The Walking Dead 204 "Cherokee Rose"
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Perhaps the most boring episode of The Walking Dead to date. After last week's amazing reveal we get this meandering snoozefest. The zombie in the well was a waste of time and not even that
cool of a scene. Glen getting some (good for him) really was telegraphed
a mile away. As is the upcoming storyline of Maggie, the proper
farm girl causing friction due to her interaction with "the
outsiders". I always said Herschel had a "cult vibe"
going. We see more of his religous overtones come up in this episode
as well as the "you have to live by my rules" and "we
don't take outsiders" points. Heck, the previews for the next episode were more exciting than the entire episode. Seriously. The return of Merle Dixon. Probably just a vision Daryl has.
NITPICKS:
QUOTABLE:
--- Shane: "There is nothing easy about taking a man's life no matter how little value it may have. But when you get it done, you have to forget it. I guess I haven't quite got that last part down." --- Hershel: "That's something, isn't it? It's good to pause
for an occasional reminder." --- Daryl: "The story is that when American soldiers where moving Indians off their land, on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much 'cause they were losing their little ones along the way. Exposure and disease and starvation; a lot of them just disappeared. So the elders, they sent a prayer, asked for a sign to uplift the mother's spirits. Give 'em strength, hope. The next day, this rose started to grow right where the mother's tears fell. I'm not fool enough to think there's any flowers bloomin' for my brother. But, I believe, this one is bloomin' for your little girl."
The Cherokee Rose primary time to bloom is in the early spring with bright green leaves. However, the flower is capable of blossoming in the fall under good conditions. Given the condition of the plant Daryl finds, the timeframe of the show is set in the fall. Records of attempts at pregnancy testing have been found as far back as the ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian cultures. The ancient Egyptians watered bags of wheat and barley with the urine of a possibly pregnant woman. Germination indicated pregnancy. The type of grain that sprouted was taken as an indicator of the fetus's sex. Hippocrates suggested that a woman who had missed her period should drink a solution of honey in water at bedtime: resulting abdominal distention and cramps would indicate the presence of a pregnancy. Avicenna and many physicians after him in the Middle Ages performed uroscopy, a nonscientific method to evaluate urine.
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Shane:
"We were about done. Almost out of ammo. We were down to
pistol by then. I was limpin', bad. Ankle all swollen up. 'Gotta
save the boy!' See, that's what he said. He gave me his backpack;
he shoved me ahead. 'Run', he said. Said, 'I'll take the rear,
I'll cover you.' And when I looked back...If not for Otis, I would
have never made it out alive. And that goes for Carl too. It was
Otis: he saved us both."
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