User blog comment:The Dragon Demands/What should the Season 3 "Histories & Lore" featurettes be?/@comment-8331-20131119181320/@comment-5014364-20131119191851

Yeah that's one of the big lingering questions:  how much will they explain Stannis's family, Selyse Florent and Shireen? I mean they didn't even say the word "Greyscale" on-screen or explain exactly what the disease she had was. They'll probably squeeze Shireen in somewhere to explain that, but House Florent is an open question.

I don't blame the TV series, I know the cast is huge - frankly we're lucky they were able to squeeze in Selyse and Shireen at all. And the writers are largely on our side:  they thought they wouldn't be in Season 2 but fought to squeeze them into Season 3 somehow (I thought it hilarious/intriguing how much fans, back in Season 2, obsessed over Melisandre's line that Stannis "has no sons" trying to figure out if it meant Shireen had been cut....when it turns out that the writers themselves made the line deliberately vague, so they could later say he actually has a daughter.