grahamguitarman
Sage
I've not been on here for quite a while - Ill health has limited my activities for the las few months (and now I'm just trying to catch up again)
Despite the rather childish argument at the beginning, this has been interesting to read. My attitude is that Dragons (and elves / humans / orcs ect) are only as boring and cliched as the writer who creates them. I love the Pern novels by McCaffrey, and wish I could have come up with such a wonderful world of dragons (though I would have made it more fantasy than sci-fi) but generally I think Dragons work best as isolated magical creatures not as common wildlife.
To me Dragons are not just large flying creatures - they are huge and powerful manifestations of magic, once you make them as common as cattle then you would have a world in which humans would be extinct (or at best cattle for the dragons).
one very interesting take on dragons I saw recently was in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the idea of rivers being dragons was pretty cool and original (or at least to me)
Despite the rather childish argument at the beginning, this has been interesting to read. My attitude is that Dragons (and elves / humans / orcs ect) are only as boring and cliched as the writer who creates them. I love the Pern novels by McCaffrey, and wish I could have come up with such a wonderful world of dragons (though I would have made it more fantasy than sci-fi) but generally I think Dragons work best as isolated magical creatures not as common wildlife.
To me Dragons are not just large flying creatures - they are huge and powerful manifestations of magic, once you make them as common as cattle then you would have a world in which humans would be extinct (or at best cattle for the dragons).
one very interesting take on dragons I saw recently was in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the idea of rivers being dragons was pretty cool and original (or at least to me)