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 Originally Posted by baudib
Wuf, the thing is in this story there is the possibility of people coming back from literal death, and of course we have seen miraculous recoveries from the start of the show (Bran in Season 1).
So if every dramatic death ends up being a twist, then it kind of cheapens it.
I agree. But I think D&D are just that bad. They like these sorts of surprises and twists. They regularly make the audience's expectation one thing, then suddenly change it. I think they just want the audience to think loads of people are dead so D&D can show up in s6 and say "gotcha!".
If Stannis' death was shown, I would not be saying this. Nobody's pulling a Thoros on him.
Also this is different than Syrio. One of my close friends was like you in that he thought Syrio was coming back since his death wasn't shown, but I think his death was "shown". It was shown the next time Meryn Trant was on scene. Because of that, we know that Syrio didn't exit that room.
I think Benjen is a dead end. I don't know what the specific trope is called, but I think he works fine as a Red Herring. We were told "hey there might be something here with this guy" but then there just isn't and we have to accept it. That said, Benjen still could return, but I don't think it's likely.
I just have a really hard time figuring out why everybody involved would choose to deliberately and obviously not show Stannis' death. It isn't even that they didn't show it, but that they deliberately "not-showed" it. It's reasonable to think that Hound is dead because the story left him and he could have died off screen, but Stannis didn't die "off screen", he "died" right there, right in the scene. Leaving his on-screen death ambiguous was a conscious choice by the writers. This is the main reason I think his on-screen death is a fake-out.
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