iZombie - Season 3
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Now, that was more like it. We finally get an episode that's about Liv dealing with her personal issues as filtered through the brain-of-the-week, and it actually helps explain why we haven't seen episodes like that for most of the season to date: because she was deliberately avoiding dealing with her issues. Her BotW personas were so over-the-top because she was throwing herself into them fully to avoid being herself. And yeah, sure, it's nice to know there was a method to the madness, but it doesn't really do much to make me like the earlier episodes any more, because with or without a purpose, it was still pretty annoying to spend so much of the season with Liv having virtually no character development or meaningful storylines. I just hope this means that phase of the series is over now. (I think this is the first time we've heard her internal-monologue voiceover for a while too.)
I'm having trouble deciphering one of the punny "chapter titles" they show at the start of each act. It was "I Wanna Don E. Sedated." I can't figure out what that's a pun on. Maybe some song title or lyric I don't know? An ad slogan?
I'm having trouble deciphering one of the punny "chapter titles" they show at the start of each act. It was "I Wanna Don E. Sedated." I can't figure out what that's a pun on. Maybe some song title or lyric I don't know? An ad slogan?
^ Theres a song by The Ramones called "I Wanna Be Sedated", and that's what they were parodying.
On average. No doubt less if you scarfed down as much as Don E. did with the fighter-pilot brain. I wonder, do zombies have to worry about gaining weight from overeating?
Best episode since Major was on teenage girl brain, maybe even better!
The dominatrix stuff between Liv and Peyton was hilarious! Watching Liv and Blaine go full-on-zombie-mode was awesome! Even the banter between Ravi and Don E. and Clive and Peyton was great! I was actually (pleasantly) surprised that Blaine listened to Ravi's plea for help. I can't wait to watch him and Liv kick some ass!
I completely forget who Mr. Boss is. Someone enlighten me please.
The dominatrix stuff between Liv and Peyton was hilarious! Watching Liv and Blaine go full-on-zombie-mode was awesome! Even the banter between Ravi and Don E. and Clive and Peyton was great! I was actually (pleasantly) surprised that Blaine listened to Ravi's plea for help. I can't wait to watch him and Liv kick some ass!
I completely forget who Mr. Boss is. Someone enlighten me please.
He was the mob boss (imagine that) that Blaine had worked for and that Peyton was building a case against in season 2. It was through becoming an informant against Mr. Boss that Blaine met and charmed Peyton.
He's a nerd, that broke the glass ceiling.
Let me see if I got this straight: if there had not been the hallucination, they would continue with their little BDSm sessions?
Just asking for a friend who writes fan fiction...
It was interesting that her visions were shown exclusively "from the outside" this week. My first thought was that maybe they couldn't get the actor back, but no, the visions would be from his POV anyway so he wouldn't be needed except maybe in voiceover, and not necessarily that. So maybe it was just a stylistic choice to mix things up a little.
Mr. Boss must be the least genre-savvy character in the entire show.
Speaking of characters whose potential for zombie discovery are on the table, whatever happened to Ravi's ex-boss that was digging into the boat-party massacre? Was she just there to sleep with Ravi and complicate things with Peyton, or will the threat posed by her investigation crop up again?
I thought it was just a sort of 'joke' to show that other characters are now used to/even a little bit bored by, Liv's visions. Also it probably saved them money having to shoot the POV sequence.
That's basically what I meant -- mix things up by approaching it from a different perspective, looking at it from the other side, as it were.
Kinda refreshing to see Liv and the people around her saying "Okay, try harder to control the influence of this brain" rather than just seeing her indulge the wackiness. I often wonder why Clive, Ravi, and Peyton are so patient with her antics now that they all know it isn't really her.
It's also nice to see acknowledgment that Liv isn't the only zombie dealing with personality changes and visions. Seeing different zombies affected by the same brain at the same time is something we haven't seen much, except on Liv's date with the Fillmore-Graves guy where they shared adrenaline-junkie brain. The "three-way" vision was an interesting touch, but I kinda question the "science" there. Logically, since all three of them ate different pieces of the guy's brain, they shouldn't all have access to the same memories. They should only have fragments. But the show tends to approach it more as magic than science -- eat even a small portion of a brain, even a damaged or decayed brain, and you potentially have access to any of its memories, provided that they're plot-relevant. It might be more interesting if they applied a little more conceptual rigor to it -- like, say, maybe Liv can only get part of the information she needs, so she has to compare notes with someone else on the same brain who's gotten different pieces of the puzzle.
It's also nice to see acknowledgment that Liv isn't the only zombie dealing with personality changes and visions. Seeing different zombies affected by the same brain at the same time is something we haven't seen much, except on Liv's date with the Fillmore-Graves guy where they shared adrenaline-junkie brain. The "three-way" vision was an interesting touch, but I kinda question the "science" there. Logically, since all three of them ate different pieces of the guy's brain, they shouldn't all have access to the same memories. They should only have fragments. But the show tends to approach it more as magic than science -- eat even a small portion of a brain, even a damaged or decayed brain, and you potentially have access to any of its memories, provided that they're plot-relevant. It might be more interesting if they applied a little more conceptual rigor to it -- like, say, maybe Liv can only get part of the information she needs, so she has to compare notes with someone else on the same brain who's gotten different pieces of the puzzle.
The fighting and brain-sharing scenes were fun.
I knew something was iffy about the two girls that Major and Ravi were into.
I'm glad the redneck wasn't human. It would have been awful for Clive.
I knew something was iffy about the two girls that Major and Ravi were into.
I'm glad the redneck wasn't human. It would have been awful for Clive.
There is nothing trustworthy about sexforts.
Check your boyfriends tumblr too.
No one is trust worthy.
Check your boyfriends tumblr too.
No one is trust worthy.
I dunno, I think Shawna turned out to be basically on the level. Granted, it was inappropriate for her to post her videos and photos of Major without his consent, but it seems her motives were good.
