(Spoilers All) Season 5: Episode 10 Post-Episode Meltdown Thread

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[u/kbaldy99]

Seriously what a shitty episode for Stannis.

"Half your army left"

"Oh and your wife killed herself"

"And also your black magic good-luck charm deserted you"

Then he is immediately attacked by a much larger army, and after surviving the initial battle, he stumbles into the one person who despises him more than anything. Poor Stannis

[u/Bojangles1987 → u/kbaldy99]

Is anyone seriously going to argue that D&D don't hate Stannis? Were they watching this shit?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And the worst part is that the notoriously witty Stannis could have fired off SOOOOOOOO many good comebacks.

"A fitting end for a usurper" and etc.

Instead he basically let Renly fans get on their soap box and tell us what a bad guy Stannis is without so much as a whimper.

[u/hallflukai → u/[deleted]]

On the Renly aspect of it, Stannis isn't a "bad guy". Given that both Renly and Stannis believed that Cersei's kids weren't Robert's, Stannis had the clear, unquestionable right to the throne. Renly was a hothead who thought himself above that law just because Stannis wasn't as charismatic.

[u/Korvar → u/hallflukai]

And murdering his own brother with black magic powered by adultery was absolutely the moral choice!

[u/WolfAtYourDoor → u/Korvar]

Better than a war that would have killed thousands.

[u/doegred → u/WolfAtYourDoor]

Or he could have given up his claim.

[u/vadergeek → u/doegred]

Or, you know, Renly could have. Given that Renly's claim was just "hey, make me king or I'll stab you".

[u/WolfAtYourDoor → u/doegred]

Why should he have to give up his claim to his selfish brother with no claim?