[TV] HBO Game of Thrones - Page 242

On June 14 2011 20:48 Sm3agol wrote:
To all you people whining about infections. The were farking deadly in the days of no real medicine. The sword that was used to make the wound had probably barely been cleaned since it was made. it had most likely been used very recently to kill people or animals, and the heat would allow for ridiculous bacteria growth. Plus, I'm sure he didn't bathe, and who knows what random deadly organisms could be sitting on his skin.......doing nothing until suddenly inserted into a nice warm, moist, bloody wound. Infection was a very real threat.

I also don't think the healer is evil. For crying aloud, Drogo's wife just saved her life, and the life of many of her people, and if she treats him and he dies............do you think her life is very safe, lol? In no circumstances that I see would it be in the healers best interest to willfully kill Drogo. That being said....................
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPISODE!!

On June 14 2011 21:03 Maginor wrote:


I distinctly remember Drogo drying his hand that was bloody from ripping out the other Dothraki's throat over his own chest wound. What a good idea that turned out to be.

On June 14 2011 21:59 Manit0u wrote:


Yeah, but he also said it was just a scratch and not worth mentioning. The dude is a freaking war veteran with some scars already on him. You really think he doesn't know when a wound he suffered is serious or not? I bet he saw a gazillion wounds being inflicted on people during his reign, it might be a fair assumption that he's experienced enough to recognize when a wound demands treatment and when it doesn't. Also, you could always say that this wound was 'self inflicted' too.

On June 14 2011 17:10 Greentellon wrote:
Infections are caused by bacteria and other living organisms. If you have good resistance to your local ones then you'll be ok. Also remember, good diet increases body resistance and in medieval times people had very poor diets: average person lived only ~30 (?) years or so.

On June 14 2011 18:48 snarl wrote:
My main gripe with Ned's death is that he is the most developed character in the season, so now that he's dead who are we supposed to "care" for next season? Tyrion and Dany+Drogo are the only ones that are also developed at this point so there's going to be a lack of a protagonist, in particular a Stark one. People keep saying the children are important but at this point I don't care about Sansa who is just a foil for Arya, Bran who basically served his purpose in the first episode, and Rob who is only just being developed the last episode or two. Jon and Arya are interesting but Jon is stuck on the damn wall and Arya is isolated in Kings Landing.

Catelyn is also starting to become irrelevant since Ned is dead, Littlefinger won't be pursuing her anytime soon, her "detective" work+ imprisonment of Tyrion is over, and Rob will be leading the Stark house. She also pales when compared to Dany/Cersei because those two both have great power and exercise it for personal gain while she can't even convince her sister to help her.

Hopefully the finale changes things up a bit.

On June 14 2011 23:53 mav451 wrote:
I think what's funny is when Catelyn is talking about the concessions she had to make to cross the bridge.

Robb's like, "And? ...and?! ...AND?!"
And Catelyn's like, "And...you have to marry one of the daughters."

And in a time of war, Robb asks, with a straight face "hmm... well are they attractive at least?" << bwhahaha.

On June 14 2011 22:03 Sm3agol wrote:

You're right, he could probably see bacteria. He looked at his wound with miscroscope vision, examined all the nearby bacteria, and knew he could handle it. However, in the middle of the night, while he was sleeping, a fly that had just landed in some 5 day old rotting corpse decided to land in his wound, and dropped some nice fresh cultures in it. Drogo was a little busy the next morning, so he couldn't examine his wound with a microscope, and so missed those bacteria. So now he pays the price for his negligence.

-_-

On June 15 2011 00:27 Joe12 wrote:


Sorry but have you ever seen Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel die from an infection? Thats right, badass people like that don't die from simple infections - they are immune to such nonsense. I consider myself an expert in hollywood movies and I can tell you that this would be a very unrealistic way to die.

On June 14 2011 08:28 Lochat wrote:
This thread is giving me brain cancer.

Everyone saw the episode where Drogo got wounded. Everyone saw how insignificant it was.
Everyone saw some healer/witch put a mat of herbs on his wound.
Drogo is suddenly dying from an obviously insignificant wound, that should not pose a risk untended. He is dying from an insignificant wound being tended, however.
Drogo's bodyguard even said he believes the witch was the reason he's dying.

Lets ignore all that. Instead, it's just an unrealistic infection.

On June 15 2011 00:27 Joe12 wrote:


Sorry but have you ever seen Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel die from an infection? Thats right, badass people like that don't die from simple infections - they are immune to such nonsense. I consider myself an expert in hollywood movies and I can tell you that this would be a very unrealistic way to die.

On June 15 2011 00:45 Pulimuli wrote:


how is a wound being infected unrealistic? -.-

people died from things like that back in the days. Things like pneumonia might be a cakewalk today but 100 years ago people dropped like flies to it

The black plague killed 30% of the human population in the 1300's, yet, today all you need is some antibiotics and you're fine.

On June 15 2011 00:40 raja91 wrote:
ned being killed threw me out of my chair, and my friend who read the books said " dont get attached to any of the characters" LOL

On June 15 2011 00:56 Shaithis wrote:


I'm with the dude that just got pwned by Jorah; why is everyone making the assumption that the "witch" had good intentions towards the leader of the army that just sacked her village, killed the majority of the males (most likely including her husband / sons / etc), and enslaved the rest?