(Spoilers Main) What are some of your favorite displays of power in the series?

He doesn't try to stop Davos before he attempted to kill Mel. He let's it play out and actually imprisons Davos, likely with the intention of letting Mel do whatever she wanted with him. It was lucky for Davos that Mel saw use in him still. I am not a Stannis fanboy and have no doubt that he would have eventually let Mel burn Davos if she insisted. But not after imprisoning him. Just like he would have let her kill Edric, but not after she proved it necessary via leaches..and just like he let her kill Cressen, but only after he gave him an opportunity, albiet a subtle one, to give up. Stannis is definitely Mel's bitch but whatever doubt he has left compels him to stall her every time she suggests something wrong or evil. Or so I think. It seems out of place to me to have that one scene to demonstrate that he's changed when at all other times thus far he has acted exactly like the straightforward black and white hardass that he's always described to be.

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