META STATION: A "The 100" Podcast

Welcome back to Meta Station, where IT’S TIME TO CRY ABOUT MOMS! Lyra finally finds a family, we learn a lot more about daemons, some Dramatic Backstory is revealed, a show finally presents a suicide storyline responsibly, and we have a LOT of thoughts about white male patriarchy. Also, the alethiometer finally works, Ma Costa is our new favorite character, and Fleabag’s Hot Priest has joined the cast which means this show officially has everything. _________________________________________ 0:00 - Thank Goodness for the Gyptians, Adults Lyra Can Actually Trust 0:17 – How This Episode Gets Suicide-As-Plot/Character-Development Right 0:37 – Daemon Discussion Redux: Farder Coram Edition 0:41 – Lyra's Journey to Trust, Belonging, and a Working Alethiometer 0:53 – [Sidebar to Cry About Lyra and Ma Costa, the Ur-Mom] 1:11 – The Gyptians, the Magisterium, and the Value of Children 1:19 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part I: Who’s Outside the Machinery of Power, and Why It Matters That Boreal and the Master Are Black Men 1:33 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part II: Male Shame, the Complicity of White Women, and the Show’s Refreshing Decision Not to Woobify Mrs. Coulter 1:56 – No New Episode Next Week for Gay Reasons, But We’ll Be Back After American Thanksgiving!

Welcome back to Meta Station! Sadly for you, several of our BEST jokes this week happened before we started recording, and we apologize to our longtime fans for depriving them of the newest installment of our ongoing “vases vs. botulism” debate. (You had to be there.) Fortunately, this still ended up being one of our favorite conversations, because there is SO! MUCH! TO SAY! about Mrs. Coulter: from using femininity as a weapon to wield power over men, to the complicated relationship between women and anger, to why it matters that her (male) daemon has been silenced. We also talked Magisterium theology, Boreal’s dimension-hopping, and how relieved we are that our pure sons Roger and Billy finally found each other. P.S. Rather predictably, we have already completely abandoned any attempt to remain spoiler-free for people who haven’t read the books, for reasons that will become very clear in the Mrs. Coulter section. If you are aggressively trying to avoid any plot details from the books, you might want to bookmark this one and come back to it after the end of the season. -------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Lyra and the Apartment: Art Deco Design Porn, Abuse Dynamics, and Gilded Cages 0:10 – The Interior Life of Marisa Coulter: Weaponized Femininity, Suppressed Emotions, a Daemon That Doesn’t Speak, AND A COUPLE OF REALLY BIG SPOILERS 1:01 – Mrs. Coulter: Severing Ties, Emotionally and Literally 1:11 – Boreal, Other Worlds, and Novel Versus TV Plot Pacing 1:24 – Fighting for Ideas . . . of North, and Other Things 1:31 – Claire's Catholicism Corner: What Does "Oblation" Mean? And What Does It Tell Us About Mrs. Coulter? 1:42 - The Magisterium's Cold-Blooded Daemons 1:47 - The Most On-Brand Moment Ever: Claire Ships All the Parents NOTE: We apologize for some very mild sound issues on this one; Claire’s computer, like herself, has a very flexible relationship with the concept of Time, and froze up for a second before reviving so the whole middle of one sentence just disappeared, which is mostly upsetting because it was MILF flailing and we know that’s important to you guys. Also, Erin’s sound recording software was picking up the computer mic instead of her podcasting mic, so there are handful of places where she cuts out for a split-second as well. We edited around it as best we could, but hopefully it won’t be too distracting.

Welcome to Meta Station’s first recap of “His Dark Materials,” the perfect show for a podcast hosted by an atheist English professor and a Catholic playwright. Join us for a deep dive into the transformation of the books from page to screen, with side quests into climate change, Vatican II, “Paradise Lost,” gender fluidity, and Galileo. Plus, we lay out a careful plan about avoiding spoilers and then forget it immediately, of COURSE Erin knows the Milton quote Philip Pullman got the series title from, and Claire hops in the wayback machine to reminisce about being a youth minister when these books first blew up in the U.S. Grab your alethiometer and your bottle of secret crypt wine, we’re going on an adventure! * * * * * * * * * * * * 0:00 – Hello, New Listeners, and Welcome Back, Old Friends! 0:02 – Page to Screen Adaptation, Part I: Asriel, Lyra and Narrative Perspective 0:21 – We Stan a Relatable 11-Year-Old Who Is Sometimes a Butthead 0:27 – Page to Screen Adaptation, Part II: Dramatic Irony, Pacing Big Reveals for Television, and How Ruth Wilson Almost Convinced Us, Too 0:44 – The Gyptian Daemon Ceremony: Our Need for Ritual, the Magisterium’s Dehumanization of Religion, and the Return of Claire’s Catholicism Corner 1:10 – Pan-Daemonium 1:34 – Galileo, Climate Change, and Dust: The Politics of Scientific Knowledge 1:55 – The Magisterium, the Master, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Incentivizing Ignorance 2:02 – Erin Rambles On About Miltonian Cosmology, and All Is Right With Meta Station

Choose your faces wisely, because it’s time for Part II of “Good Omens,” where imagination is the greatest power of humankind, the kids are trying to figure out how to fix the world the grown-ups ruined, Madam Tracy finally gets takes center stage, Derek Jacobi pops in for a truly delightful cameo, and it turns out Crowley still thinks pretty highly of God. This one took us to some PLACES - we went deep on climate despair, youth-led protest movements, and the Horsemen as self-fulfilling prophecies, and then unpacked the theology of Aziraphale and Gabriel and got very real about when organized religion gets in the way of God. Hop on, this one’s a fun ride. Cheers, friends. TO THE WORLD! ---------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Welcome Back to “Good Omens,” Let’s Get This Apocalypse Show on the Road! 0:02 – We Are Now Ride-or-Die Lesley x Maud Shippers 0:05 – The Horsemen vs. the Them: Personification, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and the Triumph of Youthful Imagination Over Adult Despair 0:32 – Pollution and Death in the Pratchett-Gaiman Extended Universe 0:40 – The Gospel of Aziraphale 0:52 – When Organized Religion Gets in the Way of God 1:13 – Imagination: The Secret Weapon of Armageddon 1:21 – Anathema: Living By the Book 1:30 – Adam vs. the Antichrist 1:39 – Love: The Other Secret Weapon of Armageddon (ft. Ineffable Husbands Flailing) 1:44 - (Madame Tracy's) Humanity Saves the Day (and Adam's Life) 1:50 – The Radical Egalitarian Skepticism of the 11-Year-Old Human from Tadfield: The Other Other Secret Weapon of Armageddon 2:03 – The Aftermath of the End of the World: Human Edition 2:10 – The Aftermath of the End of the World: The Great Crowley/Aziraphale Switcheroo 2:18 – Ten-Minute Sidebar to GUSH OVER THE AMAZING CAST 2:31 – One Last Moment of Ineffable Husbands 2:34 – COMING UP NEXT: “Russian Doll” Episodes 1-4! (Spoiler-Free, Because Claire Hasn't Watched It Yet!)

Hello, new friends! Welcome back, old friends! Meta Station is back and we've missed you, too! Summer is truly the best time of year for binge-watching television (some people will tell you it is the time of year for Going Outside and, like, Doing Stuff, in Nature, but those people are wrong and dangerous, stay in here with us where there's air conditioning and couches and snacks). So during July and August we're going to be podcasting on three different miniseries we love which we think you will enjoy too. First on deck is the delightful six-part Amazon Prime adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1991 apocalypse comedy GOOD OMENS, and we are here to tell you as fans of the book that the show gets just about everything right. Join us for a nerdy conversation covering everything from “Paradise Lost” to “Angels In America,” from Francis of Assisi to the end of the Cold War, from the holiness of sushi chefs to the dangers of dudes getting redpilled, with a whole lot of metaphysics, nature vs. nurture, and predestination thrown in. (Plus, obviously, shippy flails, because we can’t help ourselves.) Hop in your 1926 black Bentley, crank up that Velvet Underground (WHICH IS NOT BEBOP), and grab your flaming sword, because it’s time to stop the end of the world. You know what to do, do it with style. ------------------------------------------------------------ 0:00 – Welcome to Meta Station Summer Vacation! 0:02 – *Weary Sigh* No, GOOD OMENS Is Not "Anti-Religion," Calm Down Christians 0:13 – “Paradise Lost,” Angel Sex, and the Joy of Non-Canon Shipping 0:17 – Oh Right, We Should Probably Talk About the Plot 0:20 – "In the Beginning": Empathy, Ineffability, and Asking the Dangerous Questions 0:34 – Sushi Chefs, Francis of Assisi and Queen: Azirophale and Crowley's Attachment to the Human World 1:11 – A Brief Sidebar to Nerd Out About Craft: Acting, Casting, Adapting a Book for the Screen, and Why Everyone Loves Neil Gaiman 1:26 – 1991 In Cultural Context, Part I: Claire the Playwright on "Angels In America" and "Marisol" 1:36 – 1991 In Cultural Context, Part II: Erin the Academic on the End of the Cold War 1:49 – "Form Shapes Nature": Warlock, Adam and Dog 2:14 – Agnes, Anathema, and the Intersection of Prophecy and Free Will: or, FINALLY IT IS TIME TO TALK ABOUT SOME LADIES 2:33 – Shadwell, Pulsifer, and the Old Guard vs. the New 2:41 – A Brief Word on Horsemen 2:43 – Thanks For Joining Us! We’ll See You Next Week!

