Adventures in Babysitting - Legend of Korra, Season 2, Episode 10

Jinora's and Korra's separate trips through the spirit world do them some good but ultimately fail, as Unalaq gets what he wants.  We see an old, departed, dear friend return.  We see an old nemesis has chosen a side.

Tenzin, his sister Kya, and brother Bumi are keeping vigil over Korra and Jinora, whose bodies are in meditation mode while in the Spirit World.  Tenzin is especially worried, because Korra and Jinora will not have their bending powers in the spirit world. Tenzin will not leave them until they are awake and safely back, so Kya and Bumi go for rest, but not before Bumi tells Tenzin to wake them if any crazy spirit stuff happens.

The only time they're happy in the Spirit World

The Spirit World is a lush valley, with rich, almost neon colors and every form.  Korra and Jinora start out together, but get separated twice.  The first time, Jinora scampers off after some cute spirit, and Korra nearly gets in a brawl with prairie dogs, finding out the hard way she has no bending powers here and angering the spirits even more.  Jinora manages to intervene with them, reminding Korra that her own emotions can cause trouble with the spirits, so getting angry with them will only make them fight.  When they are separated again after tumbling through a forest, a giant alligator's mouth, and river rapids, we see Korra in a forest, transformed into her younger self, maybe aged five or six.  The implication is clear:  Korra's fear in the spirit world has transformed her into a child.  She is startled by evil looking spirits constantly.  She accidentally injures a baby dragonbird that startles her, but feels pity for it and carries it through the forest, fearfully calling out for Jinora.  Instead, she and her dragonbird baby hear a gentle, calm voice that we all know.  And love.  Iroh, Zukko's tea-loving, White Lotus leading form emerges.

Whew!

Meanwhile, Jinora is looking for Korra, finding an absolutely ginormous version of one of her bunny spirit friends.  Apparently, this is Furry Foot's real form.  Jinora is ecstatic, because Furry Foot wants to her to ride him as he flies to where they can find out where the South Pole Portal is.  Furry Foot brings her to the familiar library of Wan Shi Tong.

Wait, you mean a radio doesn't work by magic?!?!?!?

In the original Avatar story, Tong's library was in the material world, but Sokka broke a promise to Tong when he used something he learned in the library to defeat someone in a fight.  Because of this, Wan Shi Tong withdrew the library into the Spirit World, trapping one of the people who traveled there with Aang.  Tong confronts Jinora right away, telling her humans are not allowed in his library, and that it contains all knowledge anyway.  For instance, Tong tells Jinora that a radio is a box with a little man playing and singing inside.  Which is, coincidentally, what I first thought at the age of six.  Jinora impresses Tong by correctly describing how a radio works, embarrassing Tong's fox assistant librarian and gaining access to the library.  Jinora is so excited, saying she could study there forever, until Tong shows her the decaying bones of the Professor left behind when Aang visited the library before.  Jinora is undaunted, however, and starts looking for information on the Portals at the Poles and Vaatu.

Iroh explains to Korra that his love of the Spirit World enabled him to leave his body behind at death and live in the Spirit World, where he's happy and busy.  Iroh and child Korra arrive at a wedding reception he's throwing for a two-headed frog lizard, with one head as the bridge and the other as the groom.  Well, at least this wedding can't end in divorce.  Iroh pours the tea, and Korra recognizes the pot as the same one Wan carried the spirit Raava in before they confronted Vaatu and joined together.

Symbolism alert!  Yes, Korra, you are the teapot

Iroh's spirit guests welcome child Korra, but halfway through the party, child Korra starts throwing a fit because she's still not finding Jinora, or the South Pole Portal, and closing it.  As her anger increases, the spirits at the party grow dark, a nearby mountain's clouds turn into a violent storm that engulfs the party.

Your temper tantrums have consequences, young lady!

Iroh has to explain to her (again) that all emotions can change spirits.  Korra's emotions, as the Avatar, especially affect them.  This calms Korra, and embarrasses her a little at her own bad behavior.  Korra apologizes to the spirits, who return to their original forms.  As the party breaks up, Iroh reminds her how fleeting emotions are: the dragonbird baby she holds scared her at first, but is now a tender buddy.  Iroh directs Korra to the mountain, dark clouds still above it, and tells Korra that helping other is sometimes the best way to figure out one's own problems, and that her job is to bring her dragonbird baby back to its nest on the mountain.  Korra agrees, afraid to go until Iroh tells her that she carries Raava, the Spririt of Light and Peace, and that she must remember this as she travels the Spirit World and interacts with the spirits.

Yep, let's send the kid into that

Back at the library, Tong's fox assistant helps Jinora find the right book, and old, bound book with the Elders' knowledge of Vaatu.  Jinora learns that if the Harmonic Convergence can't happen, Vaatu will remain trapped in his tree-prison.  However, if both Portals are open, the Harmonic Convergence will happen, freeing Vaatu and requiring Korra/Raava to defeat Vaatu to protect the universe.  Jinora is all set to take this knowledge to Korra, but she looks up to see Wan Shi Tong with... Unalaq!  Aaaaah!

Oh, fuck me

Tong is convinced that Unalaq is better for spirits than Korra, and Unalaq is convinced that Vaatu isn't going to destroy the universe if he's freed and defeats Korra.  Jinora looks to Furry Foot to get out of there, but he grows and changes into a Dark Spirit.  It was a trap, and Tong let her study there to keep her occupied until Unalaq could show up and take her prisoner.

I guess bunnies aren't good pets...

Child Korra begins her trip up the mountain, encountering three awful looking wolf spirits.  She repeats to herself that she has the Spirit of Light and Peace, and asks the wolf spirits if they'd like to be her friends.

Please oh please won't you be my neighbor?

They transform back to friendly, giant blue dogs and escort Child Korra and her dragonbird baby up the mountain to its nest, where Korra places it with its siblings.  They immediately fly out of the nest, and join together into one large, flyable dragonphoenix, graceful and yellow.  Korra transforms back into her near-adult self, just like the dragonphoenix.  Korra climbs on and the the dragonphoenix flies her to the Portals and Vaatu, leaving once she's there.

Best. Commute. Ever.

