IIRC, Wargs typically control certain animals, BETTER wargs can control a variety of animals. Super super rare ability wargs can control humans.
Hodor being kind of dumb might have helped, who knows.
Didn't the show explicitly state that wargs couldn't control something like a dragon? I know they spelled out that wargs couldn't control humans (until Bran took over Hodor), but I thought they also said that dragons were higher-level intellects like humans so warging them was out of the question. Maybe I dreamed that bit.
Hodor being kind of dumb might have helped, who knows.
Simple: A dragonslayer. Gotta be a dime a dozen in their world.
More seriously though: When discussing the skulls and names of previous dragons they noted the successive generations were smaller and smaller until they were small/weak enough to be defeated. Clearly, something else contributed to their demise.
I think that was the implication; he was of inferior intellect, so his mind was not as complex as a normal human, hence, more prone to warging. Dragons, being intelligent creatures, would be more resistant than, say, a wolf.
didn't they also state this in the show?
What choice does she have? If they roam free they start killing and eating random people. She'd put Drogon back in there if she could.
Inbreeding
Because she's an idiot. Who cares if they go around eating some random farmers' kids? None of them like her anyway.
The only smart thing she's done in forever is agree to listen to Tyrion. Hopefully he points out the obvious fact that she'll need all three dragons to conquer Westeros, and the longer she keeps the other two locked up the crazier they'll get (as well as their growth being stunted).
I don't think it was ever stated that dragons can't be warged (I don't really recall that other kid mentioning dragons and warging). If anything, I think it was along the lines of "it hasn't been done before." He mentioned that warging a human was very rare.
I imagine Hodor is smarter than we all think, he just wasn't gifted with linguistic tools.
That might make sense if she actually could control them.. which she can't. They're not going to do anything for her anymore unless she finds some other way to gain influence over them. No real surprise, most animals lose their bonds with their mother when they become adults. At best they were moderately sympathetic to her but now the two she's locked up appear to hate her and may well kill her if they're released.
Caring about sparing innocent children from being brutally murdered doesn't make her an idiot. Putting aside the ethical considerations, letting the dragons go unchecked is not a good plan for her as a leader because it makes people think one of these things:
1) She can't control them, and therefore she isn't as powerful as she appeared - you know, back when she gave a direct display of controlling her dragons to free the unsullied.
2) She can control them but is deliberately allowing them to go kill people, in which case the people are better off killing her in the hopes that they'll disperse without their master.
For society to work and people to hold faith in the government, even one headed by a monarch or dictator, they need to feel reasonably safe. One of the worst ways to ensure that feeling is to allow incredibly dangerous beasts to kill people at any time. The best thing for her to do right now is to make the people think she's controlling them and keeping them in check.
Warging the dragon thing was assumed, never stated, but it makes a lot of sense. That means the previous dragons were warg'd. If it doesn't take a warg to ride the dragon obviously that opens things up a lot.
It's just too easy of an assumption. How would you train a dragon enough to mount it? See: horses. Good luck breaking a dragon. Warging however, sure, then it'd be EASY!
It just seems too odd to build up Bran's story the way it is and not have warg+dragon=fly.
from what we've seen on the show, though, she hasn't really even researched anything with regards to how to control them.... maybe Tyrion will help change that.
god knows, pairing up Tyrion and Dany has been the first time I've actually been interested in her plot-line in either the books or the tv show.
if he replaces the tree dude and can warg things at will and becomes the 3 eyed raven, he still will be "flying"
just saying, i didn't see the bran story going to him riding a dragon
Warging a raven as flying would seem kind of lame, the other free folk was warging into an eagle or something so that doesn't seem special at all.
Let's talk Ollie.
"It's ok to do something other people think is wrong if you know it's right."
Who is this little shit going to kill/get killed?
the dragons did not cause the doom. the doom as described in the show was most likely a massive volcanic eruption, ground ripping apart and fire from the sky and all that jazz
the only dragons to survive were those the targeryans had, as stated in the show they got smaller and smaller each generation until they were gone
likely due to massively reduced numbers for breeding and the fact that they were not free to roam and kill as they pleased - which I believe was stated in season 1
Or maybe all the unpredictable outcomes is only to set up the predictable one?
We could keep at this all day couldn't we?
If nothing is what it seems then I could be right? Maybe? But it is fun guessing
I hated how that conversation lacked any kind of sense. Ollie just needs to know that if they don't ally with as many people as they can, EVERYONE will die. That should stop Ollie from thinking about undermining anything unless he's really just THAT dumb. Stop feeding Ollie this abstract "leaders need to make hard decisions that not everyone agrees with" BS.Let's talk Ollie.
"It's ok to do something other people think is wrong if you know it's right."
Who is this little shit going to kill/get killed?
I hated how that conversation lacked any kind of sense. Ollie just needs to know that if they don't ally with as many people as they can, EVERYONE will die. That should stop Ollie from thinking about undermining anything unless he's really just THAT dumb. Stop feeding Ollie this abstract "leaders need to make hard decisions that not everyone agrees with" BS.
How about beheading them? Do they reassemble?
Don't think so. Chopping off enough parts is enough to disable them permanently I think otherwise they can wake up after some time from 'minor' injuries. Remember Jon's first wight kill-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2TlSM-2SyI