# iZombie - anyone else planning to watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235 "2015-03-17T21:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/121 "2015-05-28T22:38:21Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I thought it was communicated that that was one of her hallucinations, too. Am I wrong about that? Ah, right. That would explain him not zombie-ing. :smack: Though it doesn’t explain why she didn’t react in any way, since she thought that it was real at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/122 "2015-05-29T01:07:28Z")
…I thought I was watching Wonderfalls just for a minute. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/123 "2015-05-29T03:58:43Z")
Okay, given that I live in Washington state, I’m trying to make sense of the license plate tabs on that car Major hid in the trunk of (and I couldn’t find any way to end that sentence without a preposition, sorry). The year tab said “2015”, but the month tab said “17”. That’s not how license tabs work here. The month tab should have had a 3-letter abbreviation for a month name. My current car’s month tab says “DEC”, and my dead car’s month tab says “JUN”. “17” makes no sense, unless it’s supposed to be some meta reference. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/124 "2015-05-29T09:44:29Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Okay, given that I live in Washington state, I’m trying to make sense of the license plate tabs on that car Major hid in the trunk of (and I couldn’t find any way to end that sentence without a preposition, sorry). > > The year tab said “2015”, but the month tab said “17”. That’s not how license tabs work here. The month tab should have had a 3-letter abbreviation for a month name. My current car’s month tab says “DEC”, and my dead car’s month tab says “JUN”. “17” makes no sense, unless it’s supposed to be some meta reference. No idea but, yeah, that show is pretty clearly not filmed in Seattle and the costume/makeup/location scouting people are pretty clearly unfamiliar with Seattle. It seems like they would have done better to set the story in Unobtainiville or, like Reaper, limit how often you reference the name of the location of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/125 "2015-05-29T11:30:10Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …I thought I was watching Wonderfalls just for a minute. ☹ I know. My wife and I love that show! Better than Pushing up Daisies. And of course, I could not help but think of the Grim Reaper in Bogus Journey. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/126 "2015-05-29T16:10:21Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > One thing I have noted is that, regardless of whether Major is in the correct and trying to do the best for the world that he can and everything, he’s still basically acting like a nut. I feel like he’s more on the path towards becoming Ahab van Helsing than he is towards being a viable love interest for our heroine, and yet I’m not yet confident that the writers intend for him to become an irredeemably crazy zombie hunter and certainly they haven’t yet fleshed out any sort of personality which would have led him to being that sort of person (though perhaps that’s the fault of the actor). Reading this gives me an idea for the season-ending cliffhanger: Blaine turns Major. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/127 "2015-05-29T22:27:26Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > On another note, why didn’t he zombify when they locked lips? If scratching someone can switch them, one would think that swapping saliva _really_ would. That’s her whole fear with dating him after all. Don’t know, but that actually already occurred - she kissed him when she was all hopped up on that artist guy who banged everyone. Major shut her down and sent her home. Maybe it wasn’t a simple scratch, but a zombied-out scratch from bloody hands? Is totally fair for Major to be pledging to kill all the zombies - is not like he’s heard of good ones, just the ones killing homeless kids for their brains. Still, it’s natural for Liv to be afraid of him finding out, even if the hallucination worked out ok. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/128 "2015-05-29T23:03:18Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > No idea but, yeah, that show is pretty clearly not filmed in Seattle and the costume/makeup/location scouting people are pretty clearly unfamiliar with Seattle. It seems like they would have done better to set the story in Unobtainiville or, like Reaper, limit how often you reference the name of the location of the story. I spotted an oddity in the series _Fringe_, as well. In one episode, the Peter character runs off and winds up in Washington state. Over the phone, he tells somebody he’s in Such-and-such County, WA, but the county name he gave doesn’t actually exist. And in the same episode, we hear a radio announcer mention Snohomish County, which _does_ exist. So I think the episode was indeed filmed in Washington. At least it _looked_ like backwoods Western Washington. Also, the county sheriff drove a car that said “POLICE” on the side. Every sheriff’s department car I’ve in this state says “SHERIFF”. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/129 "2015-06-03T14:34:19Z")
Wow, this season is coming to quite a set of climaxes. How intense were the last 20 minutes of this episode? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/130 "2015-06-03T15:54:22Z")
