There be Dragons... I Guess

Recently I saw a friend post that she was still “in shock at Rhaegal’s death” in Game of Thrones. Now I know that I am not the greatest GOT fan but I was certain that I hadn’t missed a character with that name dying this season.

So I Googled the name to discover with some shock that Rhaegal was one of Daenerys’ dragons. I thought, “The dragons had names? And there are people out there that knew them?” I mean… nerds, right?

So the next day at work I mentioned my shocking discovery to a workmate, who looked at me incredulously and said, “Of course they have names: Rhaegal, Jerome and Adolphus.” (He didn’t actually say Jerome and Adolphus but I still don’t know the other dragons’ names and I couldn’t be bothered to do the necessary research.)

Rhaegal, Jerome and Adolphus drying off after a sea bath

Another workmate walked in and we asked him if he knew that the dragons had names. He did and also looked at me as if I was slow. They then started to explain which dragon did what and when.

I immediately called them the nerds that they clearly are. And let me tell you, if I think you are a nerd then you could be nerding for Barbados at the Olympics, ‘cause brother, you be world class!

Anyway they proceeded to inform me that each dragon’s skin was a different shade and this one had longer horns than that one and they had different personalities and blah, blah blah. After a pause, all I could ask was, “The dragons had horns?”

My workmate literally threw his hands in the air and stalked across the room as if he wanted to be as far as possible away from such a simpleton, all the while looking at me with disgust.

He asked, “How you does watch this show and don’t know all of this?”

I had to let him know that for most of the show’s run I was mainly waiting for scenes with an often naked Daenerys and not much else. For all non-Daenerys scenes I’d usually be playing Words with Friends or FarmVille on my laptop while kinda listening to the dialog. The exception was Jon Snow scenes at which point I would take a bathroom break or look for food. Jon Snow was just plain boring, ok. Fight me!

So for me the dragons, being not Daenerys, never caught my attention other than to acknowledge that they existed. Names, personalities, colours? Nah. They were all just dragons to me. And to be honest I don’t know which one was left alive at the end: Jerome or Adolphus.

I was planning on using my simplistic and homogenous view of dragons as a parable for racism but to be honest I just can’t stop laughing at the prospect of my workmate nerding for Barbados.