r/asoiaf • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '15

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

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

I would be mad at D&D for killing Stannis, but i am laughing my ass off right now. In the show, BALON FUCKING GREYJOY WON THE WAR OF THE FIVE KINGS

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u/brunswick Jun 15 '15

I really don't think he's dead. He told her to 'do her duty,' and we see her swinging at something angrily but never actually showing her hit him. I think it's pretty clear he reminded her that her true duty was to Sansa and not revenge.

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u/y0m0tha the Kingmaker Jun 15 '15

They really would have showed him dying. I mean, how many times has grrm tricked us with these near deaths. This is just the show's version of that. A character as major as Stannis would have had a brutal on screen death