The AznGeek

In peaceful villages, nestled in sun stroked valleys and beautiful rolling hills, live beautiful young women and their shy suitors who sing their praises but cannot find it in them to profess their love in front of them.

Serendipitously, villains commanding a sizable force of evil minions will catch wind of these girls’ attractiveness and mount a mission to kidnap them. Suitors will rise up and don their best hero gear and embark on their own heroic rescue  mission… at the castle the kidnapper they seek resides.

Curiously, the kidnapper is invariably a dragon, which has absolutely no use for a young maiden in captivity and has direct connotations of royalty, being present in royal banners in various cultures. They live in a castle, which a dragon again has no use for and are more likely to choose a cave which has a short, quick exit to the sky rather than long winding corridors laden with death traps and roofed throughout the way.

Is the dragon actually a metaphor for greedy lusty kings with appetite for young maidens in their domain? It wouldn’t be unthinkable for a king to send his men to gather up pretty girls for his harem.

REGARDLESS, if you agree so far you have lost the game. The need to read between the lines and one-up your fellow man by making such ‘deep’ interpretations does not make you cultured or artistic; it makes you a spoil sport. Such views have no room in serious conversation and only serves to derail what language has always failed to do: communicate.

Ahem, IN CONCLUSION MEN LIKE TO FANTASIZE ABOUT SAVING DAMSELS IN DISTRESS.