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

Erin's dog Hank needs to work through his internal biases.

Welcome back to Meta Station, for our VERY LAST SEASON FOUR RECAP *sniffles* *wipes tear*

We continue to be full of all-caps love for the bonkers action movie thrill ride of “Praimfaya” and have a great deal of high-pitched screaming about everything from the Murphy/Monty bromance we never knew we needed to how canon Bravenlarke has never felt so achievable (a fact you will hear us casually pitch to the writers no less than four separate times). Along the way, Erin names the space kids “Motleykru,” we’re hyped to finally get the Emori/Raven girl geek teamup we’ve been craving since last season, and the fact that we contained the Bellarke flails to 25 minutes out of a 4.5+ hour two-parter is honestly pretty impressive, given ALL THAT GODDAMN FACE-TOUCHING.

Thank you to everyone who has come alone on this rollercoaster with us! WE LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL

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0:00 – Monty & Murphy, Most Delightfully Reluctant of Bros

0:05 – “The Sad Jasper Detour”: Media Portrayals of Suicide, Time Jump Thoughts, and Our Frustration With the Show’s Occasional “One Designated Mourner Per Dead Character” Policy

0:19 – OKAY BACK TO THE MONTY AND MURPHY BROMANCE

0:22 – Y’all How Great Is Emori Gonna Be at Space

0:31 – “Motleykru” May Be Erin’s Finest Work

0:32 – “What’s Echo’s Deal?”: Our Biggest Question Mark for the Episode (Slash Season 4) (Slash Season 5)

0:43 – Contemplating the Possibilities of Becho: Romantic, Platonic, or Bellamy as Echo’s New Roan?

0:58 – The Bravenlarke Leadership Trio

1:10 – CLARKE CHOSE RAVEN FIRST!

1:16 – Hope Comes from Human Connectedness and Faith in the People You Love

1:20 – O.G. Inspirational Speech Bellamy Is Back and Better Than Ever

1:25 – IT’S TIME FOR BELLARKE FLAILS

1:28 – Future!Clarke’s Hope Comes From the People She Loves

1: 36 – How to Execute a Slow-Burn Endgame Ship, Part 1: Focusing the Finale on Clarke’s Feelings for Bellamy

1:42 – How to Execute a Slow-Burn Endgame Ship, Part 2: The Big Emotional Moment Before Ross Goes to China and Comes Back with a New Girlfriend

1:50 – OUR FOURTH AND FINAL PLEA TO THE WRITERS TO MAKE BRAVENLARKE CANON IN SEASON 5

1:55 – Nightblood! Prisoners! Eligius Mining Company! Becca! Cadogan, Maybe! HOT DAMN WHAT A TWIST

2:02 – Guys Honestly This Was Just Like . . . Such a Good Finale

2:07 – Goodbye and Thank You and We Love You and We’ll Be Back Over Hiatus WE'VE GOT A BUNCH OF FUN IDEAS

HOLY SPACE SUITS, BATMAN, WHAT A THRILL RIDE! Welcome back to Meta Station for the first of our two-part finale recap. Erin’s back and we have no guests, so it’s just the two of us doing what we do best – yelling about our favorite television show for six hours (which we have edited heavily and chopped into two separate parts to avoid breaking your brains with our flailing). But man oh man that was a good hour of television! Tune in Wednesday for Part 2, the Science Island Spacestravaganza, but in the meantime, let’s talk about 412, the bunker, the Blakes, Abby Griffin being the world’s best mom, how the structure of the two episodes work back-to-back as a two-part finale, and why our favorite episodes of this show are the ones where everything focuses on one A-story full of crazy adventure and emotional stakes.

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0:00 – REUNITED AND IT FEEEEEEEELS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

0:02 – If 412 Was a Dark and Lowkey Somber Survival Drama, 413 Was a Thrill Ride Action Movie (THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT)

0:07 – We’re So Hyped for All Three Sets of Potential S5 Flashbacks (Space Squad, Lonely Clarke, Bunker Bickering)

0:11 - The One-Killer-Storyline Episodes of This Show Work So Well That Claire Is Even Willing to Forgive Jason for the Finale’s Complete Absence of Kabby, Though She Would Like Her Displeasure Noted For the Record

0:23 – Erin’s Thoughts on 412, Based on How Everything in 411 Led Into It, Were Decidedly Mixed, But A Lot of It Improves On Rewatch After Seeing 413

0:40 – The Moral and Emotional Difference Between “Decide Who You Invite Into the Bunker” vs. “Decide Who You Kick Out of the Bunker”

0:44 – Let’s Talk About “Good Guys”: How Abby’s Parting Words Fundamentally Transform Clarke In the Final Two Episodes

0:56 – Heads and Hearts: Abby and Bellamy Remind Clarke That Love Is Not Weakness, Which Frees Her to Be Her Best Self Even After Six Years Without Them

1:04 – A Brief Interlude to Yell About How CANON BRAVENLARKE HAS NEVER FELT SO POSSIBLE??

