Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150621151627/@comment-26158496-20160318015005

This is what Stephen Dillane (Stannis's character) had to say about the show. This was four days ago:

“I do not regret having done Game of Thrones, but I have nothing to say. I understood neither the series nor its success when I was attending. The experience was very strange, it passed under my nose.” […] Why, then, was it undertaken? Long silence, increasingly exasperated. “Among other things, for the money.”  

I feel like this is the appropriate thread to post this on. It is roughly translated from French but the idea renders. This disappoints me, but as a huge fan of both the actor and the show I'm sure it's because the writers destroyed his character - it wasn't even just the Battle of Winterfell though, they've butchered his character since his premise and him being written off simply nulled any aim his character was. I can see why he would hold distaste towards the show since, it being so en masse yet the scenes being so divided based on storyline, he's forced only to retain Stannis's perspective.

Dillane has the grit and brusqueness as his character though, and it was a pleasure seeing him work on the show. It just baffles me how the writers can be so brilliant yet such idiots at the same time. Hoping Season 6 changes this. And if it doesn't... they'll understand what it feels like to make rash decisions with bitter consequences.