Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1600847-20150615133347/@comment-26498000-20150615190213

Firstlensman wrote: I am hoping Melisandre gets to Jon Snow in time and resurrects him. I feel that he is still the third Dragon rider and needs to confirm the R+L=J theory. As for Stannis, after sacrificing his own daughter, he has shown that he would not be a good leader and is not a good family man. A ruler has to emerge that will have the people's welfare and safety at the forefront of their rule. That Stannis will sacrifice anything and anyone shows that he was ultimately unworthy. This episode is not getting my hopes up that the Starks will get their revenge or will rule Winterfell in the future! The Boltons and The Freys need to be taken down and made to suffer for what they did! I wouldn't get my hope up. Kit Harington has pretty much stated that Jon is really dead.

I would argue against the fact of sacrificing his daughter doesn't make Stannis a good leader. It certinally doesn't make his a good Father, but he put his duty before anything else, even his family. Maester Aemon said in season one that "Love is the Death of Duty", and even Ned Stark put his family over what was right, despite Jon saying otherwise. Stannis put the welfare of the realm over his own personal wants and desires, that's why he went North in the first place. As far as he knew the only way to save the realm was to defeat the Boltan, take the North, and eventully lead a unified realm against the White Walkers.

We can now look back in hidnsight and say it was not the correct choice, but at the time, it was the best option he had.