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To tide you over while we get the next podcast up, please enjoy Claire and Erin sharing the Shakespearean pronunciation of "Bellarke" and the Klingon pronunciation of "Kabby." #peaknerd

Welcome back to Meta Station for the first of our S1 doubleheaders! HOLY BEJEESUS THIS ONE WAS A TECHNICAL NIGHTMARE, sorry it took us forever to get it uploaded and apologies in advance for any sound issues. Hopefully all the Wells and Jake will be worth it. MAN WE LOVE THOSE DUDES. Join us for an exciting adventure through our first show flashback, Erin’s mindblowing theory about Wells Jaha and invisible labor, the introduction of Raven, the tragedy of Charlotte, Kane and Abby squaring off in the Council meeting and kicking the Culling plot into high gear, and the show’s first steps toward a definitive shift away from CW teen drama. Get your tissues out, fam, because we had a LOT of feelings about Jake and Wells in this one.

0:00 – In Which Erin Legit Forgets How Old She Is

0:01 – In Which We Nostalgically Recollect Those Naïve Youthful Days When We Thought Kane Was the Asshole and Jaha Was the Good Guy

0:06 – In Which We Meet the Magnificent Raven Reyes

0:14 – Faith and Hope vs. 100 More Lives: Kane and Abby’s Council Meeting

0:22 – In Which We Present Our New Segment, “Why Jaha Is the Worst in This Episode”

0:33 – In Which We Jump in the Way-Back Machine to Go Fall in Love with Jake Griffin

0:50 – In Which We Discuss Wells Jaha, Invisible Man

1:00 – In Which Wells and Thelonious Are Not at ALL Like Father, Like Son

1:07 – Griffins and Grudges: Clarke and Wells and Forgiveness

1:20 – In Which Erin Won’t Sing the Finn Collins Song and Claire Threatens to Quit

1:23 – In Which the Answer to “What’s Wrong with a Little Chaos?” is “EVERYTHING, BELLAMY”

1:31 – In Which Atom’s Death Is the First Real Turning Point in Clarke and Bellamy’s Relationship

1:41 – In Which Murphamy Is Rising

1:49 – In Which the Narrative Shifts Bellamy from Villain to Foil

1:53 – In Which the Male Gaze On Octavia Is Early S1’s Biggest Feminist Fail

2:02 – R.I.P. Wells Jaha, Too Good for This World

2:11 – In Which We Have a Lot of Feels Over the Tragedy of Charlotte and the Ark’s Children

2:27 - In Which We Thank You Profoundly For Enduring This Far-Longer-Than-Usual Rant IT’S REALLY HARD TO DO TWO EPISODES IN TWO HOURS BUT WE PROMISE WE’RE TRYING

"WE'RE BACK, BITCHES!"

--Octavia Blake (and also us)

Welcome back to Meta Station for the launch of our hiatus S1-S2 rewatch! We're kicking off with the pilot, about which you will be unsurprised to learn that we had a LOT to say. Join us for a trip down memory lane to talk about all your late lamented faves - Wells! Finn! Jake! Callie! Shumway! HA HA JUST KIDDING NOBODY LIKES SHUMWAY - along with Ark politics, class structure, character development, leadership parallels on the Ark and the ground, why Jaha saving Abby actually makes him terrible, the tonal shift from "CW teen drama" to "dark dystopian sci-fi", the origin story of both our ships, why Wells is the greatest and Finn is the worst, the glorious majestic wonderfulness of the Griffin women, and how despite S1 taking a few episodes to really find its footing, the pilot works remarkably well as a pilot.

ALSO! Stay tuned at the end because we have A VERY! SPECIAL! ANNOUNCEMENT! ABOUT! A THING! Claire's really bad at keeping secrets so WE'RE REALLY EXCITED WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS NOW

Yay! We missed you! Hope you enjoy the episode and tune back in on 7/28 for our next podcast where we'll be discussing "Earth Skills" and "Earth Kills". Thanks for tuning in!

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0:00 – HELLO AND WELCOME BACK AND SPOILER WARNING

0:02 – Clarke Griffin: Immediately Kickass Protagonist

0:09 – Rule Followers vs. Rule Breakers

0:12 – Um of Course Claire Can Quote the Kabby Arrest Scene Verbatim What the Hell Kind of Question is That Erin

0:22 – Soooooo, We Have to Talk About Finn

0:31 – Erin’s New Segment: “Why Is Jaha the Worst in This Episode?”

