Meta Station: A "the 100" Podcast

A sneak preview of the Kabby roundtable podcast going up this week! After we'd wrapped up and said our goodbyes, we ended up spending another fifteen minutes just exploding with emotions about how much we love Paige, including the importance of strength through vulnerability, what she means to us as women, why it matters that TV shows invest in complex roles for actresses over 50, and how the Kabby fandom brought us all together. Come feel feelings with us! P.S. Erin's not here, but Claire is joined by four special guests - Sam, Brittany, Emily and Jenn! You'll meet them properly when the full podcast is released, but for now, please enjoy the post-credits scene that's basically just seventeen minutes of us crying about how much we love women.

Welcome back to Meta Station for our recap of an amazing episode which is simultaneously a heartfelt emotional drama (Indra saying “I love you!” Kane taking care of Abby! Miller and Jackson kissing! Clarke and Bellamy fireside-bonding again!) and a FUCKING HORROR MOVIE (demon sandworms erupting from stomachs! Eligius IV’s very own Hannibal Lecter! Shock collars for everyone!) Also we’re solidly #TeamIndra over #TeamCooper, we want a whole webisode spinoff of just Madi roadtripping with the Spacekru girls, Erin thinks Blodreina would be a very bad penguin, we’re gonna be super real with you and let you know that Clarke and Bellamy definitely ate people, Raven/Shaw is everyone’s new OTP, the Lincoln parallels are EVERYWHERE, we’re more than a little worried about the looming possibility of an Ethan/Madi murderbaby conclave, Bellamy is Octavia’s Fredo, and “Don’t Do Drugs or You’ll End Up Getting Blackmailed By Serial Killers” is a WAY more effective anti-drug slogan than anything we learned in school. OMON G

Join Erin for a special bonus podcast of flailing over the OTT Bellarke-ness of 503 and 504 with special guests Chash (@chashlet/ponyregrets), Brittany (@bgonemydear), Elizabeth (@leavemearoan/hawthornewhisperer), and Crystal (@wordyblerd)! We talk hugs, mugs, Madi, and--because this IS Meta Station--the nature and challenges of noncanon shipping, the trouble with triangles, and what Roan and Jaha must be talking about in the afterlife!

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! We picked up this week with all the Raven and Murphy we didn’t get to last time (with bonus soccer and Murphy being an unexpectedly solid bro), and spent a great deal of time falling head over heels for Lieutenant Zeke Shaw (stop trying to make “Miles” happen, show) as he, in turn, fell head over heels for that pain-in-the-ass computer genius thwarting his every plan. We’re also beside ourselves with glee at all the weird mysterious backstory hints we’re getting, from Order Eleven to the missing Eligius 3, and watching with great excitement as the trio of Diyoza/Shaw/McCreary gets more and more messy with every passing day. True to our brand, we spent nearly an hour and a half on Marcus Kane and his relationships with the women at the heart of this episode – Octavia, Abby and Indra – and the way his very existence threatens the entire social and religious structure of Wonkru. (Does Octavia know she’s literally his new Pike? And HOLY SHIT FAM, has he EVER been more rel

What House is Monty? Who would be the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? Which character does Erin think is the Filch of the Ark? Join us as two Ravenclaws and a Hufflepuff discuss our Hogwarts/Spacekru headcanons.

A pair of brief outtakes to illustrate that A) we are literally twelve years old, and B) it's really all William Miller's fault.

Hello and welcome back to Meta Station, where the takes are HOT and the zombie supersoldiers are COLD, and the jokes are weird because we’re both on book deadlines and slowly losing our minds. Erin unfortunately cannot be with us today, as she is dead, on account of what a motherfucking drama queen Bellamy Blake was when he strode dramatically into the spotlight holding his dad mug aloft to rescue Clarke from death at the hands of Claire’s new MILF crush Diyoza. But prior to her untimely demise from FEELS ATTACKS we had tons of shit to say about everything from the increasingly chilling Season 1 Grounder parallels (somewhere in the afterlife, Anya is genuinely touched that Clarke was paying such close attention), to Zeke Shaw as the show’s second and FAR more successful attempt at the Finn Collins character template, to what in the wide wide world of sports “don’t let Diyoza weaponize the cargo” could mean, to how hard Emori is winning this breakup. Our first two fairly modest nitpicks of the season came i

Take a journey with us and imagine Bellamy Blake blasting open the bunker doors with McCreary's air cannon only to find his dad in a MURDER PIT while his sister just CHILLAXES ON HER SKULL THRONE 'cause it's just another day in Blodreinaville.

