A protagonist is a character that has goals and exerts their will to overcome challenges and obstacles in their path to achieving their goals. Both Liv and Major exhibit these characteristics. They are both protagonists.

The themes of trust and honesty make it feel a lot more like ALIAS to me.

Can you really expect the show to worry about individual buttons though? I'm sorry that it also reminded you of something personally horrific but that's also not exactly what I've been talking about either.

The real problem is that no writing is exciting when the stakes get lowered. It's a legitimate worry with Game of Thrones at this point that they continually play this note over and over and it gets more boring each time. The only way to keep it exciting is to kick it up a notch since it's the only note they're…

The lower the lows, the higher the highs. This is known.

With a willful intent though? People are basically communicating through art; feeling something is only the first step.

A protagonist and Hero are different types of classifications. A Hero is an archetype; to be contrasted with Shadow, Shapeshifter, Herald, Mentor, Threshold Guardian, and Ally. Archetypes describe the energies of a story that different characters embody (often different ones at different times, even as a character…

"Shock" is not an emotion so I agree that showing you something shocking is not, in and of itself, art.

A protagonist is simply the character who moves the plot along and based on the results of the climax I don't think you can say that Major moved the plot along any less than Liv did, even if she got more screen time and moved more of the procedural elements.

There's a kind of game I like to play that's called "Who's the main character?" .. This isn't flip, I really actually do this.

I will certainly admit my own bias thanks to a strong negative reaction to the reviews of THE LEFTOVERS last season. That's all I'll say about that and I hope it doesn't spark an argument.

The show might as well be called iMajor because he was that significant of a character.

It's extremely difficult to pull off two storylines in one story framework but I'll be damned if iZombie didn't pull it off with Liv & Major. It didn't even NEED 22 episodes to do it.

No, no way. I strongly disagree with this characterization of the finale.

More skills & neurosis and less shared memories. Easy peasy.

He seemed to be generally annoyed and upset but happy when he was shoving real food in his mouth.

Wow dude way to not consider Major's feelings at all. I'm also unsure what you mean by "a taste of what Major might be like if he found out the truth" since he's obviously resented Liv's lies from the moment he found out. Unless you mean the hallucination, in which case that was only a manifestation of Liv's utter…

That's not an unfair abstraction but most AV Club reviews read like liveblogs. If I'm reading something about a show I like it to be insightful. It often feels more like it's written by someone who watches television and not someone that truly has a passion for it. I don't think unfortunate is the right word for it…

Interesting note on the measles — I guess it makes that MMR vaccine even MORE important.

Oh it was super clear that they had Major's arc planned from the beginning. That's why I described it as the most earned scene I've seen in a VERY long time. Quality work right there.