Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1600847-20150615133347/@comment-2094219-20150615171406

I would have been sad about Stannis' death... if he hadn't burned his own daughter at the stake. I feel that Stannis' storyline has been a bit of a rollercoaster this season, he started the season as the cold and calculating military leader that he has always been, then he showed his softer side in his conversation with Shireen, before becoming a massive bastard for killing her in the way that he did, and to top it all off, he ended the season back where he started, a real commander and warrior.

Myrcella's death was quite sad, (why does it seem that everyone's daughters are being killed off after heartfelt conversations...) and the Sand Snakes have really been bugging me this season. Don't get me wrong, I loved Oberyn as a character, he was one of my favourites until he got his head bashed in, but they really went about getting revenge in the wrong way, if anything it showed that they were just as bad as the Lannisters. Did Oberyn not say "We don't hurt little girls in Dorne." during the Purple Wedding?

Personally, I think Jon is dead and that's that. Sure Melisandre is currently at the wall and she does seemingly have the power to bring people back from the dead, but since Kit Harrington revealed that he wasn't coming back next season, it pretty much sets Jon's death in stone, even though his death in the books was left somewhat ambiguous... Which means that, since David & Dan are basically steering the series towards the same conclusion as the books, Jon is more-or-less confirmed to be dead or at least not a major character in the rest of the book series.

Honestly, I thought it was a pretty good episode. I wouldn't stick a rating to it, but although there were big battles (since the Winterfell battle was rather lame), it did rather neatly tie up a lot of story arcs, which makes me think that perhaps we're leading up to something quite big.