Welcome back to Meta Station for our discussion of “The Tinder Box,” where Roan has finally ditched Grandpa Theo’s crown and gotten his mojo back! We had some real structural problems with the Arkadia half of the episode, went crazy with glee at the Doctor Mechanic sci-fi movie in the other half, and continue to spiral into madness over Bill Cadogan theories. Plus Erin takes us to school on the Roman goddess Vesta, and if you’re wondering why Claire doesn’t have an appropriately dramatic reaction to the part where Erin starts talking about GIANT MAGICAL FLAMING PHALLUSES!!?!?!?! it’s because her sound cut out for like a full minute and she missed that whole thing.

P.S. Claire STRONGLY considered titling each of the timestamps after Billy Joel songs and actually put an embarrassing amount of thought into it but finally tapped out after not getting any farther than “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “When In Rome.”

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0:00 – Riley, Echo and Undead Octavia: There Are Too Many Abby’s Hospitals In This Arkadia Storyline

0:25 – We’ve Got Some Real Problems With the Notion That Clarke Is Suddenly Just Now Transcending Tribalism

0:50 – Our Feelings About Ilian Can Best Be Described as TyraBanksWeWereAllRootingForYou.Gif

1:09 – Y’ALL, WHAT A GOOD MARPER EPISODE THIS WAS????

1:16 – Welcome to Science Island, Where the Doctor Mechanic Content Hasn’t Kicked This Much Ass Since Season One

1:50 – A Brief Interlude to Discuss Filtering for Character Bias

1:54 – Today On “Conspiracy Corner”: Saint Eligius, the Second Dawn Logo, and SPACE AUSTRALIA

2:06 – Professor Erin’s Vesta Discourse

2:12 – If Season 3 Was The Iliad and Season 4 is The Aeneid, Maybe Season 5 Is the Founding of Rome

2:24 – No New Episode This Week, But Can We Interest You In a Free Sachin Sahel Interview?