Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1600847-20150615133347/@comment-26498000-20150615175828

I find Stannis' "death" far more upsetting than Jon's, because as a book reader, I truly did not know how it would go when he attacked Winterfell, He's still alive in the book and many of points brought up with his attack on Winterfell in the series, burning his daughter for example, can't happen in the book at this current time.

Then their is the fact that the show runners sort of broke their own rule on showing death's. They have gone on record as saying that when they mean for a character to be dead and for the audience not to speculate on it, they make it clear they have died. They don't do this with Stannis, which is really frustrating as a viewer, and all we get is a off hand confirmation on the HBO guide page. The only reason for the cut away is to make us wonder if he's still alive or if Brienne went through with it, but that is complety disamred by the website out right stating Brienne killed him so why even bother with the editing trick.