Episode 3x10: "Fallen"

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 Character in This Episode Successfully Resisting Coercion 0:23 - In Which It’s Really Hard For Us When Our Two Favorite Characters Are Mad at Each Other But We Still Believe Kellamy Will Rise 0:37 - In Which Goddammit Octavia What Would Lincoln Tell You If He Were Here HE WOULD TELL YOU NO STABBING 0:40 - In Which Morality on This Show Is a Moving Target and Also for Real Are They Trying to Make Bellamy the Villain or Nah 1:12 - In Which Bellamy and Clarke Going 11 Episodes Without a Major Storyline Together Is a Narrative Problem We're Hoping Is Now Behind Us 1:17 - In Which FUCK YEAH DELINQUENTS REUNION 1:22 - In Which Love Is the Key to the City of Light, Abby Is a BAMF, and We're Really Squicked Out by That Raven Scene 1:35 - In Which Jasper Is This Episode’s MVP 1:42 - In Which Y'All Are Gonna Be Sorry You Wasted So Many Tranquilizers In This Episode If the Pauna Comes Back Or Something 1:43 - In Which In Which Jackson, Sinclair and Miller Are a Few of Our Favorite Things 1:46 - In Which Jaha as Season Three’s “Big Bad” Is One of the Best Decisions This Show Has Ever Made