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The bolded part is crucial here because, you know, it's not like Olympic divers do not specialise and train for their feats. Untrained people could easily get themselves hurt or even killed. Since you seem to be fond of personal examples, my mother dived from a high platform once, and the problems she had with a dislocated hernia all her adult life are very much tied to that incident which she described as "nearly breaking her back".

Do you think jumping 50 feet into kiddy pools is Professor Splash's day job? Can you say how many hours he has practiced diving? And your mother survived jumping from a high platform, was she a professional diver?

I am demonstrating here that it is entirely possible for the human body to fall great distances into water and survive. Is it PROBABLE that Ashara Dayne could do that? It depends on a number of factors - how high did she dive? How much of her life did she practice diving from great heights? Did she intend to survive when she jumped? We don't know any of this, so we cannot say how probable it is that she could survive diving into water. What we can say, with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, is that it is POSSIBLE for a normal human to jump a great distance into water and be unhurt. And that is all we need, because as long as it is possible, it is a possibility. This is a fantasy series. Improbable coincidences happen all the time.

If somebody was pushed out the Moon Door in the Eyrie and showed up alive later, I would not think it was bad writing in a fantasy series full of improbable coincidences, because a human being has fallen over 9000 feet onto land before without injury. It's not probable, the man was insanely lucky, but this happened in our real world without supernatural forces fudging the odds to make prophecy work.

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GRRM has definitely set Tyrion on a path that re-enforces A+J=T. IMO this is where he wants Tyrion's character to go, but ever since he announced his "big twist", I've all but given up on trying to rationally predict where characters are going and how they'll develop. I have a bad feeling that this "big twist" is gonna suck!


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