Welcome to META STATION SUMMER VACATION! We're spending July and August covering some of our favorite binge-worthy miniseries of 2019, kicking off this week with a discussion on episodes 1-3 of Amazon's fantastic adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's shippy apocalypse romp "Good Omens." To whet your appetite, if you've missed us, or to introduce ourselves to you if you're new here (welcome!!), here's a 25-minute teaser - a mini-meta, if you will - to tide you over until the full three hours of nerdery goes live Monday! In this excerpt, we discuss the war between Heaven and Hell in the context of the original publication of "Good Omens" in 1991. Erin has thoughts on the Cold War, Claire has thoughts on "Angels In America," we're both spicy about right-wing dumbs interpreting the story as anti-religion, and Erin shamelessly promotes Claire's book for new listeners. COME HANG OUT WITH US WE'VE MISSED YOU ALL SO MUCH

Welcome back to Meta Station! Since last we recapped you, Erin finished her book, we went to a con, Claire's had the flu like three times, and Donald Trump Jr. is probably going to jail. WHAT'S NEW WITH YOU GUYS?? We split up this week’s 4-hour podcast in two parts, so pop on over to this link - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/unity-days-2019 - if you’re looking for our recap of Unity Days, the funnest funfest in the history of fun, and then come back here when you’re ready for our thoughts on 513! Also, to avoid burying the lede, we wanted to announce at the beginning of the podcast that this will be the last of our regular week-to-week recaps of the show.(This episode is now a collector’s item!) While the show is running, despite the heroic assistance of our cherished Editkru, Meta Station is basically a part-time job, and – in the words of iconic Netflix star/cleaning guru Marie Kondo – we ultimately determined that dedicating that amount of time and effort to producing a weekly podcast no longer “sparks joy.” There were a lot of factors that went into this; some of them we’ll discuss at the end of the podcast, while others are more personal, but in the end it felt like the right time for us to step away from the kind of in-depth coverage we’ve been doing. The fact that our long, rambly, self-produced nerdfest has reached over 212,000 listens and downloads with over 750 regular subscribers remains INSANE to us, and we are overwhelmed and honored and grateful that so many of you have come along with us on this ride. We have so loved getting to spend all these nerdy hours with you, and goodbyes are always bittersweet, though we promise we aren’t quitting cold turkey; we still have a big stack of interviews on deck, we might pop back from time to time in future seasons if we find ourselves with things we just HAVE to flail about with you guys for three hours at a time, and if there’s a UD4 next year we’ll be there with bells on, we promise! We love you all with our entire nerdy hearts and we are so thankful for each and every listener. You guys have been the best part of this whole journey. May we meet again! --------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hello, It Is Us Again! We Have Returned! Sorry This Intro Is Awkward Because We Chopped Out the Whole Hour About Unity Days! 0:03 – FINALE THINGS WE LIKED: The Jasper of It All! Miller’s Arc Sticking the Landing! Diyoza Calling Octavia’s Ass Out! The Blakes Still Care About Kane! Tiny Hints of Sunshine, Maybe! Bellamy and Madi and the Breaking of Cycles! 0:45 – As Emori’s Get-a-Grip Girlfriends, We Sincerely Hope She Has Not Wiped Murphy’s Slate Clean Just Yet, Because He Was a Real Asshole All Season 0:51 – If You Compare How Many Early Storylines Took Up Time and Ultimately Went Nowhere (Kara! Ethan! Worms!), With How Many Huge Emotional Setups This Season Never Got Real Payoffs Because the Finale Was So Rushed, You Will Go Insane 1:15 – Our Oft-Mentioned McCreary Problem Explodes to Astronomical Proportions and Torpedoes the Finale Endgame 1:37 – This Show Is Kind of Pro-Dictator In Some Peculiarly Unexamined Ways 1:55 – The “Why We’re Stopping” Conversation, Part I: Erin, Bellarke, and Reframing the Relationship You Have with a Show Once You Realize You and the Writers Want Different Things 2:14 – The “Why We’re Stopping” Conversation, Part II: Claire, Kane, and the Validity of Watching a Show For an Emotional Relationship With a Character or Ship 2:32 – Sometimes Analyzing Something For Three Hours Actually Makes It Less Fun, Instead of More 2:42 – “We’re Gonna Teach ‘Em How to Say Goodbye (One Last Time)”: or, There Is No Wrong Way to Watch a Show, No Wrong Way to Be a Fan, and No Wrong Reason to Walk Away 2:46 – In Which We Have a Lot of Feelings About How Much We Love You Guys and Everything This Podcast Has Given Us

We talked for so long about Unity Days 2019 that we pulled it out of the recap podcast to post on its own. Join us as we relive the magic, glory and wonder of the third (and maybe final?? unclear??? Sachin is VERY PERSUASIVE????) Unity Days convention in Vancouver B.C.! It was hands-down our favorite yet, with brand-new guests we'd never met before (hi Paige! hi Lola! hi Erica! hi Shannon! hi Tati!), lots of deep dives into the nerdery of television craft (from props design to acting craft) and tons and tons of laughs. Most of all, it was full of those amazing special moments of irreplaceable cast magic that make this con such a unique and wonderful event - from sharing deeply heartfelt stories about what acting means to them, to doing impressions of their coworkers as Fran Drescher or Yoda. (You had to be there.) Thanks so much to everyone at Unity Events Canada for their hard work and dedication! If UD3 is the last of these cons, it went out on a high note; if Sachin gets his way and there's a UD4, we'll see you there!

She's been in the biz since she was nine, she's fluent in French, she knows how to swordfight, and she loves "Fight Club." She's also twelve years old. We sat down with the fantastically delightful Lola Flanery on Sunday, for a super fun interview which then got eaten by Skype Recorder (*shakes fist at ALIE*), so we gave it a second try on Wednesday and had even MORE fun. Join us as we plot a prank war against Sachin and Bob, discuss Warrior Cats and My Little Ponies, get the scoop on stunt training and Trigedasleng, hear what it's like to be the kid on set in a room full of grownups, and learn what Lola loves most about playing Madi. TL;DR - THIS KID IS THE BEST AND WE'RE ADOPTING HER NOW

ERIN FOUND A KITTEN IN A PARKING LOT SO THAT WAS THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TODAY Yes, the Lola interview will go up tomorrow, yes, we're eventually going to recap the finale, yes, we've still got Chris Larkin and William/Ivana interviews on deck, but for now, please enjoy this outtake that is literally just twenty minutes of Claire and Erin talking about cats. We missed you too.

Welcome back to Meta Station! [INSERT INAPPROPRIATE JOKE ABOUT MARCUS KANE LOOKING LIKE A SNACK HERE] LOTS of deaths this week, including Vinson, a whole bunch of redshirts, and the myth of Blodreina (and we’ll feel a lot better once we know Gaia and Kane are okay), but the fractured groups are finally beginning to coalesce back together, which is a HUGE relief. We know you all had strong feelings about this episode, and we did too; we clocked in at over four hours (don’t worry, this one is edited!) because there was so much to unpack. Initially Erin and Claire were a house divided regarding a few of the storylines, and met more in the middle on rewatch, but overall we’re feeling better at the end of this episode than we did at the end of the last one. We got hope! We got forgiveness! We got love! We got families! We got hugs! We got closure! We got new beginnings! We got another cryptic drive-by reference to Eligius III! In other words, we’re right where we should be as our heroes head into the finale. Come along with us on this EXTREME rollercoaster as we dig into the good (Bellamy and Indra are done with Octavia’s bullshit! Abby destroys the embodiment of her addiction! Murphy has been watching 70’s movies in space!), the bad (what an unsatisfying Princess Mechanic reunion! Why do people keep making deals with McCreary???) and the ugly (there is absolutely no justification for using a torture device on your child). T-minus 4 days until the finale! LET’S DO THIS THING --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:02 - All of Blodreina's Assorted Chickens Come Home to Roost 0:19 - Okay, But in What Sense Does Bellamy "Want" Octavia to Die? 0:24 - Tragedy vs. Bummer: Why Octavia's (and the Blakes') Arc Is the Latter, Not the Former 0:34 - "Can I Just Say Something Real Gay for a Minute": Claire Is On-Brand 0:36 - We Really, Really Hope That There Are a LOT More Consequences to Come for Octavia 0:56 - Finally, a Glimpse Into Miller's State of Mind!!! And Finally, People Coming Together!!! IT FEELS LIKE HOPE 1:03 - Erin Has Two Boxes of Clarke Feelings: One Is Labeled "Plot Beefs," the Other Is Labeled "Bellarke Flails" 1:06 - That Shock Collar Scene Was Bad On, Like, Every Conceivable Level 1:35 - Clarke Character Crux: Is "Mama Bear" Clarke the Result of Motherhood, or Her 6-Year Isolation? 1:39 – Clarke Has Nowhere to Go For Counsel Except Into the Past 1:53 – Claire Keeps Forgetting That Clarke Thought Bellamy Was Dead LOL Whoops 1:55 – That Clarke and Echo Conversation Was SO MUCH 2:09 – CLARKE/BELLAMY PARALLELS, PART 1: Striking a Deal with the Devil and Leaving Someone You Love Behind 2:16 – CLARKE/BELLAMY PARALLELS, PART 2: Learning Healthy Family Emotional Boundaries 2:24 – Please God Let Us Get a Better Princess Mechanic Reunion Next Week 2:26 – The McCreary Problem: Clarke, Diyoza and Kane Get Stuck in a Massive Plot Hole Playing a Three-Person Game of Idiot Ball 2:37 – Uhhhhhhh IDK Who That Dude Was Who Just Handed His People Over for McCreary to Massacre Them But It Was NOT Marcus Kane 2:50 – Everyone Keeps Interpreting Abby’s Advice in the Most Violent Way Possible 2:53 – Vinson As the Human Personification of Abby’s Addiction Is One of the Most Brilliant Twists in This Entire Season 3:03 – Claire Gets Personal About Vinson’s Refusal to Let Abby Go 3:11 – WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME BUT WE CAN’T NOT TALK ABOUT KABBY

Has anyone else had "Sword of Damocles" from Rocky Horror stuck in their heads ever since they announced the title of the finale? We derailed on Rocky Horror/The 100 crossover possibilities for five solid minutes before we even managed to start talking about the episode this week, and gave ourselves stomach aches from laughing in the process! P.S. We are 1000% serious about the "Time Warp" in Trigedasleng thing. If someone translates it, we will MAKE THAT HAPPEN at Unity Days 3 in January!

