#The Scratchmaker

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Now I'm thinking about that scene in The Scratchmaker where Don E points his gun at Blaine and Blaine is like 'wow you really gotta practice this, you're pointing the gun right at me and I'm not even scared"

narrator (me): what he was experiencing was trust. he just doesn't know because he's never felt that before.

[jcllen17]

French recipies? Well now I'm curious. Also, isn't carbonara made with egg? Unless you're talking about scratchmaking pasta dough, in which case hell yeah, I support.

Definitely like be more brave with my french recipes. Do some laminating if you know what that is? and some braver pastas with egg and cheese. Not necessarily together

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iZombie 5x06 “The Scratchmaker” Review

For the duration of the show, iZombie has primarily been from Liv Moore’s point of view. In earlier seasons, her voiceover was heavily used, but as storylines became more ambitious and formats got more playful, the show moved away from the narrative device. This week, however, we heard the voice of a new character — Blaine DeBeers. Disgraced and dejected, his kingdom is finally, finally crumbling down. His voiceover opens the episode, telling us that we “all know the drill” per the murder-of-the-week. This week, however, “This isn’t her story, it’s mine.” Despite his insistence, it’s another character that stands out this episode: Don E.

When we were first introduced to Don E in Season 2, he was a textbook minion. Never particularly smart or independent, he was a comic relief sidekick. Over the seasons, we’ve seen Don E grow into himself, starting to take more responsibility in Blaine’s businesses, and feeling ownership over the bar. A good chunk of this episode is devoted to showing how Blaine’s latest circus is finally the last straw, and Don E is finally ready to strike out on his own. Because of Al’s expose, Blaine is basically out of the picture. His assets are frozen, his “rainy day” funds are “running on fumes,” he’s lost public face, his estate has burned down, and Fillmore Graves is in emergency mode because of the loss of brains.

After raging out and killing Tanner for losing the last remaining cures, Don E is finished. He goes into cahoots with Stacy Boss. They have a somber conversation about cutting Blaine out of the middle, and we see a side of Don E that we’ve never seen before: he seems defeated, but there’s a new seriousness and maturity to him. “Would Blaine be as loyal to you?” Mr. Boss asks him. The answer is devastatingly clear. Frankly, it’s surprising to me that it’s taken this long for someone to steal Don E away from Blaine. There’s only so many seasons someone can go as a designated underling to a vicious mobster.

Mr. Boss is ready to take advantage of the dire brain situation (Major estimates they have 48 hours before they run out), and plans to jack up prices and run away with Blaine’s monopoly. Major forces their hand last minute by bringing in some new smuggling competition, a deal with a shipping company called “UFreightEze” to rebrand the brain business as legit. While Mr. Boss gets caught off guard, Don E doesn’t hesitate to take Major’s deal for a lower price. When Blaine finally can show his face again back at the bar, Don E tells him that his image is bad for business and to lay low. He uses the UFReightEze operation as a cover to tell Blaine that they were out of the brain business, instead of admitting that they are just cutting him out of the operation. While Don E has been making strides all episode, he does make one mistake — assuming Blaine will take his advice to lay low. Remembering the article that leaked, Blaine goes in search of a Freylich brain. He’s gone full Big Bad now — offering a half a million dollars to a young college student named Darcy. It turns out that Ravi’s concerns about an ethical extraction of a zombie cure were warranted, and Blaine is willing to go back to his old gig of child murder. His voiceover closes out the episode — “So if I’m a monster, maybe I am. But sometimes they don’t leave me any choice.” If the voiceover was meant to lend sympathy to Blaine and that he was somehow pushed to this edge…they are going to have to do a lot more to convince me of that.

I liked that the brain was kind of a fun add on top of the plot this week. Liv made a few coy comments to Major (“Matchmaker brain? Nailed it,” he smirks), and notices a sweet moment between Clive and Dale...and that’s about it. iZombie has always been committed to small character moments, whether it’s Liv, Major, and Ravi teasing each other in the living room, or Liv helping Clive move into the lieutenant’s office. Sometimes the brains are essential to the plot, sometimes multiple plots, and sometimes they seem extraneous in an overstuffed episode. This episode, the brain was like sprinkles on top of a cupcake, and I’m okay with that from time to time.

