Today's Quote

Stick 'em with the pointy end.

-- Arya Stark

I'll go ahead and throw my obsessive take into this:

The Red Woman asks, "And what do we say to the god of death?"

Arya answers, "Not today."

Just as the Night King is about to kill Bran (wiping out the memory of all humankind, which is the ultimate death of us all), Arya sticks him with the pointy end.

When I superimpose my perception of what's going on currently in politics here in USAmerica Inc, the symbolism gets really thick.

Loosely:

Night King = Trump 
The current personification of our very own Daddy State, but interchangeable with any number of authoritarians and wannabe autocrats - Putin, Kim, Erogan, etc. These guys are creatures of our own making, and they're chasing a really perverse version of "freedom".

White Walkers = Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr, Sean Hannity, etc.

Wights = the rubes - mindlessly fighting on behalf of the forces that got them killed in the first fuckin' place - plus anyone who just sits and pretends it's OK; that it's all just a silly distasteful game, and they don't have to do anything but wait for it to change.

Cersei Lannister, The Iron Bank, etc = Bob Mercer, Charles and David Koch, Jamie Dimon, etc - the plutocrats.
Standing aside, watching the others weaken themselves battling it out, waiting to swoop in and take control after the dust settles.

Arya Stark = anybody with a sense of honor; anybody who believes there's justice to be found - but especially those who're under the age of about 30.

Ain't it funny how that one keeps coming around? Young people looking at what their parents have created; seeing it for the willfully self-destructive and delusional bullshit that it is, saying "Not today", and putting everything on the line trying to do something about it.