WELP, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO BET MONEY THAT IT WOULD BE CANNIBALISM YOU WIN AN EXTREMELY GRIM AND DEPRESSING EPISODE Jump in our Way-Back Machine and return with us to a simpler time, where we can revisit our old friends Kara Cooper, brighter indoor lighting, and Kane's good hair! Enjoy this brief flash of a more-or-less sane Octavia before everything falls to shit again and life is The Worst! Claire now bitterly regrets ever having uttered the words “hey wouldn’t it be dope if Abby and Octavia ever had a storyline together” I’M SORRY GUYS THIS ONE’S ON ME I PUT IT OUT IN THE UNIVERSE AND I CAN’T TAKE IT BACK NOW (. . . kudos to Propkru, though. We're never eating Jell-O again.) Meanwhile, in the future, Jason grants our wish to finally get all three Griffin ladies in the same room, though shit's pretty bleak over there too. There’s lots to love (Abby gets cured! Bellamy speaks Trig! Murphy gets a giant gun! Diyoza wants Kabby reunited as much as we do! Raven and Shaw kiss! Echo is in charge and it’s hot af!) and lots to furrow our brows at in mild puzzlement (if Clarke kills McCreary, aren’t all their problems basically over? Does Madi have Clarke’s consciousness in her head, meaning there are now effectively two Clarke minds in play?). Plus, Professor Erin does both “Robinson Crusoe” and “Paradise Lost”, Claire thinks everyone’s reading that final Kane/Diyoza scene wrong, and we have LOTS of thoughts about Wonkru cannibal ethics. All right, take a deep breath and let's dive in! Trust us, there's not enough vegetable broth in the WORLD to make this bleak and stomach-turning hour of television go down any easier. (Thank God at least Raven is happy.) ------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Maybe the REAL Cannibalism Was the Friends We Made Along the Way 0:16 – The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Blodreina’s Power Thrives on Food Scarcity and Fear 0:30 – Mt. Weather vs. the Bunker: Dehumanization, Complicity, and Bodies as Resources 0:43 – “Marcus Is the Key” – The Patient on the Operating Table Abby Has to Save Is All of Wonkru 0:51 – Would It Have Been Possible For Octavia to Pull a S1 Abby By Telling Everyone the Truth? 1:08 – Survival vs. Deserving to Survive: The Origin of the Kane vs. Octavia Rift 1:15 – “Omon Gon Oson” As Both Propaganda and Devotional Practice 1:22 – Kane, Octavia, and Individual Ethics vs. Subsuming Yourself Into the Collective 1:30 – We Need to Unpack Octavia’s Hypocrisy In Burning the Farm 1:34 – Professor Erin Does “Paradise Lost” 1:40 – Is Season 6 Octavia the New Season 4 Jaha? 1:45 – We Just Have Like . . . Infinity Jillion Flame Questions, Guys 2:27 – Are We Just Circling Back Over and Over to a World Order We Already Dismantled, and Rehashing the Same War? 2:46 – Everything Is Broken and We Want to See These Characters BUILD Something Because We Don’t Think We Can Handle Another Season That’s Just About Destroying Things 2:52 – The Trauma of Madi’s Nightblood Childhood 2:59 – We’re Running Out of Time But Here Are Our Spacekru Thoughts In One Minute 3:00 – CLAIRE THINKS YOU’RE ALL WRONG ABOUT THAT LAST SCENE, DAD KANE DID NOT DOUBLE-CROSS HIS CHILDREN 3:06 - Diyoza Reminds Both Kane and Us That Abby Is Not a Villain (Though We're Bummed She Got Overruled By Clarke About Having to Cure McCreary)

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! We are, again, unfortunately subjecting you to our unedited ramblings, as Erin is on her way out of town and Claire is at San Diego Comic-Con, so our schedules this weekend are a little crazy. Hooray, you get this week’s podcast a few days early! Boo, you have to listen to our unfiltered verbal chaos. But we have so much to scream about, starting with the fact that BILL CADOGAN KILLED BECCA PRAMHEDA OH MY GOD Y’ALL CAN WE SCREAM FOREVER ABOUT MONTY/BECCA, CADOGAN/OCTAVIA PARALLELS PLEASE AND THANK YOU But that wasn’t the only piece of delicious angst we were fed this week by the brilliant Benson sisters, oh no no my friends. Monty saves the day (for a minute), Madi goes rogue, Abby hits rock bottom, Indra is at peak Battle Mom, and there’s no coming back from this for the Blakes. Plus we finally find out why everyone’s so scared of Vinson, we’re beside ourselves with relief that nobody died in that pit (we were REAL worried about Gaia, fam), and we’re delighted that Abby, Clarke and Madi are all in the same room so we can really get this grimdark “Gilmore Girls” AU rolling. And director Henry Ian Cusick shows us he’s definitely got the goods, with fish-eye lenses and broken mirrors and Blake flashbacks and witch burnings and worm larvae and blood smears and a kick-ass fight sequence and SO MUCH FIRE! A LOT of shit went down, y’all, and we are most definitely NOT ready for “The Dark Year” next week. ---------------------------------- 0:00-0:52 – “The Flame Can Save Us All”: Cadogan Killed Becca, Madi Has a Head Full of Commanders, and Clarke Is Not Happy About Any of This Shit 0:52-1:23 – “I Know What It Feels Like to Need Something”: Ian Goes Behind the Camera and Shows Us Abby’s Perspective for the First Time, So We Finally Understand What It Feels Like to Be Her 1:23-2:02 – “First One Who Touches the Ground Loses”: Octavia Would Rather Burn the World to the Ground Than Let Go of Blodreina 2:02-2:51 – “Adam and Eve”: Monty and Harper Bring the Apples to Eden and Our Finale Endgame Predictions Begin to Take Shape

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! Our nightmare of biweekly hiatuses has come to an end and now we’re on a runaway train speeding downhill towards the finale, and BOY OH BOY are we excited. How are you guys holding up? Is everyone breathing? Eating? Getting enough sleep? Are we all stressed as fuck about how Abby’s only remaining friend is a serial killer, what the fuck went down during the Dark Year that turned Miller into a Blodreina zealot, how long it’s gonna be before Madi blows up at Clarke for her new “shoot first, ask questions later” parenting style, and whether there’s any chance in hell all three of those characters will somehow magically make it out of the fighting pit alive? Yeah, us too. In the meantime, though, Miranda Kwok hits it out of the park with a stunning hour of television where ALLLLLLLLL the shit that’s been simmering for the past eight episodes (or the past six years) (or the past five seasons) finally starts to explode all over the place, and the show continues to keep character and relationship at the heart of the plot. COME SCREAM WITH US ABOUT THIS EPIC SHIT --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – “Thus Always to Tyrants” Is Perhaps the Most Apt Title of the Season 0:05 – Yo, For Real, What Went Down During the Dark Year That Turned Miller and Niylah Into Creepy True Believers 0:16 – Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Part I: Clarke, Bellamy, Madi, the Flame, and a Perfectly-Realized Example of the Show’s “Both Sides Are Right, Both Sides Are Wrong” Dynamic 0:26 – Both Clarke and Bellamy Have Plans That Only Work If You Handwave Away Like Half a Dozen Major Problems 0:41 – Claire Gets Emotional About Lexa and Luna’s Moms, and the Psychological Trauma the Commander Cult Forces Onto Children 0:53 – Bellamy’s Delusion That Removing Leadership From Octavia’s Shoulders Will Bring Octavia Back 0:56 – If You’re Wondering Why the Plot Crescendos In Season 5 Land So Much Better Than They Did In Season 4, It’s Because Literally Every Single One Is Rooted in Relationships 1:05 – Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Part II: That Awkward Sense of Clarke and Bellamy Being in Stasis This Season Was 100% Deliberate 1:14 – That Madi/Gaia/Bellamy Scene: Let’s Unpack the Consent and Choice and Power and Coercion Issues Going On Here 1:19 – The Flame Has Lots of Story Possibilities as a Piece of Becca’s Technology (and a Way for Madi to Help Build a New Society) 1:32 – CONGRATULATIONS TO EMMY NOMINEE ADINA PORTER FOR ABSOLUTELY SLAYING THIS EPISODE 1:40 – Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Part III: Indra and Gaia Can No Longer Put Off Reckoning with the Monster They Created 1:48 – The Myth of Wonkru’s Unity Turns Out to Be a Beautiful Narrative Bait-and-Switch 1:52 – A Brief Digression to Just Yell About How Great This Season Is 1:57 – In Which the Show Takes a Second Run at the “I’m Gonna Chain You in a Boiler Room While I Endanger One of Your Family Members” Plot From 411, and This Time Sticks the Landing 2:00 – SPILL THE BEANS, MIRANDA, WHICH ONE OF YOU LIFTED THE ROCK-THROWING SCENE FROM CLAIRE’S BOOK 2:06 –Murphy Finally Finds a Crisis That Can Only Be Solved by Murphying, and Then Stays Behind to Save Abby From the Consequences of Said Murphying 0:16 – Echo Has the Biggest Spy Crush on Diyoza, Like GIRL SAME 2:20 – Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Part IV – HOLY MOTHERFORKING SHIRTBALLS, THAT MCCREARY/DIYOZA FIGHT SCENE 2:29 – Erin Does Not Like Abby’s Hair But Claire LOOOOOVES Her Outfit 2:32 – Shallow Valley Is Fighting a Civil War Over Who Gets Custody of Abby Griffin and Claire Is Back On Board With Her Storyline Again

Et Tu, Bro-té????? Welcome to our episode recap of “How We Get to Peace,” an episode that was far superior to its weirdly clunky title. But HOLY WORM EXPLOSIONS, BATMAN, what a ride! Apologies in advance that this one’s going up mostly unedited, because it was another weird schedule week, but we didn’t want to make you wait any longer for the chance to come flail with us about all the CRAZY SHIT THAT WENT DOWN. Kara Cooper gets the John-Hurt-in-“Alien” treatment, times a billion! McCreary is back to fuck shit up! Indra gets demoted! Kane is a godfather now! Echo and Raven are friends again! Emori is done being jerked around! Monty and Harper are PEACING OUT (literally)! Abby solves the medical mystery! Bellamy says “mama bear” out loud! Miller is kind of a dick! Vinson is kind of a bro! WORMS ARE EVERYWHERE! Teenage Diyoza used to make out under the bleachers! And Octavia finally gets outplayed at her own game when Big Brother does the one thing we all believed he’d never, ever do! EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO MUCH 0:00 – Marcus Kane and Charmaine Diyoza: In Which Diyoza Sees Herself Through Kane’s Eyes and Doesn’t Like It Much, Kane Shows Us a Glimpse of an Idyllic Future Jason Will Almost Certainly Ruin For Us, and the Writers Room Has Absolutely Been Reading Kabby Baby Fanfic 0:32 – Monty Green and Kara Cooper: In Which the Fertile Valley Means Life, the Barren Farm Means Death, Monty’s Algae Might Save Everyone, and Erin Gets Excited About the Georgics 1:03 – Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake: In Which the Ends Turn Out Not to Justify the Means, Octavia Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Bellamy Hits His Breaking Point, There’s Still (Mercifully) No Sign of Love Triangle Stupidity, and Erin Has ALLLLLLLLL the Shippy Flails 1:44 – The Blakes: In Which Bellamy Won’t Swear Allegiance to Blodreina, Octavia Never Sees the Double-Cross Coming, the Childhood Nostalgia Breaks Our Hearts, and We Have No Idea What Happens to Their Relationship Next 2:08 – Emori, John Murphy, and “Graveyard” McCreary: In Which the Agent of Chaos Returns to Ruin Everything, Our Girl Finally Lays Down Some Healthy Emotional Boundaries, and Nobody Actually Wants War Except McCreary and Octavia 2:21 – Abby Griffin and Raven Reyes: In Which Our Doctor Mechanic Hearts Take the Biggest Hit of Their Lives, The Show Remembers Everyone’s Pre-Pilot Backstory, Lindsey and Paige Deserve Emmys, and Claire Would Like to Have Some Words About Framing Abby’s Addiction As a Story That’s Mostly About Everybody Else

