Originally Posted by
Miriel
I think a lot of us WANT that to be the real explanation. Because otherwise, the show has become bafflingly stupid with her storyline. That was the immediate thought that I had with this whole thing, but try as I might, it just doesn't FIT.
It makes no sense that she would risk getting stabbed a bunch of times by a trained assassin. Before this week's episode aired I thought she had faked it. Like she had a fake blood pouch or something in there to simulate blood. But that would have been very very risky anyway, trying to figure out precisely where she would be stabbed.
But then it turns out that she really DID get stabbed in the gut. How the smurf did it not hit vital organs? Or her intestinal tract?? That kind of stab wound is serious business! And let's say she was planning a trap, even if she assumed that Waif wouldn't immediately give her killing blows, how the smurf could she have predicted that Waif would wait until Arya led her ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE CITY and to her little cave before finishing her?? That makes zero sense.
And she's running a marathon threw the city, bleeding the smurf all over the place, jumping through rivers and crashing down stairs. It's just too much. Way too much disbelief needed for any of this to make a lick of sense.
It's not nitpicking when the plot holes are smurfing GIGANTIC.