It's admittedly a stretch of suspension of disbelief, & I didn't mean to suggest that she's not still badly hurt (& yeah, probably bleeding from the belly again). I just think she used her injury, plus the fruit juice, plus the Waif's arrogance, to set up the final fight to her advantage. How good she looked when…

Probably a little of both, I agree, but it does seem possible, even likely that she was playing it up a bit as well.

Plus, he only said the Faceless God needed a face for the hall. He didn't specify WHOSE face.

The first rule of Faceless Men Club?
Don't talk about Faceless Men Club.

The whores wouldn't tell Bronn & Tyrion what Pod had done to (for) them, but one thing they did make clear: It wasn't his size. I like that they're keeping his skill(s) a mystery—"giant cock" would be the too-easy explanation.

Very much so—the stance & sword movement were quite deliberate callbacks, I thought.

Did you notice the fruit she rolled through? Blood oranges & pomegranates? Not my theory—saw it on 'tother thread—but it's possible she was using the fruit juice as "blood" to fool the Waif into thinking she was in worse shape than she was, & also to make sure the Waif followed her into the room where she'd hidden…

It's true! We are so lame!

Maybe. I was confused, because the way that conversation played, I had the impression that the audience was supposed to know what the rumor was Qyburn was alluding to, & I felt stupid & frustrated that I couldn't remember what it was.

Similar to the Red Viper—the Waif could have, & should have, finished Arya off, but her ego (obsession?) got in the way.

I don't think so—I think maybe it was just flying off to do that? Also, at some point we can assume Dany's three dragons will be reunited, right? So maybe all three of them torch the fleet. Based on the previews for ep. 9, though, we'll likely have to wait till ep. 10 to see what happens in Meereen.

But if I only knew how to date her….

Help! I'm being repressed!

Wouldn't surprise me if Metropoulos indeed was a made-up name. A kid I grew up with decided, as an adult, to change his last name to something similar, because it "sounded like money". This guy strikes me as a similar kind of guy.

To all her protestations that she knows this guy & how he's not the kind of guy who would do such a thing, I offer this bit of wisdom, from Miller's Crossing:

Now some weekend when it's raining
And your mother is complaining
'Cause you're hanging around just twiddling your thumbs
Tell your mom that you've been itchin'
To make something in the kitchen
And oh yes, the mess will be a minimum
But the thing that's going to please 'er
Is you make it in the freezer
And nothing could be…

For good or ill, those "Time for Timer" segments really stuck. I remember most of 'em word for word, because I guess my brain doesn't have better things to do.

Could be. Could also be that they play the Lord of Light thing up as needed. Like, say if they wanted an easy pretext for being hostile, they could size up the little community as Seven worshippers, & then claim the LoL gives them authority or leverage over the Seven. If they come upon a small vulnerable community…

I like to read & interact on both, but I've always been careful not to (a) be spoilery, back when book readers COULD be spoilery or (b) be a smug twat about it. (Well, occasionally I played the smug twat, just for funsies.)

Someone on last week's threads observed, correctly IMO, that Tommen, while sweet, is too naïve to be trusted with anything as sensitive as this. I just hope she doesn't get him killed.