Episode 1x07: "Contents Under Pressure"

Welcome back to Meta Station! Our hiatus is over and we’re back to yell in your ears about Season One. And hot damn, what an episode to come back to! This is one of our all-time faves of both the season and the series, so we’re full of wildly enthusiastic shouting about everything from Griffin family feels, the ethics of torture, actual human angel Vera Kane, how Diana Sydney is the Donald Trump of the Ark, a Finn storyline we don’t hate, the next-level prop details in that Eden Tree scene, PRINCESS MECHANIC, and the moment Claire first fell in love with Kane. DISCLAIMER: We recorded this episode the morning after the Senate healthcare vote, so we have a higher-than-usual number of politics thoughts, and also Erin is drunk. THIS WAS A FUN ONE, KIDS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 – Hi! We’re Back! We Missed You Too! Also Erin’s Drunk! 0:02 – The Structure of This Episode Is So Good We Don’t Even Mind How Much of It Hinges on Finn 0:07 – Kane and Abby (and Jaha, Sort Of?) Confront the Fallout of Both the Culling and Their Past Choices 0:16 – In Which Diana’s the Grifter and Jaha’s the Mark 0:26 – “That’s a Problem for Future Me”: Jake, the Culling, and Project Exodus 0:32 – The Value of the Human Species vs. the Value of the Human Individual 0:38 – What Could Jaha’s Season 5 Storyline Possibly Be? (GUYS. GUYS. IS HE DEAD.) 0:42 – This Is the Episode Where Claire First Fell In Love With Kane 0:46 – Erin Briefly Forgets Vera Kane Is About to Die and Claire Is UPSET 0:48 – Vera vs. Diana: The Light and Dark Sides of Human Emotion 0:51 – Diana Sydney and Donald Trump: The Rise of the Faux-Populist Con Artist 0:59 – Fictional Villains Have to Have a Level of Nuance That Real-Life Villains Don’t (AKA Even Cage Wallace Looks Better Next to Some of Our Actual Politicians) 1:05 – The Best of All Possible Finns 1:06 – We Love Us a Subverted Love Triangle 1:11 – NERD ALERT: Erin Enthuses About Princess Mechanic and Gender-Swapped Medieval Homosocial Triads 1:22 – Compartmentalization Champ Clarke Cries & It's C R U S H I N G 1:30 – Eight Minutes Later, Are We Still Gushing About Clarke? OF COURSE WE ARE 1:33 – Maybe There Are No Good Guys: Torture Edition 1:45 – Lincoln and Finn As Male Bodies to Whom Things Happen 1:48 – Raven and Bellamy and Powerlessness and Power 1:52 – How Do "Good" People Wind Up Becoming Torturers? 1:58 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lincoln's Season One Writing 2:12 – Early Signs of Octavias to Come 2:17 – MOAR MILLER SUPERCUTS 2:22 – How Drunk Is Erin Now?