Korra regards the South Pole Portal for a moment, but is interrupted by Vaatu, taunting her and Raava that she'll win this time.  The show's camera plays with perception of distance, suddenly flying to the tree Vaatu is imprisoned in.  Not knowing what's in store, Korra is unimpressed with him and his bragging.  She's about to close up the South Pole when she sees Unalaq, with Jinora as his prisoner.  Unalaq is about to transform Jinora into a dark spirit unless Korra not only doesn't close the South Pole, but also opens the North Pole.  Jinora, Goddess bless her, tells Korra not to do it.  Korra, touched by Jinora's bravery, won't sacrifice her; she opens the portal as Unalaq wants.  The Tree of Time, Vaatu's prison, glows red with the Portal's opening.

Oopsie....

Instead of freeing Jinora, and wanting such a gifted child for his own purposes, Unalaq has the evil Furry Foot spirit fly her away.  Unalaq turns on Korra. He taunts her by reminding her she has no bending in the Spirit World, but shows her that by coming through the portal, he still does.  He traps her and almost tranforms her into a Dark Spirit until Dragonphoenix suddenly appears, rescuing Korra.  Korra suddenly wakes up, back in the material world, Tenzin at her side, asking where is Jinora?  Why is she still in meditation?  Why didn't she return with Korra?  Korra has no answer for Tenzin, she can only look with horror and shame at Jinora's peaceful form meditating while her spirit is trapped by Unalaq.

Hershel's Book Club - Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 5

Rick drives down a back country road in a hurry, passing a zombie that is being fed on by stray dogs.  Is he worried this is Carol's fate?  Of course not.

Driving right on by

Hershel is intubating a sick man in A Block, to buy the guy a few more hours in case Team Daryl comes back.  Glenn and Sasha combined help him hold Henry(?) down, while barely awake themselves.  Hershel decides this is a good time to pitch spaghetti night to the other council members, if they had spaghetti.  It's a nice joke, but Sasha and Glenn are too tired to laugh.  Hershel leaves Sasha to continue to pump air into Henry, and takes Glenn on his rounds, where discover one of the patients has died.  Glenn is ready with his knife to put the patient down, but Hershel insists on bringing over a gurney, putting the dead man on it with Glenn's help, covering him, wheeling him out of everyone's sight, reading Scripture over him, and just barely putting him down as he turns.  Glenn worries about what they'll do when patients on the upper floor die. Hershel is unfazed.  Lizzie approaches Hershel, wondering what's going on, and Hershel directs her to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, telling her to read as much as she can before sundown.  Incidentally, Carol was reading from Tom Sawyer during the storytime in the first episode.

Maggie checks in with Hershel at the glass/metal door to A Block, updating him that Beth is fine, asking just how long Hershel is going to be able to help people cheat death, then goes back to desperately putting zombies at the fence down, in a bunch that rivals the one before, when she sees a car approaching, and opens the front gate for Rick, back alone.  At first, Rick dodges Maggie's question about Carol, but the he tensely tells her that Carol killed Karen and David, she confessed to him, and he sent her away because he couldn't trust her.  Maggie, after some hesitation, accepts his decision, claims she would have wanted to send Carol away but probably wouldn't have been able to, and agrees to let Rick tell Hershel.  Rick, in return, shushes her doubts about her own resolve, and tells her none of them can doubt themselves now (that wasn't the advice you gave Carol, douchebag!).   Rick offers to help her at the fence once he's done talking to Hershel, delivering what he and Carol scavenged, and checking on Carl.

Carl is bored stiff in the admin building, with no one else getting sick and nothing going on inside.  He offers to help Rick outside, but Rick wants him to stay put, hand out Fruit Rollups, and make sure the kids brush their teeth.  Reminding his dad that one day, dad will have to let him drive the family car help with the zombies, Carl reminds Rick that Rick can't prevent all danger from reaching Carl.  Rick, as he leaves, tells Carl he can at least try.   Hershel visits Dr. S, who warns him that many have past the point of saving, including himself, and cell doors must now be closed.  Hershel is still optimistic, still convinced that he can save the cell block until Team Daryl returns.  Dr. S shows Hershel his shotgun and shells, for those who have turned.  Hershel insists he's not at that point yet and leaves them with Dr. S.

Look, old man, just kill us now

Another patient dies, Glenn is upstairs pumping air into Henry, and Sasha just wants to put him down in the cell, even if the rest of A Block, which has come out to see, can watch.  Hershel tells everyone to go back to their cells.  They mostly refuse, so Sasha helps Hershel, once again, with the gurney.  This time, Hershel reads his Scripture and puts the patient down himself with the sheet still covering him.  Then we see Rick enter.  Hershel asks after Carol, and the scene ends.

Later, after their apparent heart to heart without one apparent comment on the Carol situation, we see Hershel and Rick talking over his insistence on staying in A Block to care for people who won't last another day.  Hershel tells Rick about one of the dead men, and his love of John Steinbeck, the Depression-ear novelist.  Hershel quotes Steinbeck, "A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ."  Hershel wants to hide the unpleasant truth from A Block for as long as he can, even though he must know that A Block knows perfectly well what most of their fates are.  Hershel tells Rick that this flu, this turn of the world, has come for a reason and as a test of God, and that he intends to pass it.  Rick, with no counter argument, leaves Hershel to his work.

Hershel wanders back down the lines of cells, now realizing that Dr. S was right, people have collapsed on their beds, blood gushing down their faces.  A boy has collapsed and his father closes himself in with the boy for his final minutes.  He finally starts closing cell doors, but gets distracted from one by Sasha, unconscious in her cell.  She comes to on the floor next to him, as he comforts her and gives her a saline drip for hydration.  Sasha is almost resigned to die, telling Hershel she doesn't believe in luck, or fate, just numbers.  Hershel's having none of this until he sees one of the patients whose door he didn't close approaching.  The father from before emerges from the cell, shoots her but doesn't put her down, and then is bitten by his own son, emerging as a zombie, from behind him.  Dear old dad goes down shooting, mostly by mistake as his own zombified son chews on his neck.

Rick and Maggie get to propping cut up tree trunks (when?  everyone's been sick or gone for days) against the fence, talking a little about the risk Hershel is taking, and hacking off a zombie hand that almost gets Rick at the ankle.  They hear shots from inside.  Rick sends Maggie inside, and realizes he'll never brace the fences by himself.  Notice: it's still pretty light outside in this shot- maybe late afternoon at the latest.  But as we cut back to Hershel back in A Block, it's dark in A Block, with most of the light coming from Hershel's lantern as we see him scurry to Dr. S's cell for the gun and shells, only to find Dr. S has turned.  Thankfully, Dr. S took his own medical advice and Hershel easily knifes him in the eye, opening the cell and finding what he needs.