1:14 – Abby’s Vision: Brain Damage-Induced Hallucination, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, or WITCHCRAFT?

1:26 – Clarke and Jaha and the Notion of “Choice”

1:33 – Jaha vs. Octavia: Bad Leaders Are Full of Certainty, Good Leaders Experience Doubt

1:43 – We Do Need to Talk About the Bindi You Guys

1:53 – TIME TO YELL ABOUT THE SHOW’S AMAZING PRODUCTION DESIGN

1:56 – We Are So Emotional About the Blakes

2:09 – Professor Erin Has Some Thoughts on This Whole Prometheus Business and Would Like to Gently Suggest Reframing the Analogy Around Pandora Instead

2:14 – Are We the Only CW Television Podcast With a Section In Our Finale Recap About Virgil’s “Georgics” y/y

2:22 – We Love the Show Touching Back So Much This Season on the Importance of Jake and Aurora

2:26 – Clarke, Octavia, Raven, Kane: This Season Is Full of Characters Finding the Truest Version of Themselves By Incorporating Every Version of Themselves Into One Self

Zombie Roan and the Kabby baby STILL LIVE and you will pry these conspiracy theories out of our cold dead hands Jason Rothenberg WE WILL NOT LET THIS GO UNTIL WE SEE ROAN'S CORPSE AND ABBY'S MEDICAL RECORDS

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the entire fandom to read an OMFGTV interview with an actor, thirsting for spoilers on his supposedly epic role in 412, only to find upon watching it that he was literally an extra with no lines. So either a whole storyline about the Hasslers landed on the cutting room floor, or my dude majorly played a media outlet. (Honestly I'm hoping for B. I respect that hustle.)

In which love means never having to pronounce “gif” the same way, you can’t put out a fire by peeing on it, and Ian has the heart of a troll. Or, three brief glimpses into the kind of conversations Claire, Sam and Brittany have every single day.

Welcome to a very special #TeamAdults edition of Meta Station! Because this weekend was Erin’s birthday (as I hope you all observed by listening to this outtake - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/clairin-outtakes-happy-birthday-erin-with-special-guests-sam-britt), she was with family and didn’t have time to record, but because she is a good friend she did NOT want to deprive Claire of the chance to flail over 412’s next-level Kabby content.

So instead, Claire was joined by Brittany Rae of The Afictionados (https://soundcloud.com/theafictionadosthe100) and Sam Coley of TellTaleTV (http://www.telltaletv.com/author/samantha-coley/) for a discussion on the core four surviving members of Team Adults, all of whom gave absolutely top-notch performances in 412: Indra, Jaha, Kane and Abby. We covered their storylines in this episode as well as how we feel about their season arcs as a whole and what we want to see from them in Season 5. Join us to flail over Indra mom feels, the return of the Jaha/Kane bromance, ABBY SAYING “I LOVE YOU” TO KANE, epic conflict over moral decision-making, and much more.

P.S. If you’re desperate for our thoughts on delinquents in space, we’ll cover the kids’ storyline from this episode next week in our finale recap, but there was a lot of stuff that we weren’t sure how we would feel about until we saw how the arcs closed out at the end of the season.

0:00 – LET'S TALK ABOUT INDRA! Badass Warrior Queen Mom of Our Hearts!

0:35 – LET'S TALK ABOUT JAHA! Ruthless Mofo! Epic Shit-Stirrer! Cult Aficionado Extraordinaire! New Dad Maybe!

1:06 – LET'S TALK ABOUT MARCUS KANE AND ABBY GRIFFIN! Moral quandaries! Parent feels! Leadership conundrums! Possible brain damage! TRUE LOVE!

Claire, Brittany and Sam attempt to sing "Happy Birthday" to Erin, with predictably disastrous results.

We know we put you through the emotional wringer with the 411 recap and all the Jasper feels, so we owe you a little something to lighten the mood. With that, please enjoy this guest segment from Chash, Meta Station's Senior My Little Pony Correspondent, about which pony represents which "The 100" character. (Spoiler alert, the most accurate of all of them might be Jaha.)