# 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:** 8
**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 10, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/141 "2015-06-10T19:08:06Z")
Haven’t seen the most recent episode so I won’t read the thread until I do but just to speculate: someone finally manages to eat the astronaut’s brain and - shocking twist - finds out the Apollo program was a giant hoax ---
**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 10, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/142 "2015-06-10T21:26:07Z")
Just watched the most recent episode. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/143 "2015-06-10T21:37:50Z")
Yeah, whoa. The whole Major and Blaine plots were something I didn’t see coming and that final “No” by Liv was just heart breaking. ---
**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, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/144 "2015-06-10T21:56:03Z")
So what are we thinking? Was the police chief killed, or did he just play dead while being carried out? If the ladder, possibly he saw an opportunity to take over the lucrative brain market? ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/145 "2015-06-11T01:23:37Z")
I love Major. He hadn’t really done much for me all season, although I didn’t like him. Last night I am totally on Team Major now. That grenade? The pee? Fantastic. ---
**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 11, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/146 "2015-06-11T02:44:29Z")
I found the finale to be a bit of a letdown, though I can’t quite put my finger on why. Maybe the tone was off or something. Still, it did surprise me at almost every turn, so kudos for that. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/147 "2015-06-11T09:58:52Z")
I’m a little disappointed that Liv, after wrecking her relationship with Major by essentially giving him medical treatments without his consent, decides to repair the damage by giving him medical treatment without his consent. It indicates a slow learning quality that she hasn’t exhibited so far. Still, smart people do dumb things in their personal relationships all the time, so it could be believable. Does she think he’s going to thank her for using the last dose of antidote on him if it causes the zombie apocalypse? Because that doesn’t sound like Major. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/148 "2015-06-11T12:02:29Z")
Major: “How dare you save my life. How dare you try to use your abilities to help people. How dare you keep from me that you are one of the enemy. How dare you let me check into a facility where I would be safe.” Liv: “I can’t win.” ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/149 "2015-06-11T14:18:57Z")
To be fair, I’m not sure I’d be all that pleased at being turned into a zombie either. Or at least I’d need some time to process that. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/150 "2015-06-11T17:55:58Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > To be fair, I’m not sure I’d be all that pleased at being turned into a zombie either. Or at least I’d need some time to process that. It beats the hell out of the alternative. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/151 "2015-06-11T18:01:33Z")
It may not. Some people may prefer to just die than to survive on the brains of others. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/152 "2015-06-12T02:36:18Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > It may not. Some people may prefer to just die than to survive on the brains of others. Well that alternative is always available if you don’t like the results, the police chief took care of himself. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/153 "2015-06-13T02:35:04Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > It may not. Some people may prefer to just die than to survive on the brains of others. Even temporarily? Ravi is working on a cure, after all. ---
**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 14, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/154 "2015-06-14T03:38:50Z")
I just rewatched the episode. At one point, when Steven Weber’s character is showing a video of Sebastian to his new head of research, he’s pretending to be eating peanuts or popcorn or whatever. He clearly tosses nothing into his mouth at one point. Could he be a stealth zombie? Have we seen him eating conventional food at other times? Or is this just a standard actor bit? ---
**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 14, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/155 "2015-06-14T07:33:29Z")
There was something about his^ complexion that had \*\*RealOmegaMan \*\*convinced he was a zombie too. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/156 "2015-06-14T14:49:03Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > There was something about his^ complexion that had \*\*RealOmegaMan \*\*convinced he was a zombie too. I was convinced that when he opened his eyes after the meditation scene that they are going to be red. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/157 "2015-06-17T22:15:08Z")
First off, captain is really dead, not faking. He got tired of the hypocrisy, tired of having to cover up for Blaine, tired of being caught in the middle with no hope of cure. He saw an out with the mess at the store. He took it. Gave him peace. Second, I totally get that Major was freaked out over Liv’s choices. I think her saying “Ravi’s working on a cure” could have eventually helped. But she basically said screw her chances of getting saved soon, she’ll save him now. I could see that choice. And not screwing her brother with the same decision. Maybe she did learn from Major. What’s to keep Blaine from just getting himself scratched again? Yeah, Blaine is staving off the zombie apocalypse that he’s set up. If there are other zombies that are in other cities, they are either keeping themselves fed or going full bad like the lady in the hole. Show kinda suffers from TV syndrome, where everything that matters only occurs in one city. Take “Person of Interest” - the premise is that the US government is watching us all, and we see the computers have access worldwide. Yet Harry’s plan only involves New York City. Everywhere else can suffer, he’s got one team to handle one or two names locally and that’s it. If Maxx Rager (yeah, what a plot device name) is a mass commercial product, not a Seattle local only product, then there should be zombie problems all across the US and spreading. If Blaine can figure out how to survive and make a profit, surely there are more industrious drug dealers or businessmen or whatever who can do the same. Just takes impulsive grab for brains early to hold off symptoms and then ability to plan and be ruthless. And there was something unsettling about the Maxx Rager CEO guy, so him being a zombie would make some sense. I mean, he touts it as the greatest thing since sliced bread, he’s totally the kind of guy looking for that next energy edge - caffeine, taurine, cocaine, amphetemines - so being an early sampler of their product before the side effect became known totally fits. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/158 "2015-08-03T19:12:01Z")
I like the show. I really do. It’s no Veronica Mars but it’s good enough. Just- dear Lord, is Liv infuriatingly useless. It’s like, if there are three bad choices, one bad but manageable, one pretty bad and a third one catastrophically awful, she’ll pick three every time. Every time. Her boyfriend is running around unknowingly facing zombies, yet she won’t own up to her secret, preferring him to face danger without all the information, until it’s literally too late. And then she allows him to check himself in a clinic, to keep him safe? You know what actually would keep him safe in the real world, lady? Telling him the truth. She could have solved the problem several episodes previously if she had had the guts to pull the trigger on Blaine. Or told anybody with the ability to do so. Yet after Blaine has literally killed two of her boyfriends in front of her, and does an evil villain monologue, clamoring to be shot in the head, she decides that wasting half a dose of the only cure that could potentially save mankind and allowing him to run amok and keep on killing is the better option. And then, after Major snaps at her for making a gigantic decision for him without consulting him first, what does she get from that? That it’s her cue to waste what’s left from the aforementioned dose without asking him, and dooming everyone, just because that, for some reason, would make her feel better than just, oh, I don’t know, telling him that there’s a cure on the way. Oh, and of course, she also learns not to cure her brother, nor to explain her plight to anybody. Because fuck acting in any way that makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/159 "2015-08-03T19:22:00Z")
Any news about next season? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235/160 "2015-08-03T19:30:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Any news about next season? October 6. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/izombie-anyone-else-planning-to-watch/715235.md?page=7)