0:36 – Casual Reminder That S1 of This Show Is ALL About Class Conflict

0:39 – R.I.P. Wells Jaha, Literally Too Good for This World: Part I

0:45 – “Loopholes for the Privileged”: The Ark’s Fucked-Up Social Hierarchy

0:52 – R.I.P. Wells Jaha, Literally Too Good for This World: Part II

0:58 – ERIN SINGS! … And Then We Yell About Finn Some More

1:15 – The Secret Theme of This Show Is “Everyone Does Crazy Things For Love”

1:27 – We Haven’t Talked About Bellamy Yet and Erin’s Getting Twitchy

1:45 - GOD THIS CAST IS SO GOOD

1:50 - “She’s Got the Leslie Knope Problem”: The Truest Thing Anyone Has Ever Said About Clarke Griffin’s Leadership Skills

1:57 - Clarke/Kane and Bellamy/Abby Leadership Parallels

2:08 - A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A VERY COOL THING WITH SOME VERY SPECIAL GUESTS!

Welcome back to Meta Station for our VERY LAST episode recap of the season! Join us for a madcap romp through dueling A.I.’s, the triumphant return of Jonty, the Murphy/Abby duo we never knew we needed, a surprisingly satisfying closure to Bellamy’s arc, PLOT-RELEVANT ADULTS, the (real or not real? We’re not sure) return of Lexa and Becca, and Super-Genius Raven saving the day.

Also, R.I.P. Pike. #neverforget

0:01 – “My Brain Is All Kinds of Awesome” – Our Only Beef With Raven Is That There Wasn’t Twelve More Hours of Her

0:12 – “Just Another Day On the Ground” – John Murphy, Grumpy and Reluctant Hero

0:30 – “I Know This World Can Suck, But At Least It’s Real” – Jasper, Monty and the Honest Ugliness of Grief

045 – “Only If They Get Past You” – Kane, Abby, and the Revolutionary Notion of Letting the Adults Actually Do Stuff In the Finale, THANKS BE TO GOD (also featuring a brief sidebar discussion about military ethics)

1:03 – “I Don’t Want That For You” – After the Hot Mess of 3A Bellamy, the Writers Finally Stuck the Landing

1:21 – “’Blood Must Have Blood” – This Show Has an Octavia Problem

1:31 – “There’s Still Hope” – Clarke, Lexa, Becca and ALIE in the City of Light

1:50 – So Long, Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen, Goodnight

We can’t believe this happened either, but we got to interview the completely delightful Mike Beach for a very special edition of Meta Station! Tune in to find out who his on-set drinking buddies were, how he approached the craft of creating Pike’s character, what got cut out of that Kane/Pike arrest scene that we missed, his arc over the course of the season, the ways editing shapes how we view a character, and how all the pieces of making a TV show fit together. Plus Claire nags him to post the rest of his behind-the-scenes photos and Erin asks him a question he’s never been asked in an interview before.

EXPLOSIONS AND STABBINGS AND TORTURE, OH MY! For real, fam, when was the last time an hour of television worked so hard to make you pass out from sheer hysterical panic? The reviews are in, and 100% of the hosts of this podcast describe “Perverse Instantiation, Part I” as “one of the most goddamn stress-inducing TV episodes of all time.” (Who are we kidding, next week will be worse, but Erin’s coming to Portland so at least we can huddle on the couch together and scream at each other in real time instead of two time zones apart via text.)

With all our precious babies more or less in the same plot now, we decided to break this down by character instead of storyline. Murphamy made our hearts leap, Kindra will never die, Jonty is on the rocks, we’re OBSESSED with Roan, Abby literally destroyed us as human beings, Briller is so cute they’re probably doomed, the Blakes are rising, Ontari is getting whatever the exact opposite of a character development arc is, and the Bellarke subtext is becoming text so fast that even ALIE is onto them.

STRAP IN, KIDS, IT’S FINALE TIME

(P.S. ALIE hacked into my laptop and there are a handful of weird sound things happening from time to time I'M SORRY DON'T HATE ME I'M STILL NEW AT THIS SHIT)

0:00 – Professor Erin’s Crash Course on the Meaning of the Episode Title

0:02 – We Have a Fancy New Tumblr, Y’all! (www.metastation.tumblr.com) Send Us Your Perversest Instantiations WAIT WHAT

0:05 – The Abrupt and Inexplicable Sabotaging of Jasper’s Spectacular Season 3 Arc

0:37 – The Geek Squad Is Rising: Monty and Raven Save the Day

0:46 – We Have No Chill About Roan

0:59 – FUCKIN' JAHA, MAN

1:01 – Pike and Indra Bring the Season’s Themes Home

1:06 – “The Dead Can’t Help Us”: Octavia Learns to Let Go

1:19 – We Were Not Prepared for Our Murphamy Feels to Be This Violent and Overwhelming

1:26 – SECOND VERSE, SAME AS THE FIRST: Why Is Bellamy Repeating His S1 Character Arc?