Henry dies just as Glenn starts coughing blood and collapsing into delirium.  As Henry turns, still wearing the intubation tube and bottle, Lizzie decides to coax zombie Henry along the upper cell block's balcony, luring him away, slowly from Glenn.  Since Henry can't walk all that fast, Lizzie has until she dead ends or finds a way to stab Henry in the head before she's in trouble.  But that's too easy.  Lizzie stumbles, and Henry is on top of her, until Hershel literally grabs Henry and tosses him over the balcony, into the chain link net preventing former Death Row inmates from attempting suicide.

Some of Tom Sawyer's nerve but not all his brains

Maggie reaches A Block and uselessly swings her axe at the bulletproof glass.  She goes around to try the other side of A Block.

Hershel locks Lizzie in with the another sick kid, and leads all the zombies to him on the upper balcony with a little noise, dispatching them with the shotgun.  He finds Glenn who desperately needs... the tube and bottle on zombie Henry, thrashing around in the chain link net behind Hershel.  Maggie reaches the other side, sees a window made of cheaper glass, and shoots it completely apart with one gunshot (architect's note:  probably tempered glass, which shatters with no shards).  She climbs into A Block, to find her dad wrestling with zombie Henry for the intubation stuff still attached to his face.  Hershel tells Maggie not to shoot, or she'll risk damaging what Hershel's trying to get, but Maggie proves him wrong with perfect aim.

Probably not a good idea

Rick finally asks Carl for help putting posts against the fence, but it comes down just as they're getting started in the darkness outside (that was a quick sunset!), and they make a break for it, passing back into the prison yard via a guard tower.  However, zombies are now about to come through the inner fence, and get access right up to the prison walls.  So, Rick and Carl make it to the automatic weapons, stored outside in the humid, rainy, hot Southern climate but apparently still ready for any emergency.  Rick conducts a five-second-training session so Carl now knows how to use an automatic rifle, and they meet the zombies now coming down the path towards them and the prison.  Zombie heads pop open with blood as they collapse all over the path.

Maggie and Hershel rush to save Glenn with intubation as Lizzie looks on and asks the question of the week:  "Is it over?"  Hershel does his best to comfort her without yelling at her for rubbing her boot in blood and snot.  Maggie sends her dad to bed.  We see Hershel with the last book of the night, a Bible.  But Hershel can't read it after closing Doctor S's eyes forever.  He can only cry.  Rick and Carl are finishing off zombie not quite dead yet (seriously,  I expected someone to say "I'm not quite dead yet!" straight from Monty Python) as they see Team Daryl come back!  We cut to Bob doing his job without fuck-ups for a change.  Sasha rests in Tyrese's arms.

I'll just be over here having a nervous breakdown

The next morning, everyone's back (except Carol), relieved, and working to clean up the bodies, both from A Block and the prison yard.  Daryl praises Hershel, who tells the group Glenn and Sasha survived the night.  Really, the day and night were his.  Up nearly 48 hours almost non-stop.  And all those darned extra characters cluttering up the script are gone.  What a relief!  Rick puts off telling Daryl (literally) as he shares a fresh pea pod with Carl.  Daryl asks Hershel where Carol is.  Hershel tells Daryl to ask Rick.  That drama will be for next week so we can leave the prison in peace, floating away on a long shot of the prison, the fence, the surrounding woods... and...  UGH!! A red-headed asshole with a black trench coat and an eye-patch.  The ominous music playing is from his cat and mouse game with Andrea in the warehouse last season.  Do we know who was feeding the zombies at the fence now?!?!?!?!  Will we ever?

Josie and the Pussycats - Scandal, Season 3, Episode 5

This episode creates Olivia as a center of calm amongst cast members spread all over the place and characters flailing.  Mellie and Cyrus are looking for a re-election campaign manager (do you call it a re-election campaign when the first election was actually rigged?), and failing.  Democratic Congresswoman Josie Marcus has a secret within a secret to keep.  Harrison leads the rest of Olivia's team to Montana, which they dislike as much as you would expect.  Fitz belittles Mellie again, and yet still gets what he wants.  Fitz gets into a danger zone with Cyrus.  Olivia's Dad thinks everything's going to go back to normal once he completes this whole Remington cover-up.  Huck and Jake are solving a groovy mystery.  And the annoying VP has decided to go behind Fitz's back to throw and wrench in the next election.

Huck and Jake conduct a quick file steal from Olivia's dad, which is barely successful.  Huck will look over everything they've collected later.

Josie meets with Olivia, and explains her situation after sending away all staff and Josie's younger sister, Candy:  she gave birth at the age of fifteen and gave the child away.  There are only a few people who actually know about this, and two are already dead, meaning the team can have an easy assignment of getting everyone to keep quiet if they can stand Montana long enough to do the job.  The doc is dead, the best friend and cousin were bribed easily, and the baby daddy, who definitely peaked in his teens, was properly extorted into avoiding blabbing at the last second as the TV News crew was literally parked outside with Cyrus' butt boy about to blow the story. One question:  who's paying for all the briefcases of $10,000 cash?  Josie?  How does a consultant list that as a reimbursable, and can Josie use it as an income deduction?

Olivia is back to dinners with Dad, which are going well because Olivia has given up on her Dad ever being a  decent human being, which makes it so much easier to be in the same room with him.  Plus, Dad is still paying.

Meanwhile, Cyrus and Mellie interview a smarmy toad named Bergan to lead Fitz's election campaign.  Bergan, after strolling around the office in heaven at all the famous stuff he's never seen before, let alone touched, condescendingly tells Mellie and Cyrus that Fitz's chances are horrible, and not just because of the Moral Majority.  Fitz has a problem looking like he's got anything done or even wants to be the President anymore- he looks like a loser to Bergan.  There are also a few choice words about Mellie out of Bergan's mouth, but Mellie takes them in stride.  She puts up with Fitz, doesn't she?

While traipsing around Montana, Abby is on her cellphone constantly with David, who is still in the show for some reason.  At least now he has something real to do with the characters by dating Abby.  David needs a date for the WH Correspondents' Dinner, and Abby is doing her best to get out of it.  David, honey, a girls needs her space.  The group easily does their jobs, even after telling Quinn that she is grounded from any field work or contact with the public on Huck's orders.  Quinn doesn't take being shut out well.

