#FUCK ROWAN POPE AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON!

[trumpetnista]

My Final Thoughts on 7x09 (taken from Shattering’s latest A/N...)

7x09 was a confusing clusterfuck and the only good things to come from it are A) Quinn Perkins is NOT dead (which honestly, we all called but it was still a relief to be right, given how much Shonda LOVES babies & happiness) and B) THE INTERVENTION FOR WHAT’S LEFT OF OLIVIA POPE IS NIGH AND NEIGH! I swear to God, the fact that 7x10 is gonna have everyone that matters, IN VERMONT, SPEARHEADED BY FITZ, is what made me go from “FUCK THIS FUCKING CONFUSING ASS, DUMB ASS BULLSHIT” to ‘It’s about time AND THEY BETTER DO IT RIGHT.”

Credit where credit is due: Rowan and Quinn’s performances were on point. I could’ve done without Rowan’s ranting and raving (is he finally losing what’s left of his shit in a way that will get him dead? Please say yes...) but Quinn? Oh, my God...she fucking killed it. She really, really killed it AND she was a reminder of just who truly matters in the SCANDAL-verse right now. Every hallucination she had, every Plan of action she came up with had the surviving Gladiators, Charlie, David, and Marcus in play and they all helped save her. Mellie who? Ballard who? Hell, I’m pretty sure that if there had been enough time, Fitz would’ve been there too because Quinn likes Fitz. Everyone with half a brain and fully functioning conscience does, which is where I’m a tad bit worried about 7x10. 

Fitz IS needed to spearhead the Intervention. Fitz IS needed to put Liv back in touch with her humanity and all the good & bad that comes with it BUT at the end of the day? It’s all Liv’s choice. It’s Liv’s choice and she’s been walking around with maybe one-quarter of her brain working and a conscience that’s deader than Blockbuster Video and JNCO jeans combined. It’s all Liv’s choice right now from root to tip and I’m not sure that, even with the Intervention from people who love her that she’s gonna choose right at all or before the last 30 mins-30 seconds of the Series Finale in April. I don’t have much faith in her. Don’t blame me. Blame Shonda.

We have to see. There’s a little bit of hope but that doesn’t mean shit. It’s all about what we see live and I’m hoping for the best but expecting the worst.  That’s the best policy with SCANDAL since Season 3A being generous and it’s worked this long. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.