Episode 1x06: "His Sister's Keeper"

Welcome back to Meta Station for the first of our “Who Are We Kidding Ourselves We Can’t Possibly Cover Two Episodes at Once, Let’s Just Go Back To Giving Each of Them Two Hours As the Good Lord Intended” podcasts. Erin says “hegemonic” but also refers to the Grounders as “Juggalo Murder Clowns”, we finally find something nice to say about Finn, and we both get a little real about our own families while crying over the Blakes. This one is a RIDE, y’all. 0:00 – INTRODUCTION! Claire’s 35 Now and Erin Has Been Chasing a Spider For Four Hours 0:02 – “I’ve Abandoned All Pretense of Journalistic Integrity”: In Which We Discuss the Most Charitable, and the Least Charitable, Interpretations of Finn’s Behavior In This Episode 0:11 – Finn/Raven and Bellamy/Octavia Parallels (NOT IN A GROSS WAY, This Podcast Is a Blakecest-Free Zone) 0:22 – Raven and Clarke Subvert The Love Triangle Trope 0:30 – “Use Your Words, Lincoln” 0:40 – From John Locke to Juggalos: Season One’s Problematic Grounder World-Building 1:01 – A Lengthy Digression In Which We Yell About Tropes and Racism 1:14 – Aurora Blake and The Dark Underbelly of Ark Society 1:20 – Like Mother, Like Son: Aurora and Bellamy’s Parenting Techniques 1:35 – Bellamy, Your Trust Issues With Grownups Are Showing 1:38 – The Moment Where Both Clarke, and Erin, Begin to Come Around on Big Brother Bellamy 1:44 – The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Blake Fight 1:54 – Same Parents, Different Childhood: Bellamy and Octavia Can’t Really See Each Other 2:01 – Tragedies of Good Intentions Make Very Good Television 2:07 – The Stealth Feminism of This Show’s Familial and Platonic Relationships 2:11 – Jasper’s Performative Masculinity: Or, Erin Solves Our “Linctavia vs. Jactavia” Timeline Problem