Meanwhile, a few crucial things did happen. Our blackmailed teacher friend Graham from a few episodes ago is back. For reasons unknown, he helps smuggle in a zombie named Riley to be one of Liv’s coyotes. To “prove” she’s human, they take a shot of ghost pepper, and she pretends to cough. (Anyone else feel like that was a strange detail? Also, I didn’t know that all of Liv’s coyotes had to be human.) Major goes toe to toe with Dolly, confronting her at her food truck. We find out that one of Major’s cadets, Murphy, is Dolly’s son. She’s disowned him over becoming a zombie. Murphy tells Major to be careful, because Dolly “really hates zombies.” Yeah, buddy, so we’ve heard. Dolly has spoken into every single microphone she can get her hands on, on every TV channel, multiple times a day. She’s got sneaky food order codes that have killed people. She knows what she’s doing. I’d be very curious to find out why, however. Her hatred seems to have existed even before her son became a zombie, so I do wonder what the root of it all is. Major had better find out a way to get through to her soon, something tells me that Dolly won’t wait much longer to strike again.

Stray thoughts:

Malcolm Goodwin directed the episode, is there anything he can’t do?

UFreightEze is a brilliant pun. Despite this show’s ups and downs, you can always count on it for grade A wordplay.

I’m dying to know who the matchmaker was going to set Don E up with! A love interest for him could be cute.

Dude, talk about a conflict of interest. What a twist that Al is Mr. Boss’ niece.

The US government has officially named Fillmore Graves a terrorist organization. Both parties have earned one Big Yike for that.

Don E admits that Dale scares him so he “steers clear.” I would pay good money for Dale to roast Don E.

“Oh, no you are not taking credit for me and Peyton.” Rahul Kohli’s delivery was perfect here.

Major’s little wink at Dolly ended me.

Beanpole? Davinci of Utopian? Are we talking about Shady Zombie Man?

Don E stage whispering “Tanner’s capable” is one of my favorite Don E lines this season.

Haley’s episode rating: 🐝🐝🐝.5

iZombie airs Thursdays at 9/8c on the CW.

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anybody who’s seen all of izombie: is the scratchmaker important to understand the rest of s5?  because blaine is garbage, I literally do not fucking care, and yet this show is trying to make me care

if I must watch this episode to understand the rest of s5, I’ll suffer through it while playing a video game.  if I can skip it, please let me know

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Whale Blaine DeBeers in iZombie, 5.06 “The Scratchmaker”

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Izombie “The scratchmaker”

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iZombie Season 5 - Episode 6: The Scratchmaker AirDate: June 6th, 2019, 08:00 PM

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Hi, I recently got into izombie (probably from you putting it on my dash) and figure you’re the right person for this question. While I love majority of the show, somewhere in the S3-4 range, it didn’t seem as good - not sure if the plots were weaker but the brain-effect on Liv seemed way stronger than before in a way that was less enjoyable to watch (and based on some fourth wall jokes, I’m guessing the network was neglecting them in S4?). On the other hand, I love both “good guy angsts about learning to bend morals without going too far” characters and “unrepentantly fun bad guys” so having both Major and Blaine(&company) in one show is amazing. I’ve finished S4 and it ended in a solid enough way to be a finale and I’ve heard that the end of S5 was bad so my question for you is… Is season five worth watching?

Heyo! :>

I love hearing that people watch izombie!! (especially if I play a role in that).

Hmm...my nuanced, honest opinion?

The issue of the brains becoming really dominant is a common criticism of season 4/the later episodes, so you're definitely not alone with that feeling (personally, I mostly dislike it in the way that we don't see how things actually affect Liv as our main-character for a lot of the times. But overall, I do like season 4 as the one where they were the most silly with their premise and had a little fun and we get some new dynamics, new characters, the whole Filmore Graves situation, Liv's whole Renegade gig, Ravi's part-time zombie thing, Blaine and Don E doing their silly little basement antics and also sad things like the Isobel arc - I won't lie, I had a good time with season 4 and it's definitely one I like to rewatch for the stand-alone episodes. I don't often rewatch a lot of season 5, it has to be said. But I generally tend to avoid finales. I am biased against final seasons).

