User blog comment:The Dragon Demands/Season 5 trailer officially released/@comment-5014364-20150203004208/@comment-5014364-20150204194418

Well, Cogman did stress in interviews that the election is still going to happen, and they did mention what a "Choosing" is in Season 4. Well, 15 minutes of on-screen time, but you have to deal with stuff like narrative focus, dramatic pacing, etc.

I mean yeah my dream version of the Season 4 finale ended with three things that didn't happen, but at the start of the season when you realize that the Battle of Castle Black is going to be the "episode 9 climax", that understandably results in Jon Snow's storyline being put "on pause" for many episodes with filler (chronologically, the battle would have happened around episode 4 or 5 because it was imminent)....but I understand that. And they wanted Stannis's surprise arrival to be in the final episode, so what are they going to do? Put in the entire election subplot in only ONE episode?

Pushing it to the beginning of next season will give it the time it deserves.

There are worse problems in the TV series than this, worse omissions, i.e. Arianne Martell.