re: The Scorpions are the most inconsistent weapons in history

It’s fruitless to get bent out of shape over military details in shows and movies. Just suspend disbelief. The storytellers are telling stories, and just like every storyteller that’s ever lived, their goal is not to be “realistic.” Their goal is to entertain.

There has not been one single show or movie that has stuck to military convention, faithfully. “Weapons and tactics” are boring to all but about 10% of the population. And within that 10%, only about 1% grasp that victories are won on cash, food, and supplies. It’s boring to portray all of that on film or television. Don’t complain about the firing rate of weapons being unrealistic if there’s no discussion about how the ammunition got there, or how the men were trained. If you want to hold a show to standards of “realism,” then be consistent.

Game of Thrones happens in a world that is not like our world. There’s magic and dragons and people coming back from the dead. There’s an all-seeing tree-kid-in-a-wheelchair and an eight-foot-tall man-monster and shadow demon assassins. If you’re okay with ANY of that, then you can’t gripe about inconsistent military realism in the show. You’re cherrypicking your complaints.

Killing Rhaegal ended up making zero sense as well. It would have made more sense for Dany to take KL with 2 dragons anyway. So one scorpion hits Drogon last season. 50 or so scorpions destroy Rhaegal and almost get Drogon. 100+ scorpions don't even get close to hurting Drogon and he goes scorched Earth on the city.

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one week they are literally cruise missiles with gps and heat detection capabilities

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and 50 rounds per minute, whereas last night they showed a team of 7-10 men winding one laboriously to prepare it to fire.

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And don’t dragons have some sort of limit to how much fire they can breathe in one sitting?

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You would think their glands need some time to recharge, like snake venom.

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encountering a new weapon

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Danny kind of forgot that she and her dragon got shot with a scorpion last season.

So, it’s the job of a show with dragons and an undead army to suspend your disbelief about how things happen?

Think about what you’re saying. If they need to take the time to show and explain the inner workings of something as mundane as scorpion construction, supply, training, and operation, in order to make it believable to you, should they not also explain the inner workings of the dragon’s fire breath, the specific (and mind you... “realistic”) way the Night King controls the dead and how shadow demons biologically come out of a witch?

Or are you saying that you will suspend disbelief for some things but not others? How can you assume dragons are a thing, but not that say, that one thousand people worked 360,000 man hours in a month to make and supply 100 giant crossbows? Does the show really have to put that on the screen for you to believe it? But not ever discuss how dragon breath (a more unbelievable and more decisive weapon) is generated?

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It’s awful. The Dragons are so fricking op the entire series. Then one gets killed by a white walker. It was shocking. “Holy shite! The ww killed a fricking dragon!” Mind blown. We soon find out that the ww aren’t shite anyway. The next dragon death is a buffoon shooting an arrow. Really? That’s all it takes?

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I kind of agree. However, you are ignoring Bronn hitting one before the WW did. The Scorpions were introduced as a weapon that could seriously harm a dragon if it landed before the WW ever took one down.

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Qyburn: Your Grace, I foresee the sun being an issue in trying to take down the dragons. Allow me to introduce my newest invention. I call them Qy-Ban Sunglasses.

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Safe bet Euron would’ve been rocking them. As a fashion statement.