Most thrilling fight...

[Shacklock]

What Boaz is trying to say is that too many characters are...EMO!
*Grabs the sharpened knives and pointy sticks and goes on a culling*

 

[Mechaniik]

I think the thing with Melisandre is that she so desperately wants to believe its true that she's deluded herself - Maester Aemon says as much to Sam the Slayer when he's dying.

 

[YOSSARIAN]

First off-Oberyn v. the Mountain is the best duel EVER WRITTEN OR FILMED, including non-fictional duels. (Best "duel" between three people is the climax of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Best "duel" between one person is Tyler Durden v. Tyler Durden.) Sorry for going off on a tangent. I also enjoyed Strong Belwas v. the hero of Mereen just because it was very crudely humorous.

Since Melisandre has been brought up, I have an idea I don't think has been mentioned. Her prophetic abilities are pretty damn impressive-is it maybe possible that she is not deluded but has actually manipulated events to occur exactly as she wants them to? Could it be that she has been playing Stannis, claiming to aid him while intentionally sabotaging him? She seems to be able to see multiple futures-it is possible that she had seen Stannis and his "duty" and "honor" getting in the way of the War for the Dawn UNLESS he was too weak to muster opposition to whatever force she supports, while still keeping him strong enough to support her real hero-Jon Snow Stark Targaryen Ahai. Honestly I'm just playing devil's advocate, but it's something to think about.

 

[the smiling weirwood]

Since when has Jon been the prince that was promised? His theorized Targaryen heritage notwithstanding, there is already a personage of royal blood who has awoken dragons. Ipso facto, Jon can't be it.

 

[YOSSARIAN]

Since when has Jon been the prince that was promised? His theorized Targaryen heritage notwithstanding, there is already a personage of royal blood who has awoken dragons. Ipso facto, Jon can't be it.

I'm speculating that Melisandre may believe that Jon is TPTWP, not that he actually is. The Jon sample chapter on GRRM's website is the impetus for this idea (based on my interpretation on the dialogue). My idea is that she is moving from Stannis to Jon, possibly because she has seen a future with Jon and Dany's dragons and mistakenly starts to view Jon as Azor Ahai.