re: Game of Thrones S3:E9 "The Rains of Castamere" Book Readers only, SPOILERS

As much as I liked AFFC, I didn't get the same feeling from the first three books until the back half of ADWD when it's clear shite is about to turn around in the north. You go from having a cut and clear family to kind of root for to having the Lannisters having family squabbles, the rapey Greyjoys, and the horribly boring Martells. TWOW better have a Stark who's actually relavent to the war.