And yeah, they had issues with the budget and management though I never really looked into the details. This is also something that can be felt in season 5 and the finale.

Season 3 has (I think?) a bit of a reputation as the weakest season of the show because it's kinda disrupted plotwise and some of the characterisation issues - so yeah, a lot of people share the sentiment.

When it comes to season 5: WELL. yeah. It's definitely not in the race for "best finale of all times". It's not going out with a bang, I'm honest (a lot of which is due to the budget issue, to be fair). BUT I also didn't hate it. There are some fun episodes, some answers to questions, some stuff is resolved.

If you want my honest opinion: If season 4 was a total drag for you to get through, season 5 (at least the first half) has a very similar tone. I don't think it's as over the top with the brains as they were e.g. with "Blue Bloody" (Liv on snobby old lady brain). But if you really don't want to relive that, I would also recommend you stop at the season 4 finale. With the season 4 finale, you're ending on a high note with all the characters being happy and successful and basically running Seattle.

If you want to know how the show really ends without investing a lot of time in season 5, I would recommend you watch "The Scratchmaker" (and perhaps "Death Moves Pretty Fast") and the finale and you will get the gist of it. On the other hand, another strategy might be to ignore the show-finale/over-arching plot and let the s4 finale be a spiritual finale for the show itself. That way, you can still enjoy some of the good season 5 episodes that are fun on their own, like the noir episode, the dancing episode etc. Those are pretty fun. I think most of the reason people say season 5 is bad is because of the finale and the plotlines that lead to it, not so much the per-week stuff.

Though, I admit I didn't hate season 5 It's by no means a work of art but honestly, izombie is not a show that I love particularly much for quality - I don't think it's some forgotten magnum opus - I mostly really love the characters and the ideas and dynamics. And I also still enjoyed those things in season 5.

As I said, first half of the season is close to season 4 in tone and style - then it reaches kind of a tipping point where you can tell it's taking the big steps towards the finish line. I think that's my biggest actual issue with that season. Because towards the end, they kind of rush it and introduce a lot of stuff in a really quick time. It's like - you should be resolving stuff now, not create more plotlines. I feel like the final 2 episodes should at least have been 3 but you can tell that this was also a budget issue.

Some of the strong points are that we get some resolution to older arcs, especially where Liv is concerned (I don't want to spoil). Peyton gets a bit more to do than in season 4 which I also liked though there are..................some more instances of a certain pattern of tropes I noticed they do with her character that once again happened in season 5. (Maybe I'll make a post about that one day but I don't want to be negative)

I think if you enjoyed Major and the whole Filmore Graves ethical quagmire in season 4, you will also enjoy him in season 5 because a lot is happening there. I do miss Chase a lot though. Don E gets a lot more character development and higher stakes in season 5 and we (and Blaine) get to meet his mother and learn more about him, which made me really happy. I really had a good time with Don E in that season. We even get a pre-Boat Party flashback with him and Blaine and Scott E.

As far as Blaine is concerned, a lot of people say that season 5 is his darkest, most evil season. It's a lot less "silly antics" compared to season 4 and a lot more "dude is really fucking losing it" and this is where a lot of fans say he really lost a lot of the compassion bonus he had with them. Though, personally I think it's all pretty on-brand and in character and there is a lot of call-back to his season 1 stuff. Also, having him narrate an episode was fun.

There are some new villains too, one character you already know from s4 becomes the main-baddie. And though while they don't replace Chase or Rita or Vaughn for me I did enjoy that character getting to go nuts a little.

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iZombie - ’The Scratchmaker’ Review

“This isn't her story. It's mine.”

After a pivot back to the better aspects of the series last week, this episode sees iZombie recapture more of that plotting magic it was once known for. It’s made me truly excited about the show again.

With Malcolm Goodwin in the director’s chair, ‘The Scratchmaker’ is told from the perspective of both the now belittled Blaine, and his jilted business partner Don E, both of whom are at a major crossroads.

