I think they both had, though, and rapier beats dagger. Plus, the Waif wasn't really prepared for it.

Yeah, yeah, but… The guy had a hernia from eating too much!

Well, I think the point there is that she's supposed to be a cold-blooded killer, but she clearly can't let her sadism go, and it turns out to be her downfall.

Seriously. I would have loved:

Oh, yeah… I don't recall if they mentioned that in the show, but Lancel definitely would have brought it up.

"Traveling with his brother was much better."

Well, I've never read your work before, but… you're probably better than him.

Nowalk got something wrong? You don't say.

I'll admit, parts of this season have been really engaging— and that, I think, is as much as anything a product of not knowing where the story is going as anything— but there have also been multiple parts where I'm like "Well, this isn't the most solid plot yet, but it could really work if they just do this thing,"…

Eh, it's just one of my pet peeves, to see people accuse someone of something they themselves are doing at the exact same time. I really shoulda left it alone, although I initially stepped in because I was disappointed with AFFC/ADWD myself and found them to be in serious need of editing and focus, particularly the…

Before attempting to remove the speck from your brother's eye, you must remove the plank from your own, etc. etc.

Those back bridges are a real bitch.

lol, no less adamant than you are to prove the quality of AFFC/ADWD.

I do see the point that keeping the disbarred Maester who engages in building Frankensteins being more destabilizing than keeping… well, the sane people.

But he shot Kevan with a crossbow first, right?

Yeah, I think Jaime has just full-on gone to the nihilist side now.

"Is this one of your stories where the guy turns out to be Nixon?"

ADWD by itself couldn't be bound. That's why it ends before the climaxes of its plots. I think GRRM wrote the scenes but they literally couldn't fit them. Probably could have used an editor on that one.

NICE

"Thanks, I just had it trimmed."