To tide you over until Murphy returns to your screens tomorrow, here's an outtake from our delightful interview with Richard Harmon, where we put him through the same exercise we gave Sachin with "Back to the Future": recasting his favorite movie using characters from "The 100."

Hello and welcome back to a much grimmer and bloodier Meta Station than the one we all enjoyed last week! Claire and Erin and joined by our friend Crystal (@wordyblerd on Twitter), a freelance writer/TV critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds, to scream at the top of our lungs about “The Red Queen,” which shot straight to the top of our all-time series fave lists, for a whole host of reasons: from the small (Miller sparring! Niylah sass! Ovid references! Ark backstory! THE CHANCE TO YELL ABOUT BILL CADOGAN AGAIN!) to the huge (Octavia gets her best episode yet, but R.I.P. Thelonious Jaha, listen to our whole conversation about his storyline here – https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/take-me-to-wells-yu-gonplei-ste-odon-thelonious-jaha). Along the way, we get the origin story of Blodreina and her scary murder pits, Gaia becomes perhaps the most terrifyingly powerful person in the bunker while Indra starts to have second thoughts, Mackson is everything and we’re emotional about it, we get a new morally gray

Our full recap of the amazing episode 5x02, "The Red Queen," will go up later tonight, with special guest Crystal (@wordyblerd), our delightful Twitter friend and freelance writer/critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds. In the meantime, to pay homage to the loss of one of the show's original core regulars, here's our emotional sendoff to the sometimes-loved, sometimes-hated Chancellor who finally brought his people to Earth. May we meet again.

We’re back, bitches! And so is everything that made this show great. HOO BOY WHAT A SEASON PREMIERE! Mom feels! Road trips! Jasper closure! Clarke as a video game character, wandering through post-apocalyptic wastelands and collecting emotionally-loaded power-up items! Bugs for lunch! Pinterest-worthy outdoor decorating schemes! A smol with a bear trap! Echo/Monty parallels! The mythology of Octavia Blake! Increasingly desperate collect calls to space, waiting for Bellamy to answer his fucking phone! Good earth cleavage! An unexpected opportunity to cry over “An American Tail!” A line Erin laughed so hard at that she sliced it out to make it her ringtone! TWENTY-SEVEN FULL MINUTES CARRIED SOLO ON ELIZA TAYLOR’S TINY AUSTRALIAN SHOULDERS WITH NO SCENE PARTNER EXCEPT A BIRD Come along on this journey with us, friends, we’ll even let you call shotgun. ________________________ 0:00 - We’re Back, Bitches! And So Is the Show We First Fell In Love With 0:04 - We Fully Could Have Watched Another Forty

THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL. Er--or maybe it always was! Anyway, Sachin is back for Part 2 of the Anniversary Clairin Interview! This time we're doing the Claire-only and Erin-only questions, so get pumped for lots more talk about CLAIRE'S AMAZING TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL THE REWIND FILES (go buy it right now, it's on Amazon, there won't be a test but there WILL be a podcast about it with Sachin eventually), what Erin and Claire's patronuses are, and how Erin and Sachin REALLY feel about Finn and Riley. Plus: what did Erin say to make Sachin threaten to hang up on her?? And the wild but true story of Claire's first viewing of The Kabby Kiss! Pictured: Erin and Claire on Erin's wedding day. Awwwww.

It's our second podcast anniversary! We're so grateful to all of you coming along on this journey with us over the past two years, we love each and every one of you so much! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided it was time for y'all to get to know us a little better, so we opened it up on Twitter for fans to send in questions to ask us...and then we asked Sachin Sahel, AKA The 100's own Eric Jackson, to be our special guest interview! He agreed, because he's the best. Join us on a freewheeling two-and-a-half-hour journey through Ark headcanons, embarrassing celebrity encounter stories, the nature of humanity, weirdest childhood crushes, the Clairin origin story, a LENGTHY digression into our "The 100"/"America's Next Top Model" crossover AU, the history of the science fiction novel and the mechanics of time travel, and SO much more.

