Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Also Emet-selch was referring to the Sundered people's methods over the Ascians' methods, not Venat's "plan," and that's yet another cheap shot by the authors that makes zero logical sense. You cannot have a method to fix a problem that you do not realize exists.
On this point, it is in fact her he's praising. The EN version could be slightly clearer (although he opens his statement by referencing her), but in both FR and DE, he makes it clear that without a shadow of doubt, he is praising her:

For German, the translation is as follows:

"That's typical for Venat, she hates losing. But I wonder why she left me behind? To preserve the continuity of the story? Or to remind me of real way the Final Days appeared to us?"
"I will be generous and assume it was a successful punchline."
"Anyway, this turn of events makes my life somewhat easier. I should be thankful to her."
"But I have to admit, reuniting us here was skillfully done. No wonder that we could not best her with our unrefined plans."
French:

"If she expects gratitude, she will be disappointed. My life was not quite a peaceful and quiet stroll, and this change of heart changes nothing."
"I must admit however she has quite the matchmaking skills. A human being would have never been able to set foot here with our methods."
And this is in respect of her "gift of a matchmaker". I think that in fact this greatly attenuates any attempt to try present this as some concession on his part that the ancients couldn't have dealt with Meteion, because the "our methods" then is not contrasting those of an ancient to the sundered (since she, and all her methods, are based on ancient techniques/powers anyway), but of her to some other "our", which I believe can be taken as the Ascians.

...nonetheless, I think it breached character to let her off so lightly given the suffering she put them through and this felt like Yoshi shoving his head into the screen to speak through Emet.