Welcome back to Part 2 of our recap of "Gimme Shelter," already one of our faves of the season!

Part 1, all about the lady BAMFs of Science Island and their snartastic "ramsi" Murphy, can be found here - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/episode-4x07-gimme-shelter-part-i-science-island

Also don't miss the outtake from that section where we learned some hard truths about our very different priorities on postapocalyptic house tours - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/clairin-outtakes-beccas-house

And now, please join as we plummet into the depths of emotional despair as Harper, Kane and the Blakes get trapped by the black rain in a crucible of dark and terrible pain from which most of them do not emerge by the end of the episode, DOES ANYONE ELSE SOMETIMES JUST WANT TO THROW IN THE TOWEL AND SWITCH TO "PARKS AND REC" OR SOMETHING BECAUSE JESUS H. CHRIST THIS ONE GOT GRIM

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0:00 – Story Craft 101: Raise the Stakes By Making Them Smaller

0:08 – This Is Not a Drill: Black Rain Moves the Apocalypse from Abstraction to Reality

0:15 – From the Ashes They Will Rise: Octavia, Bellamy and Kane Hit Rock Bottom

0:21 – If Bellamy Can’t Protect Everyone All the Time, Does He Even Know Who He Is?

0:34 – Fire and Water Imagery in That Octilian Scene

0:46 – Gradually Moving From “IF THIS EPISODE HAS OCTILIAN HATE SEX I QUIT ” to “. . . Okay I Can See It”

0:51 – We’re at Record-High Levels of Optimism About the Show Finally Reckoning With Octavia's Treatment of Bellamy

1:00 – LOL If You Didn’t Think We’d Spend a Full Hour on Kellamy You Must Be New Here

1:16 – Kane’s Season Arc Finally Starts to Emerge

1:22 – “My Sister My Responsibility” and Love Are Not the Same Thing

1:39 – Today On “Erin and Claire Get Super Real About Their Personal Lives”: Purging the False Narratives About Who You Are, Even When It’s Excruciating, Is Progress

1:54 – Next Week, We Have Special Guests! @hawthornewhisperer and @knowlesian on Tumblr Will Be Joining Us For 408 Before We Go Back On Hiatus!