The endlessly delightful Richard Harmon joins us on Meta Station this week to talk about growing up in a family of artists, the creative freedom of no-fucks-given auditioning, Murphy's flexible morality, the cathartic nature of portraying dark characters, and Murphy's relationships with Bellamy, Clarke, Emori, Abby and others going into season 5. ALIE gave it her best effort to shut down the entire interview via endless technical difficulties (which is why you'll hear Claire disappear altogether for a few minutes in the middle) but an evil A.I. is no match for the charm of a Harmon who once bought Claire and Erin shots of Jameson, and ultimately we prevailed. (Don't worry, the glitches have been edited out.)

We are back with the most extra trailer analysis ever! Literally one hour of talking per one minute of trailer, you guys. Almost three seconds of talking per each of the 5,000+ frames WHICH CLAIRE AND SELINA SCRUTINIZED ONE BY ONE. NOT A SINGLE STONE UNTURNED, THEN DISSOLVED INTO ITS COMPONENT MOLECULES FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS. PLUS! Erin is convinced Kane is getting a new profession, Claire is convinced Abby is up to something with Eligius and nightblood, and Selina is convinced that Clarke's loose lips summoned the Eligius ship! 3:00 - That One Time When Jason Showed Claire and Erin the Trailer Two Months Early 7:00 - Ever Noticed How Clarke Starts Every Odd-Numbered Season Completely Alone? 11:00 - Clarke's Drawings and the Importance of Artistic Expression 22:00 - *BELLARKE KLAXONS* 34:00 - Did Eligius Hear Clarke's Radio Transmissions??? 40:00 - WE WOULD ALREADY LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR MADI 48:00 - Enter Eligius *heavy metal plays in background* 1:22:00 - Erin Cracked Kane's Bunker Storyline, Everyone C

HAPPY TRAILER DAY, EVERYONE!! Now that the S5 trailer has dropped (AAATTTT LAAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTT dot mp3), we can share this snippet of trailer chat from our interview with Jason! Featuring the origins of #HugsAndDeath, a special shoutout to Sachin Sahel aka Jackson, and the hug that got left on the cutting room floor!

Since Jason had to miss his panel at Unity Days this year due to production conflicts, Erin and Claire decided it would be fun to open up Meta Station for a virtual fan Q&A...and Jason agreed! Over the course of our three-hour conversation (#ThatsSoMetaStation), we answer 15 fan questions about everything from what we can look forward to in season 5 to what Henry Ian Cusick is like BEHIND the camera, and everything in between--including TONS of awesome behind-the-scenes insights and tidbits!

Welcome back to Meta Station! It's been two months since we posted 111, for which we profoundly apologize; family, travel, work, book deadlines and general life stuff got in the way, and we meant to record at least one episode while we were together (Claire went to go visit Erin in November) but instead we just drank a lot of wine and cuddled with the dog and watched "Burlesque." WE STAND BY THESE LIFE CHOICES Anyway, we've finally hit the S1 finale and HOO BOY it's a ride, fam! Up on the Ark, Batshit Jaha is rising, Kane and Abby are nonstop badasses, Jackson is at Peak Cinnamon Roll, Wells and Jake save the day one last time, and SINCLAIR JUST WANTS TO GO HOME. Down on the ground, Bellamy deserves snuggles but instead receives only struggles, Murphy's red seatbelt kink comes back into play, the Blakes are at peak Battle Siblings, and Jasper and Raven save the day. Meanwhile, Clarke and Finn get a whole sideplot whose entire function is to creepily foreshadow all the crazy of Season 2, from Reapers and

Welcome back to Meta Station! Elizabeth’s back to join us for “The Calm,” which, true to its name, slows the propulsive plot action way down to give us what amounts to a three-part deep-dive character study of Kane, Raven and Clarke . . . with a side order of Braven sex, Kabby cuddling, and Finn once again working Erin’s last nerve. Also, Bellamy has trust issues with men, ABBY ISN’T DEAD!, Sass!Kane is rising, Clarke commits her first cold-blooded murder, Raven deserves snuggles and instead continually receives struggles, Monty brings Mt. Weather into the story in a big way (though we don’t really know it yet), and apparently as soon as Claire left for family dinner and left them unsupervised, Erin and Elizabeth started talking about cannibalism. JUST ANOTHER DAY AT META STATION -------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hoorayyyyyyy, Elizabeth’s Back! 0:01 – Claire Has Literally Been Waiting to Yell About This Kane Content Since We Started This Podcast 0:04 – The Wick Scenes Do a Remarkabl