We cut, briefly, to the right-wing Tea Party nu  job VP complaining about being on the sidelines while her husband complains about having to entertain some foreigner with a golf match.  Oh, poor babies.  Anytime you two want to trade your lives for some working-class couple struggling to pay their bills, just let me know.

The attending RN at the birth of Josie's baby 30 years ago is more than happy to respect Josie's privacy, and doesn't know what all the fuss was as Josie's mom made sure the baby was well taken care of anyway.  When the gladiators look confused, the nurse tells them the real secret.

As the gladiators wrap up in Montana, Quinn is sent to return all the used merchandise, which the storekeeper points out when she won't take it back.  Quinn points out that the equipment has been upgraded, but still only gets store credit.  Wow.  Yeah, sounds awesome.  Quinn is determined to be pissed until she looks back over her shoulder and sees that this store sells guns.  Even my eyes lit up at them.  Quinn is candy store happy.  But how will she get one home to DC?  They're flying back.

Fitz meets with Rowan, Olivia's dad.  Fitz wants Rowan to tone it down a notch, maybe not kill so many people all the time, especially not people Fitz served with.  Rowan is adamant, as he always is.  The killing will only stop when the truth cannot get out about Project Remington.  Fitz tries to smooth things over by inviting Jake over to play b-ball, and talk him out of asking questions.  Fitz is also pretty clear:  only Fitz gets to have an illicit affair with Olivia.  My god, is there anything Fitz doesn't think he's entitled to?  Jake comes home even more convinced they should be digging into Remington and Fitz.  He calls Huck to go over what they know so far:  turns out, that Fitz was not the pilot in a top-secret mission to Iran decades ago called Project Remington, some other poor schlepp was.  However, Fitz was stationed on the same aircraft carrier that the Remington crew returned to.  So Huck agrees to do some more digging - if he didn't go to Iran, where did Fitz go all those years ago, and what did he do?

Fitz meets with Cyrus.  B613 must be disbanded, or at least defunded.  Cyrus freaks out that the org's name has been mentioned with cameras and tapes rolling in the Oval Office, and has a hushed, whispered convo in which he informs Fitz that the last guy to notice B613's funding and do anything about it was found the victim of an apparent suicide.  Cyrus warns Fitz that assassination is what Fitz has to look forward to if he messes with Rowan.

Dead guys can't do the right thing, Mr. P

Abby is still stalling with David to get out of going to the Correspondents' Dinner with him.  But he catches her fibbing about still being in Montana, and goes off in a huff, with Abby not willing to tell him why she won't go with him.

Olivia meets with Josie, who confesses that Candy is not her sister, but her daughter, raised by Josie's mom as her own.  Josie is adamant that Candy does not know and must never know.  Period.  Olivia informs Josie that this will come out eventually, it's just a matter of time, and Josie should address this head-on.  Olivia asks Josie just how much Josie wants to be President.  Josie confesses that she never even expected to be in Congress, she just was a little outspoken after getting out of the military.  She doesn't budge with Olivia.  She's not willing to lose her sister's trust and respect to be elected President.  That all changes once the Democratic Debate begins, and some asshole pointedly looks over Josie while going on about morals.  Josie, flustered at first, regains her confidence as she tells the audience that, yes, she gave birth as a teenager, and gave the baby up for adoption.  She posthumously thanks her mother for supporting her during the difficult time, and then tells the moderator to continue the debate.  Candy, realizing who must really be her mother, walks off.  Fitz, Mellie and Cyrus are watching the whole exchange convinced she's now the candidate to beat, if they can even manage to do that.  Josie walks off the stage after the debate, notices Candy is gone, and fires Olivia.

Yeah, sure you got me on the baby - now watch me win this debate anyway....

Now it's time for fun, and beautiful dresses.  And really fake smiles.  And people scheming behind the scenes.  Olivia lines up Jake as her date for the Dinner, telling him she used to vet Fitz's jokes before, and it's obvious she wishes she was still doing this.  So guess who should call right before the Dinner, and have a warm and tender convo about what jokes he should tell tonight?  As Fitz and Olivia have the only tender moment of the show, Mellie overhears, reminded once again how little she means to her husband.  However, Mellie puts on her game face for the Dinner, and before the Dinner, she even surprises Mellie by inviting her to a private confab where she asks Olivia to run Fitz's campaign, on the ground that it will reinvigorate Fitz to recapture the old spark he had in the first election.  Olivia offers to think about it.  Mellie then goes back into public to laugh at Fitz joking about how she'll monitor him during the campaign to make sure he doesn't cheat again.  Someone needs to tell this woman that divorce is NOT the end of the world.  VP woman literally locks herself in the men's room with Bergan, and takes advantage of the solitude to ask Bergan if she could win the Presidency as an Independent.  Bergan doesn't dismiss her chances, and actually seems intrigued at the idea.

Question of the week:  Is Jake hotter in a sweaty t-shirt:

Or in a tux:

Oh hell, I'll take 'em both

Jake leaves Olivia at the Dinner, angry that it's really Fitz she wanted to see.  As correct as he is, a gentleman still at least gets a lady home, and one has to wonder who the fuck rasied this guy.  At least Olivia gets a phone call from Harrison telling her to come to the office, so I guess someone cares about her.  David gets back to his place after going to the Dinner alone, and finds Abby dressed up in formal wear.  She explains to David that she did want to go, but couldn't face her ex-husband, who was also there.  David says they should at least pretend to be normal people and tell each other these things instead of hiding things from each other.

Olivia gets back to her office to find that Harrison is with Josie, and Josie has changed her mind.  Candy is still angry at being lied to for 30 years, but Josie feels that with time and some real honesty from her, Candy and Josie could reconcile.  And Josie admits that Olivia was right- it was better to be honest, and present it as something she did to correct a mistake and give her baby the best life it could have.  So now there are two job offers on the table.  Olivia tries to turn Josie down, who tells her to sleep on it instead.  Harrison thinks Olivia is insane.  Josie is offering to pay to keep the lights on, and Olivia is turning her down?  We see Olivia walk past Quinn, at her desk, and looking guilty as she unpacks the gun the store in Montana shipped out to her.  She is obviously enthralled, and has learned nothing from Huck's lectures or her down time.

