Does it help if you think of it as Bran plotting to kill the Night King, with a sneak attack right when the Night King thought he had finally won? And using his sister to do it precisely because the Night King would not see her coming until too late?

The Night King took it pretty slow. Surrounded by wights and White Walkers, he observed Theon was the last defender, allowed Theon to come to him in order to dispatch him, them came up slowly on Bran, then observed Bran, then finally reached for his sword.

But that’s real history, right?

But isn’t that also the point? Cersei plots to let her rivals deal with the existential threat of the Night King, on the assumption dealing with it will weaken them—and it appears to have worked like a charm!

Don’t forget the Night King (probably) could not get past the Wall until he got a dragon wight, which Jon (presumably inadvertently) was responsible for. And this was a maybe-sorta foreseen thing by Team Red God (e.g., recall The Hound’s vision in Season Seven, Episode 1).

I don’t know if Jon’s destiny is complete, but I will note managing to knock off the Night King is a BFD, so even just a significant supporting role in that effort might justify resurrection—just ask Beric (apparently).

“I don’t know why everyone thinks that Bran can see the future.“

The Night King’s real main antagonist was Bran. And Bran ultimately chose to use Jon and Daenerys as a feint and Arya as his actual striker because that plan might actually work. The Night King was fully prepared to handle Daenerys and Jon, and he did. But once he did, he was overconfident, and he didn’t see Arya…

Yeah, I think if you go back and piece it all together, Bran carefully orchestrated a secret plan (secret because he could not trust everyone to execute it if he just explained it fully) in which the Night King, Arya, and the dagger would all end up at the same place at the same time, with the Night King feeling…

I see your bust is as big as mine.

Nothing. Nothing guarantees the next generation will avoid our mistakes and do better.  Which however grim, is very true.

Maybe there is a Shogun World equivalent to the Ghost Nation which has gathered up guests for safe keeping.

Lee’s comment about Shogun World being for those guests who found WestWorld too tame, and generally Lee’s lines about hastily writing Shogun World’s narratives juxtaposed with the nature of Shogun World (including not least the ninjas Lee complained should not have appeared yet), were all about “the cultural…