1:43 – “Stubborn Like Her Mother”: Clarke and Abby and the Scene That Almost Broke Us

1:56 – Finale Death Predictions, Season 4 Speculation, and a Very Exciting Announcement!

Well hello, sailors!

Welcome aboard a very special maritime edition of “Meta Station at Sea,” where an oceanic oil rig full of pacifist isolationists and their badass queen drop some much-needed truth bombs on our seafaring Adventure Squad. Meanwhile, back on dry land, Pindra is rising, we take a surprisingly metaphysical side trip into discussing the nature of human consciousness, and Monty has a big day. Also, join us for our newest segment, “Mystery or Plot Hole?”, where we try to figure out how the ever-living hell ALIE got onto the oil rig or found out Sinclair was dead. ANCHORS AWEIGH!

(P.S. I had like nine other boat puns I could have used here and chose not to, YOU’RE WELCOME)

0:00 – Sailors, Take Warning

0:01 – INDRA’S PRISON RULES: Step 1, Make a Shiv. Step 2, Stand in the Corner and Wait.

0:04 – Hello, I Would Like to Place an Order for a “Three’s Company”-Style Spinoff Sitcom Starring the Reluctant Hero Trifecta

0:10 – Emori, Hannah, Derrick, ALIE and “Love Is Weakness”

0:19 – ALIE vs. Princess Mechanic: Erin’s Super-Awesome Finale Speculations

0:27 – Monty Green, American Hero

0:29 – Does ALIE Just Have Brain Data or Also Souls? (Also If Everyone in the CoL Is Linked Then Did EVERYONE Have Sex with Murphy?)

0:45 – “All You Know How to Do Is Fight”: The Octavia Blake Story

1:02 – And Now It’s Time for Some Luna Flailing

1:08 – In Which the Library Is Open and Luna Reads Clarke to Filth

1:13 – Luna’s Oil Rig: Crucial Plot Development or Random Side Trip?

1:17 – No More Season Finale Genocide for Clarke 2K16

1:28 – Luna Thinks Isolationism Is the Only Path to Peace UR FAVE IS PROBLEMATIC

1:32 – Today on “Mystery, Or Plot Hole?”: Floukru’s Ambassador, Harper/Monty, Something Something Drones, Jacopo Sinclair, Who Took the Chip, and those Goddamn Sneak Peek Set Photos

1:51 – Time For One Last Luna Flail

1:52 – NIGHTBLOOD BABIES???

1:55 – Roan’s Back Next Week, LOOK AROUND LOOK AROUND AT HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW

Welcome back to Meta Station! Kane's in the City of Light with his wife, Pike's on the world's most incongruous rebel squad, we were wrong about Luna being dead, sassy Jasper is back, the Blakes will rise, and Jaha is garbage. Also there's a Kabby kiss AND a Bellarke hug, LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND AT HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW

0:00 – Love Means Never Having to Call Shotgun

0:03 – Octavia and Bellamy Finally Make Some Progress, THANK GOD

0:07 – Okay but We Call Bullshit On Octavia Making That Fire with Wet Wood

0:16 – This Is the Part Where Erin Screams About Bellarke, SORRY NOT SORRY

0:21 – Wanheda, Vera Kane, Atonement and Forgiveness

0:35 – Bible Study With Claire, Part 1: “Jus Drein Jus Daun” vs. ”An Eye For an Eye”

0:42 – Seriously Can Someone Explain Why Bellamy and Lexa Aren’t Allowed to Be Important to Clarke at the Same Time Because We Think It’s Garbage

0:48 – THE HUG!

0:53 – DELINQUENT FLASHBACKS!

1:00 – Welcome Back to “Pike Apologism with Claire”, Today We’ll Be Discussing How JAHA IS THE FUCKING WORST

1:07 – Unity vs. Division, Enemies Within, and the Pike/Indra/Murphy Rebel Squad of Our Dreams

1:13 – Bible Study with Claire, Part 2: Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment for Our Lord and Savior Marcus Kane?

