Originally Posted by Coladar1

Only one comparable is your second one - 10inch blade, hunting knife. The woman? Stabbed 40 times in the gut, had to be a pair of nail clippers - plus, for a woman I'd imagine the lower abdomen might be slightly rearranged from a male, especially if she'd given birth before. But that's whatever - on the fake show, he got stabbed hard with a long blade. Probably six inches penetration?

The attacker made a point of slicing upwards, then jerking it around. Then, lastly, lifting the dude up with it - so figure 180-200lb of weight supported by the blade - it was either the dullest knife ever or got caught on a rib, lest it should've rended him in two.

Finally, there's another vital fact here versus your cases - this dude was a killer. Of humans. Like, a lot of them. No way he doesn't have a basic knowledge of anatomy and killing blows. It makes the 'Maybe it was a miracle and missed everything's unbelievable. He knew where organs are, where arteries are - and even if he did and aimed intentionally not to kill Rust, *lifting an adult male in the air by a knife in their gut* is game over, man. Game. Over.

And secondly, as with your case about the 10 inch blade - I imagine when someone stabs another normally, there's shock and "holy shit. What did I just do?" They are likely to hesitate, or failing that lost in an all out rage, stopping the second they realize what they did. Here, a murderer is going to keep going - exactly like Errol did. Not letting go, not hesitating; shoving it in angled, twisting and jerking, etc. Probably every Googled miracle stabbing survival has the normal human reaction to stabbing another working in it's favor to increase the likelihood of minimizing damage.

So I just cannot accept him surviving that, whether from sepsis, organ damage or bleeding out after pulling the knife out when EMTs were still a good ten minutes away from getting to work on him.

Originally Posted by thelwig14

The knife stab was by far the least goofiest thing of that whole 25 minute stretch starting with WH's Scooby Doo moment with the house paint job and ending with the beginning in the hospital room.

Originally Posted by Lt Ripley

Seen folks come into the ER with worse wounds than that to the abdomen and recover. I've seen others die with less. This was nowhere out of the realm of possibility.

Originally Posted by Coladar1

Also replying to the Hollywood making people more vulnerable than they really are, but worse wounds than a brute shoving a big, long knife hard, jerking and twisting, then lifting the dude up by the knife lodged in his gut for over a minute? Like I said, the mere fact he didn't get rended in two - or at least the knife ended up several inches further up his chest - after being hoisted by it is ridiculous.

For stomach stabbings in particular and the 'more killable than they really are', I'd always understood that getting stabbed in the stomach is something Hollywood actually gets wrong the other way around - that a good hard stabbing in the gut is often fatal and Hollywood under-represents the consequences of your digestive system mixing with your blood. Sepsis = game over, and that if the knife or bullet goes through intestines medicine has few cures once all that $#!t, literal $#!t, mixes in with one's bloodstream. Then again, there's a reason I can't practice medicine (seeing as I never went to Med school), so who knows.

Likewise, that ain't even my point of contention here: I'd begrudgingly buy Rust surviving. But not when he has his feet lifted off the ground by a knife lodged in his stomach. Obviously the damage they showed, I can believe someone had seen worse in an ER than that somewhat small stomach wound. I just don't believe supporting 180+lbs. of weight with a hunting knife in soft fatty tissue, and then a struggle ensuing during 45-70 seconds of being suspended mid-air solely with said knife, doesn't result in only a basic stabbing wound. No way.

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt

Someone pointed out elsewhere that the one episode where Rust borrowed Marty's lawnmower and came over to cut the grass was some huge foreshadowing no one picked up on. That was before they visited the school and met Errol for the first time, right?

Originally Posted by majorjoe23

Before we saw Errol watching tv, we saw Marty watching TV. Could be a connection.

Originally Posted by Lt Ripley

Trust medical professionals, not movies.

Originally Posted by Neil M.

Are you kidding me? Errol lifting him a foot off the ground with a knife in one hand and a hatchet in the other and keeping him in the air while being headbutted three times is probably the most ridiculous thing in the entire series.

Originally Posted by creekdipper

Well, my medical professional says that both Rust & Marty are prime candidates for liver transplants, so there!

Originally Posted by RichC2

Apparently they're still courting Brad Pitt for season 2 of the show.

Originally Posted by TGM

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Originally Posted by Rypro 525

there are many different ways people can use this

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt

HBO is submitting the series as a drama (as opposed to a miniseries) for this fall's Emmy Awards:

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/true...ys-1201146631/