Googling says that the series is filmed in Vancouver BC and areas around there. I’ve tried to pick out Seattle clues and telltales and haven’t really seen any, other than occasional Washington license plates which are common in BC. In the most recent episode, they tried to locale name-drop fictional Doc Maynard High School, but mispronounced Maynard (who is a local Seattle old-timey person of note). ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/131 "2015-06-03T17:02:49Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Wow, this season is coming to quite a set of climaxes. How intense were the last 20 minutes of this episode? Agreed. It’s really heading in a great direction. My only caveat being that the brother-finding-a-job-at-the-arch-villain’s-secret-lair thing is so horribly contrived. It’s a notably bad bit of stupid writing in what is otherwise a pretty clever show. The main lady’s acting in this episode was pretty awesome. It made me think back to Burn Notice or Dollhouse where the actors would try to play a different personality than the one they were cast for and just come across as actors doing impressions of gross stereotypes. The cheerleader character was, admittedly, written as a gross stereotype (and it makes no sense that previous brains didn’t change her so strongly), but Rose McIver made it seem like a real person. So kudos to her. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/132 "2015-06-04T02:41:42Z")
The song playing just after the kitchen fight was super familiar but I couldn’t place it, which drove me up a wall. I was sure I knew it from a different show, or possibly a movie trailer. It starts at 37 minutes into [the episode](http://www.cwtv.com/shows/izombie/dead-rat-live-rat-brown-rat-white-rat/?play=e9767db4-193a-441d-81e6-4ecabcdba56b), though you have to sit through an entire show’s worth of commercials to get to it. Googling shows it’s Retrograde by James Blake. Here’s the official [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6PcFFUm5I) on youtube. [Wikipedia informs me](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_%28song%29) that I knew it from the [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLT3YUALJno) for HBO’s The Leftovers. Apparently it was also in the pilot episode. Just an FYI for anyone else in the same boat as me. It was driving me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/133 "2015-06-04T14:58:27Z")
I can’t figure out who was picking off the Asshats. Max-Rager-Zombie took out the cheerleader, but then the other three were fine and safe for two weeks. Who killed stoner dude and attacked Teresa[1]? Max-Rager-Zombie was dead by the end of the episode, and was only really after Liv anyway. [1] I’m going to go ahead and just call her Sin, since she was playing the same character as she is in Arrow 😉 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/134 "2015-06-04T15:15:12Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I can’t figure out who was picking off the Asshats. Max-Rager-Zombie took out the cheerleader, but then the other three were fine and safe for two weeks. > > Who killed stoner dude and attacked Teresa[1]? Max-Rager-Zombie was dead by the end of the episode, and was only really after Liv anyway. > > [1] I’m going to go ahead and just call her Sin, since she was playing the same character as she is in Arrow 😉 I see Teresa as Truble’s little sister. I thought it was Stoner dude what attacked Teresa - implication that hes now a zombie that isn’t quite up to speed on the whole eating brains thing. (Stoner dude == bass player, straight cut dude that was killed was on Guitar, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/135 "2015-06-04T15:45:40Z")
No idea, but yeah, the non-black haired one who was boffing the cheerleader. He’s innocent though - Liv ate his brains and turned into a stoner after he died, so he’s not the one who zombied-up and attacked Teresa. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/136 "2015-06-05T02:02:58Z")
Yeah, no kidding on the intense final 20 mins! This is going to an interesting Season finale. > [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I can’t figure out who was picking off the Asshats. Max-Rager-Zombie took out the cheerleader, but then the other three were fine and safe for two weeks. > > Who killed stoner dude and attacked Teresa[1]? Max-Rager-Zombie was dead by the end of the episode, and was only really after Liv anyway. Maybe one of Blaine’s people got to him? Or is it someone else altogether… Obviously by turning it dark, they wanted to keep us guessing. I imagine if it was a Blaine henchman they would have just shown that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/137 "2015-06-05T02:17:02Z")
If I was going to be interrogating and torturing a guy in the back room of a store separated from the sales counter by just one flimsy slat-door, I might want to close up shop to keep customers and job applicants from wandering in, just saying. I mean, if someone in the kitchen can easily overhear casual conversation at the counter, I assume screaming would be audible in the other direction. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/138 "2015-06-05T05:26:59Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If I was going to be interrogating and torturing a guy in the back room of a store separated from the sales counter by just one flimsy slat-door, I might want to close up shop to keep customers and job applicants from wandering in, just saying. I mean, if someone in the kitchen can easily overhear casual conversation at the counter, I assume screaming would be audible in the other direction. Eh, just kill 'em and eat their brains. Worst case, even if they’re able to make it out of the store and to get away all they can do is call the cops, and you own the police chief. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/139 "2015-06-10T18:21:09Z")
Well very little of that turned out like I expected. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/140 "2015-06-10T18:43:06Z")
Things I didn’t like about the finale: -Way too much of it devoted to tracking down who killed those random teenagers, who I didn’t care about. Not nearly enough of it devoted to our main characters, who I do care about. -Blaine survives basically due to plot armor -fairly contrived set of circumstances leading Liv’s brother to get blown up Things I did like: -the idea that Blaine has been preventing a zombie apocalypse (although aren’t there zombies in other cities? or zombies that Blaine doesn’t know about?) -Major going all Rambo on the meat market Overall, a bit of a letdown after such a great buildup, but I’m definitely psyched for season 2. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235.md?page=8)