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Some information about this episode

We meet a Shawnee Chieftess named Nonhelema in “Stranded,” and she was a real person. Here’s some information about her:

From [[[Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief]]] by James Alexander Thom, Dark Rain Thom

Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing at over six feet tall, she was the Women’s Peace Chief of the Shawnee Nation–and already a legend when the most decisive decade of her life began in 1774. That fall, with more than three thousand Virginians poised to march into the Shawnees’ home, Nonhelema’s plea for peace was denied. So she loyally became a fighter, riding into battle covered in war paint. When the Indians ran low on ammunition, Nonhelema’s role changed back to peacemaker, this time tragically.

 

Negotiating an armistice with military leaders of the American Revolution like Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark, she found herself estranged from her own people–and betrayed by her white adversaries, who would murder her loved ones and eventually maim Nonhelema herself.

 

Throughout her inspiring life, she had many deep and complex relationships, with her daughter, Fani, who was an adopted white captive, a pious and judgmental missionary, Zeisberger, and a series of passionate lovers.

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Missing Mission

“Stranded” was the first episode that wasn’t centered around a Mission of the Week. This may have been the only part of the episode that stymied me. Why was Flynn in 1754 (or was he)? Was he trying to kill our team or just keep them out of the way temporarily? I mean, there was absolutely no information given about his motivation. I’m hoping this at least gets a mention further along – if not, it’s slightly bothersome.
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The Natives are Restless but
Ils ñ’ont pas donné leur langue au chat

The team is trudging through the woods looking for Flynn when they’re intercepted by French soldiers. They’re mistaken for English spies, with whom they’re fighting, so they’re held hostage until they can be killed or used as pawns in some way.

Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus escape from French soldiers just to get caught again by the Shawnee. They’re seen by the aforementioned Nonhelema and her brother Cornstalk.  Their saving grace is Rufus, who is pardoned because Nonhelema believes him to be a slave.

Rufus stands up and says he’s not being forced to be there, and the others are his friends, so either they all go free, or none of them do. Nonhelema finds honor in that sacrifice and allows them to go, even though Cornstalk disagrees.

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Down in the Delta

We discuss in the podcast the difference between a filler episode and an episode with substantive content. Both Doug and I concur that “Stranded” is not a filler episode. This plot point is the reason why.

Our resident Delta Force team member, Wyatt, is not ready to trust Lucy or Rufus yet – although they’re not back at square one. They bicker during the first half of the episode, but when Rufus carries more than his fair share of the load, Wyatt can’t help but see his value and forgive him for his lie.

After they return to the present, they gather for drinks and a chat, and Lucy apologizes for her lie as well. Wyatt, after learning he can depend upon the two of them for his life, figures out that being a team is more than just the words that are said, they’re the deeds that are being done.

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Gia (Jiya)-Locating—

In between captures, Rycy get back to the lifeboat only to find it about to be blown up by (you guessed it) Henchmen. Wyatt stops them before they do more than some superficial damage, but Rufus points out that they’ll need the mothership to escape and they go after the remaining man.

He gets away, and they find themselves stranded in 1754… unless Rufus can come up with a way to patch the lifeboat and get them home. Luckily, there’s a protocol in place for sending messages to the future, so he does that – pneumatic style – and then he gets materials from other parts of the ship and Fort Duquesne in order to slap together a quick fix.

The lab finds his message badly decayed, but thanks to Jiya, she knows Rufus well enough to decode it based on two nerd-based terms. They need navigation. Thank goodness she figured it out correctly, but apparently the nav system at home isn’t as accurate as the one on-board, because it was not a smooth landing.

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On September 15

1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. (and podiums everywhere quaked in terror)
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Notable Births:
1254 – Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian
1857 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States
1889 – Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor
1890 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright
1903 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress
1910 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor
1924 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist
1927 – Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Jimmy Carr, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor
1984 – Prince Harry of Wales
Notable Deaths:
1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer
1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist
1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109
1991 – John Hoyt, American actor
2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter
2006 – Pablo Santos, Mexican-American actor
2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer

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