Blaine has suffered a massive fall from grace following Al’s tell-all article in the previous episode. Everyone knows about his past crimes and misdemeanors; The Scratching Post is barely hanging on; and his finances are completely eroded. In fact, the article was so cutthroat that Blaine starts this episode locked in a jail cell. It’s interesting that he makes a point of noting in his own McIver-esque voiceover that this is his story, since the episode shifts dramatically halfway through that it isn’t so much about him anymore, as it is about Don E taking his rightful place as Seattle’s premier brain peddler.

Before that, we watch as Blaine hits some pretty low points, like fighting to scrape the last of his pennies together to pay the retainer for his lawyer (Ken Marino, in his third appearance as Brandt Stone) and being forced into sleeping in the basement of Don E’s stepmother’s house. The highlight for me was Blaine’s failed attempt to threaten an unshakable Al, who was more than ready for him. She even bemusedly turns down Fillmore Graves’ offer to protect her in light of her role in taking Blaine down, but she may have had other reasons for feeling so secure.

I was initially taken aback by how up-market Al’s apartment was; a central penthouse with city views doesn’t exactly fit in with a reporter’s salary. It’s not until we see her surprised by a newly resurfaced Stacey Boss that we learn why she might have such vast resources to her name; she’s the crime lord’s niece. What I loved about this twist is how much it reminded me of iZombie’s imperial phase, where plots were being tied together so convincingly, and in such exciting and unexpected ways. I especially liked that it was Stacey behind Al’s expose. What a great way to take Blaine out of the picture without getting his own hand's dirty.

It is true that Blaine does manage to finesse his way out of jail, at least temporarily, but he’s still lost pretty much everything. Don E struggles with the opportunity to oust Blaine; after all, he does have him to thank for all the success he’s enjoyed over the last few months, why shouldn’t he put up with Blaine’s odd temper tantrum? But Blaine pushed things too far when he offed poor Tanner for screwing up his plan to sell off the remaining cures. Don E had no more excuses left, and decided to join forces with Stacey Boss, and claim his rightful place in the brain business he helped to grow. He even saves their asses by putting them back into play when Major finds an outside opportunity to keep the brain smuggling business alive.

It’ll be interesting to see how Blaine and Don E butt heads over the coming episodes, especially since neither party are aware of how badly they’re screwing each other over. Don E doesn’t let Blaine know about his continued role in the brain smuggling operations, but Blaine doesn’t seem in any way interested in sharing his own newfound business; selling off sick young-adults’ brains to rich zombies, desperate for a cure. His grossest bad-guy plan yet, but so very Blaine.

Plus

Matchmaker brain was fun, but not exactly the biggest part of the episode. And admittedly so.

CHICS continue to be the worst.

The scenes surrounding the infiltration of Renegade’s operations by this mysterious new villain – courtesy of Mr Moss – feel very much out of place this week. Will we learn the real reason for it all, soon?

He Said, She Said

Blaine: “We all know the drill. You eat the brain, find clues blah-blah-blah, case closed. But this isn't her story. It's mine.”

Stacey: “I respect your loyalty to Blaine, but there is serious money on the table here – and if we–” Don E: “Screw Blaine. I’m in.”

Blaine: "So, am I a monster? Maybe I am. Because sometimes, they just don't leave me any choice."

Despite a few puzzling scenes not (yet) fitting in with the overall picture, ‘The Scratchmaker’ was full of everything I love about this series: sharp dialogue, exciting twists and fascinating character beats. Let’s hope it’s an upward trajectory from here.

8 out of 10 kitten t-shirts.

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Opinion on Don E. being a total Disaster Bi??

OMG! I’m so sorry for taking so long to answer to your question; had a few problems with my wi-fi connection during the past few weeks and I wasn’t really active here… everything’s good now, though! *phew*

First things first, hello anon! Hope you’re doing good and thanks for inboxing me

Well, I had my suspicions about Don E.’s sexuality before “The Scratchmaker”, but the episode definitely made me lean even more towards this Disaster Bi theory, yes xD I fully agree with you and I totally support Disaster Bi Don E.! I just hope we can get to see who’s his soulmate until the end of the series… he deserves to be happy ;-;(but let’s just say that part of me wanted to run and make a tattoo of a skull on my back… and other part of me wanted Blaine to have a tattoo of a skull on his back… it’s complicated, nevermind 👀)

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Blaine DeBeers in iZombie, 5.06 “The Scratchmaker”