I'll say it:  I love Josie.  She can admit she's wrong, about having sex way too young, she can be honest and positive about something that was no one else's business in the first place, and she can admit she was wrong to Olivia. She seems to be an actual, decent human being who'd like to be President if she can get elected without selling her soul. Which means, that by season's end, she'll either be evil or dead.

Jake gets home from leaving Olivia to Huck in his apartment, sitting on the floor in a corner.  Huck has found three little tidbits from breaking into Rowan's and some other databases.  One:  Iceland is within the travel distance that Fitz could have gone while Remington was in action; a passenger airplane was destroyed in Icelandic airspace, killing all aboard; and Olivia's mom was one of the dead from that airplane. So, of course, again, we see Jake and Huck at Olivia's door with bad news.

Do No Harm… That's the Other Guy's Job - Revolution, Season 2, Episode 7

Rachel finally finishes digging Monroe out, who is alive and semi-conscious.  Rachel's greeting is to tell Monroe not to move.  Rachel likes to vacillate between numbing emotional paralysis and fatalistic, shocking action.

I'm digging a psychopath out of his grave… what could go wrong?

Kind of makes you wonder why Rachel was ever a prisoner of Monroe's, let alone for 12 years.  Monroe wakes up the next morning with Miles as his nurse, who really is unwilling to help Monroe find his son.  They tell him to rest up at an old abandoned house, hopefully not the same hiding place as before.

What, no cable?

A blast in Willoughby kills three people, throws Aaron and Wifey to the ground, and freaks the crap out of Dr. Dad.  In a huff, he storms into Ed Truman's office to declare that he already sees past whatever bullshit the Patriots will tell the town about the blast, and that Ed has finally gone too far.

Must… conveigh… emotion….

Ed is pissy himself, telling Dr. Dad to hush up if he doesn't want to be in real trouble.  We segue into Team Rachel listening patiently as Ed tells the town it was the remnants of the War Clan Gang.  Team Rachel is obviously not buying a word of it, especially after they see the gates to town are closed, and there will be soldiers everywhere from now on.   Rachel is greeted by 

I'm a nice guy, really!

one of the most evil-looking trolls I have seen on this show, and I remember Randall.  Dr. Horn apparently worked in the same building as Rachel in the DOD, and is so disappointed that the head cheerleader doesn't remember the captain of the chess team.  He wants to "chat" with Rachel.  "Chat" means show Rachel a photo of the two dead soldiers Aaron toasted to save Miles, wax on poetically about the potential of nano tech to do even more, and then ask Rachel how she toasted the soldiers and can Rachel please help evil Dr. Troll develop the nano tech for other uses?  Rachel is stoic.  Come on, Dr. Troll, Rachel stonewalled Monroe for 12 years.  She stonewalls guys like you for breakfast.

Later, Rachel, Miles, Charlie and Aaron discuss Dr. Troll.  Rachel insists that Aaron must leave Willoughby now before Dr. Troll takes his brain apart. Aaron reluctantly agrees, but only if Wifey can come too, so the Patriots don't kidnap and torture her.  We move up through one of those old-fashioned warm air grilles and see Dr. Dad listening.  

And it's late at night 9 years ago, with Dr. Dad standing over a mass grave, burning bodies.  Turns out, they've died of cholera and included Dr. Dad's wife.  Dr. Dad trudges home to find a stranger on his doorstep offering him a cholera vaccine, and more on top of his free sample.  Dr. Dad, to his credit, wants to know up front what he'll owe the stranger, named Shaw.  We find out later that Dr. Dad's duty will be to resuscitate water boarding victims when they drown (which can definitely happen, and one of the reasons water boarding is a no-no interrogation technique).  He has pangs of conscience about it, but he always gets his wagon full of meds, and that's worth one life he didn't even know, right? 

Turns out that Dr. Dad's pangs have gotten pretty bad, so he offers to smuggle Aaron and Wifey out in his medical wagon, assuring Team Rachel that the Patriots won't search his wagon. Well why not, wonders Miles.  Dr. Dad will take Aaron and Wifey to Monroe's cabin out in the woods.  

Meanwhile, Dr. Troll is getting pretty pissed that no one will take him seriously.  Like Dr. Horrible without the Sing-Along Blog.  So now he's throwing out threats at Dr. Dad, who breaks and tells Dr. Troll and Ed Truman that it's Aaron who controls the nano tech, not Rachel, and he leads them to his rendezvous with Aaron, only Aaron and Wifey don't show, but Rachel and Miles are seeing the whole thing, and Rachel is less than pleased that Dr. Dad is the one undermining her at every turn.  No wonder he wanted her to stop trying to save anyone.  He must have known that eventually, he'd have to rat her out to the Patriots if she didn't stop.  

Meanwhile, back East, Boy Band awakes handcuffed, and Neville spots additional cadets on the training grounds shooting in the distance.  Neville decides to risk moving during day to get out of the area, and almost mucks it all up.  Boy Band saves the day by pretending to surrender and return to his fellow cadets, only to knife them both.  Neville is ecstatic, thinking his son is back.  Allenford is even more so.  Boy Band is annoying again!  Her son could be deprogrammed too!  It will be awesome, she just has to get to Ohio.  But she suddenly passes out.  Turns out, even though the deal was that she would be free once Neville got his kid back, Neville wants her because she's married to a member of the Patriots' High Command.  She immediately shuts down, but I suppose Neville has his ways, ways learned from Monroe's Militia. 

The team meets up at some abandoned sewage pumping station with an old sewer manhole cover.  They all struggle to lift it together, as the Patriots figure out Plan B and storm the door.

It's really a prop made out of styrofoam.  Yet more of Billy Burke's acting genius

The Patriots get in after Aaron and Wifey are already in and traveling on, but Team Rachel is still hiding in town.  Charlie wants to find another hiding spot, as the Patriots are now scouring Willoughby looking for them, probably to pin the blast the day before on.  But Rachel needs a minute.  The stress of finding out she can no longer trust Dr. Dad is getting to her now that the mission is accomplished.  And Charlie, Goddess help her, decides to hold her mom's hand.  Charlie, how many times will you get your heart broken by this woman?

Meanwhile, Aaron and Wifey make it out of the sewer line, only to be captured by Patriots.  Monroe saves the day, but passes out just as more soldiers are coming.  As they rough-house with Wifey, Aaron freaks out and scorches them both with nano tech.  And there you have it.  The first known, intentional use of nano tech torching by Aaron.   It's official.  He's a firebug.  As two more Patriots appear, Monroe suddenly comes too and slices them up.  Leading them off into the woods, Monroe asks Aaron for dating advice.  Aaron tries to comfort Wifey, but she's more frightened of Aaron than the known war criminal.   Time for couples therapy?

