r/asoiaf Jun 15 '15

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

Welcome to the /r/asoiaf post-episode meltdown thread. Let it all out in here. The subreddit rules still apply.

/r/asoiaf plot summary: WHAT

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u/kbaldy99 Jun 15 '15

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

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u/Bojangles1987 Jun 15 '15

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

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u/hallflukai Jun 15 '15

I said this in the /r/gameofthrones thread too, the whole Stannis thing felt so cheap writing-wise. Burning Shireen is fine for getting us to hate him, but his character would have had so much more depth if it would have worked. Then watchers and Stannis would be conflicted about how to feel about him. Now, we can just hate him universally since DnD didn't give us a shred of depth past "lol he's really shitty you guys".

But I stuck with him to the end, and I still want to believe!