I'm sure Jon is finally breaking his Night's Watch oath. Now he can be one step closer to being Jon Stark.
And man, did Stannis get the sh**tiest death. He's technically the rightful king and after how they wrote him, they decide to kill him off screen.
The whole Stannis/Renly thing is the one thing that bugs me about Brienne. Generally, I love her character. But I don't understand her undying loyalty to Renly for being "the rightful king" when he sure as hell wasn't. She pledged undying fealty to him because... he was nice to her once. I mean, really? Stannis might have been a prick, but he was technically the rightful heir to the throne and he was a better leader than Renly.
Agreed.I'm not saying that Stannis would have been a very good ruler, but I think he would have at least been a capable one. Renly didn't seem to know what the hell he was doing.
I'm sure Jon is finally breaking his Night's Watch oath. Now he can be one step closer to being Jon Stark.
And man, did Stannis get the sh**tiest death. He's technically the rightful king and after how they wrote him, they decide to kill him off screen.
The whole Stannis/Renly thing is the one thing that bugs me about Brienne. Generally, I love her character. But I don't understand her undying loyalty to Renly for being "the rightful king" when he sure as hell wasn't. She pledged undying fealty to him because... he was nice to her once. I mean, really? Stannis might have been a prick, but he was technically the rightful heir to the throne and he was a better leader than Renly.
I would have wanted Stannis to be alive still, but his character is just destroyed, so if he came back I don't know that I could enjoy him as much as I did. The writers just took specific moments in the last season to go "okay, here's why you don't need to like Stannis". His death would have been a lot more tragic if he was still 'good' Stannis too, so I don't know why they did that; it's like they tried to lessen the impact.
He had that generally bleak, stoic, stern personality, and most of those characters can be bores, but I just liked Stannis. I rooted for him when he was alive, I just thought he was pretty cool.
I would have wanted Stannis to be alive still, but his character is just destroyed, so if he came back I don't know that I could enjoy him as much as I did. The writers just took specific moments in the last season to go "okay, here's why you don't need to like Stannis". His death would have been a lot more tragic if he was still 'good' Stannis too, so I don't know why they did that; it's like they tried to lessen the impact.
He had that generally bleak, stoic, stern personality, and most of those characters can be bores, but I just liked Stannis. I rooted for him when he was alive, I just thought he was pretty cool.
Technically Stannis is the brother of a usurper. Not the rightful king.
The Targs created the united realm and the throne. Its theirs as long as a Targ is alive. Stannis was as much a criminal as all the other pretenders. So really Renly had as much right to the throne as Stannis... none. Stannis should have recognized the fact that his brother was a usurper, secured the throne for Dany, and he himself should have taken the position of defender of the realm.Jon is the rightful king since he is the son of Prince Rhaegar. If Jon doesnt get the throne it goes to Dany.
Uh, aren't they aware of Dany as of A Game of Thrones? That is what Robert and Ned fight over.1) Stannis couldn't have possibly known that Dany was alive or that she was in any position to rule anything. To my knowledge they aren't aware of her as of yet in the novels either. 2) The Targaryen laws of succession were radically re-written after the Dance of the Dragons, making female heirs come absolutely last before any other possible male candidates. Stannis was part of the Targaryen bloodline through his grandmother in the books and his mother in the show. So by Targaryen laws of inheritance the Baratheons brothers had claim, and since Stannis was the eldest it went to him.
This may even play into the show, assuming Stannis relationship with [Blackout]Jon[/Blackout] wasn't just for ****s and giggles. He seemed to have clued together something about his parentage in 5x04, and we have to remember Stannis was the first one who suspected that Robert's kids weren't his. He may well have figured out that [Blackout]Jon[/Blackout] was the child of Rhaegar and Lyanna, and thus related to the Baratheons. Since they've cut Robb's will designating [Blackout]Jon[/Blackout] as his heir, I think it's possible that they could shift that to Stannis and have him leave some form of testament showing him declaring the LC as his heir through shared lineage.