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why didn't they just execute some prisoner at the wall?

posted 8 years ago by fus (1)
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It would've come back to life right? Why go on a stupid suicide mission?? It just makes no sense.

[–] Nosduj (145) 8 years ago

What makes you so sure there is a prisoner at the Wall to execute?

You have obviously not been watching if you think Jon would kill someone just so that he can show the body to others.

And the biggest reason I guess, is that there is no reason to expect that someone killed at the Wall will turn into a Wight. People die all over Westros and they don't all turn into Wights. They need to be killed by a Wight or raised by the Night King.

So there are a lot of reasons. None of them are too difficult to come to on one's own.

[–] keithmovies (628) 8 years ago

For a human to become a wight he/she has to be bitten/gnawed by one or killed by a White Walker and die as a result. At least that appears to be the pattern.

So if they wanted a wight they had to go where the wights were.

[–] Otter (24464) 8 years ago

No, they burn all the corpses from the Wall and northwards, because anyone who dies might wake up with bright blue eyes and homicidal tendencies a few hours later. This show isn't following the traditional zombie trope of person-to-person transmission or infection, here any reasonably intact corpse that comes under the power of the White Walkers may rise again. Jon and his pals were spattered with zombie bits and would be infected if the process was infectious, but nobody's worried about that.

I remember there was a wight in Castle Black back in season 1 or 2, and Jon set it on fire. Wasn't that just a corpse waiting burial who got up and attacked?