The inconsistency.
If book Stannis is iron, then show Stannis is Silly Putty.
He has no backbone at all. The celebrated iron will--celebrated even in the show-- wavers amazingly quickly. One of three kings dead? Let's burn Gendry. Horses got stolen. Time to burn my daughter!
The writing makes him out to be a great general. And then makes him take amazingly brainless decisions that guarantee his failure.
There are times when show Stannis is exactly like he is in the books. And then he changes. In the next episode.
David and Dan's Stannis is markedly different from GRRM's or Bryan Cogman's.
No wonder Stephen Dillane says he didn't understand the character. How could an actor understand such a badly written character?
Personally I can accept that they've changed the character(they've changed nearly every other character, too, after all.) But they didn't seem to know how to do it with Stannis (Sansa, too, in my opinion is a big mess, by the way.)
The book character is complex and has mysteries but the show character is just...in pieces. Writing wise
Still, Dillane did it. And it's a thankless role, too. But those Stannis lines! They are hard for an actor to pull off with any realism. Dillane pulled it off as best he could. If he had been served by a better team of writers(or if GRRM and Cogman had written all the episodes), it would have been awesome.
Dillane was the best aspect.
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