Why did Drogon
Melt the Iron Throne instead of Jon Snow?
shareGood question. And where was he taking Dany? Was he still flying around with her corpse when the end credits rolled?
shareHey, hey was hungry!
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Drogon melting the throne symbolized the futility of power and the frailty of the human condition. Just kidding. It was just crappy writing! There is literally no reason why a dragon would have bothered to do that.
shareI'll be honest, I know it's cliche but I got little teary eyed when he melted the throne, I got the ending spoiled but didn't know how the episode would unfold
shareWho knows why anyone does anything in this show anymore lol.
shareThe Iron Throne was made by the Targaryens.
I took it as a symbolic end of the Targaryen rule. They will never rule Westeros again.
Exactly how intelligent are the GOT dragons? Do the books go into that? Would Drogon be smart enough to realize Jon (who he knows as an ally) being sad doesn't mean he didn't kill Dany? Is he smart enough to understand that her lust for power was her undoing, and melt down that f*cking throne of swords? Those are the two possibilities here. Either Drogon didn't know it was Jon who killed Daenerys, or he did and had the human-like intelligence to forgive him.
shareHis stupidity would have to be off the charts to not know Jon killed her.
shareA dog who knew you as a friend would have to see you act aggressively toward its owner. Finding you there cradling them and crying, it would not perceive you as a threat and might actually try to comfort you.
If Drogon is aware that Jon killed Dany it implies he's human level intelligent, and able to control his emotions because - for example - he understands why Jon did it. So instead he takes his rage out on that damn Iron Throne that drove mama to her downfall.
With a dagger sticking out of her chest and blood flowing everywhere? Maybe some dogs wouldn't have figured it out, though I bet some would.
But that's a good point, if Dragons are supposed to be more intelligent than dogs then they'd have to be vastly more intelligent for Drogon to not slay Jon if he knew he'd killed her.
I think it's a safe bet to assume they are vastly more intelligent or else why would Drogon burn the throne?
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I don't know. Her other two dragons under the pyramid in Meereen seemed to understand Tyrion's story about being sad as a child when his father told him the dragons were all dead. And Tyrion only had to remove the harness from one, the other saw him do it and offered his own neck. They seem quite smart. Having human level intelligence wouldn't mean they thought exactly the same way we do, or had human like temperaments.
Drogon's attack was very targeted. He torched the area around the Iron Throne and then directed his fire against the throne itself until it was completely melted. If he was lashing out in incoherent rage why didn't he just demolish what remained of the Red Keep, or at least burn down the whole throne room?
I tried looking up the answer to this question and apparently the books don't give a definitive description of dragon intelligence either. It's more or less that some people believe they're even smarter than men, others say no more than a trained dog. The characters don't know so neither do we.
Because he knew Denarys was a tyrant and murderer. I thought that was a great scene. I think he also knew that the Jon was equal to Denarys, maybe even understood that Jon was a Targarian, and had his reasons ... and also the melting of the Iron Throne was a rage at the power-madness of humans, which I guess the dragons bad been caught up in for thousands of years.
shareEmotionally Drogon wants to burn Jon Snow to death but rationally he know that stopping his mother from further madness is the right thing to do. So, he redirects the anger and grief towards the Iron throne which was the only thing Dany cares about in her last days.
shareSo Drogon thinks it's OK to OBEY Dany's "dracarys" order repeatedly against unarmed civilians in the streets below and destroy them, but LATER thinks his mother's death was necessary? I don't think so! Where was the dragon's rationality before?
Yes, that is the beauty of this show. Both emotion and rationality need time to be processed, before reaching the right conclusion. Same for every character in the show, including the dragon.
And I guess you didn't get the hint from what I meant by "further madness". Let's say, Drogon manages to find someone like Melisandre in the far east and the lord of the light gives Dany second chance for what she did to save mankind. Since he melts the iron throne, his mother might finally find her sanity after the resurrection. But I guess that would be another tale in the spinoff.
I think Drogon understood why Jon killed her and burning the throne showed it wanted an end to the madness caused by the lust for power, but also to let Jon know he would not be King (or his master now).
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