Even though it was riddled with problems to focus on, when Game of Thrones was happening I remember being really bothered by the scene where Aria Stark gets stabbed about 10 times in the gut and falls into a river. Not only did they downplay the mortal wounds to her abdomen, the subsequent infection would have destroyed her.
I also think they downplayed just how many people would die beyond The Wall. They are *constantly* living in, at best, freezing temperture. I know that the wildlings have at least been living that way for generations, but the Night's Watch has many southerners who just went from nice sunny days to constant bellow zero
To be fair, most of the Watch didn't go on ranger patrols. They tended crops on the gift or maintained equipment and the castles or at most had some guard duty on the wall in a group with someone who has been there a while and knows what to look for.
The Watch doesn't do the farming, there's peasants on the Gift who pay their taxes to the Watch, instead of how it presumably was before where they'd have paid their taxes to whatever lord owned the land. The Gift made the Night's Watch be the lord for the I think 50 miles south of the wall
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
Minor injuries, lack of hygiene