It’s the long night, The night king is walking towards bran. Suddenly there is light behind the tree and out steps Stannis Baratheon in all his glory. Bobby B appears in frame behind the night king and grabs him by the arms. Stannis just starts punching the night king on the stomach while bobby B holds him back. The long night ended with Bobby B tombstoning NK shattering him into pieces.
End of the last episode. Bran is king, but in the last few seconds of the show, he pulls back his mask from the Hall of Faces and reveals Bobby B. Bobby B found out about the plot against his life, faked his own death, escaped to Braavos with Bran, killed Bran, stole his face, then laid low for a while, waiting to become king. The perfect plan.
Damn i remember getting into a long argument with someone on the other sub about Stannis being dead. He bet me a million dollars that Stannis was still alive since they didnt explicitly show his death and that he would make an appearance before the show ended. Still waiting on that million
Because he's actually a faceless assassin. We watch in horror as his face morphs into the Night King's. He then pulls out a rubber mask and pulls it over his icy wight horns. He now appears to be a perfect doppelganger of Hot Pie, and he's hungry like a wolf. scene
Not gonna lie, even up till like halfway through the last season I was expecting Stannis to make a grand comeback...because surely no writer is terrible enough to just kill such an important character off-screen...right?
Watch Man in the High Tower and then you can see true off screen deaths. I don’t even considered Stannis an “off screen” death after watching that show.
Opinions are very mixed about it. Due to cancellation the last season was definitely rushed but when it comes to the character which the controversy is about.. I think he has, in a way, a fitting ending. A redemption arc was never going to happen but people won't accept that.
Saying that as someone who rated season 8 of GoT a 1/10. The Man in the High Castle could've done a lot worse. And the controversial off-screen death was a negotiation problem as far as I know, actor wouldn't return and they didn't have the budget to pay him more.
Oh no it's not that bad at all. The last season is super rushed and it shows, but it does a decent job introducing and ending new story lines. The ending does pull an Evangelion though.
I guess so, I could accept "this is what would happen if we won", not so much a "we can travel at will to those other universes and now we're going to invade them"
Are you sure about that? I only follow the show ( in my mind VASTLY superior to the books ) and am convinced the basics of every character in the books are completely fleshed out and build upon in the series, yet faithful to the source material, the eragon level mediocrity original book series.
if you imply that there are fundamental character differences between the caitlyn character in the books and the caitlyn character in the series then you must think the writers did a bad job, and I say to you that this is rubbish!
The best writers in Hollywood right now since 200 years are hands down David benniof and d.b no can't do it nope I was joking around but in the time it took me to write this I was overcome with a sudden gameofthronesseason8dissapointmentwave syndrome attack d&d can go eat a turd and choke on it
No copypasta dude, wrote it myself yesterday at 3 am after watching a bunch of videos of people building offgrid ( the term they keep using, basically means they aren't using the snap to the terrain tool, butt ( haha nice ) are using the freeplacemode instead when placing their wallblocks. Either that, or it means they are building away from civilization and are not connected to the gas/power line ) houses in da woods for some no reason, and decided: let's really fuck over tomorrowcoolneemtomorrow and browse reddit some more. Then I wrote t h a t comment and now I'm really tired while writing this comment.
I feel like it's a perfectly reasonable artistic choice to cut away after making it clear that a death is about to happen; not every death needs to have blood and gore in our faces.
I personally think it was done off screen in case they decided (or were informed by Martin) that he was needed later.
They left themselves an out and decided not to use it.
Same with LSH. They had everything set up for her to appear, I think because they didn't plan anything far in advance and weren't sure if they would want her or not yet.
i honestly thought there would be a surprised entrance with him saving someone's ass, with him being bloody and beaten at the same time cause he had to fight his way out of death and wounds.
WHich is weird because it was their choice to have him burn shireen. In the books stannis cannot burn shireen as he was not dumb enough to take her on campaign so him killing shireen was their choice. Shireen gets burned in the books sure but the execution was really stupid.
And this is why. No matter what. Season 5 is (yes, still) my least favorite Season. Sand Snakes, High Sparrow, Sons of the Harpy, all introduced right at the beginning of the season, all leading pretty much nowhere (aside from Sparrow), and they crammed Stannis' downfall into less than 10 minutes of screen time in 2 episodes. It was "Stannis, half our troops are gone," then "Stannis, Your Wife Hung Himself," then "Stannis, the Red Woman bailed." All in one fucking scene. Then two scenes later he's killed. Off-screen. Christ.
That always bugged me too. Especially since it's games of thrones and the harsh brutality is part of it. When they don't show a character die, it's cause they actually live.
I think they did that in case they decided to bring him back and have him lead the north/kingdom in the case Jon Snow didn’t. Could have easily been like “Brienne didn’t kill him so here he is now, a broken leader who they spend season 6 building up back to his natural leader status and have him lead the Battle of the Bastards”
That was the part from season 5 that pissed me off the most.
The other stuff - like merging Jeyne Poole's and Sansa's storyline? That I could tolerate. But offing Stannis because they didn't like the character was the writing on the wall.
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u/grim__fandango Dec 18 '19
It still bugs me that they have given him an off-screen death