so you can watch him being thrown around and dropped from hundreds of feet and not die?
Yep.
A wizard did it.
Realistically though, I'd expect those types of animations that the dragons do to be similar to the player character's fatalities, that is, they only activate the animation when the opponent would be killed by that strike. So it probably wouldn't be out of place to see essential NPCs get blasted with fire or smashed with claws, but I doubt we'll seen them tossed around like hackey sacks.