First things first: Meta Station is raising money for RAICES Texas to help reunite and free immigrant detainee families! We started with a goal of raising $2500, which we BLEW OUT OF THE WATER in less than 24 hour thanks to the enormous generosity of Lola Flanery (Madi), Marie Avgeropoulos (Octavia), and 49 other amazing fans, so now we are just going to see how much money we can raise between now and August 7, when the season finale airs! You can donate to our fundraiser here: https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/meta-station-supports-refugee-kids/ Or, if you're outside North America, you can donate directly to RAICES here: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2086450 If you donate to RAICES directly and still want to be included in our fundraiser, you can DM us a screencap of your donation receipt (here or on Twitter or Tumblr). Crowdrise accepts offline donations, so we can still add you to our total and send you lots of love! ----------- We had LOOOOOOTS to say about this episode!! (*laughs nervously and looks an runtime*) Jasper and Monty! Clarke and Monty! Octavia and Indra! Kara Cooper going full-on war criminal! Blodreina using everyone else's hypocrisy to excuse her own amoral strategic choices! Kabby and Recho breaking ALL our hearts! SHAW AND DIYOZA BACKSTORY THAT WE WOULD TOTALLY WATCH AN ENTIRE TV SHOW EXPLORE SAY HOW'S THAT PREQUEL COMING JASON ROTHENBERG?!?! This was a fun one, fam! 3:00 - Make It Mean Something: Jasper, Monty, & The Letter (TW: lots of suicide mentions) 21:00 - How Jasper Breaks the Cycle of War 28:00 - Jonty and the Struggle to See Outside the Cycle 34:00 - Madi Kom Clarkekru, the One True Breaker of Cycles? 46:00 - Could Madi Save Octavia from Blodreina? 50:30 - Bellamy, Clarke, Blodreina, and Interrogating "I Do It For 'My People'" 54:30 - The Return of Heart Over Head Bellamy (Your Plans Suck, But We Still Love You) 1:00 - Power Vs Powerlessness and Inevitability Vs Choice 1:04 - Ecosystems Are Another Cycle Being Broken, Which Is...Probably Not Great? 1:07 - Chekhov's Algae: Is Monty the Key to Salvation This Season? 1:16:30 - "Let's talk about WOOORMMMSSS!" Claire Sings Through Her Nausea (But We Quickly Segue to Octavia and Indra Because Ewwwww Worms) 1:30 - The Myth of Skairipa Vs. the Myth of Blodreina: Pluralism Vs. Totalitarianism 1:37:15 - RAVEN AND ECHO ARE FRANDS ...Until They're Not And Our Hearts Get BROKEN 1:52 - We Are LIVING for This Shaw and Diyoza Backstory 2:01 - Speculation-palooza: The Many Exciting Ways the Show Could Shuffle the Decks, Loyalty-Wise 2:10:30 - STOP! Kabby Time! 2:40 - Baby, You're a Game Changer

Starved for Kabby content since there’s no new episode tonight? WE GOT U, FAM! After many delays caused by travel, book deadlines, and the sheer nonstop vexation of attempting to edit out the background noise caused by recording in a Los Angeles Airbnb with woefully thin walls, THE KABBY ROUNDTABLE PODCAST IS FINALLY HERE! Claire is joined by returning Meta Station guests Brittany of The Afictionados (@brittania_, @theafictionados) and Samantha of TellTaleTV (@samcaseys, @TellTaleTV_) along with new guests Jenn (@abigriffins) and Emily (@ifollowedfires) for three hours of everything from plot analysis to high-pitched squee-flailing on every aspect of the glorious wonderfulness of Season 5 Kabby. We’ll get real about Abby’s addiction storyline, spin some conspiracy theories about weddings and babies, roast each other lovingly on the pronunciation of “Eligius,” and painstakingly catalog every Kabby hug, kiss and touch to unpack our emotions about it. COME JOIN US P.S. if you missed the Bellarke roundtable, hosted by Erin, check out the link here! https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/special-bellarke-roundtable-with-special-guests

Hey look! Our 506 pod is here for you on a THURSDAY!! That's because Erin is going to visit Claire tomorrow and Claire is on a work deadline, and therefore we had almost no time to edit, so--apologies in advance for all the ums and likes and that one time when Erin's dog experiences VERY LOUD bronchial distress causing Claire to completely forget what she was talking about. Grab up as much Swiss chard and apples as your arms can carry, because Blodreina is coming for your veggies! 0:00 - This Is EditKru Appreciation Week, Because Now You All Get To Hear What We Sound Like Without Them! 3:40 - Diyoza and McCreary and Kane, Oh My! 9:00 - Echo, Raven, and Shaw: Friends or Foes to Kane? 16:00 - This Is a War Over Power Masquerading As a War Over Resources 23:00 - This Episode Shuffles ALLLLLL the Decks When It Comes to Characters' Presumed Loyalies, and WE LOVE IT 27:30 - Et Tu, Niylah?? 31:30 - HOW MANY TIMES IN ONE EPISODE CAN OUR HEARTS BREAK FOR CLARKE GRIFFIN 34:30 - Clarke and Bellamy Run Smack Into Their Differing Priorities 42:00 - Octavia Blake: The Only Character Still Fighting for an Abstraction 46:00 - Gaia Has Been Carrying A Torch for The Old Ways (Ba-Dum-Tiss) 53:30 - WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH MADI, BLODREINA (and Gaia and Cooper) 1:00 - Is There a Way to Bring Octavia Back from "Blodreina"? 1:10 - We Love This New Healthy-Emotional-Boundaries Bellamy SO FREAKIN MUCH and We Are SO PROUD OF HIM 1:27 - Listen, "We've All Done Things We Shouldn't Be Forgiven For But Are" Is a HUUUUUUGE Character-Revealing Moment for Bellamy 1:40 - Soft Bearded Space Dad Bellamy Is the Same Badass Will-Do-Anything-For-His-Family Bellamy We Have Always Known & Loved 1:48 - Bellamy and Clarke Have Different Centers of Emotional Gravity Now, and Everyone Feels Weird About It 1:51:30 - A Brief Interlude for Canine Bronchial Distress 1:52:30 - Annnndddd Back to Business 1:57 - Bellamy Blake: Macrame Enthusiast 1:59 - You're Making It Real Hard for Us to Root For Memori, John 2:08 - Murphy, McCreary, and Murphy's Dark Night of the Soul? 2:12 - ECHO IS A SMART, SAVVY, SELFLESS BAMF AND WE LOVE HER WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, DON'T @ US (no, seriously, please don't @ us) 2:20:30 - Roan Is a Centaur Now 2:23:30 - Becho and Madi Anchor the Emotional Stakes of the Political Plot 2:28:45 - On Shipping, (Not) Multishipping, and Managing Emotions

Claire and Erin sat down for an interview with the wise, lovely and hilarious Luisa D'Oliveira and fell immediately and irrevocably in love with her. Join us for a conversation about artistic bravery, how science fiction helps us understand our humanity, the relationship between Emori and John Murphy, her experience playing a chipped version of herself, and how she keeps herself centered in an industry that's so full of constant negative feedback. We want her to be our new 4 a.m. phone call best friend, and after this interview, you will too.

A sneak preview of the Kabby roundtable podcast going up this week! After we'd wrapped up and said our goodbyes, we ended up spending another fifteen minutes just exploding with emotions about how much we love Paige, including the importance of strength through vulnerability, what she means to us as women, why it matters that TV shows invest in complex roles for actresses over 50, and how the Kabby fandom brought us all together. Come feel feelings with us! P.S. Erin's not here, but Claire is joined by four special guests - Sam, Brittany, Emily and Jenn! You'll meet them properly when the full podcast is released, but for now, please enjoy the post-credits scene that's basically just seventeen minutes of us crying about how much we love women.

Welcome back to Meta Station for our recap of an amazing episode which is simultaneously a heartfelt emotional drama (Indra saying “I love you!” Kane taking care of Abby! Miller and Jackson kissing! Clarke and Bellamy fireside-bonding again!) and a FUCKING HORROR MOVIE (demon sandworms erupting from stomachs! Eligius IV’s very own Hannibal Lecter! Shock collars for everyone!) Also we’re solidly #TeamIndra over #TeamCooper, we want a whole webisode spinoff of just Madi roadtripping with the Spacekru girls, Erin thinks Blodreina would be a very bad penguin, we’re gonna be super real with you and let you know that Clarke and Bellamy definitely ate people, Raven/Shaw is everyone’s new OTP, the Lincoln parallels are EVERYWHERE, we’re more than a little worried about the looming possibility of an Ethan/Madi murderbaby conclave, Bellamy is Octavia’s Fredo, and “Don’t Do Drugs or You’ll End Up Getting Blackmailed By Serial Killers” is a WAY more effective anti-drug slogan than anything we learned in school. OMON GON OSON! ------------------------------------------ 0:00 – Hello and Welcome, Let’s Recap All Our Wild Theories That Have Already Been Proved Wrong This Season, and Discuss Our Remaining Ones 0:07 – Niylah kom Wonkru, Human Butcher? 0:11 – Shit Went Down In That Bunker and Miller and Jackson Do NOT Want to Talk to Clarke About It 0:15 – “We Could Have Used You in the Bunker” Presupposes that the Bunker Wouldn’t Have Fucked Up Clarke as Much as It Did Everyone Else 0:17 – Clarke as the New Lincoln 0:22 – Bring Us ALLLLLLLLLLL the Indra vs Cooper Palace Intrigue, Please and Thank You 0:28 – The Great and Terrible Beauty of “All of Me For All of Us” 0:40 – Octavia, Indra, Bellamy, Niylah, and “Love Is Weakness” 0:49 – Gaia, Nightblood Novitiates, and Blodreina’s Succession Plan 0:58 – Madi, #1 Skairipa Stan, Is Unlikely to Fangirl Quite So Hard Over Blodreina 1:01 – Biblical Plagues, Biological Warfare, and Mother/Daughter Mad Scientists: TIME FOR SOME SANDWORM DISCOURSE!!! 1:10 – Clarke and Bellamy Getting to Know Each Other Again 1:20 – Heads and Hearts and Reversals Thereof 1:28 – Okay So Like . . . This Is For SURE a Love Triangle 1:31 – Give Echo a Great Arc This Season That Doesn’t Screw Her Over in the Aforementioned Love Triangle, Please and Thank You 1:39 – Madi and the Road Trip Adventure Squad Was Everything We Never Knew We Wanted 1:43 – Octavia’s “Love Is Weakness” Delusion Is Not Borne Out By Fact 1:48 – Shaw and Raven, Our New OTP 1:50 – The Sinister Magnetism of Paxton McCreary 1:53 – We Love Charmaine Diyoza With Our Entire Hearts 1:59 – Diyoza’s Achilles Heel May Be Underestimating Shaw and Raven 2:06 – Kabby Fans, Please Ease Your Minds, Kane and Abby Are Not Going to Bang Diyoza or McCreary Except In All the Amazing Fanfic We’re Going to Be Getting This Season 2:10 – Abby the Addict vs. Abby the Scientist 2:18 – It’s So Important That the Addiction Storyline Is Also Being Fair to the Emotional Impact on Kane 2:24 – Mr. Abby Griffin Gets His Political Mojo Back and Then Is Immediately Humbled By Tequila and His Failure to Put a Ring On It, In Our New Favorite Kane Scene of the Entire Series 2:31 – Always Take the Second Shot, Diyoza

