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I don't know if I said it before in this thread, but my hope is that they just wanted it to be a surprise, but fully intended to LATER have Alliser explain in Season 6 he did it because Melisandre brought news of the Bolton victory, and they feared that if the Boltons were now indeed in a position of strength, they'd never let the Watch continue to live if the last known male of Stark blood was their leader. And they framed the whole "Traitor" thing to "sell" it to the Boltons.