In the seventeenth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>, this show will forever be too much. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holy shit, these last two episodes are going to destroy me, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they?<\/p>\n
Blaine<\/b><\/p>\n
All right, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna vote that Blaine is truly amnesiac. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my evidence: when other characters leave him alone and no one is there to watch him, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still confused. His mask doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t drop. He is just as bewildered in front of people as he is by himself. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reason for him to stay in character\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0long.<\/p>\n
And for what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth, this allows the show to reflect on the greater theme of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reflections of the Way Liv Used to Be\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: what were people once like? How have these people grown and changed over the course of the show? By stripping Blaine of his memory, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forced to see how everyone reacts to him without any context for\u00c2\u00a0why<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0he is so hated. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now a blank slate, and admittedly, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a\u00c2\u00a0nice<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0blank slate. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s utterly unlike the Blaine we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come to know over the series, and the show doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hide that at all. WHICH I APPRECIATE BECAUSE SO MANY SHOWS TRY TO VALORIZE AWFUL WHITE MEN, and this\u00c2\u00a0deliberately<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0avoids that trope. Blaine has murdered people, tortured them, and ruined lives, and his amnesia doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t erase the affect he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had on others.<\/p>\n
I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where this is going, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exciting.<\/p>\n
Who Liv Used to Be<\/b><\/p>\n
We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only seen brief flashes of that over the show, so it was a bit hard to re-imagine Liv Moore as the overachieving girl who is desperate for validation. At the same time, by the end of this episode, it was clear that Liv thinks she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a better person than she used to be, which was so goddamn rewarding to see. After all she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been through, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting to\u00c2\u00a0like<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0herself, and y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. That means a lot to me!<\/p>\n
Sure, there were positive aspects to who she used to be. She was brutally efficient and organized, but at what cost? She needed validation when she did these things, and while there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing wrong with wanting to feel appreciated and noticed, Liv strays far into a compulsive need for that kind of attention. Does that do her any good? In the end, Liv sees how her need for praise got her to lie to Babineaux about Benedetto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s informant program; her relationship with him is far more important than her need to be praised.<\/p>\n
The Truth<\/b><\/p>\n
Perhaps the most pervasive theme in this episode concerns the truth. You can see that in Liv\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story, first of all, since she chooses to lie to Babineaux initially, but she sheds her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old\u00e2\u20ac\u009d personality in favor of telling the truth. The life she has now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one where she saves lives and gives people closure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is way more rewarding than what she used to do. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that exact dynamic that Major uses to justify why Ravi should not tell Liv the truth about what Max Rager has done to him.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that I buy it, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writers want us to, either. If anything, this episode is one giant example of how\u00c2\u00a0not<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0telling the truth has led Major to an increasingly awful place. First of all: few people are\u00c2\u00a0ever<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0comforted by lying. IT IS FACT. Granted, Ravi\u00c2\u00a0understood<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0why Major lied about Minor and the whole Chaos Killer thing, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the same as feeling like he was being protected. My guess? Liv is gonna be a whole lot more angry about Major lying to her for most of the year than if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d not done so.<\/p>\n
But even if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the case, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still another problem. How can any of them\u00c2\u00a0protect<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Major now? Dale has all the evidence she needs to charge Major, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like the evidence is wrong. He\u00c2\u00a0is<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0the Chaos Killer. Plus, he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just tell them the truth about being a zombie, right? Oh my god, there are so many problems presented by this. How will Major eat brains in time? Will Ravi have to tell Liv the truth? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that Janko whispered the truth about Major\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s storage shed into Vaughn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ear, so THAT whole thing is now a bust. They fucking know, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they??? THEY WERE GONNA SHOW HIM GILDA AND THEN LIKE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 FEED HIM TO HER. OR SOMETHING, I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW. Well, maybe not; they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back to being a zombie again.<\/p>\n
Look, so much has happened, and Major\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest throws it all into chaos. In just two episodes, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to resolve the Drake plot, the Mr. Boss plot, Blaine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amnesia, the possible cure (or not), Major\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 how much can the show escalate at this point? PROBABLY A LOT, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M GUESSING. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m out. I gotta watch another episode RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n
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