Maybe we'll find out that she pulled an Arya Stark and left him there to die a slow, painful death of his battle wounds instead of doing the merciful thing and beheading him. Again, this just doesn't seem likely, if we're staying at all true to Brienne's character. Arya's decision to leave The Hound for dead instead of killing him outright could be explained by a number of factors. She had been traveling with him for months and had maybe grown to like him a little, in spite of his place on her kill list, so maybe she didn't want to be the one to end it.
She's also a shady, assassin-style killer, not a play-by-the-rules-of-honor knight like Brienne. There is nothing in Arya's established moral or ethical compasses to suggest she would have a problem with letting an enemy bleed out slowly instead of killing them humanely. Literally everything we know about Brienne, on the other hand, tells us the exact opposite.
Still, if Stannis is really back in Season 8, the best possible bet is that Brienne lost of her resolve for some reason and allowed Stannis to live and he's just been scampering through the northern woods for two seasons, regaining his strength and probably running in to Melisandre on her way south after Jon banishes her at the end of Season 6. If the show goes this route, the explanation will probably be something to do with the fact that, before Brienne runs into him, Stannis was fighting to retake the North from Ramsey Bolton, which would have also meant saving Sansa Stark, whom Brienne was sworn to protect.
There are a few options here. First, Stannis could be a literal zombie character. Maybe the White Walkers found him somehow. Maybe he's weirdly half-dead like Benjen Stark although, south of The Wall, neither of those options are especially likely. Maybe he was dead but Melisandre comes across his body when she's leaving Winterfell and magics him back to life. Maybe there's a new magic we don't know about yet. Lots of maybe in the "ressurrected Stannis" column.
What seems more likely, if Brienne did in fact kill Stannis at the end of Season 5, is that his Season 8 appearance will take the form of a flashback or weird Bran vision quest moment or something. We'll have to wait until the show comes back, of course, to know for sure. Martin went on the record saying that Stannis isn't dead in the books. Weiss attended SXSW earlier this month where they revealed which Thrones death has been the show's most expensive. The show's return date was recently revealed via a stunt that didn't go according to plan.
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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. He's not sorta dead or maybe dead -- he's flat out gone. Brienne approached the Lord of Dragonstone to fulfill her vow to end his life after he caused Renly's death.
But before "Thrones" actually showed Brienne's Oathkeeper fall on Stannis, the episode cut away to a scene with Ramsay.
This led many fans to speculate whether or not Stannis was actually dead , and if so, why didn't the series show his actual murder? Apparently, showing the actual death scene felt "gratuitous. For some reason, showing Cersei forced to walk naked in public wasn't "gratuitous," nor was showing Sansa Stark's clothes ripped off by Ramsay before she was raped by him, and seemingly, neither was showing Theon's repeated torture scenes.
Sorry, Nutter, but if every other violent or grotesque scene ever displayed on "Thrones" is acceptable -- and there are a lot -- then showing one more male character murdered by the blade of a woman's sword is certainly not anything close to what one would consider "gratuitous.
If HBO could include Shireen's screams and cries as she burned offscreen, they could've at least given fans the satisfaction of watching Stannis be defeated.
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