a flying mount is a timesaver, I would rather clip clop along on my bionic horse than trivialize the world. Flying mounts are something I loved in MMOs because they sped up the leveling process exponentially, to get to the game. In a tes game, the "grinding" is actually the fun part of the game.

If you need flying mounts, add in a Pegasus, its not like there is anything impassable to a horse right now, and I'll admit I will run up a mountain instead of around it, if the trip is a pain orbi have been there.

How to Train Your Dragon is an awesome movie.

If I wanted to play it, I'd buy the game they made of the movie.

I think you missed a few points there. Dragons are intelligent. When was the last time you sat down to discuss the finer points of philosophy with your horse? "Taming" a Skyrim Dragon to the point that it would allow you to ride it wouldn't be animal taming and training, it would be slavery. It would know who you are, what you are doing, who it was, and the fact that you are enslaving it.

That is one of the biggest reasons to not allow users to 'tame' the dragons.

Now, if there was a group of dragons who wished to preserve the freedoms of the "Lesser small mortals", and allow them to live apart and of their own free will, and one of them wished to carry you for its own reasons, then that would be different. (If this is already in the storyline, shut up about it! We don't need/want to hear confirmed spoilers.)