It was Jorah's other hand.
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It was Jorah's other hand.
Yah his left is infected. He grabbed her with his right.
Does it actually matter?
I, too, thought they're setting it up for some Grey Scale plague.
I think it's still unclear how much the grey scale has spread during this episode.
I suppose i'm using zombie logic. If someone bites you, you'll get infected whether or not their infection was on their leg or close to their face. For grey scale, you have to be touched very close to an infected area?
Well I certainly was surprised with the touch and what it might mean but as it was pointed out, he touched her with his still healthy hand and I do remember reading online (I am still not at that point in the books, i'm a slow reader :p) that cutting off the infected limb has a decent chance of stopping the infection so I guess that with Jorah being infected on the one hand not really a long time ago, touching his other hand is probably still safe. And then there is the thing that Dany is magically protected from half the trout going around because even while GoT is GoT, she is and will be one of the main characters and she just most likely won't die. At least not in this "takes a long time" to die way.
One "thinking about it too hard" idea appeared to me.
The disease is spread by touch right?
The two possibilities are really that either the actually touched area gets infected and the slowly grows from there or that once you get infected, you are infected completely, just the symptoms don't show on the whole body at once.
So, if it's the first possibility, why doesn't rest of the body (like the other hand) get infected when he touches the infected area? And if it is the second, well it seems like Dany is smurfed unless magic plot :p
Because he didn't touch the infected area he touched the outside of his shirt. It's flimsy compared to modern medical science, but good enough for a fantasy story.
I don't know about you guys, but I think I'll need to binge on something cute and wholesome -- like Sailor Moon -- after Sunday's finale. :shobon:
This season, man...
I felt a little sick during last week's episode. First time ever.