Wonder if there will ever be a Wheel of Time series or movies? That I would watch, though I may borrow some DVD’s and give Game of Thrones a chance. Love the books, but I too dislike the killing off of too many characters and the lack of a “good vs evil” plotline. EVERYBODY in A Song of Ice and Fire is evil, except for a few that seem to do relatively good things when it benefits them. I have always thought of Martin as the anti-Tolkien......
I have found that tendency (i.e. “EVERYBODY ...is evil”) is very common nowadays. The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Walking Dead, it seems that there are few REAL good guys, just some characters who are not as evil as others.