Now The Real Problems Begin - Legend of Korra, Book 2, Episode 9

We start with Jinora playing with neon-colored, winged rabbits.  And I think, I want one of those.

Never boring, don't need feeding

But that thought quickly fades as the action begins almost immediately with Korra showing up at the Eastern Air Temple to crash the family vacation and inform Tenzin of Unalaq's real plans.  Tenzin, who has been relaxing without the news for a while, needs quite a bit of catching up from Korra, who confesses how naive she was to trust Unalaq.  Pointing out that Unalaq must bear responsibility for his deception of Korra, Tenzin immediately decides to help Korra, but how?

Okay, I'm back, let's get to saving the world!

Unalaq controls the South Pole portal to the Spirit World, and now that portal must be closed to prevent the harmonic convergence.  But with the South Pole guarded, how to access it?  Why not access it by getting to the spirit world directly, without using a portal?  The Avatar is supposed to be able to do that, right?  Tenzin is ecstatic with that plan - he's been studying the spirit world and practices to access it for most of his life, and now is his big chance to use his research. Trouble is, none of it works, and Tenzin has to confess to Korra, brother Bumi, and Sister Kya that he's never actually been to the spirit world.  Tenzin is embarrassed, as he feels he is a disappointment to his father if he can't actually enter the Spirit World.  Bumi and Kya, used to disappointing Aang, just laugh at him and welcome him to the club.

Unalaq is also on his own, completely unsuccessful quest - he will try to re-open the North Pole portal with his and his kids', Eska and Desna, combined water bending.  However, they completely fail and Unalaq's son, Desna, has to be carried out of there.

Bolin is still playing Nuktuk, Hero of the South, to drum up sympathy for the Southern Water Tribe in it's resistance to occupation by the Northern Water Tribe.  They have just finished filming, and the crew rightly left Bolin suspended above the sound stage while getting lunch.  Asami walks in, finds Bolin, and they chat.  Then Mako comes in with news that freaks them all out- it was Varick's detonator that he found on the scene of the Cultural Center bombing, and the explosions on the ship that was hijacked were just like explosions on one of Varick's 'movers'.  Asami, whose company has just been saved by Varick buying a controlling interest, is skeptical of Mako, reminding Mako that those detonators could have been stolen and used by anyone.  Mako is convinced that Varick helped start the war between Northern and Southern Water Tribes to profit from it.  He already has a shipping company, and now he owns Asami's weapons and planes to profit from.  Too bad he never gets to make the collar:  Varick has a sit-down with Mako to threaten him, Bolin, and Asami if Mako decides to cause any trouble for Varick.  Mako refuses to back down and goes off in search of more evidence.

Tenzin continues to mope about not accessing the Spirit World, but Kya notices something's up with Jinora, talking to somebody no one else can see.  So Kya gets Jinora to confess to Tenzin - she can see spirits, mostly cute ones.  Jinora also tells them that her spirit bunny friends can lead them to somewhere Korra can access the Spirit World.  So off to an old ruin, grown over with vines they go.  They open a door in the paving, and hundreds of tiny, winged dark spirits fly out, buzz around and threaten to cause a lot of trouble.  So Korra practices the spirit-taming techniques Unalaq taught her, and they work to dissipate the dark spirits.  Tenzin is bummed that Unalaq's teaching worked out, but Korra reminds him that Unalaq taught her for his own gain, while Tenzin has always acted for Korra's welfare and future.  While at the ruin, Korra tells the group that she saw Wan, the first Avatar, and Jinora tells Korra she saw his statue come to life and glow on the Winter Solstice.  Korra is stunned - that's the day she opened the Southern Pole portal.

Awesome light show!

Asami shows up at Mako's and they discuss getting back together, now that Mako and Korra have broken up, as well as the case.  Asami thinks the stress of all his life changes is getting to him.  The cops show up, including Chief Beifong, Earth Bender extraordinaire.  They accuse Mako of working with the Triple-Threat Gang to steal Asami's shipments of weapons to the South, and Mako denies this furiously.  He keeps denying it furiously when they find some of the explosives used in the theft.  Mako is taken away while telling a clearly disappointed Asami that he's innocent.

Really, I didn't!

After sharing info on what they know about the first Avatar, Wan, Jinora and Korra decide to meditate together.  Very quickly, they are in a new, brightly colored, beautiful valley.  They stand and wander hand-in-hand through the Spirit World.

It's Official, I Hate Rick - Walking Dead, Season 4, Episode 4

He let fucking Merle back in. Fucking Merle, who beat the crap out of Glenn and sicked a walker on Glenn while Glenn was tied to a chair.  And Rick let Merle back.  Merle was a violent druggie to the bitter end, but Rick still let him back.   Carl literally killed another kid for not giving over the gun fast enough.  And Rick just puts Carl on gun restriction, which is quickly undone once everyone gets sick with the flu.  But kill two people who were definitely going to die anyway quickly, so they don’t suffer Patrick’s fate and infect everyone else?  Well, then Carol has to go.  No warning, either.  Just a backpack and a car they were lucky enough to find. You know what?  Carol’s better off. Will Daryl shrug this off, as he does every single other Rick decision? Or will he decide that Rick went too far?

It’s clear that Carol’s actions shock Rick, as he relives them before he and Carol set out for a nearby suburb for any drugs and food they can scavenge.  While it’s great that they go for supplies, Rick’s trickery is only revealed after she’s helped him scavenge the neighborhood.  Thanks for the help, now get lost.  First, Carol takes down a zombie they see in one of the houses.  Then she treats one of the two survivors she and Rick find hiding upstairs.  Sam and Ana are not bright, but are still optimistic that Rick’s diseased prison is better than anything else they've seen.  Rick wants them to take it easy and lay low in the house while he and Carol finish, but Carol overrules Rick at every try.  Rick is obviously frustrated, but complies.  Did we just see the real reason he kicked her to the curb?  They later find Ana, cut off leg first, being eaten by zombies.  Sam is nowhere to be found.  They go back to the rendezvous point, but no Sam and no expensive watch Rick’s been carrying around.  Carol is obviously more bummed about the watch than about the people they just lost.  Maybe that’s what finally decided Rick, even though most of Rick and Carol’s scenes are her trying to justify her actions to an unconvinced Rick.  But I think this was always Rick’s plan, and why he wanted Sam and Ana to wait for someone to come back for them.  Better to ditch Carol somewhere, and circle back to them, than to kick Carol to the curb in front of strangers.  Note: where is Sam?  If he’s alive, he’ll probably be pissed that Carol has his car.

