Something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try

one thing I find interesting is the way that the show kind of set up the major players in the beginning, and by the end of the season, all those people are dead and the people you thought were on the sidelines are the important ones.

And thank goodness for that, because aren't the people on the sidelines nearly always more interesting? I'll take Catelyn and Cersei over Ned and Robert any day.