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truthbeetoldmedia · 5 years ago

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iZombie 5x11 "Bye, Zombies" Review

It feels like I’ve been waiting for this episode the entire series, in more ways than one. Buckle in, there is so much to discuss!

The episode opens with Liv tending to all the Freylich brain kids at the headquarters, and she gives a quick rundown of events via voiceover. I wish this narrative device was used more consistently this season. I have a love-hate relationship with voiceover, I think it can often tip into cheesy and unnecessary. On iZombie, however, the use of voiceover was crucial in the early seasons. If Liv is on a different brain every week, her personality and character development can get lost in the mix. Her voiceover bookended the episodes and was a good way to touch base with her, and to make sure the audience still had access to inside her head. Liv sums up the events that have happened thus far, and how stressful things have been. But her hope remains in the cure; it’s the only thing they have to look forward to.

This hope becomes complicated fairly quickly. Liv walks in on an upset Ravi, who tells her that the CDC has decided to use the uptiopium for treatments, rather than a cure. Charlie has been kicked off the project, and it’s been moved to a high security building. Ravi points out there’s more money in treatments than cures, and the CDC doesn’t actually have any interest in being helpful to the suffering people of New Seattle. It’s a good call back to Ravi’s fraught relationship with his old employer, the CDC. He was fired for taking biological warfare too seriously, and it seems he finds himself back at square one with them. He and Liv decide the only thing to do now is to pull off an Oceans 11-esque heist. Obviously the only answer! They gather with Clive, Peyton, and Major to tell them the plan. If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, this show is always at its strongest when it trusts its five main players to drive the story, and let them drive it together. Getting the entire gang involved is part of what made this episode so great.

It turns out there can be advantages to being zombies — they don’t actually have to learn any heist skills overnight, they can just consume them. They order a ninja and acrobat from Don E (who is in a really foul mood due to Darcy’s death) and Clive thinks of some old petty criminals he knew back in the day. At first, Clive doesn’t plan on going with them. He gives an emotional goodbye to Liv and Ravi, including hugs, and maybe there were a few tears involved. But Bozzio tells him to get his butt out there, and to save the world for their daughter. “You’re the Clooney,” she reminds him. How are they going to pull this off without him? Clive finally steps through the closet of the Renegade quarters, and it’s one of my favorite moments of the whole series. Everything is coming together for one last adventure, and it was an immensely satisfying scene.

In order to get the pickpocket brain Clive recommended, Major and Liv dig up his grave together. It’s difficult to write this scene objectively, without taking into account the uproar in the Veronica Mars fandom this week. A shocking twist at the end of the new revival season regarding the show’s main couple has left many fans feeling betrayed, confused, and frustrated. Rob Thomas, the showrunner for both Veronica Mars and iZombie, has expressed multiple times that he’s not interested in writing main female characters with boyfriends or writing couples with happily-ever-afters. He didn’t see a way that he could incorporate hard-hitting detective stories and a healthy romance into the same show.

I have only seen a few episodes of Veronica Mars, but I’ve seen every episode of iZombie, and several things about this show now make sense. I now understand why all of Liv’s boyfriends have been killed off and then never mentioned again. I now understand why when Clive and Bozzio finally got together, Bozzio got pregnant and practically dropped off the face of the earth. It makes me wonder if romance between Ravi and Liv was never explored because the showrunner believed it meant he had to eventually axe one of them, and didn’t want to do that. And most of all, it makes sense why Liv and Major haven’t had any significant progress in their relationship in several seasons.

Rob Thomas has basically admitted that he doesn’t know how to successfully juggle murder and love on his shows, and he has no interest in finding out. So the timing for this Major and Liv scene is terrible, in more ways than one. Not only do I wish I could have enjoyed it without the baggage of another show hanging over it, but I really think it should have happened sooner in the series. Regardless, now we know why it didn’t.

