Spoiler Warning for all of Game of Thrones up through the first two episodes of Season 5...
Okay, so it's not like dragons are exactly in abundance on Game of Thrones. The era we're currently following, story-wise, is not one filled to the brim with winged death-bringers. There are exactly three dragons right now. Two of them won't move out of their mom's basement and the other pops by every other weekend to do laundry.
But even though this isn't the time of Targaryen rule and dragons aren't swirling around in the sky (or even battling each other like they were in the Dance of Dragons civil war a few hundreds year previous) these magical beasts are still utterly captivating. Like the White Walkers, dragons are a game-changer. If they ever decided to attack - like full on - nothing could stand in their way. They'd incinerate everyone and everything in their path, no matter who's going after what throne or who's betraying whom at which wedding. All mortal squabbles bend the knee before the mighty dragon. So any time they're on the screen we can't help but see their potential. As in "Man, one day these guys are going to be huge, destructive equalizers." Everyone's argument will be invalid. And incinerated.
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Okay, so it's not like dragons are exactly in abundance on Game of Thrones. The era we're currently following, story-wise, is not one filled to the brim with winged death-bringers. There are exactly three dragons right now. Two of them won't move out of their mom's basement and the other pops by every other weekend to do laundry.
But even though this isn't the time of Targaryen rule and dragons aren't swirling around in the sky (or even battling each other like they were in the Dance of Dragons civil war a few hundreds year previous) these magical beasts are still utterly captivating. Like the White Walkers, dragons are a game-changer. If they ever decided to attack - like full on - nothing could stand in their way. They'd incinerate everyone and everything in their path, no matter who's going after what throne or who's betraying whom at which wedding. All mortal squabbles bend the knee before the mighty dragon. So any time they're on the screen we can't help but see their potential. As in "Man, one day these guys are going to be huge, destructive equalizers." Everyone's argument will be invalid. And incinerated.
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