I expect the second season to rock a lot more because Clash of Kings is a far better book than Game of Thrones.
In GOT, you pretty much had a black and white morality, shakesperean cliched drama, impossible mendelian insights and weird metal melting points. COK is far better in this aspect, because you get to know more about the Lannisters, the retarded main character already died etc.
The fact a lot of people applauded GRRM for it just shows how low is the fantasy genre standards. I mean, there are books where the main character carves a statue to convert people from socialism to capitalism, and in another series you basically get told the three main characters are walking deus ex machinas, let aside the blatant sexism in both of them. It surely makes ASOIAF's flaws look small time.