The scene itself is actually incredibly sweet. “I’m really glad we’re at this place in our relationship,” Major says. “We can dig up graves without having to talk.” The two of them reminisce on their relationship over the entire series — from how they used to be engaged to wed in a pre-zombie world, to how they’ve both done things that hurt the other, and how they’ve wound up here. “We’ve both done a lot of well-intentioned crap to each other. But here we are, still here,” Major says. He gives her a heartfelt pep talk, telling her that he believes she’s the only one that can pull this off. And pull this off, she must. The fate of the world depends on it. Not only is this a commentary on their deep friendship, but also on who they are as characters. They both have gone through immense changes throughout the series, but it feels like the core of who they are is still there. Major and Liv are both good people, with a capital G. A war-torn, zombie world has tried to change that, but it never succeeded. I’m forever grateful for this show for giving me these two. Major tells Liv she’s a badass, and she kisses him, right in the middle of the grave. Within the world of iZombie, it felt true to the show, and something I’ve been waiting on for so long!

It means, however, that I’m incredibly worried about Major’s life. The tension between humans and zombies is finally at a breaking point. His Fillmore Grave squad tells him that zombies are riding in the streets, provoking humans and wanting to start a war. Major takes a team out to hopefully quell the riots. “They want to start a war, let’s not give them the satisfaction,” he says. He and his team ride out, but while Major is giving orders, a huge explosion hits their van. My heart skipped a bit, because I really thought Major might have been taken out in this moment. He crawls out of the van, bleeding and confused. Enzo rolls up in a Fillmore Graves van, and the final stand that we always knew was coming finally happened. Enzo convinces all of Major’s men to betray him, leaving Major standing alone. Fillmore Graves has never believed in Major, never totally committed to him as a leader. I’ve never felt the show built a convincing argument as to why Chase Graves inspired so many more followers than Major and that Major was a bad leader. Major has tried to keep the peace in New Seattle for as long as he’s been in charge, but his zombies are out for brains. He escapes by the skin of his teeth, and Enzo goes on TV letting everyone know that he’s the new sheriff in town, and humans had better hide. Dolly and her people watch from their fish food truck, and she gives the go ahead to retaliate and recruit.

Meanwhile, Blaine discovers that Ravi has stolen his Freylich brains. He tells his smuggler that if he sees Ravi, shoot to kill. This season has really doubled down on Blaine being evil, with no interest in redeeming him. This episode sees him doing some truly unforgivable acts. While Liv is gone, she asks Peyton to housesit at the Renegade quarters. Because Blaine is the worst, he and Don E “follow Ravi’s favorite thing” to lead them to where the Freylich brain kids are hiding out. He and Don E muscle themselves in, and Peyton emotionally begs Blaine to leave them alone. It’s hard not to imagine a season that had gone all in as Blaine as the Big Bad of the entire series. If they had whittled down on nuclear threats and off-shoot human supremacist gangs, and beefed up even more on Blaine’s goal of taking control of New Seattle, I wonder if the season would have been stronger. Thankfully, the show did cut back on forcing real world political parallels that it didn’t have the range for, as I was afraid it would be the main focus of the season, but I think a centered focus on Blaine would have made everything much more focused. This scene, for example, was absolutely terrifying. Both Aly Michalka’s emotional performance and David Anders cold brutality elevated the tension in this moment, and left the fate of both Peyton and the Freylich brain kids in the balance. I’m holding out hope that this will be the moment that our dark horse player, Don E, will emerge as an unlikely hero of this series, but we are going to have to wait until the finale to find out.

In Atlanta, Clive, Liv, and Ravi actually pull off the heist. Despite Liv on pickpocket brain having the stickiest fingers ever, Ravi being incredibly unpleasant on Russian hacker brain, and Clive getting momentarily distracted by busting some serious moves on the dance floor, they manage to hit their mark, Gladys from HR. For the second half of the heist, Liv and Ravi switch to the ninja and acrobat brains, and sneak into the high security building. Clive saunters passed a guard that thinks all black people look the same, and helps Charlie smuggle in too. For a moment, it seems like the CDC has caught on to our heroes. Saxon rushes in and opens the vault to make sure the uptiopium was still there. Unfortunately for him, he fell right into their trap. Liv points a gun at Saxon and smugly tells him they knew they wouldn’t be able to get into the vault, so they tipped him off so he could do it for them. Saxon tries to bargain with Ravi, and to apologize for how the CDC has treated him, but Ravi is done standing by. No one knows better than Ravi the importance of this cure. Not only is he a man of science, he’s watched his loved ones deal with the zombie virus for several years. He’s had a front row seat to Liv and Major’s trials and watched Peyton buckle under the pressure of being New Seattle’s mayor. He watched Isobel pass away, and then when he tried to avenge her by ethically pursuing a cure, he kept losing to Blaine and the CDC. Well, not anymore. After five seasons of setbacks, there’s no way Ravi’s going to let go of the cure that easily. Ravi rages out. He knocks out Saxon, and Liv grabs the uptiopium. There’s just one more piece they needed for the cure — the Max Rager from Fillmore Graves. Liv calls Major, and he reassures her not to worry about it. When the camera cuts to him, we see him hiding out in the waterfront, injured and alone.