Join Erin for a special bonus podcast of flailing over the OTT Bellarke-ness of 503 and 504 with special guests Chash (@chashlet/ponyregrets), Brittany (@bgonemydear), Elizabeth (@leavemearoan/hawthornewhisperer), and Crystal (@wordyblerd)! We talk hugs, mugs, Madi, and--because this IS Meta Station--the nature and challenges of noncanon shipping, the trouble with triangles, and what Roan and Jaha must be talking about in the afterlife!

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! We picked up this week with all the Raven and Murphy we didn’t get to last time (with bonus soccer and Murphy being an unexpectedly solid bro), and spent a great deal of time falling head over heels for Lieutenant Zeke Shaw (stop trying to make “Miles” happen, show) as he, in turn, fell head over heels for that pain-in-the-ass computer genius thwarting his every plan. We’re also beside ourselves with glee at all the weird mysterious backstory hints we’re getting, from Order Eleven to the missing Eligius 3, and watching with great excitement as the trio of Diyoza/Shaw/McCreary gets more and more messy with every passing day. True to our brand, we spent nearly an hour and a half on Marcus Kane and his relationships with the women at the heart of this episode – Octavia, Abby and Indra – and the way his very existence threatens the entire social and religious structure of Wonkru. (Does Octavia know she’s literally his new Pike? And HOLY SHIT FAM, has he EVER been more relieved to see Bellamy?????) As a wee preview of our upcoming OTP roundtables, we also each gave ourselves a segment to just explode with feelings about our ships: Erin is HYPED that Clarke and Bellamy each have their partner back, while Claire is stoked as hell that Kane and Abby appear to be headed for a season-long arc where they aren’t separated, and we both lost our shit at both the Bravenlarke reunion, and how beautifully the show is nailing Abby’s addiction storyline so far. Plus bonus Blake feels, and fun with Pandora’s Boxes! HOLY SHIT THIS EPISODE WAS GOOD ---------- 0:02 - Murphy and Raven and Useful Uselessness 0:16 - Clarke Is Alive, and the Weight of the World Is Off Raven's Shoulders 0:20 - Clarke Means So Much to So Many, and We Are EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT 0:25 - Season 5 Is Balancing Character with Plot FLAWLESSLY and It Is GLORIOUS 0:32 - We Reject This "Miles" Nonsense 0:35 - Zeke Vs. Raven Was a SHEER DELIGHT 0:43 - Who Changed the Launch Code: Raven or Zeke? 0:47 - Miles Ezekiel Shaw: Already a Double Agent? 0:50 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Raven Edition 0:54 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Eligius Backstory Edition 0:58 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Erin's Grand Unified Shanghaiing Theory of Second Dawn and Order 11 1:06 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: "Cure" for What?!?!?! That Creepy Stomach Shit?!?! 1:11 - Diyoza/Clarke Parallels *AIR HORN* 1:17 – McCreary on One Side, Indra On the Other: Fracturing in the Ranks 1:22 – Kane In the Fighting Pit: Myth, Memory, and the Fragility of Blodreina” 1:31 – Octavia Is Not Exactly 100% Pleased to Be Out of the Bunker 1:35 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 1: Mothers and Memories 1:40 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 2: Marcus the Dangerous Revolutionary 1:47 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 3: Forcing Wonkru to Look at Themselves 1:55 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 4: Rewriting His Own Narrative to Become a Better Man 1:59 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 5: Forcing Blodreina to Remember Who Octavia Was 2:04 – Bellamy Is NOT Feeling This Whole Metamorphosis Biz 2:16 – If You Didn’t Cry at That Kabby Scene, You’re DEAD INSIDE 2:25 – The Agony of Loving Someone With an Addiction 2:28 – The Last Thing Out of Pandora’s Box Is Abby Griffin 2:39 – Kane and Abby Are the Last Survivors of Their Entire Generation 2:43 – A Bellarke Reunion Scene Uninterrupted by Some Kind of Immediate Crisis? IS IT CHRISTMAS 2:48 – BRAVENLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKE 2:53 – Other Potential Pandora’s Boxes

What House is Monty? Who would be the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? Which character does Erin think is the Filch of the Ark? Join us as two Ravenclaws and a Hufflepuff discuss our Hogwarts/Spacekru headcanons.

A pair of brief outtakes to illustrate that A) we are literally twelve years old, and B) it's really all William Miller's fault.

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station, where the takes are HOT and the zombie supersoldiers are COLD, and the jokes are weird because we’re both on book deadlines and slowly losing our minds. Erin unfortunately cannot be with us today, as she is dead, on account of what a motherfucking drama queen Bellamy Blake was when he strode dramatically into the spotlight holding his dad mug aloft to rescue Clarke from death at the hands of Claire’s new MILF crush Diyoza. But prior to her untimely demise from FEELS ATTACKS we had tons of shit to say about everything from the increasingly chilling Season 1 Grounder parallels (somewhere in the afterlife, Anya is genuinely touched that Clarke was paying such close attention), to Zeke Shaw as the show’s second and FAR more successful attempt at the Finn Collins character template, to what in the wide wide world of sports “don’t let Diyoza weaponize the cargo” could mean, to how hard Emori is winning this breakup. Our first two fairly modest nitpicks of the season came into play this week – we’re not wild about the narrative failing to pick a lane with Becho, and Claire would like to see Harper with a little more plot agency – but everything else is still so fantastic that we’re perfectly willing to give those cakes a little more time in the oven and we still have faith they’ll be satisfying in the end. For those of you who like it when we get existential, we spent about twenty minutes talking about religion; for those of you who like it when we’re complete garbage, stand by later this week for an outtake where we lose our shit over William Miller tweeting at Claire that he refers to that gun as “the strap-on.” Okay team, let’s do this thing. ACTIVATE KODIAK! --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hello and Welcome, ERIN IS LOOPY AS HELL 0:02 – We Already Love the Structure of This Season 0:07 – Grounder!Clarke Takes Us Back to Season One While Reminding Us Why the Term “Mama Bear” Is Not Always a Cute Compliment 0:19 – Jesus H. Christ We’re Gay for Diyoza 0:24 – Introducing Paxton “Graveyard” McCreary, Actual Worst Person on This Show 0:33 – R.I.P. Detroit 0:39 – McCreary vs. Shaw: Chaotic Evil vs. Neutral Good 0:44 – So They DID Solve a Problem Like Finn Collins 0:46 – It’s Ben Franklin with the Key and the Kite (You See It, Right?) 0:50 – “Two Suns, No Sunscreen”: Our Nightblood Eligius Theories Just Took a Sharp Right Turn 0:55 – Hytholodium, Raven, and Order Eleven: Is Kodiak an ALIE-Chipped Super Soldier? 1:03 – “First We Pray”: Diyoza, Gaia, the Bible, and a Lengthy Digression on Religion as Story 1:22 – Abby and McCreary: Lots of Plot Options, None of Them Good 1:27 – Emori Is Really Winning This Breakup 1:35 – When Does Harper Get to Do Something That Isn’t Just Motivating Another Character’s Plot? 1:41 – In Which We Side-Eye the Noteworthy Absence of Becho In This Episode, and Hope the Show Did Not Destroy Tasya’s Twitter Mentions in Exchange for One Kiss and Nothing Else 1:54 – “Murder, Murder, Murder . . .”: GOD THE BRAVEN IN THIS EPISODE WAS LIIIIIIIIIIT 1:58 – Saginaw, Grandpappy Blake and Arthur C. Clarke: Characters Who Know Pre-Praimfaya Earth As a Myth Finally Meet People Who Lived It 2:05 – Sorry, HOW Many People Does Bellamy Have to Decide Whether or Not to Kill, Again? 2:10 – This Episode Was a Masterclass in Dramatic Irony 2:14 – This Bellamy/Madi Team-Up Gives Us LIFE 2:29 – “She Is” 2:41 – We Feel Bad That We Didn’t Get to Talk More About Raven But We’ll Save It For Next Time

Take a journey with us and imagine Bellamy Blake blasting open the bunker doors with McCreary's air cannon only to find his dad in a MURDER PIT while his sister just CHILLAXES ON HER SKULL THRONE 'cause it's just another day in Blodreinaville.

To tide you over until Murphy returns to your screens tomorrow, here's an outtake from our delightful interview with Richard Harmon, where we put him through the same exercise we gave Sachin with "Back to the Future": recasting his favorite movie using characters from "The 100."

