lot by watching these. Ded, one other thing I learned is each episode opening shows the fictional locations where that episode is set. I'd love to do the actual tours of the real set locations. Here is a link that might be useful: What the Flick on Youtube

I have the 3 and the cellular. I upgraded from the 2 because I thought the 3 would be more useful with the cellular. I hated the 2, but I thought I would like the 3 more with the cellular because I particularly wanted to be able to listen to Podcasts from the watch with my Apple earbuds w/o having to take my phone with me (which I've since discovered doesn't really work, much to my annoyance). I honestly think the stupid thing is pointless and I don't remember the last time I put it on. I really wanted it to be a good product. I wanted to listen to podcasts on it and track my steps on it, and use all the health apps, etc. But IMO, it's just an overpriced and bad product. It's a pain to have to remember to charge it and put it back on every day, it's bulky to wear, and it doesn't really do anything useful. I also have a Fitbit which I find I like wearing much better and have to charge less frequently but it still does the only actual useful things the Apple does, which is track steps and monitor heart rate. If anyone loves their Apple watch, I'd love to hear what you do w/ it b/c I feel I must be missing something.

What it's like for me here..it's hard to write about it, I mean in this format of short(or even long, in my case) posts. I grew up with this radar though..I sense things..I've a pretty good compass of good and evil. It's hard to understand a country-any country-until you lived there. Books help of course. good books I mean. Yet still. Sometimes even physical presense is not enough-you need to really spend years somewhere. I'm afraid to count how many years I am here-and it's only now I feel that I'm closer to understanding all the complexity. So no wonder people here can't wrap their mind about things that happenned ocean plus away. I'll try to be brief..not about US for now, but about Chernobyl times.. They told only because they couldn't afford not to tell, at some point. They always seem to feel they have a lot, a lot of disposable resources. Like people, for example. I don't mean the country, there are good folks everywhere-I mean the state. the empire. There were many things they never told about. Including catastrophes and accidents. Some things that they deemed not comme-il-faut, that hurt their image and their proclamations, simply didn't exist. They existed-but they were swept under the carpet with such efficiency one hardly had time to blink. All the numbers of people they deliberately killed, repressed, deported, misplaced, etcetera-it all can be easily googled. And it's tens of millions. all of it sounds surreal. yet it was incredibly real. Here they were just, well..they weren't even in an active mode of evil. They just kept silent because they could, and until they could not. As for the writing..no..I didn't think about it, at least not in terms of describing big societal things like Chernobyl There are many very fine writers. And I just recently read some memoirs of different people who knew Leo Tolstoy-and it seems I share his opinion about writing. Which was approximately "don't write unless you feel you completely and utterly can't resist anymore" (he also thought, like me, it should be "useful'. The whatever you write. For the mankind. But we strongly disagree on poetry..me and Leo Tolstoy. lol) also I do write, in a way..it's too much of me here even in this thread)) Re Tired, I've been to Lvov-yes, it's a very beautiful city. I was with my schoolmates, we had a class trip there. I remember it very fondly.

Yes--we've already watched the whole first season. We really enjoyed it, as it was something different than we normally watch. I thought the character development was well done, and it definitely kept our interest. Sure hope there is a season 2. I think there probably will be--they can't leave us hanging like that, can they?? Alisande--we're like you in that we are usually waaaay late in watching a TV series. We are on season 8 of NCIS!