There is a lot of things to wrap up next week, but I thought this penultimate episode was exciting, character-driven, and showcased elements of the show that made me love it so much. Next week, I’ll see you back in New Seattle, for one final time.

Stray Thoughts:

“You’re not that great with boyfriends, are you?” Don E tells Liv, which is the first time all season anyone has mentioned that Liv’s boyfriends have short lifespans on this show.

“His hair makes me so angry!”

Clive mentions that if Liv eats the pickpocket brain, to “get ready for visions of me rockin’ a mustache” and I’m so mad the show didn’t make good on this promise.

“What are you going to do without me?” Liv asks Clive, pointing out that she’s no use as a police partner without her visions. What’s their relationship going to look like when Liv is no longer a zombie?

Peyton tells Liv that she’s probably going to marry Ravi. Pavi forever.

“We are in the south now, you don’t put stolen jewelry in a black man’s pocket.” I squeaked at this line! Between the racist janitor and this line, Clive was really coming for Atlanta in this episode.

I thought it was a hilarious gag to have someone remember Ravi from his CDC days, even if it was a one night stand that didn’t really reflect well on his character

Haley’s episode rating: 🐝🐝🐝🐝.5

The series finale of iZombie airs Thursday, August 1 at 9/8c on the CW.

#iZombie #Bye Zombies

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bluestar22x · 7 years ago

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Master Post To Everything

Lost looking for something on this blog? This is the post for you!

Months listed next to each show/movie/etc. below are those in which they were reblogged the most (mainly catch ups in the case of shows) or important months for reblogging a show (the start of a new season and such).

I don’t regularly reblog all the shows I watch/have watched. My description of this blog on my main page lists the shows that are the ones that get that much attention.

If you’ve been following my tumblr account for a while you probably know that at the beginning of each month I’ve been doing “catch up” reblogs. This will continue until I get everything I want in my archive (because otherwise I can’t find my favs). Smaller catch ups may occur throughout the month.

This post is here just to get an idea of where to find the majority of the gifs and photos, etc. for each show and movie, along with some animal/nature stuff. It may be easier or faster, in some cases, to find something this way rather than through the tags (though I do have a decent tagging system) because of the considerable amount of gifs I reblog for certain shows.

It’ll also be my guide to what to reblog next, and therefore I plan to continue updating this post whenever I’ve either had a lot of activity and/or it’s a new month. xxx Currently Covered Shows x 12 Monkeys – August 2015, April - July 2016, May - June 2017

13 Reasons Why - April 2017 Agents of SHIELD – March 2016, April - May 2016 Almost Human – January 2016 Arrow - February 2017, June 2017, August 2017 Being Human (US) - November 2016 Believe - August 2016 Bones (Fox Bones Show) - March 2016, Sept. 2016 Boy Meets World – March 2016, July 2016, Jan. 2017 Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Sept. 2016 Burn Notice - Sept. 2016 Charmed – February 2016, June 2016, Aug. - Sept. 2017 Chicago Fire – March 2016, Aug. 2016, Nov. 2016, March 2017, Aug. 2017 Constantine – December 2015, February 2016 Dark Angel - March 2017 DC Crossovers (CW) - Nov. - Dec. 2016, Feb. 2017 Dominion – August 2015, November 2015 Forever - July 2016 Frequency - Oct. 2016 Fringe - June 2016 Girl Meets World – March 2016, July 2016, Jan. 2017 Heartland – February - April 2016, June - July 2016, Sept. 2016 - Dec. 2016, Jan. - Sept. 2017

