Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1600847-20150615133347/@comment-26498000-20150615181929

Scarfacemperor wrote: Stannis' death makes one game-changing fact : Melissandre didn't believe in him, she manipulated him in order to get king's blood. When seeing the wind turned against Stannis, she understood he wasn't the Lord of Light's champion.

Maybe Brienne spared him, but I hardly see how he could bounce back. He already had few forces, that were annihilated. The ONLY thing that may make him win Winterfell would be having the northern lords rally to him, that would catch up with my predictions for the book (victory for Stannis thanks to a trojan horse tactic) The only thing that I think wold ever casue Brienne to spar Stannis is her for some reason trying to use him to save Sansa. Had the encounter happened while he still had his army, I think that would happen, but with most of his army destroyed and the rest deserting him and Stannis himself injured, I can't see her doing this unless she think's he can rally people to her side.

Even if that did happen, he's in a worse spot than after the Blackwater. Unless he managed to run into Sansa immediatly and get her on his side, and by extention the Northern Lords, he's pretty much at the end of his rope. Which They actully showed pretty well in the show, he was ready to die when Brienne showed up.