Episode 5x04: "Pandora's Box"

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 relieved to see Bellamy?????) As a wee preview of our upcoming OTP roundtables, we also each gave ourselves a segment to just explode with feelings about our ships: Erin is HYPED that Clarke and Bellamy each have their partner back, while Claire is stoked as hell that Kane and Abby appear to be headed for a season-long arc where they aren’t separated, and we both lost our shit at both the Bravenlarke reunion, and how beautifully the show is nailing Abby’s addiction storyline so far. Plus bonus Blake feels, and fun with Pandora’s Boxes! HOLY SHIT THIS EPISODE WAS GOOD ---------- 0:02 - Murphy and Raven and Useful Uselessness 0:16 - Clarke Is Alive, and the Weight of the World Is Off Raven's Shoulders 0:20 - Clarke Means So Much to So Many, and We Are EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT 0:25 - Season 5 Is Balancing Character with Plot FLAWLESSLY and It Is GLORIOUS 0:32 - We Reject This "Miles" Nonsense 0:35 - Zeke Vs. Raven Was a SHEER DELIGHT 0:43 - Who Changed the Launch Code: Raven or Zeke? 0:47 - Miles Ezekiel Shaw: Already a Double Agent? 0:50 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Raven Edition 0:54 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Eligius Backstory Edition 0:58 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: Erin's Grand Unified Shanghaiing Theory of Second Dawn and Order 11 1:06 - SPECULATION SPECTACULAR: "Cure" for What?!?!?! That Creepy Stomach Shit?!?! 1:11 - Diyoza/Clarke Parallels *AIR HORN* 1:17 – McCreary on One Side, Indra On the Other: Fracturing in the Ranks 1:22 – Kane In the Fighting Pit: Myth, Memory, and the Fragility of Blodreina” 1:31 – Octavia Is Not Exactly 100% Pleased to Be Out of the Bunker 1:35 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 1: Mothers and Memories 1:40 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 2: Marcus the Dangerous Revolutionary 1:47 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 3: Forcing Wonkru to Look at Themselves 1:55 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 4: Rewriting His Own Narrative to Become a Better Man 1:59 – Kane and the Power of Story, Part 5: Forcing Blodreina to Remember Who Octavia Was 2:04 – Bellamy Is NOT Feeling This Whole Metamorphosis Biz 2:16 – If You Didn’t Cry at That Kabby Scene, You’re DEAD INSIDE 2:25 – The Agony of Loving Someone With an Addiction 2:28 – The Last Thing Out of Pandora’s Box Is Abby Griffin 2:39 – Kane and Abby Are the Last Survivors of Their Entire Generation 2:43 – A Bellarke Reunion Scene Uninterrupted by Some Kind of Immediate Crisis? IS IT CHRISTMAS 2:48 – BRAVENLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKE 2:53 – Other Potential Pandora’s Boxes