Jslay427 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I would reexamine my life, because the best part of it would be dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterbumps! Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What was he supposed to do? Let his brother kill him? Let the laws of succesion go unheeded resulting in a war every time a lord or king dies?he didn't have to do it with a goddam shadow that came out of his mistresses' birth canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red Pope Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 He's had a good run but I won't weep over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Ro Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 he didn't have to do it with a goddam shadow that came out of his mistresses' birth canal.It was his only choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolves Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What was he supposed to do? Let his brother kill him? Let the laws of succesion go unheeded resulting in a war every time a lord or king dies?I can understand him somewhat having to take Renly out, but the way he did it was questionable. Stannis could have done something different with Renly instead of killing him, with all the magic that the Red Witch has was death really the only option to handling Renly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Sansa Stark Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 he didn't have to do it with a goddam shadow that came out of his mistresses' birth canal.At least you can't criticize him for not being innovative... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterbumps! Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 It was his only choice.wait- do you really believe that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab aeterno Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I can understand him somewhat having to take Renly out, but the way he did it was questionable. Stannis could have done something different with Renly instead of killing him, with all the magic that the Red Witch has was death really the only option to handling Renly?Better to kill one rather than thousands. A king must put his duty before his honor.What else would you call it, to deny your king and seek to steal his rightful throne? I ask you again- what is the penalty for treason under the law?"Davos had no choice but to answer. "Death," he said. "The penalty is death, Your Grace.""It has always been so. I am not... I am not a cruel man, Ser Davos. You know me. Have known me long. This is not my decree. It has always been so, since Aegon's day and before. Daemon Blackfyre, the brothers Toyne, the Vulture King, Grand Maester Hareth... traitors have always paid with their lives...even Rhaenyra Targaryen. She was daughter to one king and mother to two more, yet she died a traitor's death for truing to usurp her brother's crown. It is law. Law, Davos. Not cruelty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Ro Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I can understand him somewhat having to take Renly out, but the way he did it was questionable. Stannis could have done something different with Renly instead of killing him, with all the magic that the Red Witch has was death really the only option to handling Renly?I think it was his only choice, besides it was not overly painful, and saved the lives of many a soldier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Soprano Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I'd definitely cry, and maybe throw the book away. And then buy another one, read it again, and cry some more. And then...wait for HBO to adapt it. Fly to North Ireland or wherever they're shooting and work as an extra in Stannis' army. A man shouldn't have to outlive his king. :bowdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Ro Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 wait- do you really believe that?What should he have done bb, tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Sansa Stark Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I can understand him somewhat having to take Renly out, but the way he did it was questionable. Stannis could have done something different with Renly instead of killing him, with all the magic that the Red Witch has was death really the only option to handling Renly?I absolutely hate to say this, but; it was the less bloodiest way you can ever imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Mac Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Oh, I'm also rooting for a King in the North, if they ever want it. But Stannis is the rightful King of Westeros and he is the only one who has to get the Throne. Not the Iron Throne itself, mind you, before Daenerysfans are coming in saying things like ''THE IRON THRONE IS FROM THE TARGARYENSSSSSS''. It's just a Throne, not the Kingship. But Stannis is the only rightful King of Westeros. I will accept no other.Unless Rickon wants to be King in the North.Does that make me a hypocrite? Obviously. But my love for the Starks is somewhat greater than my allegiance to Stannis.I agree with this concept. Stannis is the rightful king, but even as a Stannis fan I'd allow the North to be independent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGriffonReborn Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 If Stannis dies in TWOW I'm gonna refer to ADOS as A Dream Of Stannis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab aeterno Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 If Stannis dies in TWOW I'm gonna refer to ADOS as A Dream Of Stannis.We should actually begin a petition for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterbumps! Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What should he have done bb, tell me.If the only means available to you are blood magic shadowbabies in order to seize the throne, then perhaps either A. you should have thought much longer and harder before fleeing KL so you could have conferred with Ned and avoided this debacle or B. realize that if this is all that's going for you, maybe you ought not be king, that maybe, just maybe there's something beyond being king than succession of birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionAhaiReborn Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 he didn't have to do it with a goddam shadow that came out of his mistresses' birth canal.Would you have preferred for it to have come out of some other orifice?! Surely the birth canal was the best possible point of exit!Some people will find the most trivial reasons to criticize Stannis... I can't even.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterbumps! Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Would you have preferred for it to have come out of some other orifice?! Surely the birth canal was the best possible point of exit!Some people will find the most trivial reasons to criticize Stannis... I can't even....And yet people have the gall to accuse Cersei of malfeasance for issuing her own mini revolution via birth canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olavtheking Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What should he have done bb, tell me.He should have faced his brother like a f**** man, either challenge him in single combat before the Stormlords or fight on the field of battle and prove his military genius he supposedly posesses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab aeterno Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 If the only means available to you are blood magic shadowbabies in order to seize the throne, then perhaps either A. you should have thought much longer and harder before fleeing KL so you could have conferred with Ned and avoided this debacle or B. realize that if this is all that's going for you, maybe you ought not be king, that maybe, just maybe there's something beyond being king than succession of birth.So your argument is that Stannis is too law abiding? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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