A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Guynemer]

He really was a magnificent bastard. He really got to play it up in that episode, with his little twirl in front of the pie and kicking the goblet out of Tyrion's reach and his sadistic little play with the dwarf kings.

[Dr Strangelove]

What would an actual MD know about that?


Technically speaking... We don't know exactly how "The Strangler" works so wouldn't it be at least possible? "Widow's Blood" is another interesting one.

When you strangle someone their face turns plethoric if you're applying enough pressure to the neck to stop venous return but not enough to lessen arterial flow. The face may swell a bit and turn a bit dark red but it's not going to turn sky blue. Deoxygenated blood is dark red with a touch of blue but not sky blue. Likewise the facial veins are not going to bulge out like they were on Jeoffrey's face. Furthermore inorder to produce the facial plethora effect you'd have to apply external pressure to the neck, there's no way that "The Strangler" could do that. I suppose that it could induce congestive heart failure, but that would take a while to produce facial edema and would not be experienced as choking. What "The Strangler" seemed to be doing was inducing laryngospasm, closing off inlet to the lungs. People who strangle on food, i.e., have a "cafe coronary", will become cyanotic, but not the color of blue that Jeoffrey turned.

[Dr Strangelove]

He really was a magnificent bastard. He really got to play it up in that episode, with his little twirl in front of the pie and kicking the goblet out of Tyrion's reach and his sadistic little play with the dwarf kings.

Spoiler:

In order to poison his goblet wouldn't they have needed to know that he was going to pull some stunt like that?

[Dauphin]

When you strangle someone their face turns plethoric if you're applying enough pressure to the neck to stop venous return but not enough to lessen arterial flow. The face may swell a bit and turn a bit dark red but it's not going to turn sky blue. Deoxygenated blood is dark red with a touch of blue but not sky blue. Likewise the facial veins are not going to bulge out like they were on Jeoffrey's face. Furthermore inorder to produce the facial plethora effect you'd have to apply external pressure to the neck, there's no way that "The Strangler" could do that. I suppose that it could induce congestive heart failure, but that would take a while to produce facial edema and would not be experienced as choking. What "The Strangler" seemed to be doing was inducing laryngospasm, closing off inlet to the lungs. People who strangle on food, i.e., have a "cafe coronary", will become cyanotic, but not the color of blue that Jeoffrey turned.

Now debunk greyscale. Or dragons.

[regexcellent]

Greyscale is just leprosy by a different name (and it looks different)

[Dauphin]

"'The Strangler' is just poison by a different name (and it looks different)."

[Guynemer]

Spoiler:

In order to poison his goblet wouldn't they have needed to know that he was going to pull some stunt like that?

Not at all.

Spoiler:

At some point, Marge was gonna put the cup in front of dear old grandmama.

[Guynemer]

Greyscale is just leprosy by a different name (and it looks different)

A weird amalgam of leprosy and varicella.

[regexcellent]

A weird amalgam of leprosy and varicella.

Speaking of which I think I'm just gonna let my kid get chicken pox from the neighbor's son, save us the trouble of getting him vaccinated and

*single gunshot is heard*

[Guynemer]

Speaking of which I think I'm just gonna let my kid get chicken pox from the neighbor's son, save us the trouble of getting him vaccinated and

*single gunshot is heard*

[pchang]

Is Tommen also a product of incest?

[Dinner]

Yep.

[pchang]

He seems way more reasonable than King Bieber.

[Dinner]

Indeed. So does their younger sister.

[Ecthy]

Are you implying someone should try and make HER the queen? They'd get into conflict with all houses still clinging to the status quo no doubt. Someone might even die! Myrcella might get hurt! The possibility of using poiler tags might be ignored!