Humans - Aug. 2017 Into The Badlands – Nov. - Dec. 2015, Jan. 2017, March - June 2017 Kyle XY - June 2016 Legends Of Tomorrow - February 2017, Aug. 2017 Lethal Weapon - Sept. – Dec. 2016, Jan. - April 2017, June 2017, Sept. 2017 Moonlight - November 2016 Nashville - March - April 2017 Nikita – Nov. 2015, Jan. 2016, Aug. 2016, Aug. 2017 Once Upon A Time – January 2016 One Tree Hill – March 2016, July 2016, Jan. 2017, April 2017, Aug. 2017 Person of Interest – March 2016, June 2016

Prehistoric Park - May 2017 Proof - August 2016

Psych - Sept. 2017

Sabrina The Teenage Witch - June 2017

Shooter - Aug. 2017

Sleepy Hollow (4 Horsemen only) - August 2016 Stitchers - Aug. 2016, March 2017 Supergirl - March 2016, Sept. - Dec. 2016, Jan. - May 2017, Aug. 2017 Supernatural – Nov. 2015, March 2016, May 2016, July – Sept. 2016, Oct. 2016 (Huge post), Nov. - Dec. 2016, Jan. - Aug. 2017 Teen Wolf – Nov. 2015, Feb. 2016, March - April 2016, Nov. - Dec. 2016, Jan. - Feb. 2017, April 2017, Aug. - Sept. 2017 The Flash – December 2015, February 2017, Aug. 2017

The Following - July 2017 The Librarians – Oct. - Nov. 2015, July 2016, Nov. - Dec. 2016, Jan. - Feb. 2017, April 2017, July - Sept. 2017 The Originals – Dec. 2015, April 2016, Dec. 2016, Sept. 2017 The Vampire Diaries - January - March 2017, Sept. 2017 The Walking Dead – March 2016

Transformers Prime - May 2017 Whose Line Is It Anyway? - March 2017 Wildfire (ABC Family) - June 2016 Veronica Mars/Veronica Mars Movie - Sept. 2016, Aug. 2017 xxx Movies x

101 Dalmatians - July 2017

101 Dalmatians (1996) - July 2017

Age Of Adaline - June 2017

Alice (2009) - April 2017

All Dogs Go To Heaven/ADGTH 2 - July 2017 A Puppy For Christmas - December 2016 Avatar - Feb. 2017 A Walk To Remember – May 2016

Back To The Future - June 2017

Balto - July 2017 Bambi - June 2016 Batman V. Superman - April 2016, May 2016, July 2016, Sept. 2016 Beauty And The Beast (Animated) - June 2016, Dec. 2016, Aug. 2017 Beauty And The Beast 2017 - Dec. 2016, Aug. 2017 Black Beauty - Sept. 2016

Blood And Chocolate - Sept. 2017 Brother Bear – May 2016

Clash Of The Titans/Wrath Of The Titans - Sept. 2017 Creed - April 2016 Criminal - December 2016

Cruel Intentions - Sept. 2017 Deadpool - Sept. 2016

Dirty Dancing - July 2017 Eight Below - Sept. 2016

Ella Enchanted - Sept. 2017 Enemy Mine - January 2017

Eragon - Sept. 2017 Fallen TV Movie - Jan. 2017 Fast And Furious Movies - April 2016, April 2017 Flicka (w/Tim McGraw) - Sept. 2016

Footloose - July 2017 Frozen - June 2016

Grease - June 2017 George Of The Jungle - Jan. 2017 Hachi - Sept. 2016

Hellboy Movies - May 2017 Hercules (Animated) – May - June 2016 Hidalgo - Sept. 2016 Homeward Bound - Sept. 2016

Hours - June 2017

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days - June 2017 Ice Age Movies – May 2016 If I Stay – May 2016 If Only - Jan. 2017 Iron Will - Sept. 2016 Jack Frost (1998) - Jan. 2017 Jurassic Park/Jurassic World – May 2016 Justice League - Sept. 2016, Aug. 2017 Just Like Heaven - Jan. 2017 Lady And The Tramp - June 2016 Lassie (1994) - Sept. 2016 Legally Blonde – May 2016

Legion (2010) - May 2017 Man Of Steel - April 2016, Aug. 2017 Marley And Me - Sept. 2016 Marvel Universe - April 2016, June - July 2016, Sept. 2016, Aug. 2017 Max (Dog Movie) - Sept. 2016 Mulan (Animated) – May 2016