Hello and welcome back to a much grimmer and bloodier Meta Station than the one we all enjoyed last week! Claire and Erin and joined by our friend Crystal (@wordyblerd on Twitter), a freelance writer/TV critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds, to scream at the top of our lungs about “The Red Queen,” which shot straight to the top of our all-time series fave lists, for a whole host of reasons: from the small (Miller sparring! Niylah sass! Ovid references! Ark backstory! THE CHANCE TO YELL ABOUT BILL CADOGAN AGAIN!) to the huge (Octavia gets her best episode yet, but R.I.P. Thelonious Jaha, listen to our whole conversation about his storyline here – https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/take-me-to-wells-yu-gonplei-ste-odon-thelonious-jaha). Along the way, we get the origin story of Blodreina and her scary murder pits, Gaia becomes perhaps the most terrifyingly powerful person in the bunker while Indra starts to have second thoughts, Mackson is everything and we’re emotional about it, we get a new morally gray lady to fall in love with, neither of us can quite pronounce “metamorphoses,” and Kane and Abby face the dark side of every life-or-death decision they’ve ever made (though they do it while handcuffed together and gazing lovingly at each other, because Jason Rothenberg has ABSOLUTELY been reading Claire’s fanfic). Anyway remember last week when Clarke’s new home was colorful and pretty and had ribbons and fruit and decorations and a cute lil’ family YEAH WELL WE’RE NOT IN SHALLOW VALLEY ANYMORE, TIME FOR BLODREINA TO FUCK UP SOME HARDCORE SHIT, SLAP SOME RED PAINT ON YOUR FOREHEAD AND LET’S GO DOWN TO THE MURDER PITS WHERE ALL THE FUN IS HAPPENING AND LET'S DO THIS THING _________________________________________ 0:00 – Hello and Welcome to Our Special Guest, Crystal! 0:01 – From the Ashes of the Show's Many Octaviae, Rises Blodreina 0:07 – The Indra-Miller-Octavia Family Unit Is a Gift We Didn't Know We Needed 0:23 – NIYAVIA RISING: It’s So Nice That Octavia Has a Friend, But Also, We Ship It With Our Entire Hearts 0:26 – Metamorphosesisizeses 0:35 – Power Dynamics, the Mythology of “Blodreina”, and Indra’s Journey 0:38 – CADOGAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN 0:42 – Life Is Death Is Creation Is Destruction: Jaha and Gaia's Ultimate Insight 0:50 – We Love Bunker Power Player Gaia and Are Also TERRIFIED OF HER 1:02 – Blodreina Is the Culmination of Every Facet of Octavia's History 1:08 – Hoo Boy It Is Time For Kane and Abby to Clear the Air, and We’re Here For the Angsty Reckoning 1:18 – Kabby, Mackson, Madi: Love as a Force in How People Make Decisions 1:25 – Kara Brings All Kane and Abby’s Chickens Home to Roost 1:37 – We Stan Kara Cooper, Reluctant Rebel 1:48 – Pike, Kara, and Farm Station: The Ethics and Politics of Subsistence 1:52 – The First Rule of Octavia’s Fight Club Is WE AREN’T SURE TBH WE STILL HAVE A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS 1:57 – Indra, You Have Created a Monster 2:05 – Eligius! Cannibalism! Madi! It’s Time For Our Favorite Pastime, Wild Flailing Season Speculation!

Our full recap of the amazing episode 5x02, "The Red Queen," will go up later tonight, with special guest Crystal (@wordyblerd), our delightful Twitter friend and freelance writer/critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds. In the meantime, to pay homage to the loss of one of the show's original core regulars, here's our emotional sendoff to the sometimes-loved, sometimes-hated Chancellor who finally brought his people to Earth. May we meet again.

We’re back, bitches! And so is everything that made this show great. HOO BOY WHAT A SEASON PREMIERE! Mom feels! Road trips! Jasper closure! Clarke as a video game character, wandering through post-apocalyptic wastelands and collecting emotionally-loaded power-up items! Bugs for lunch! Pinterest-worthy outdoor decorating schemes! A smol with a bear trap! Echo/Monty parallels! The mythology of Octavia Blake! Increasingly desperate collect calls to space, waiting for Bellamy to answer his fucking phone! Good earth cleavage! An unexpected opportunity to cry over “An American Tail!” A line Erin laughed so hard at that she sliced it out to make it her ringtone! TWENTY-SEVEN FULL MINUTES CARRIED SOLO ON ELIZA TAYLOR’S TINY AUSTRALIAN SHOULDERS WITH NO SCENE PARTNER EXCEPT A BIRD Come along on this journey with us, friends, we’ll even let you call shotgun. ________________________ 0:00 - We’re Back, Bitches! And So Is the Show We First Fell In Love With 0:04 - We Fully Could Have Watched Another Forty Minutes of Just Clarke 0:14 - Sticks, Rocks and Goggles: Clarke Collects Quest Items to Help Her Survive 0:20 - MOM FEELS MOM FEELS MOM FEELS 0:23 - The Crumbling of Polis, In More Ways Than One 0:29 - Heroes and Monsters: Madi’s Fairy-Tale Lens on the World 0:35 - The Wreckage of Arkadia Fucked Us RIGHT the Fuck Up 0:37 - The Jasper Moment Our Hearts Needed 0:43 - Clarke’s Drawings, Maya’s iPod, and the Beauty of Shallow Valley: Creativity Is What Makes Us Human and Keeps Our Memories Alive 1:05 - The Pitfalls of Mythologizing the People We’ve Lost 1:09 - Interrogating the Stories Clarke Tells Herself About Herself 1:17 - “They Had Their Reasons Too,” and Clarke’s Picture of Her New Self, Go Right Out the Window When Madi’s In Danger 1:25 - Brief Sidebar to Yell About Bible Imagery Because #Brand 1:30 - “Say Five Nice Things About Yourself” vs. “Fight to the Death in This Terrifying Murder Pit”: Boy the Blakes’ Discipline Techniques Sure Are Different Aren’t They 1:32 - Murphy, Clarke, Adaptability, and the Impermanence of Change 1:36 - Space!Emori Is Already One of the Greatest Gifts of Season 5 1:44 - In Which Murphy Is a Cat 1:49 Soft Bearded Space Dad Bellamy Is Our Everything, Even Though He CLEARLY Has One Foot Out the Door 1:52 - Obligatory “Somewhere Out There” Reference Because We Are Children of the 90’s 1:54 - RAVEN IS DOING HER GODDAMN BEST DON’T @ HER 1:57 - Bellamy Is Mythologizing His Sister in Absentia While Echo Can See Her Pretty Clearly 2:06 - “What Are We Now?”: Becho, Marper, and Situational Identity 2:19 - Please Oh Please Give Echo a Real Arc So She’s More Than Just a Love Interest 2:27 - Becho Together, Memori Apart: Setting Up a New Status Quo So It Can Be Disrupted 2:34 - Patience Is a Virtue, in Narrative As in Life 2:39 - ENTER ELIGIUS, and Our New True Love Charmaine Diyoza 2:44:15 - The Most Iconic Line in Meta Station History

THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL. Er--or maybe it always was! Anyway, Sachin is back for Part 2 of the Anniversary Clairin Interview! This time we're doing the Claire-only and Erin-only questions, so get pumped for lots more talk about CLAIRE'S AMAZING TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL THE REWIND FILES (go buy it right now, it's on Amazon, there won't be a test but there WILL be a podcast about it with Sachin eventually), what Erin and Claire's patronuses are, and how Erin and Sachin REALLY feel about Finn and Riley. Plus: what did Erin say to make Sachin threaten to hang up on her?? And the wild but true story of Claire's first viewing of The Kabby Kiss! Pictured: Erin and Claire on Erin's wedding day. Awwwww.

It's our second podcast anniversary! We're so grateful to all of you coming along on this journey with us over the past two years, we love each and every one of you so much! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided it was time for y'all to get to know us a little better, so we opened it up on Twitter for fans to send in questions to ask us...and then we asked Sachin Sahel, AKA The 100's own Eric Jackson, to be our special guest interview! He agreed, because he's the best. Join us on a freewheeling two-and-a-half-hour journey through Ark headcanons, embarrassing celebrity encounter stories, the nature of humanity, weirdest childhood crushes, the Clairin origin story, a LENGTHY digression into our "The 100"/"America's Next Top Model" crossover AU, the history of the science fiction novel and the mechanics of time travel, and SO much more.

The endlessly delightful Richard Harmon joins us on Meta Station this week to talk about growing up in a family of artists, the creative freedom of no-fucks-given auditioning, Murphy's flexible morality, the cathartic nature of portraying dark characters, and Murphy's relationships with Bellamy, Clarke, Emori, Abby and others going into season 5. ALIE gave it her best effort to shut down the entire interview via endless technical difficulties (which is why you'll hear Claire disappear altogether for a few minutes in the middle) but an evil A.I. is no match for the charm of a Harmon who once bought Claire and Erin shots of Jameson, and ultimately we prevailed. (Don't worry, the glitches have been edited out.)

We are back with the most extra trailer analysis ever! Literally one hour of talking per one minute of trailer, you guys. Almost three seconds of talking per each of the 5,000+ frames WHICH CLAIRE AND SELINA SCRUTINIZED ONE BY ONE. NOT A SINGLE STONE UNTURNED, THEN DISSOLVED INTO ITS COMPONENT MOLECULES FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS. PLUS! Erin is convinced Kane is getting a new profession, Claire is convinced Abby is up to something with Eligius and nightblood, and Selina is convinced that Clarke's loose lips summoned the Eligius ship! 3:00 - That One Time When Jason Showed Claire and Erin the Trailer Two Months Early 7:00 - Ever Noticed How Clarke Starts Every Odd-Numbered Season Completely Alone? 11:00 - Clarke's Drawings and the Importance of Artistic Expression 22:00 - *BELLARKE KLAXONS* 34:00 - Did Eligius Hear Clarke's Radio Transmissions??? 40:00 - WE WOULD ALREADY LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR MADI 48:00 - Enter Eligius *heavy metal plays in background* 1:22:00 - Erin Cracked Kane's Bunker Storyline, Everyone Can Go Home 2:00:00 - Abby, Eligius, and the Potential Return of the Medical Ethics Theme? 2:04:00 - KABBY BABY THEORY LIVES, but in a New Way That Claire Would Rather Forget 2:15:00 - What the Hell Is in That Dude's Stomach, Y'all 2:22:00 - ZAVEN RIZEZ 2:36:00 - *KABBY KLAXONS* 2:51:00 - The Blakes Aren't Gonna Fight to the Death, but That's About All We Know 3:07:00 - S5's #1 Cinematic Influence: Lilo & Stitch 3:08:00 - #HugsAnd(no)Death(in that montage anyway) 3:23:00 - Memori Problems 3:26:30 - What Does Octavia Want With/From Madi???? 3:42:30 - Selina Drops an F-Bomb

HAPPY TRAILER DAY, EVERYONE!! Now that the S5 trailer has dropped (AAATTTT LAAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTT dot mp3), we can share this snippet of trailer chat from our interview with Jason! Featuring the origins of #HugsAndDeath, a special shoutout to Sachin Sahel aka Jackson, and the hug that got left on the cutting room floor!

