Why didn't King Stannis retreat to Storm's end after his defeat at the blackwater? Why did he return to Dragonstone...

Why didn't King Stannis retreat to Storm's end after his defeat at the blackwater? Why did he return to Dragonstone? Surely holding the most powerful castle in the stormlands as head of house Baratheon AND legitimate heir, would send a stronger message that you weren't defeated.

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Dragonstone is an island so much harder to conquer. But enough of that, I need a GoT remake where Stannis actually takes and pillages King's Landing because when I watched it for the first time I was rooting for him.

It's weird how Ned was so beloved by fans and dies for supporting Stannis' legitimacy, however fans were kind of cold on Stannis himself. Blackwater was a clear good vs evil scenario I don't care about Tyrion's adventure as the hand

Yeah I don't see how anyone could have been against Stannis at Blackwater, morally speaking.

Good vs evil doesn't work out in real life either. Often the most honorable among us are also unable to take the steps necessary to become powerful and if they do we lose respect for the respect we had for them in the first place whereas evil people are expected to behave this way. Its a shame but its a reason why the show is so popular. It takes the medievel setting and puts a real story in it, not that other medievl stories arrent real but they often focus on honor and glory and formalities instead of the way those things clash with the human existence. I'm too lazy to spell check you get this sorry

Ned didnt really give a shit about stannis he just did what he thought was right. Stannis likewise knew about the bastardry and did nothing to help Robert or Ned. Also Ned only died because LF manipulated joffrey, the lannisters would never have dared to actually execute him.

It isn't said anywhere that Littlefinger manipulated Joffery to have Ned executed in fact there's no evidence that LF wanted Ned dead at all. He tells him to marry Sansa off to Joff and had the opportunity to leave him for dead when Jamie attacked him (or in the books where Ned was crushed by his horse).

LF modus operandi is to throw wrenches into the gears, Ned dying causes the war which to him is as positive an outcome as he could hope for.

Varys hints at the scenario here:
>Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or . . . another?”

Why didn't he send another shadow baby after Tywin, Cersei of Joffrey? Fucking retard.

Because that spell saps a lot of life force. If he'd do it again, he'd probably die. Endlessly spamming shadows to kill anyone you like seems broken.