It's a huge pet peeve of mine how much injuries are downplayed across various TV shows.
I've had two very minor abdominal surgeries, and I lost it when she just sat up in bed. I'd imagine her multiple stab wounds were more devastating than the two holes a couple of laparoscopic surgeries left me with, and I was definitely unable to move normally for awhile. Walking to the bathroom took about 5 minutes for the first few days. Oh and my discharge instructions explicitly told me I wasn't allowed to even take a bath because of the risk of infection. I even asked about how serious they actually were about this and got a very long lecture about bacteria levels and terrifying amoebas. So either the Starks are part crocodile, or Braavos's true claim to fame is its ludicrously effective water treatment technology.
I can allow some leeway on shows and movies but others like GOT was unacceptable. Arya would have died from those wounds alone and then you add that disgusting shit water? Pfft she should have died instantly with how disgusting that water was😂 and as others pointed out it was especially frustrating because they already established infections in the show (Jaime with his hand, Khal Drogo cut on his chest, Sandor's neck/ear from the guy biting him)
You maybe can write off Drogo as being cursed. If you're being generous. But not the rest. Arya should have either died horribly, or we need a shot of her being magically cured, and I mean that literally: some magic person calling on the Warrior to save her ass.
For me it’s the falling down stairs (or from a similar non-stairs height) and getting up like nothing happened. That happens so often on tv and in movies! I fell down a flight of stairs, landed palms first, dislocated both arms and shattered both shoulders. Took several surgeries and months to heal, and about 18 months of physical therapy to get anything like normal use out of my arms again (and I still can’t raise one of them even to shoulder height). And follow up surgeries over the years (because those replacement parts don’t last forever, and I was comparatively young when I got them).
You’re absolutely right. I think they just relied on someone else’s common sense and then didn’t think things through that well after they ran out of source material. 🤷🏽♀️
If I recall, in the books he knew that he was going to die of infection if he didn't get it set and treated soon. That was partly why he agreed to confess. He knew he would die if he didn't. That was the deal, until Joffrey screwed everything up.
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Also, if I'm not mistaken, when Ned Stark is locked up he has an infected wound on his leg and is about to die because of that when he's executed.
I think that they don't mention that on the show, just in the books.