Lady Stoneheart (The S6 "LSH-Fans-In-Denial"-Edition)

They really have to make it up to us this season with this Northern story line, but something tells me they wont. The Boltons and the Freys have suffered no consequences from the Red Wedding. Stoneheart always seemed like a good fit. I think a lot of Unsullied would've gotten behind that too.

I do think retribution is coming. It's not good storytelling to just consistently keep shitting on the same group of people over and over and others have called it "torture porn" for that fair criticism. At what point do you have to get before you say "You know what? Fuck this show" because they keep tormenting the most loved characters? I actually don't blame some show only fans one bit for getting as upset as I've seen some reactions. In the books, we have a much slower transgression of the 'good' and 'bad' bits but the show had sped everything up and hammered the shit out of people's emotions. Even as a book reader who knew most of the shocking things, I was shocked. 

GRRM is a good writer. We have to keep reminding ourselves that. The show, even when they change things dramatically, is still taking cues from his writing and will continue to do so. I really don't see the show diverging entirely from the book at this point even without the next book published. There's a plan in there somewhere under that devious torturous mind of George's and we need to keep the faith that wrongs will be righted and even if there's no true 'happy ending' to the overall story, there will be an outcome that makes sense. Based on the history before Game of Thrones, we know this will be repeated. 

I think I agree with this a little that their overall timeline planning seems wrong. Maybe this has to do with HBO's recent reveal that they will go more seasons? Maybe they originally wrote it on a much tighter schedule and now it's just looking off kilter. Who knows. I do think there was plenty of room in season 4 and 5 for Riverlands stuff even with the big Hardhome and Walk of Shame scenes still in there too. 

Again, I can only guess they have put off the Riverlands because of some other big reason that comes in TWOW they felt it was more important to shunt all of that to Season 6. Maybe it was actually a brilliant idea to combine it all for reasons we don't know yet.

I definitely agree about the Jaime choices. When the plot turned and he was sent to Dorne, I figured there had to be some really big epic reason for that sudden switch in his story that would remove him from his redemption arc in the Riverlands, very important to his character's development ... but no. It ended up being nothing. Ok, so Myrcella died in his arms at the end - that was pretty dramatic ... but was it worth a complete reversal of his story arc? 

I am only hoping they redeem themselves there by returning Jaime to the Riverlands in S6 to pick that back up. A lot of what he did there was pretty key important to political / war events too such as breaking the siege of Riverrun. I had assumed they were just dropping all of that entirely from the story. We've seen no return of the actors for Blackfish or Brynden ...or even any of the prominent Freys for that matter. Everything is a damn mystery right now. 

Lady Stoneheart could return if the rest of them do, there's still room for it - but since the rest are still not revealed, I'm skeptical of any of it at this point.

That's pretty shitty planning to have 2 resurrections in one season.

Also any planning which includes bad pussy...is a bad planning.

Unless they're just going to do that vague timewarp thing along with no-aging baby Sam... sometimes they just don't explain time passing at all on the show so maybe we'll be left to assume hardly no time has passed since the Red Wedding haha. 

Still, the resurrection was even offscreen in ASOS, so we wouldn't see it anyways.

True, which validates my second post and theory ... she's actually been 'alive' all this time, we just haven't heard about it from the show perspective with no PoV there. 

If it really turns out that Jon has warged Ghost in the moments before his death, this would mean that Jon's "soul" never died, only his body. So if Melisandre should resurrect his corpse, his soul could return to his body as if nothing has happened. That's a theory I've read somewhere, but I still think it is entirely possible that Melisandre is a Red Herring and that Jon either stays dead, or is brought back by someone or something else.