Oh! I believe that LordLundin may have just encountered one of those prove you're a human screens that used to ocasionally pop up here. I haven't seen one of those in quite a while.
My favorite character is Aria Stark, and my second favorite is Sansa Stark now that she is beginning to wise up and not be so royalty struck by the Lancasters.
When the series started I thought it was great because back then the only real fantasy aspect it had were Dinarris's dragons, since I'm a fan of dragons I was willing to accept them. But as the series progressed, more fantasy was added like Neselanta, the undead, and this thing with Bran, it is becoming less and less believeable and I find myself losing interest.
Fantasy is my favorite genre to read, but I find that if the fantasy aspects of the story are so numerous that they tend to over power the rest of the story, I will quickly lose interest, I want the stories I read to be mostly believeable, and too much fantasy destroys that.