GameofThrones doesn’t technically have dragons or zombies, George R.R. Martin explains
While it may appear Game of Thrones has both dragons and zombies, it actually doesn’t, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin explained to Neil deGrasse Tyson on the astrophysicist’s late-night National Geographic channel talk show, StarTalk .
Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons were one area Martin found himself technically in the wrong. In A Song of Ice and Fire and on Game of Thrones, the dragons Rhaegal, Viserion and Drogon have back legs and winged forearms. Martin’s dragons only have two legs, as opposed to other fantasy dragons with four legs and wings emerging from their backs. Since this corresponds to real-world animals, like bats, it feels more realistic. But Martin found that it’s technically wrong to call these beasts dragons.
Martin had a similar technical explanation for why the wights and undead raised by the Night King and the White Walkers aren’t really zombies in the typical sense. “I don’t know that they’re alive. Obviously when you die—if I die five minutes from now: I have a heart attack and I’m dead on the floor—my body is still there. My body is still there and some force can animate it and bring it up and get it going again.
This isn’t true with the wights, who are dead flesh, puppeted by the will of the Night King and the White Walkers who have reanimated them.
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