“Death is certain, time is not”. How sounds it from the assassin Jaqen H’ghar, one of the “Game of Thrones” many mysterious characters.
So sounds also the headline of a new research study published in the fagtidsskriftet Injury Epidemiology. The research deals with 186 characters in the series who have lost their lives in the course of the first seven seasons, and can by means of the figures point out which character has the greatest chance to survive.
“Game of Thrones” is known to clear many of its protagonists of the path. Now, fans can comfort themselves with the fact that the new research can give an indicator of whether or not their own favorites will survive or not.
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Bodes well for svikerne
According to the study, it is the characters that replaced the alliance in the course of the series that has the greatest probability to survive. Other factors such as gender and status also applies. Among other things, is overlevelsessjansene for women from noble families higher than men with lower able.
It can love bad for those who cheer on the dragemamma and conqueror Daenerys Targaryen. She has never changed its alliance and are therefore at greater risk for dying in season eight.
Jon Snow shift on the other hand alliance to Daenerys in season seven, and with it greatly enhanced their own odds. Possible he had read the research in advance.
But this can also mean disappointment for those who long have waited to see the queen Cercei meet his end. The research gives her the namely very good chances to survive.
CHANCES: Tvillingparet Cercei and Jaime Lannister has according to the research of good opportunities to survive. Photo: HBO to Show more So all the episodes again
It is the researchers Reidar Lystad, and Benjamin Brown as standing for the study. They are both employed at the Macquaire University in Sidney, and both are big “Game of Thrones”fans. The idea came after the conclusion of the previous season.
” We had to have something to do while we waited. Then there was also a nice excuse to be able to see all the episodes over again, ” says Reidar Lystad Dagbladet
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to be able to get the information they needed had to Lystad and Brown to see all the 67 episodes that have come out so far. Along the way noted the the characters that were important, how they were introduced, how long skjermtid they had before they died and how they died.
Lystad and Brown used different criteria to select which characters that were important in the series. Among other things, had the character be a man and show up in either the opening or the credits. It mattered not if the character only appeared in a look back.
Non-credited grades were classified as significant if they interacted with another character in an important way.
Normal method
Lystad and Brown ended up with the 330 important characters. At the end of season seven had more than half lost their lives.
– Some of the most exciting thing we found out was that 14 per cent of these characters died in the course of the first hour. It is quite high, ” says Lystad.
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the Character with the shortest skjermtida was the father of the boy Olly. From the time he was introduced, it took only 11 seconds before he was killed by jon’s girlfriend Ygritte. He was designated as an important character because his death motivated Olly to get revenge on Ygritte, and later participate in the knivstikkingen of Jon.
despite a special forskningsemne is both the method and content of the solid and by the book. Lystad says that the result was assessed on the same line as other research studies before it was published.
– We ran the numbers on the computers at the university to get the analysis. The methodology is normal, it is only the theme that is unusual, ” he says.
POPULAR: The young boy Olly was very unpopular after that he was to take the life of Jon Snow in season four. Photo: HBO Show more Most were killed
to be able to code all deaths using the international class system for damage. It was not always easy, according to Lystad.
It is the those who are killed by the dragons. They were not so easy to classify, but we did as best we could.
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74 percent of the 186 deaths due to external injuries, especially to the head and neck area. Among other things, died a character that follows a “crushing injury to the head”.
12 percent died as a follow of burns, to 9 per cent of the “other”, and 5 percent by poisoning. Only two characters died of natural causes, and a large proportion of the deaths occurred in the home.
Stimulate your own nygjerrighet
Lystad and Brown uses the research to provide some humorous tips on how serieskaperne can decrease the high mortality in the “Game of Thrones”. They have been based in our own world history and looked at how life expectancy has increased over the years.
They recommend, among other things, to invest in institutions such as schools and hospitals to improve the health and well-being, as well as to develop a policy that prevents violence.
Lystad and Brown admits that if these precautions are followed, then it most likely will go beyond the series ‘ popularity. They believe, therefore they will see no change in the last season.
Lystad says that it initiated the research of the simple reason that they would stimulate their own nygjerrighet.
– I think very many people sitting inside with the same question: Who will die and who will survive?
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