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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?

Erin and special guest Sachin Sahel discuss their fantasy cast for a remake of the "Back to the Future" trilogy featuring members of "The 100" cast.

Welcome back to Meta Station, where Claire's continued unspooling over how the hell she became THIS obsessed with Jaha meets Erin's analysis of liminal space and death/rebirth imagery in Octavia's storyline. Also, we pay a visit to Science Island, where the the ladies are badass and the drones are armed. We also take a deep dive into the troubling question of eugenics, find some surprising Monty/Roan parallels, are wrecked as human beings by Bellamy and Kane in that prison scene, and go to some REAL-ASS PLACES about ableism and disability representation.

Also, if you haven't had a chance to enjoy this episode's outtake, PLEASE DON'T DEPRIVE YOURSELF - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/clairin-outtakes-horse-woman

And don't miss last week's interview with Executive Producer Jason Rothenberg! https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/claire-and-erin-interview-jason-rothenberg

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0:00 – Hello and Welcome and Hey We Talked to Jason Last Week and We’re Still Processing It

0:01 – “What’s Your Game, Thelonious?”: Listen, We’re As Surprised As You Are That This Section is 48 Minutes Long

0:49 – Good News: Jonty Pranks Are Back! Bad News: They’re Kiiiiiinda Fucked Up

0:56 – Jasper/Monty: The O.G. Clarke Supporters

1:09 – Game of Th-Roans (I STAND BY THIS PUN AND I’M NOT APOLOGIZING)

1:16 – Anyway Don’t Think About How Kane Is the Only Person Left Who Genuinely Values the Dual Sides of Octavia’s Nature and Now He Thinks He Killed Her

1:27 – Octavia LITERALLY Hits Rock Bottom (I’M SORRY, I HAD TO)

1:35 – This Is What It Looks Like When Echo Makes an Effort

1:42 – R.I.P. Nyko, Trikru’s #1 Abby Griffin Stan

1:49 - Let's Talk About Disability Representation Because This Episode NAILED IT

2:01 - That Raven/Luna Scene, Y'All

2:07 - Time For Some Becca/Cadogan Conspiracy Theories!

2:18 - Luna's Blood, Harper's Dad, and Cultural Narratives About Race: Let's Talk About Eugenics

2:42 - Bob Morley Deserves an Emmy But Also We Can Never Watch that Prison Scene Again

2:46 - See You Next Week for More Bellamy Angst Probably

Erin invents a new superhero named Horsewoman and Claire tells a nightmare-inducing story about a Dutch performance artist. Two out of two hosts rate this "the most macabre outtake we've ever done."

We can't believe this either, but we just spent an hour and a half talking to Jason Rothenberg! He approached us 2 weeks ago to tell us he's a fan of the podcast and would love to come talk to us, WHICH IS INSANE TO US TO YOU GUYS, FOR REAL, and ended up giving us a full hour longer than we were scheduled. To get this up as fast as possible, we've edited nothing, so please forgive Skype glitches, interruptions, lots of "um", and all of us talking over each other. But we had a fantastic, complex conversation on everything from leadership themes in season 4 to fandom and social media. Anyway, we need to go walk it off because like WE SORT OF STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED???, but we hope you enjoy!

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station, where the world is ending and everything is terrible! But don't worry, because Jackson, Nyko and Dad Miller are back. Also Raven gets a taste of what it's like to be Clarke every day, Octavia gets a new sister maybe, the ponytail's a good look on Ilian, Claire's neck and neck with Jaha for "Who's More Weirdly Obsessed with Bill Cadogan?", ain't no nuclear apocalypse gonna bring down Luna, and Murphy is going to get adopted by Abby Griffin whether he wants to or not. THIS SEASON JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER

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0:00 – Things Get a Little Loopy, Erin Can’t Say “Bagel,” and This Is the Longest Intro We’ve Ever Done

0:06 – Welcome to the Big Time, Kid!: Octavia Passed Her Murder Audition and Gets a Callback

0:10 – “One Life to Save Thousands”: This Time, It’s the Kids’ Turn to Make the Calls

0:18 – Underneath all the Stabby Blood Lust, Octavia Still Has a Soft Spot for Families

0:32 – The Representation Conversation: Why It Matters That Indra Isn’t Stereotypically Maternal

0:38 – What a Convenient Time to Stumble Upon a Nightblood Scout /What an Inconvenient Time for the Sudden Rise of a Violent Anti-Technology Cult

0:52 – HELL YES the Abby/Nyko Hospital Plot They Dropped After 302 Comes ROARING BACK

0:57 – Raven Reyes and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day

1:14 – LISTEN GUYS IT’S NOT EXACTLY EASY BEING THE COMMANDER OF DEATH OKAY

1:25 – “I Don’t Even Know If YOU Know Why You Do the Things That You Do, Murphy”

1:40 – Underappreciated Episode Highlight: Father/Son Guard Duty!

1:46 – “Any Cult In a Storm”: Jaha’s New Crush on Doomsday Prophet/Con Man Bill Cadogan

1:52 – The 13th Bunker: Lifeboats, Finale Spec and Wacko Conspiracy Theories

2:02 – And We Close With Erin, Once Again, Not Being Able to Say “Bagels”

The inside of Claire's head is like a conspiracy theorist's wall full of random news clippings and red string. Moderately NSFW.

You asked, we delivered.

To tide you all over until the full 403 episode recap goes up on Sunday, here’s 50+ minutes of pure, unfiltered Bellarke, for those of you who might be interested in such a thing. We laughed, we cried (no, literally), we flailed, we analyzed, we discussed “Day Trip” and Abby/Bellamy parallels (look for Claire’s wacko tin-hat conspiracy theory about this in the episode outtakes later this week), and also we love each other so much it’s GROSS.

Enjoy!

Erin and Claire talk about how "The 100" writers' room adapts story to fit the skills of their actors, and raves about how much we love this cast.

Welcome back to Meta Station for part 2 of our podcast! We covered Polis and Arkadia before Jo had to leave, so we then spent another hour and a half on Clarke/Jaha and Farm Station. SO! MANY! LEADERSHIP! PARALLELS! God this was a good fucking episode.

This is a tricky one to timestamp because it’s kind of just Claire and Erin having a conversation about Culling parallels, S1 callbacks, the whole Clarke/Bellamy/Raven = Jaha/Abby/Jake thing, moral choices and leadership styles, which circles back to a lot of the same themes over and over again. But like LOOSELY, here is a general outline:

0:00 –How the Actual Hell Do We Have 40 Minutes of Thoughts on Thelonious Jaha, Ark/Delinquent Leadership Parallels, and Isaiah Washington’s Acting Choices? IDK BUT WE FUCKIN’ DO

0:40 – The Loudest Erin Has Ever Laughed at Claire In the History of Meta Station

0:48 – Ethical Frameworks, Personal Values, and That Farm Station Scene

0:58 – Bryan and Miller Broke Our Damn Hearts, Y’All

1:09 – Original Flavor Bellamy Is Back

1:21 – We’re Dead with Joy Over the Return of Characters Driving the Plot, Instead of Plot Driving the Characters

1:24 – If We HAD to Find a Bone to Pick . . .

1:31 – Claire Loves Iambic Pentameter a Little Too Much