1:16 – Unity Day Was Bullshit and Also Erin Hilariously Can’t Pronounce It, I Left In One But She Seriously Fumbled It Like 3 Times

1:19 – Has Jaha Fucked Up ALIE Way More Than ALIE Has Fucked Up Jaha? TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES

1:25 – A Veritable Kentucky Derby’s Worth of Trojan Horses

1:27 – Strong Minds, ALIE’s 3% Rejection Rate, and Kabby (Hopefully) Rebelling in the City of Light

1:33 – This Is the Part Where Claire Screams About Kabby, SORRY NOT SORRY

1:43 – Here’s a Story About How Claire Has No Chill

1:44 – Luna kom Floukru: The Hero Gotham Needs and Deserves

1:54 – We’re Shipping Luntavia and We’re Not Apologizing (Also, R.I.P. Bartender Mechanic)

Welcome back to Meta Station for an analysis of the slasher film bottle episode "Demons," where only Monty Green knows what movie he's in. DON'T FOLLOW THE CREEPY MUSIC!

0:01 – The One Where There’s No Stockholm Syndrome in Polis, But Murphy Still Can’t Escape His Lady Problems

0:06 – The One with Jaha’s Creepy Special Relationship with ALIE

0:10 – The One Where Erin Knows the Key to Claire’s Heart Is a Cristo Redentor Reference

0:12 – The One with Post-A.I. Genius Super-Raven

0:19 – The One Where Robots Cannot Understand Love

0:23 – The One Where If Emori Isn’t Luna, Who Is?

0:29 – The One with Claire’s Hilarious Kabby Meltdown

0:40 – The One Where Monty and Clarke Can’t Let Go

0:45 – The One Where Jasper Is Actually Braver Than Everybody Else

0:52 – The One with Miller’s Ghost Story

0:55 – The One with Emerson, the Flame, and Erin’s Genius Atonement Theory

1:01 – The One with the Requisite (Albeit Accidental) Hamilton Reference

1:07 – The One with the AGGRESSIVELY SYMBOLIC Funeral

1:14 – The One Where Everyone Risked Their Necks to Rescue Three People and Now Two of them Are Dead, HELP US OBI-WAN KANE-OBI YOU’RE OUR ONLY HOPE

1:19 – The One with the Bellarke Feels

1:25 – The One Where “Mountain-Slayer” Is Not a Cool Nickname

1:30 – The One Where Claire Seriously Considered Making a Dad!Kane Joke about “THAT’S WANHEDA HAIR!” But Successfully Resisted, YOU’RE WELCOME ERIN

1:31 – The One with Claire’s Theory About Where “Blood Must Have Blood” Came From

1:35 – The One Where ALIE is Kilgrave and Clarke is Jessica Jones

1:39 – The One Full of Lengthy Speculation About the Four Remaining Episodes

1:47 – The One Where Claire Continues to Assert That She Is “Not a Pike Apologist” and Continues to Be Completely Full of Shit

1:50 – The One Where We’re Pretty Stressed About Next Week, Fam

Welcome back to Meta Station! We're thrilled to have you join us as we flail over the best episode of the season so far. CAN SOMEONE GIVE LINDSEY MORGAN LIKE FIVE EMMYS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT, THANKS.

0:00 - In Which We Are Over-the-Moon in Love with This Episode and Everything About It

0:03 - In Which It Is So Fucking Important That Octavia and Monty Have This Storyline Together

0:21 – In Which Monty and Jasper Do a “Freaky Friday”

0:25 – In Which Hannah Is the Actual Worst, BUT STILL

0:28 – In Which Claire Is Once Again Our In-House Pike Apologist

0:33 – In Which Octavia Comes Down Off Her High Horse

0:41 – In Which Forgiveness and Acceptance Are Very Different Things

0:45 – In Which We Take Our First-Ever Listener Question!

0:48 – In Which Niylah Is the Human Face of Bellamy’s Guilt

1:04 – In Which This Is Jasper’s Series-Best Episode

1:16 – In Which We Discuss Whether Jasper’s Gonna Die and Claire Swears the Clues to Everyone’s Fate This Season Are Hidden in Those Character Promo Posters

1:21 – In Which Evil!Raven’s Truth Bombs Are the Shot In the Arm This Show Has Needed All Season

1:23 – IN WHICH WE JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT JAKE GRIFFIN OKAY

1:27 – In Which We Get Hella Philosophical

1:30 – In Which Erin Is Full of Terrifying Theories About the Title of the Finale

1:35 – In Which We Bow Down Before the Goddess Lindsey Morgan

1:37 – In Which Dad!Sinclair Is the Greatest

1:41 – In Which Claire Casually Says “Hey Erin, What Did You Think About Bellarke” and Then Sits Back To Enjoy the HIGH-PITCHED SCREAMING

1:56 – In Which We Talk Shipping, Wound-Tending Parallels, and the Possible Future of Bellarke