We're The Monsters - Station Eleven (2021) Ep7-8

Podcasts Sep 07, 2025

You stand within the empty, sterile corridor. You don't so much hear the voices of what came before as you feel the ghosts within the structure. Architectural memory of the workers who clocked in. The travelers who moaned while waiting for their flight. The weight of all of that prehistory lurks in the shadows and fills the empty, forgotten rooms. The world is gone, yet the world remains.

David and Patrick are joined by ‪@DarthdYT‬ to spend an entire episode with their step dads before confronting old traumas.

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D.C. McNeill: I thought Pat might--I think these are big Pat episodes. It's feelings, process. It's procedure.

Patrick: Yeah for some reason the most compelling story-line to me is young Kirsten, Jeevan and Frank. I've been waiting for them to go back to that setting. So episode 7 was fantastic and it was... they tried to make it more confusing, you know with the timeline and stuff like that. They just did everything in their power to make it unconventional, show the in-between things. And I'm glad we're doing this podcast so that you guys can process this for me, because man, I'm just left so confounded as to what I should be feeling and what I should be thinking.

And then episode 8, I loved seeing Clarke and Elizabeth 20 years old.

D.C. McNeill: Clarke being a crazy old man is such a vibe.

Patrick: Yeah, I know. He's already giving--first scene I was like he's a cult leader now, "That's exactly what I expected."

D.C. McNeill: Darth, two deeply emotional episodes about human connection.

Darth: You probably had a bet about this, but when I watched episode seven I was like, kind of bored. But that was my first watch through, my second watch through I didn't feel that. So, I'm wondering if I just wasn't, you know, I wasn't vibing. I wasn't in the mood to be consuming at that point. And maybe I was watching it because I was like, David's gonna, you know, he's going to make me feel obligated, so I'm going to do it. But the second time I loved it.

D.C. McNeill: That is sometimes... look, I'm never upset to watch something for this. Like this is a privileged. This is a thing people pay us to do. But sometimes you're right. You're just not in the mood for a particular episode. And that episode seven is... you have to be in a particular headspace for it to grab you.

I think that you have to be bought into... you have to be and ready to sit with, and be occupying older Kirsten's position observing all this. And if for whatever reason that day you're just not in that particular headspace. I just don't think it's going to hit is my general feeling. So I think that's a fair reaction.