Since Jason had to miss his panel at Unity Days this year due to production conflicts, Erin and Claire decided it would be fun to open up Meta Station for a virtual fan Q&A...and Jason agreed! Over the course of our three-hour conversation (#ThatsSoMetaStation), we answer 15 fan questions about everything from what we can look forward to in season 5 to what Henry Ian Cusick is like BEHIND the camera, and everything in between--including TONS of awesome behind-the-scenes insights and tidbits!

Welcome back to Meta Station! It's been two months since we posted 111, for which we profoundly apologize; family, travel, work, book deadlines and general life stuff got in the way, and we meant to record at least one episode while we were together (Claire went to go visit Erin in November) but instead we just drank a lot of wine and cuddled with the dog and watched "Burlesque." WE STAND BY THESE LIFE CHOICES Anyway, we've finally hit the S1 finale and HOO BOY it's a ride, fam! Up on the Ark, Batshit Jaha is rising, Kane and Abby are nonstop badasses, Jackson is at Peak Cinnamon Roll, Wells and Jake save the day one last time, and SINCLAIR JUST WANTS TO GO HOME. Down on the ground, Bellamy deserves snuggles but instead receives only struggles, Murphy's red seatbelt kink comes back into play, the Blakes are at peak Battle Siblings, and Jasper and Raven save the day. Meanwhile, Clarke and Finn get a whole sideplot whose entire function is to creepily foreshadow all the crazy of Season 2, from Reapers and blood-drained corpse piles to the first mention of the Commander. P.S. to make sure we got y'all some new content in time for your holiday travels, we posted this one completely unedited. A HUGE amount of work from our Editkru volunteers goes into producing each podcast episode, from filtering out coughs and background noises to slicing out the torrents of "um" and "like" to cleaning up when we talk over each other, which happens a lot. So if you find this one occasionally a hot mess to listen to, shout-outs go to Brittany, Cece, Emily, Jess, Maylina and Melli for making sure the rest of our podcasts are shiny and cleaned up when we post them. They work their asses off and we adore them with our entire hearts. --------------------------------- 0:00 - HI WE’RE BACK AND THIS IS UNEDITED, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS 0:02 - In Which Kane Sits Alone at Jaha’s Council Table Like a Kid Who Got Called to the Principal’s Office 0:05 - TEAM ADULTS RISE: The Optimists, the Pessimists, and the Rise of Batshit Jaha 0:20 - Nanorobots In the Whiskey: An ALIE Conspiracy Theory 0:26 - Hey Let’s Go Get Our Hearts Shattered In the O.R. by Battle Mom Abby Griffin and ACTUAL ANGEL Eric Jackson 0:32 - Clarke and Finn Are Here to Drop Off That Truckload of Season Two Plot Setup You Ordered 0:35 - Today on “Grounder Thoughts With Clairin”: Anya’s In the Doghouse, We Never Got the Lincoln/Lexa Confrontation We Longed For, and Why TF Does Luna Get a Regular-Ass Ambassador If Her Clan’s Whole Deal Is “Fuck This Governmental Structure” 0:52 - Bellamy Blake and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day 0:56 - YO WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHERE MONTY IS!!!! 1:02 - Sooooooo Many Blake Sibling Feels 1:06 - "We Save Who We Can Save Today": Bellamy and Jasper's Relationship Has Come a Long Way, Baby 1:13 - In Which Erin Asks the Very Reasonable Question About Why Key Character Evolution Moments for Bellamy So Often Involve Physical Punishment 1:15 - Claire's Grand Unified Murphy/Sawyer Theory: The Perils of Scapegoating 1:23 - Not That It Excuses Anything, But Jesus Murphy's Backstory Is Fucking Tragic 1:28 - Raven, Braven and Bravenlarke Are All Lit AF In Both Parts of This Finale 1:35 - Goodbye, Happy Holidays, We'll See You In 2018 With the S1 Finale and At Least One Secret Meta Station Surprise We're Cooking Up!

Welcome back to Meta Station! Elizabeth’s back to join us for “The Calm,” which, true to its name, slows the propulsive plot action way down to give us what amounts to a three-part deep-dive character study of Kane, Raven and Clarke . . . with a side order of Braven sex, Kabby cuddling, and Finn once again working Erin’s last nerve. Also, Bellamy has trust issues with men, ABBY ISN’T DEAD!, Sass!Kane is rising, Clarke commits her first cold-blooded murder, Raven deserves snuggles and instead continually receives struggles, Monty brings Mt. Weather into the story in a big way (though we don’t really know it yet), and apparently as soon as Claire left for family dinner and left them unsupervised, Erin and Elizabeth started talking about cannibalism. JUST ANOTHER DAY AT META STATION -------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hoorayyyyyyy, Elizabeth’s Back! 0:01 – Claire Has Literally Been Waiting to Yell About This Kane Content Since We Started This Podcast 0:04 – The Wick Scenes Do a Remarkable Amount of Character Work As a Turning Point in Kane’s Leadership Development Arc 0:12 – R.I.P. Sinclair, We Still Miss You So Much 0:13 – There Is So Little Comedy in Ark Storylines 0:18 –In a World With No Rules, Who Is Marcus Kane? 0:21 – Claire Makes High-Pitched Noises About Kabby 0:25 – First Documented Instance of Kane’s Secret Love of Hugging 0:27 – Let’s Weep Over the Kane Family For SEVERAL MINUTES, Shall We? 0:34 – Finn Collins: More or Less Bearable When He's Not Making Everything About His Penis! 0:36 – "The Calm" Pauses Plot for Character Development, and WE LOVE IT 0:43 – Clarke's Hypocritical Disapproval of Grounder Child Warriors: Intentional or Not? 0:48 – Tris, Finn, Shock Waves, and the Morality of Unintended Consequences 0:54 – The Rise of Wanhedalton: Clarke Will Do What It Takes to Survive 1:00 – IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR FUCKING FEELINGS, FINN: Season 1 of The 100 1:04 – The Dos and Don'ts of Handling Raven in A Mood 1:13 – "The Borscht Belt Is Farm Station" 1:16 – Wow Pike’s Earth Skills Class Really Didn’t Teach Miles Anything 1:18 – Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby (Specifically Why We Love This Braven Scene Because It’s All About Active Consent) 1:28 – Give Raven One Non-Awkward Post-Coital Experience 2k18 1:29 – All Aboard the Good Ship Braven 1:32 – Further Fleshing Out of Our Headcanon About the Stand-Up Comedy Scene on the Ark 1:35 – “I Miss Panicky Teenagers Trying to Build a Society SO MUCH” 1:38 – Elizabeth's Grand Unified Theory of Bellamy's Trust Issue with Men 1:44 - Oh, Bellamy, We Love You But Your Plans Are Terrible 1:49 – In Which Erin and ElizabethTake An Unexpected Detour into S5 Cannibalism Spec 1:51 – That Jamming Signal--Was It Really Mt. Weather? Or Perhaps....Cadogan?! DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN 1:57 – Elizabeth Wrote (Another) Book and It's Gr9 and Y'all Should Buy It!

In which we discuss why the Exodus Charter is called the Exodus Charter, even though we can't remember if anyone has actually called it by name yet, and marvel at how jarring it feels for Anya to watch Tris die in silence because Trigedasleng doesn't exist yet.

Welcome back for our recap of 110, “I Am Become Death,” AKA the one where everyone coughs up blood and it's SUPER GROSS. WHAT A GODDAMN INTENSE EMOTIONAL THRILL RIDE FROM START TO FINISH, for real. Come flail with us about Raven Reyes, brilliant vulnerable heroic self-sacrificing genius queen and Our Lady of Making Things Go Boom, and rage with us about Jasper and Harper and one of the show's rare missteps into blatant toxic masculinity. Also Murphy is back for blood-soaked revenge, the Blake siblings need each other, there are some REAL UNCOMFY Lincoln/Finn parallels we need to discuss, Clarke's Slytherin is showing, and Raven finally finally FIIIIIIIINALLY tells Finn she's reclaiming her time. LET'S DO THIS KIDS ____________- 0:00 - We Just Gotta Gush for a Few Because THIS EPISODE IS FIRE EMOJI, FAM 0:06 - Let’s Begin at the Beginning, with Diana Sydney’s Charred Corpse! Plus Bonus “Scooby Doo” Conspiracy Theory! 0:10 - Four-Part Finale, Foreshadowing Galore 0:17 - “Our Salvation Is a Smoldering Pile of Wreckage”: The Story of The 100 0:18 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Jasper’s Jarringly Misogynistic Storyline 0:36 - Jasper’s Reading Assignment: “Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds” by Arthur Chu (http://www.thedailybeast.com/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds-1) 0:41 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Harper’s First Real Storyline Being Offering Herself As Jasper’s Hero Reward 0:47 - Jasper Jordan: A Tale of the Toll of Toxic Masculinity? 0:52 - Meet the New Murph, Murder-ier Than the Old Murph 1:02 - The Best Idea Finn Ever Has, Only Somewhat Compromised by His Finn-ness; or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Finn Collins Part Eighty-Seven Gajillion 1:19 – “Be Brave Enough to Break Your Own Heart”: Bombs, Bridges, Breakups, and All the Hard Choices Raven Makes That Finn Couldn’t 1:40 – We Have Some Groans and Eyerolls About This Episode’s Linctavia Content 1:46 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Characters Who Only Exist In Relation to One Other Character and Never Interact With Anybody Else 1:53 – WE ARE VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT BELLAMY NEEDING OCTAVIA AND OCTAVIA DECIDING NOT TO LEAVE HIM 1:59 – Clarke’s Metamorphosis From Blunt Instrument to Sneaky, Strategic Leader 2:06 – Erin’s Fave Underrated Bellarke Moments (Also Bellamy Is the MOST EXTRA) 2:10 – Next Week: Hell Yeah, Kabby Snuggles and Braven Sex!

