Surye wrote:I just don't see what's scummy about it in the current context. I see it as lazy, since he must not have read back much, but what would be scummy is lynching a claimed doctor, he didn't, he thought we did.
I see it as a lot of things, but I'm just not able to put it to a scummy thing, hence my unvote. Maybe I'm missing something?
Surye wrote:EBWOP: What does this accomplish for scum Wall-E?
Nothing, it was a slip. Period. But the point isn't that Wall-E didn't help lynch a claimed doctor for information, he THOUGHT he did.
You said it exactly right there. But what you're missing is that it's not what actually happened that's important. It's what he THOUGHT happened. In his mind K7 claimed doctor, we lynched him anyway for information, and the next day instead of saying 'Why the hell did we do that?' he said 'Boo hoo stop whining about the doctor being dead. I saw his claim but we lynched him anyway for information'. Basically saying it was a good lynch.
Now can anyone else say it was a good lynch? Of course, K7 never claimed anything and several people had suspiscion of him. Just like the Slicey lynch we can see in hindsight it was bad but at the time many people thought it was good. BUT, Wall-E thought K7 had claimed doctor. How can a lynch of a claimed doctor who turns out to be telling the truth possibly be good no matter what information you get out of it?