Viewers who could see through the exceedingly murky final Game of Thrones season found a smorgasbord of smoldering fires, charred corpses, and abundant ashes evoking Chernobyl. Like Smaug of The Hobbit and many other cinematic dragons, the enormous Game of Thrones fire-breathers dwarf the human characters, particularly the diminutive Tyrion Lannister. By conjuring such prodigious dragons, the creators parted with centuries-old Catholic artistic traditions of portraying St George picking on petite dragons decidedly not his own size.