Welcome back to Meta Station! Grab a cup of Jasper’s moonshine and join us for an explosive (HAHAHAHA) recap of “Unity Day”, in which Anya shows up, Kabby is rising, thirteen is an unlucky number, Diana Sydney is the queen bitch of our hearts, Linctavia gets sexy for the first time, Clarke has no chill even about drinking games, we take a lengthy Cadogan sidebar because #brand, two different characters get compared to Trump, we’re forever wrecked about Vera, and HOOOO BOY FAM DO WE HAVE SOME FINN YELLING TO DO ------------------------------------------------------------ 0:00 – Hello and Welcome, Turns Out Neither of Us Can Pronounce “Unity Day” 0:02 – R.I.P. Diana Sydney, Our Favorite Shady-Ass Motherfucker 0:14 – No One Is Better Than Diana at Leveraging the Ark’s Class Resentment 0:23 – Wow Nothing Brings a Kids’ Pageant to a Crashing Halt Like a Giant Fucking Explosion 0:29 – From Becca to Lexa to Octavia: On This Show, 12 + 1 = Chaos 0:36 – Where’s Our Cadogan/Becca Prequel Webseries? 0:39 – BRB, Crying Forever Over the Kanes 0:48 – Remember When Both Clarke and Claire Legit Thought Abby Died In That Explosion 0:52 – What an Iconic Jasper Episode TBH 0:59 – Unity Days Looks Way More Fun On the Ground Than the Ark (More Booze, Fewer Casualties) 1:03 – Did Anyone Else Totally Forget That Lincoln Was Already Giving Octavia Warrior Lessons This Early In the Show? 1:08 – FINN RANT, PART 1: In Which Finn Appoints Himself “Guy In Charge of Clarke’s Decisions” and Then Ruins Everything 1:29 – FINN RANT, PART 2: In Which We Need to Talk About Toxic Masculinity 1:48 – FINN RANT, PART 3: In Which We Have a Lot of Screams About “You Didn’t Have to Trust the Grounders, You Just Had to Trust Me” 1:58 – Anya Is Where the Show Finally Finds Who They Want the Grounders To Be, Which Is a Lot More Interesting Than “Bogeymen In Trees” 2:14 – Brief Sidebar for a Few More Kabby Flails 2:15 – On Both the Ark and the Ground, This Is Really the “Chickens Coming Home to Roost” Episode 2:22 – See You Next Week For Blood-Spattered John Murphy and Bridge Explosions!

Welcome back to Meta Station, and happy Claire’s 36th birthday to one and all! We’ll be back next week with a new recap, but in the meantime we wanted to give you all a sneak peek at some of the amazing fan-created events happening in 2018! THERE’S SO MUCH HAPPENING FAM! Thanks to all the great people who are already working their butts off to make cool stuff happen for “The 100” fans all over the world; there are lots more people we didn’t get the chance to talk to, of course, but this is just a sampling. P.S. if there are awesome fan creators you'd like us to interview, shoot us a message! We'd love to do another one of these to shout out more folks! ___________ 0:00 - Michaela, Rory and Rachel from Con-Geda! 0:10 - Miah and Leana from Unity Days! 0:24 - Jo from Cancer Gets Lost!

Welcome back to Meta Station! Grab your gun and crack open the jobi nuts, it’s time for a “Day Trip!” Join us as we take a deep dive into the way the show explores guilt and forgiveness, from the Jake Griffin of it all to the way Hallucination Jaha foreshadows Pike . . . with a side order of stoner chaos at the dropship camp, and a brief jaunt up to the Ark where we suddenly like Jaha and feel sorry for Shumway for a hot second. We’re in the end run towards the season one finale where every single episode is solid gold, so this was a fun one. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening! All of you are the most beautiful broom in a broom closet of brooms. -------------------------------------------------------- 0:05 - Adventures in Unexpected Likability, Part 1: Poor Shumway?! 0:10 - Winter Was Supposed to Have Been Coming, Apparently, for a Hot (Cold?) Second 0:12 - Adventures in Unexpected Likability, Part 2: The Best of All Jahas 0:20 - In Jobi Veritas: Jasper Edition 0:29 - Miller Appreciation Time! 0:32 - It's Totally Obvious That Miller Is an Only Child 0:33 - Coming Fall 2149, Lincoln Is ... The Enemy 0:34 - The Rise of "Hey, Maybe Not So Much With the Tribalism?" Octavia 0:36 - Adventures in Unexpected Likability, Part 3: We...Sorta...Like Finn? For a Minute? 0:40 - BUT JUST FOR A MINUTE Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Fuckboy Finn 0:50 - Please Can Raven Have Just One Non-Horrifically-Awkward Post-Coital Experience JUST ONE 0:57 - STRAP IN KIDS, IT'S ALL BELLARKE FROM HERE ON OUT 0:59 - Bellamy's and Clarke's Inverted Dark Nights of the Soul 1:07 - "Forgiveness Isn't About What People Deserve": One of Our Fave Show Thesis Statements 1:15 - Griffin Family Dynamics: The Abby and the Jake of Clarke 1:25 - Why "You Need Forgiveness? I'll Give That to You" Is JUST As Huge & Important to Clarke's Emotional Development As It Is to Bellamy's 1:28 - Shooting Lessons: Beauty & King Dork (500 points to anyone who gets THAT reference) 1:31 - The Aragorn Rule 1:34 – WE NEED A FANDOM MORATORIUM ON THE TERMS "TOXIC" AND "ABUSIVE" & Other Unpopular Opinions about Octavia & Abby 1:41 - Acts of Violence a Part of Character Development: Kane & Bellamy 1:47 – Bellamy’s Hallucination: How Jobi!Jaha Foreshadows Bellamy’s Future Team-Up With Pike 1:52 – Clarke Shows Bellamy a Vision of Himself as the Man He Wishes He Actually Was 1:55 – “No Fucks Given” Honesty Is the Ideal Foundation for a Relationship 2:02 – Let’s Talk About the Gun Scene Because It’s Fucking Hilarious 2:04 – Today On “Clairin Hot Takes,” We Are SO Glad They Cut That “Let’s Run Away Together” Business Because It Highkey Fucks Up the Flawless Trajectory of That Scene 2:17 – The Jobi Nuts Work Surprisingly Well as the Running Plot Thread Connecting Everything That’s Happening On the Ground 2:21 – Goddamn We Love the Second Half of Season One 2:23 – Special Podcast Coming Up Next Week About Fan-Run Events Happening in 2018, Including a Special Announcement About a Cool Thing We’re Doing at Unity Days!

If you follow Claire on Twitter, you watched this insanity all go down last week in real time, but if you didn't . . . well, there's been a LOT going on. (Please don't ask Claire about Rachel and Joey anymore.)

FYI this outtake is all about the gross things pets do, SO BE FOREWARNED, Erin's dog Hank got into some hilariously gross shenanigans.

Welcome back to Meta Station! Our hiatus is over and we’re back to yell in your ears about Season One. And hot damn, what an episode to come back to! This is one of our all-time faves of both the season and the series, so we’re full of wildly enthusiastic shouting about everything from Griffin family feels, the ethics of torture, actual human angel Vera Kane, how Diana Sydney is the Donald Trump of the Ark, a Finn storyline we don’t hate, the next-level prop details in that Eden Tree scene, PRINCESS MECHANIC, and the moment Claire first fell in love with Kane. DISCLAIMER: We recorded this episode the morning after the Senate healthcare vote, so we have a higher-than-usual number of politics thoughts, and also Erin is drunk. THIS WAS A FUN ONE, KIDS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hi! We’re Back! We Missed You Too! Also Erin’s Drunk! 0:02 – The Structure of This Episode Is So Good We Don’t Even Mind How Much of It Hinges on Finn 0:07 – Kane and Abby (and Jaha, Sort Of?) Confront the Fallout of Both the Culling and Their Past Choices 0:16 – In Which Diana’s the Grifter and Jaha’s the Mark 0:26 – “That’s a Problem for Future Me”: Jake, the Culling, and Project Exodus 0:32 – The Value of the Human Species vs. the Value of the Human Individual 0:38 – What Could Jaha’s Season 5 Storyline Possibly Be? (GUYS. GUYS. IS HE DEAD.) 0:42 – This Is the Episode Where Claire First Fell In Love With Kane 0:46 – Erin Briefly Forgets Vera Kane Is About to Die and Claire Is UPSET 0:48 – Vera vs. Diana: The Light and Dark Sides of Human Emotion 0:51 – Diana Sydney and Donald Trump: The Rise of the Faux-Populist Con Artist 0:59 – Fictional Villains Have to Have a Level of Nuance That Real-Life Villains Don’t (AKA Even Cage Wallace Looks Better Next to Some of Our Actual Politicians) 1:05 – The Best of All Possible Finns 1:06 – We Love Us a Subverted Love Triangle 1:11 – NERD ALERT: Erin Enthuses About Princess Mechanic and Gender-Swapped Medieval Homosocial Triads 1:22 – Compartmentalization Champ Clarke Cries & It's C R U S H I N G 1:30 – Eight Minutes Later, Are We Still Gushing About Clarke? OF COURSE WE ARE 1:33 – Maybe There Are No Good Guys: Torture Edition 1:45 – Lincoln and Finn As Male Bodies to Whom Things Happen 1:48 – Raven and Bellamy and Powerlessness and Power 1:52 – How Do "Good" People Wind Up Becoming Torturers? 1:58 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lincoln's Season One Writing 2:12 – Early Signs of Octavias to Come 2:17 – MOAR MILLER SUPERCUTS 2:22 – How Drunk Is Erin Now?

Hello lovelies! We're back from hiatus, kind of! We were planning on returning the first week of August to dive back into our S1 recaps, but we just had to make an exception when given the opportunity to nerd out about music with "The 100" composer Tree Adams! Join us for a deep dive that goes from shippy flails (yes of course we asked about the Kabby theme and "I See You," we know what you guys want) to technical nerdery (there's a spreadsheet breaking down the specifics of the sound of all thirteen Grounder clans and Claire DESPERATELY wants to see it) to how Tree created a new sound of Becca's island to bring Raven's story to life and used music to take us on the evolving journey of Octavia's arc. Plus tune in for some hot scoop on his new project "Duskriders," another female-driven dystopic sci-fi adventure with Tree Adams music . . . only this time, he is his OWN Rothenberg because he wrote the graphic novel himself. We had a total blast, and Tree is the freakin' greatest. Go buy the S3 and S4 soundtracks, or check out our Spotify playlist of all the tracks he referenced in our interview here: https://tinyurl.com/treeadams

Virgil's "Georgics" is basically porn about cows and Claire & Erin have the text messages to prove it.

We just want to see Nathan Miller tap dancing, IS THAT HONESTLY SO MUCH TO ASK