Warg.

Page:  "Your grace!  [Bad news.]"
Page:  "Your grace!  [More bad news.]"
Page:  "Your grace!  [Even more bad news.]"
Stannis:  "You know what?  Fuck it.  I've come to realize that my entire presence here is just piece-moving to make sure Melisandre is at the wall for the next season's premier, because it's pretty clear that no one on this fucking show understands me as a character.  I might as well grouchily trudge up to Winterfell and lay siege to it with a tiny force and, like, no fucking horses or seige equipment.  Did you guys know I survived at Dragonstone under siege for an entire fucking year?  Yeah, the showrunners either.  It's only, like, an important character trait or something.  Just... just fuck it.  Hi Brienne.  Yeah, it's shitty.  Just put me out of my fucking misery already."
Brienne:  "You know, I feel like this should be... I dunno, a sort of "hell yeah!" moment, but honestly, your whole plot has tanked so hard that we're going to cut away melodramaticly."
Stannis:  "Wait, wait--what are you even doing here?"
Brienne:  "Coincidentally, I was nearby, and now I've wandered through an active battle field despite sticking out like a sore thumb--I mean, look at me--I've just wandered over to find you without anyone being like 'what the hell is that woman doing in that [sounds of being brutally killed by Brienne here]'."
Stannis:  "That's... Stupid, but, relatively, not that stupid."
Brienne:  "I know right?  Don't worry, next season I'm just going to somehow find Sansa and Theon... somehow."
Stanis:  "Ugh.  Okay.  Now you can kill me."

In the book, Jon gets stabbed, and you're immediately like "All these mentions of warging, and people being brought back to life by the Red God--he's definitely coming back.  I mean, duh.  It's not even a question."

Meanwhile on the show?  It's been, what, two seasons since we saw Berric Dondarrion resurrected?  Lady Stoneheart is completely absent.  AND?!  Melisandre was just shown to be hilariously and wildly wrong about Stannis and Winterfell.  And on top of that, Ghost has been around all of, what, one scene this season, and there has been virtually no warging at all, even from the OTHER Stark kids?

I look forward to how hilariously stupid the resurrection is next season.

Though her suddenly going blind was handled with all the subtlety of an elephant on a rampage.  "AUGH I CAN'T SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"

So Sansa is outside Winterfell with Theon... and basically they have nowhere to go... and Ramsay is known for tracking people down in the wilderness and horribly killing them.  I'm sure the resolution of this won't be dumb as hell at alllll.

Though... I understand they're finally maybe casting some Greyjoys for next season?  So maybe they'll stumble on Asha/Yara somehow, which would be another note lifted from the books without context (something the show does a lot), and the two of them will be our window to that plot?  Who knows.  I'm sure whatever happens, it'll be so dumb my eyes will do a full 360 and roll all the way around to the front again.

LOL KIT HARRINGTON IS SAYING HE'S NOT COMING BACK!  THE SHOWRUNNERS ARE TRYING TO TELL US THAT DEAD IS REALLY DEAD. 

The troll levels here are off the charts.

-Using only the wildling defense against Jon is outrageously dumb- hey Night's Watch, whatcha think is gonna happen when Tormund finds this out? How stupid are you all? The Pink Letter at least makes sense - he's admitting he's going to break his vows in front of everyone - that's reasons to go stabbing.
-Jaime and Myrcella: "I love you dad! *dies*" Thanks, Hollywood
-Sansa and Brienne: Just missing the candle. Really, Hollywood?
-Arya: In case we needed to hate Meryn Trant more. Cause we all forgot, apparently
-Cersei: The only one handled right. I thought it was great
-Varys: Boy did I laugh, "You're on the wrong side of the world!"
-Dany: No objections, but the speed of the khalessar showing up made me chuckle

In the books they were supposed to have been on the way to Oldtown about, well, just right after Jon was elected Lord Commander. And arrived there by the end of AFFC. So, yeah, I'd say that's a safe assumption. I guess. Though you never know with D&D.