Meta Station: A "the 100" Podcast

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

"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 REAL

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

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

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. Pr

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

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

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

Welcome back, friends! A.L.I.E. apparently hacked into Erin’s wifi on Saturday night so we had some Skype issues; please forgive the handful of weird glitches where I had to edit out some messy sound. Fair warning, this is a lot less of a review and more like a meta. We had a lot of very complicated thoughts about what story the show may be trying to tell this season about morality, and how all of this week’s stories fit into it, so this is more of a discussion about ethical conundrums than a point-by-point recap. (P.S. trigger warnings for sexual assault and self-harm.) 0:00 - In Which Our Podcast Totally Has a Name Now 0:01 - In Which Murphy and Ontari Had So Much Potential to Be the Power Duo of the Season Before That Last Scene Fucked It Up 0:07 - In Which Erin Makes a “Hamilton” Reference Way Earlier Than Last Time 0:12 - In Which It Is Real Gross If a Show Can't Tell the Difference Between a Sex Scene and a Rape Scene 0:19 - In Which No One Is Giving Bellamy Enough Credit for Being the Only Charac

Hello and welcome to our very first podcast! Today we're discussing episode 309, "Stealing Fire." 0:00 - In Which We Introduce Ourselves and Hope We Haven’t Freaked You Out Yet 0:03 - In Which Old-School Clarke Is Back, Bitches 0:18 - In Which We Discuss Erin’s Thesis For the Whole Season 0:27 - In Which We Secretly Love Ontari 0:34 - In Which We AGGRESSIVELY Love Indra 0:37 - In Which Octavia Is EVERYTHING This Season 0:49 - In Which We Take a Brief Sidebar To Yell About All the Storytelling Problems In the First Half of the Season 0:52 - In Which We Are So Goddamn Excited About the Delinquents 0:56 - In Which Bryan and Miller are the Literal Romeo and Juliet of This Show 0:59 - In Which Claire Is “Not Exactly a Pike Apologist, But . . .” 1:06 - In Which Everything at Arkadia Makes Much More Sense If You Mentally Re-Insert Lincoln Into Every Storyline 1:17 - In Which We Spend Half an Hour Yelling About Lincoln’s Death 1:46 - In Which It Is Genuinely Astonishing It Took This Long For One of Us to Make a