Are you as Wight as Snow?

Bishop Robert Barron (auxiliary bishop in my beloved hometown of Los Angeles in the Roman Catholic diocese) engages the culture with his Word on Fire program like no other person that high in ecclesiastic hierarchy. He comments on film, literature, pop culture politics etc. I really like this work, and that's why I'm highlighting it. I've done likewise, but with far less consistency.

There are Christians who argue Game of Thrones (GoT) is inappropriate to watch, and those who say it's a must watch. I'm somewhere in betwixt and between. The earlier seasons certainly have gratuitous sex and violence (as do the exploitation and blaxpoitation genres I similarly appreciate), but he latter seasons tone this down a bit. The most captivating part of the show is the mixture of radical fantasy elements with deep and engaging story revealed through politricks. I have often referred to these stories as a bizarro world or alt timeline version of Zemene Mesafint (the Era of Princes) in Ethiopian history. If I ever have the capital, I'll make that series.

What's the point of all this rambling?

In GoT, there are myriad versions of each archetype. You have the archetype of the eunuch in Varis and in the Unsullied. Varis is a court advisor, like the biblical ethiopian eunuch of the acts of the apostles, and the Unsullied are eunuch warriors. You have the archetype of the zombie (walking dead) in the wights, white walkers, John Snow, Berrig, and debatable Sir Jorra Mormont.

Mormont has leprecy (another biblical type) that leads to death and is rescued just prior to death in order to turn him into a super soldier who retains his critical thinking faculties to dovetail his new leper-strength. Berrig is raised from the dead, 19 times, by the lord of light through a drunkard priest. The wights are raised from the dead by white walkers, especially the night king, and none of them negotiate. They are death incarnate, and typical of the nihilism they represent, widespread death is their only aim. In this respect, they are a less calculated version of the many-faced-god's number one disciple who refers to himself in the third person as a man (Jaken). John Snow is raised from the dead by a priestess of the lord of light, and retains his critical thinking faculties along with being viewed my most audience members as the moral protagonist.

When we live and breathe, according to the flesh (biology), without regard to the will of god as revealed to us in the holy scriptures, we are purposeless zombies like the wights. They have the appearance of life, but are actually messengers of death. When we live and breathe, according to the spirit, we are like John Snow aka Crow. We get a new lease on life; a second chance.

Glory be to the author of life, the crafter of the heavens and the earth, who raises us from the dead so that we can fight for the living!