iZombie

I remember hearing Liv's family would appear again this season.

So that should be exciting. I've been looking forward to it for ages.

Don't give me false hope. Characters dropping of the earth without a mention is one of my least favorite trope.

I still find it hard to sympathize with the group of people increasing the population of people who need human brains to survive in a limited environment.

We don't really know what happens when someone is cured of the zombie virus who was infected for the purpose of curing a disease or illness.

Well, aside from Major, but it might be different when its not just physical wounds.

Ideally, I think the ending to S5 would involve the creation of a cure, but keeping Liv and a few others around as a zombie for the purpose of curing people of incurable diseases, and then curing them after the healing has taken.

That is assuming the people cured will stay cured of their disease, they can convince the government its worth the risk (easier if the cure can be mass produced and delivered by darts or something) and that the writers don't think its too dull an ending.

My theory is that the series has shot itself in the foot by forgetting its theme and making changes that prevent from the theme ever being recovered. iZombie is fundamentally an optimistic, breezy, and funny show about the "joke" of a zombie being a sexy perky idealistic crime fighter. Like if you made Supergirl (or more precisely Kara Danvers) a zombie.

The problem is that Fillmore Graves Seattle is a horrible dystopian hellhole where thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people have died. It's a traumatizing and depressing situation that kind of renders all of the previous murder investigations as well as heroic actions by our heroes pointless.

I don't get this show. Do the people in this show not understand a person needs a brain to live? Major says Stacey is going get his brains from a bunch of third world hospitals. It's not like donating a kidney, you only have one. Is it Moral Myopia?

I think the whole business is supposed to work as with organ donation - that is, brains are taken post mortem from people died in accidents etc.

I enjoyed enormously the first three seasons, but the fourth seemed to have serious issues with the mood. I've seen the first episode of the fifth and I'm not sure I'm going to finish it. It seems to have become too bleak, with less focus on Liv and more on Fillmore Graves. Could you tell me if it continues this way?

Edited by YourBloodyValentine on Jun 7th 2019 at 8:41:24 PM

Well, the first two episodes are pretty bleak, I give you that. But the third one is very old school.

Does anyone really think Blaine and Stacey are getting all their brains through voluntary donations?

I think they are bribing coroners and funeral homes to take the brains of the dead and not tell the next of kin. This is a much cheaper approach than paying for murder. Note that this was always so and Blaines entire murder empire in season 1 was just him being gratuitously evil. I really wanted the journalist to pull the trigger on him. Actually, it made no sense that she did not. He promised to murder her, and charged at her. Just put the man down.

Am I being too naive? Could be. I think it is because I prefer to remember this as a lighthearted show and I never really understood the last, gloomier season. Well, I'll go on and I really hope the tone will lighten a little.

The fact that Don calls his own mom 'Mom E.' is amazing.

I think Season 5 is doing a better job with the allegories and the development of a gray morality than Season 4.

I was kind of hoping at the end there might be a reference or two to the comic but I don't think it's going to happen.