Daryl’s team is barely making it through their mission.  They need a new vehicle, and they find one that needs a new battery.  But the shed is covered with vines growing over the door, and zombies lurk beyond the vines.  Tyrese is still incensed at the world and its injustices.  I guess taking stupid risks is the way to deal with it.  Michonne calls him out for such stupid behavior.  In return, Tyrese makes her admit that she’s not angry at the Governor anymore, she just sees him as a loose end to tie up.  Don’t worry Michonne, that’s what the show’s writers are for.  Bob confesses to Daryl just why he feels so bad about Zach, with Daryl trying to buck Bob up and tell him to get his shit together and keep his head in the game.  Note to Daryl:  with two groups that sheltered Bob already gone, isn’t he bad luck at this point?  They discover that the zombies at the garage drank anti-freeze, which resulted in their transformation.  Bob notices a young blond man who looks a lot like Sam in one of the many pictures of happy people in a world worth living in.  Once at the vet college, they dodge zombies made by the recent flu, indicating that people had indeed already thought of raiding the vet college.  They literally fight their way through a pack that was chained behind an exit door, then must break a window high enough to successfully get away.  Bob is the last through, and he trips and almost falls off, dangling his bag over a portico where zombies furiously grab it and try to tug him down.  Despite everyone else’s warnings, Bob won’t let go and they must pry both Bob and bag up.  Turns out, the bag only contains a bottle of booze, which infuriates Daryl.  When Bob goes for his gun to literally save a bottle of booze, Daryl comes close to killing Bob himself. But with Doctor S about to die, and Hershel not really a doctor, Bob is the best chance they have to treat the sick.  And now Tyrese is the peacekeeper urging calm.  They all drive home in silence, probably without incident, Daryl playing with a piece of jasper he picked up for someone else, Michonne driving, Bob wondering what will become of him once the last patient is treated. 

At least Daryl’s anger is understandable.  After enduring Tyrese’s shitty mood, zombies at the entrance to the garage he jacks for a car battery, a horrific veterinary school filled with fresh flu zombies, and Bob almost getting killed over a bottle of hooch, Daryl finally loses it.  We haven’t seen this much rage since he met Rick.  While Rick has completely lost any faith in Carol, Daryl has lost his in Bob. 

We end with Carol driving off, shocked and resigned and now without the last little bit that reminded her of her old life.  She’s cut off from her old friends, but she is also free. Free of Ed, free of the old Carol.  Rick constantly checks his rearview mirror, just to make sure Carol isn’t trying to follow him back.  Rick, Carol is stronger than you.  You should actually be wondering just how the fuck you’re going to explain this to Daryl.

A Boy and His Spirit - Legend of Korra, Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8

A dark spirit, after not killing Korra (because it couldn't?), has dumped her on a small beach, where she's been found by the remote island's gentle inhabitants.  Only this young woman has no idea who she is, or even what an Avatar is.  She needs her memory back.  Lucky she's on the right island for that.  Lowered into healing waters deep underneath a temple, Korra falls into a long vision that starts with the Avatars before her:  Aang, Roku, the murdered Avatar from the Fire Nation, Kyoshi, the badass Avatar from the Earth Kingdom, and Kuruk, Avatar from the Water Tribes.

They tell Korra that to remember who she is, she must find the spirit Raava, and reconnect with her.  From behind, another figure appears, a simple-looking young man.  He calls himself Wan, and claims to be the first Avatar.

From there, the show transitions right away to Wan running through city streets with stolen food, guys with swords close behind.  Just like Aladdin, only Wan doesn't get away.  Said guys take back almost all of the food except the few rolls Wan has stashed.  He arrives back at a humble shack in the trees outside the city walls, but still close, and shares his rolls with his two friends - one resigned to a life of poverty, one mutated by a spirit living deep in the forest that surrounds the city.  He then gives his roll away to woodland creatures who look hungry.  Resigned friend tells Wan that should just accept their powerlessness and resulting hunger.  Mutated friend tells Wan he shouldn't do anything that would get him banished to the spirit wilds, where spirits enter the bodies of humans and mutate them before leaving.  But Wan is having none of their advice.

I have an awesome idea… that will have no consequences whatsoever!

A few city roughnecks are putting together a hunting party, and Wan volunteers, even though the leader really doesn't want him.  Together, they leave the city, and hike to the top of a cliff, where Leader calls out to… a lion turtle!  It rises from a valley surrounded by volcanoes, and gives the hunting party the power to summon fire for protection when they go hunting in the spirit wilds.  The only condition?  They must return this power back to the lion turtle when they return to the city.  So that's how the lion turtle knew how to instruct Aang in robbing the Fire Lord of his power, at the end of the 100 years war.  Wan gets cold feet as they enter the spirit wilds, and Leader scolds him and sends him back to the lion turtle to return the power of fire.  Which Wan "forgets" to do.

Wan instead uses his new fire power to storm the gates of the city's wealthy and help a band of other hungry people steal food from the rich.  Only Wan is caught, because he is unwilling to kill to get away when he needs to.  So the rich fucker banishes Wan to the spirit wilds, but the lion turtle is merciful enough to let Wan keep his fire to protect himself.

Wan's first night in the spirit wilds is horrific - he can't sleep, because, literally, nowhere is safe.  Animal spirits continuously stalk him, plant-like spirits wait for him to get comfortable before springing traps on him.  What looks like fruit to eat is really a bunch of enormous pink bees.  Wan is despondent, until he stumbles down a hill and sees an oasis.  But it's guarded by a spirit that reminds me of the snooty maitre'd at the most expensive restaurant in town.  Wan attempts to get in by subterfuge, but said Snooty sniffs him out and boots him into the river.  The other spirits lounging in the oasis feel a little sorry for Wan, but Snooty sends him off.  The other spirits tell him to try to find the other lion turtle cities, maybe he'd rather live there with other humans, than the spirit wilds.  Wan, who has never heard of other lion turtle cities, is excited to be looking for safety.

