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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.