The Targaryen Prince Gets “Crowned” by a soup bowl full of gold over the head….CRUCIAL!

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  1. Brutally shocking scene, but also completely unrealistic in several respects.

    First, gold melts at 1,948 Fahrenheit. Wood burns, depending on the kind of wood, its dryness and chemical composition, at something like 578 to 600 Fahrenheit, although a well stoked charcoal fire, especially in a contained space can reach temperatures high enough to melt gold. That said, you're not going to melt gold in a soup kettle on an open wood fire.

    Second, real molten gold, like most most molten metals, glows bright reddish orange, and it is not shiny gold in appearance like gold in its solid state. The molten gold in this scene looks more like gold paint than actual molten gold.

    Third, molten gold coming into contact with animal tissue would cause hair to instantly burst into flame, and probably instantly cause the first several layers of flesh and bone to carbonize. What remained visible on the outside would be burnt black.

    That said, I'm not sure I would want to watch a more realistic version of this scene. I'm not sure I could stomach it.

  2. I like how everyone is complaining about the gold melting too fast and being unrealistic when the show has dragons, whitewalkers, magic, and all other kinds of mythical shit. It's a show. It's not real people.

  3. Average temperature of fire is 300ºC – 600ºC and golds melting point is a little above 1000ºC . Even if you left that gold in there for hours it wouldn't have melted .

    I HEREBY DECLARE THIS SCENE AS BULLSHIT

  4. Two complaints:

    First, the molten gold should have set the fat in his head on fire. There should have been flames at the boundary where gold met skin.

    Second, this was far too quick an end for the victim. He'd have been conscious for maybe 20 seconds, and continued to thrash for minutes after. He wouldn't have collapsed stone-dead.

  5. i have the feeling this was inspired by a real life event back in the roman empire era.

    some roman general/emperor wanted to conquer parthia cuz of its gold. he lost the fight so we wanted to sue for peace but get some gold out of it. the parthians obliged by pouring molten gold down his throat

  6. This is hilarious because you wouldn't die from this the way they poured it, at least not nearly this fast; if anything he died from the steam, but even then most of it was above his mouth.

  7. You know, in real history Genghis Khan actually executed a guy by pouring molted silver into his eye. The guy was the governor of Otrar, he killed Mongolian caravan & stole their goods, he was full of greed, thus was killed by silver. I think this scene is based on it.

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