"Do you have a reservation… I did not think so"

As Wan progresses through the wilds, searching for other lion turtle cities, he comes on a cat deer (imagine a deer with a leopard's head and antelope antlers, big enough to ride on) struggling in a human net.  His love for animals wins over his hunger.  As he tries to free the cat deer, the hunters he originally abandoned show up, ready to eat Wan's new friend.  He tries to fight off the hunters, and almost succeeds, but the hunters beat him and are about to kill him when Snooty shows up out of nowhere and fights them off.  Snooty also possesses one of the hunters for a few seconds.  When Snooty passes back out of the hunter, part of Snooty remains in him, mutating the hunter into a half man/half Snooty.  Turns out spirits can only stay in the body of a human for a few seconds, or the human will die.  Remember that.

Wan's newest friend, Mula

Wan, Snooty, and the cat deer Mula, hang out later back in the oasis with the other spirits.  Snooty warms to Wan a little, letting Wan stay and nicknaming him Stinky.  For two years, Wan spends time communing with spirits, and perfecting his fire powers, becoming the first real fire bender.  He repels hunters from the spirit wilds, earning the loyalty of spirits, and the respect of his original city.  Some of the city-dwellers decide they've had enough of living under the wealthy, and get their own fire-bending power from the lion turtle, entering the forest to also learn to live in the wilds.  But Wan doesn't know this.  He and Mula have decided to finally go off in search of other lion turtle cities.

Wan learning fire bending from a dragon

Wan's trip is, at first, peaceful but solitary.  Until, one day in a beautiful valley, he gets caught in a stampede away from a terrible brawl between spirits.  Angry that the brawling spirits have scared other spirits and the animals, Wan tries to end their fighting, especially when he hears that one spirit has been keeping the other captive for 10,000 years.  Even after the captor spirit warns Wan not to interfere, Wan can't help himself. He uses his fire to separate them and free the captive, who thanks Wan before leaving.  The captor is furious, and grows a little smaller for some reason.  She explains, impatiently, that Wan has freed Vatu, the spirit of darkness and chaos, which she, Raava, holds in check to keep the universe going.  Neither can ever destroy the other, but Vatu wants to destroy the universe, spirit and physical worlds, so Raava holds him captive and every 10,000 years they duke it out to see which spirit will rule over the other.

Raava, the spirit of light and order, or an all-powerful kite

Now, Raava must find Vatu and defeat him at an event known as harmonic convergence, when the planets in the sky will seem to align in space.  She's very pessimistic she'll be able to do it, so Wan offers to help.  Raava scorns Wan's offer, sending him away, so Wan decides he'll resume his quest to find other lion turtle cities.  Which he does, first seeing a group of air benders harvesting fruit from trees.

OSHA - Approved!

Wan makes his way into the air bending lion turtle city, and finds a welcome reception from the monk-like inhabitants, who would love to hear Wan's adventures over tea.  Except that the harmless looking spirit on one monk's shoulder suddenly turns bright green and starts attacking people.  Other dark spirits come, attacking the city, and Wan uses his fire power to try to repel them.  Raava shows up and manages to fight Vatu off and he leaves, taunting Raava with his increased power while hers diminishes.  Wan is more determined to help Raava then ever, and convinces the lion turtle of the air bending city to grant him the power of air.  However, Raava must hold it for him until he is ready to contain two elemental powers.  Raava is only convinced to do this when Wan reminds her she'll be unable to fight and defeat Vatu on her own.  Wan also decides that in the year until the harmonic convergence and ensuing melee, he'll visit other cities and gain other elemental powers, which he does, all while fleetingly joining with Raava to gain these powers and feeling the intense level of power and spirit whenever they are joined.

And now we come back to Wan's neighbors, the people who decided to live in the spirit wilds, away from poverty, with the power of fire.  Wan finds them warring with spirits, and immediately decides he will stop this fighting, as he has learned to get along with spirits himself.  But the spirits turn dark because of Vatu, and so a fight is in the works, including Wan's old buddy Snooty!

The first Avatar stunt ever!

Wan is unable to stop the fighting, even after stunning both spirit and human by his joining of all four elemental powers and with Raava.  Vatu comes to gloat, and we see that Raava had dimished to about the size of a ferret.  Raava and Wan are both pretty dispirited as they head to the spirit world, to a place smack-dab-center between two portals between spirit and human worlds.

Vatu between the two portals just before the harmonic convergence

The battle is epic, as Wan tries to use all four elemental powers to defeat Vatu, but can't.  Neither can Raava defeat him on her own.  So Wan convinces her to join with him so they can fight together.  They put up a valiant effort together, bonding as they never have before.  But they're losing as the planets align themselves int he sky, 

And the harmonic convergence begins,

Forming a rainbow made entirely of spiritual power.  Wan, joined with Raava and held down by Vatu, reaches out to this rainbow, and suddenly has the power use all four elements to immobilize Vatu, and imprison him in an old, giant, knarled, and hollow tree, halfway between both portals.

It's not Alcatraz… but it's cozy!

Still bonded with Raava, and since they are already in the spirit world, Wan uses his new Avatar spirit power to close one of the portals with the human world, so that no human will be able to ever free Vatu again (hint hint, that's Unalac's plan).  He then escorts all spirits back to the one open portal, and back to the spirit world, so that humans and spirits will stop fighting, leading to a sad farewell between Wan and Snooty.  Wan then closes the last portal, sealing both worlds from each other, with Wan/Raava the only people who can go back and forth.  The lion turtles decide that, since the wilds are no longer haunted by spirits, they will depart, leaving humans with different bending powers and different ways of living to duke it out in endless wars, which Wan spends the rest of his life trying to stop.  

We end with Wan, an old man, collapsed against a shield after a battle.  He apologizes to Raava, still joined with him through his life, for not achieving the peace he set out to bring.  Raava assures him that their task is not over, and that she will never abandon it.  As Wan dies, Raava passes from him,

And we see her search for another, another like Wan.  As we hear a baby crying, we see Korra.  She realizes now why Unalac wanted the portal at the South Pole opened, and now wants the other opened.  With the portals opened, harmonic convergence can finally happen again, and Vatu can try to defeat Raava again.  Unalac, for some reason, has been helping the spirit of darkness and chaos, and Korra now realizes she must re-close the South Pole portal to prevent the end of existence.  Lucky for her the gentle inhabitants of the island she is stranded on have been raising air bison.  Also, lucky for her she's just had a long rest.  She has work to do.