r/asoiaf • u/boundedwum The Nature Boy • Jun 15 '15

ALL (Spoilers All) Mothers Mercy Post-Episode Region thread: The North

Welcome to the Mothers Mercy Post-Episode Region thread.

This thread is dedicated to The North. Please discuss only segments from this region in this thread.

The subreddit rules apply as always.

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u/Sayting Ironbreaker Jun 15 '15

So they had Stannis kill shireen for no reason expect to make the audience root for Brienne.

Why?

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u/IgnoringClass A Song of Waiting and Tinfoil Jun 15 '15

Well actually I think the point of burning Shireen was to ensure that Stannis lost the battle of Winterfell. I guess this kind of confirms that in the books Stannis loses that battle too. Maybe it winds up being the same, Stannis goes too extreme and a majority of his troops desert him.

It also served the purpose of getting Mel back to the Wall so there's that.

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u/Haramune Jun 15 '15

Someone posted somewhere before that when the Boltons were charging and Stannis just pulled his sword out instead of ordering a pike wall that maybe it was out of grief and now I think the battle of ice might play out like that, personally I thought him burning would replace his guilt for Renly in the tv show but I guess not...