Easier Slayed Than Done

(My brother, my uncle, and I are watching the season finale of ‘Once Upon a Time’. The character is fighting a dragon. My mother in the background.)

Brother: “…and then she brings out the gun.”

Uncle: “In reality, bullets wouldn’t work against a dragon. Their scales are too tough.”

Me: “Wait, if flying metal won’t work, what use is a sword?”

Uncle: “If the sword has the prime of strength from the warrior, and is pointed directly at the dragon’s neck or heart, it will kill it.”

Brother: “Why wouldn’t it work with bullets?”

Uncle: “The velocity would be ruined. The bullets wouldn’t be powerful if shot from a distance.”

Me: “But would it work at close range?”

Uncle: “Sure, but you would have to get the dragon down to your level, somehow.”

Mom: “While you are all discussing the physics of reality, you do realize she’s fighting a dragon, a mythological creature?”

All three of us: “Shut up.”