Sir Ackbar of the Night's Watch watches Season 7

Sir Ackbar of the Night's Watch watches Season 7 Aug 11, 2018 2:22:09 GMT Spooky Ghost Ackbar likes this

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Aug 11, 2018 2:19:48 GMT Spooky Ghost Ackbar said:

Aug 11, 2018 2:04:41 GMT Leo of Red Keep said:

Melisandre believed everything she said and Stannis was not power hungry, only blindly dutiful. They are a depiction of belief.
The point of everything in this story is the thing. What it leads to is a side effect. This is a series of large books and characters are their own justification, not a means to an end. This is not a journey from A to B.

I suppose so. I'm just partial to character arcs with big satisfying payoffs. And I'm sure there'll be plenty of those to come. There already have been a few.

As for Stannis, I just think it's a bit of a shame he died so early in the series. I would've liked to have seen a humbled and defeated Stannis join the eventual fight with the White Walkers, or perhaps lose all of his convictions and fall to pieces knowing his daughter died for nothing. Basically, I think they could've delved deeper into the character instead of just having him die.

There is some suspicion, among some fans, that he is not really dead.

As stated earlier the books never definitively killed him, either.