Finished. Indeed it ended strong, setting up nicely the second season, and not all the conclusions and plot points were easy to guess (there were at least a couple of legitimate suprises). I should have figured that Oberyn's widow from Game of Thrones would have kept her murderous tendencies also in this series : D, and the daughter of the opposition leader should be named Cersei Baelish since we have someone who doesn't care about incest thinking that chaos is a ladder...
Also there's some good stuff in the soundtrack, gotta check that out!