I think you forget that MVC is a pattern and not a specific method or an implementation. MVC could care less whether something is procedural, evented, client or serverside.

The article I posted goes over this and I remember it very well, MVC used to have a very specific definition.

(From the article: One of the central ideas of the Smalltalk-80 system was the ModelViewController (MVC) UserInterfaceParadigm?. Within that paradigm, the term "controller" had a well-defined, limited meaning.)

MVC today does not have a specific method or implementation and that was my point MVC has come to be known as a fuzzy definition for separations of concerns, as such I believe just saying separation of concerns is a better definition of what is desired. Because at some point people look at what was modeled in Smalltalk or Struts 1.0 which adhere to that concrete definition and become confused with the more nebulous definition that MVC has morphed into.