Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Emet similarly got a pretty rosy and unjudging response from characters in the story through Shadowbringers, especially in and after Amaurot, and similarly I could never swallow it, because I never found his motives sufficient for what he did, or his character all that pleasant (pretty much my very first response to the character in Shadowbringers was 'I hope the Scions spend the expansion throwing successively larger things at him to shut him up', and was very disappointed this didn't happen). In fact, I still kinda think less of a lot of the Scions for Alisaie being the only one to actually take him to task for what he did, and even that wasn't much at all.
Would you have preferred they fight him and die? The WoL's ability to prevail over Emet-Selch in the end was due to a combination of factors that were not and could not have been present during the vast majority of their interactions with him. Had they taken action early, they would've been slain almost instantly. It read to me like one of those "we're only barely tolerating your presence, and even then because we can do nothing about it" things.