Narnia Series - Sept. 2017 Oliver And Company - June 2016 Pocahontas - June 2016

Priest - May 2017

Prince Of Persia (2010) - June 2017 Raise Your Voice - Jan. 2016 Red Dog - Sept. 2016 Remember Sunday – May 2016 Rocky (1-6) - April 2016 Seabiscuit - Sept. 2016 Secretariat - Sept. 2016

She’s Having A Baby - July 2017 She’s The Man – May 2016 Shrek - June 2016 Snow Dogs - Sept. 2016

Snow White And The Huntsman - Sept. 2017

Spiderman (2002) - August 2017 Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron – May 2016 Star Trek (2009 Verse) - April 2016, July - Sept. 2016 Star Wars - April 2016, Sept 2016, Aug. 2017 Suicide Squad - Sept. 2016

Sweet Home Alabama - June 2017 Tangled - June 2016, May 2017 Tarzan (Animated) – May 2016

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - July 2017 Terminator Movies – May 2016

Tremors - July 2017 The Crow (Original) – May 2016

The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight Trilogy - June 2017, Aug. 2017

The Fox And The Hound - July 2017 The Horse Whisperer - Sept. 2016

The Hunger Games - May 2017, Aug. 2017

The Jungle Book - Aug. 2017

The Land Before Time - July 2017

The Legend Of Tarzan - June 2017 The Lion King Movies (Animated) – May - June 2016, May 2017 The Little Mermaid - June 2016 The Magnificent Seven (2016) - Jan. 2017

The Maze Runner - May 2017

Moana - July 2017 The Mummy (1999) - Jan. 2017 The Mummy Returns - Jan. 2017 The Proposal – May 2016 The Secret Life Of Pets - December 2016 The Ultimate Gift - December 2016 Toy Story - June 2016

Transformers Movies - May 2017

Twilight Movies - May 2017 Unconditional - December 2016 Walking Tall - Jan. 2017 War Horse - Sept. 2016, Nov. 2016

We Bought A Zoo - June 2017 Wonder Woman 2017 - April 2016, July 2016, Nov. 2016, Sept. 2017 X-Men/Wolverine/Logan Movie - Oct. - Nov. 2016, Aug. 2017 xxx Animals/Nature (Horses, Dogs, etc.) - July 2016, Nov. 2016, April 2017, Aug. 2017 xxx The Walking Dead Game - Nov. 2016

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Other Actors

Zac Efron - August 2017

Chris Pine - Sept. 2017

Chris Hemsworth - Sept. 2017

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Shows, Movies, And Others To Come (By Priority) x

Wonder Woman 2

Justice League

Spiderman Homecoming - Peter Parker, Tony and Pepper

Thor 3 Underworld (1-5) The Lucky One Charlie St. Cloud I Am Number Four Beastly Grizzly Falls RoboCop The Pacifier The Game Plan The Longest Ride Country Song movie Footloose (2000s version) Angel Eyes The Host In My Dreams (Hallmark) Warm Bodies The Duff

Mamaboy Riley Smith in Movies Joey Lawrence in Movies - Horse Sense x

Midnight, Texas Daredevil Netflix Series The Originals - Klaus, Elijah, Hope and others (Finale season, Season 5) Limitless – Brian, Mike, Ike, etc. Nashville – 5x11 and Beyond

Stitchers (Season 3/Gifs posted since last update - use camille’s last name, not just 1st name) iZombie – Liv, Ravi, Major, Lowell, Drake Warehouse 13 Grimm – Nick, Monroe, Hank, Wu, Rosalee, Season 1-3 Chasing Life – April, Leo Sherlock

Fresh Prince

Gillian’s Island Elementary (1x21 or 1x22 Art scene) Beauty and the Beast (CW) Dark Matter Killjoys Humans (AMC) Baby Daddy – Danny, Ben with Emma Melissa and Joey – Mel and Joe, Lennox and Zander, Ryder Saving Hope This Is Us (NBC) Supernatural Season 13 & Beyond Frequency - Anything after 1x01 x Revisit Someday: All shows caught up on but still aired new episodes afterwards will be revisited eventually, as well as movies if I find more gifs.

#Master Post #September 2017 #Shows #Movies #Other: Nature #Other: Animals #Other: Actors

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