#IF (WHEN) OLITZ IS NOT TOGETHER AT THE END OF THE SHOW IT IS OLIVIA'S FUCKING FAULT!

[half-in-half-out]

That Olivia Loved Jake

The idea that Olivia didn’t love Jake because she never said the words is such a remarkably simple take on such a complex character that it's astounding. I’ve never been so frustrated with part of a fandom for on-the-whole missing something blatantly obvious just because it wasn’t explicitly spelled out for them. I'm not asking all of you olitzers to convert, just be willing to open your eyes, because I was an olitz fan that just saw how attached the writers were to not committing to what eventually ended up being the better option.

Disclaimer: I haven't watched the last two seasons, only looked into specific plot points, so I might have missed some small detail in a scene or episode. If there's anything that proves what I've said wrong, I would genuinely love to know!

Firstly, we’ve seen what Olivia is like when she doesn’t really care about someone she’s seeing. Edison. Russell. It’s a STARK difference. Enough said.

Secondly, I choose to believe that when Olivia chooses not to correct things that are stated, it is very relevant. Going beyond the numerous times that “Olivia loves Jake” has been thrown around (that Olivia has never once disputed), near the beginnings of Olake in 3x12 we have these moments between Olivia and Fitz where she doesn’t try to assure him that nothing serious is happening with Jake. Of course, there’s Olivia’s “Jake by my side is for me”, but they’re both amped up—especially Olivia—and it’s political. But in a quieter moment, when Fitz calmly asks her if she has feelings for Jake, all she has for him is:

“Honestly, I don’t know.”

I wouldn’t usually put much stock in it considering it’s so ambiguous, but saying that to Fitz? The island hasn't even happened yet. He’s literally the one person she should deny anything and everything to, considering he was fairly convinced at times that he was losing her to Jake, and she wasn’t exactly proving otherwise. In season 4 when she's looking for Jake, she freely claims him as her boyfriend when speaking to Quinn, and later when she calls Fitz he refers to Jake as her boyfriend and she just…doesn't correct him.

Jake too outright calls her his girlfriend to Fitz's face (after she's done everything she can to exonerate Jake + figuratively and literally threatened her relationship with Fitz by refusing to believe that Jake killed his son and her close friend based on nothing other than her faith in him, and also saying that true harm to Jake would be the end of their relationship) and she doesn't so much as shift in Fitz's direction. She is completely focused on Jake in those moments, maybe because it's the first time she hears him say that. Up until this point it's repeatedly always been:

[J]: "I'm not your boyfriend, Olivia." [O]: "I know."

Beyond that, the fact that Olivia didn’t explicitly say “I love you” to Jake doesn’t mean much in my opinion when she’s continuously demonstrated that she’s probably the biggest commitment-phobe on the show. She’ll chase the dream of love and happiness when it’s unattainable, but balks in the face of it when it’s within her reach. She does it time and time again with Fitz. She’s endlessly waiting for when they can be together, but seemingly never ready when they actually can be. Fitz himself comes to that realisation when she seems to be climbing the walls of the White House after moving in:

“Before. I was unavailable before. You liked me unavailable.”

And in another instance again:

Part of the clip’s transcript: [O]: “…so why did you do it (propose)?” [F]: “Because I love you. Because you are what I want. But obviously you don’t feel the same. Some fantasy, right?” [O]: “We’re not ready.” [F]: “You’re not ready, and you know what I think? You never will be.” [O]: “That’s not fair.” [F]: “Then answer the question, Olivia. What is it that you want?”

And when asked, she’s silent. Not because she doesn’t love him. But because for whatever reason, she can’t let herself be happy. Olivia herself knows this (points for being self-aware, I guess):

"When I was with Fitz, I was happy you [Mellie] were around too. With you around, I didn't have to…I had an out. You, you were my out, Mellie. You kept him unavailable. So I left, for the same reason you stayed. Because I was scared."

One incredible user on here @zalrb does a good job of explaining, among so many wonderful things, how there were no real obstacles to the Olitz endgame beyond Olivia herself, simply because of how often Fitz was completely committed to being with her, at which point she'd double down on something being in the way. She will go all in and be open about being in the relationship, declarations of love and all, until she actually can afford to be. Then, she turns to self-sabotage. That’s been the dynamic: Fitz pushes, and she pulls away.

And when else do we see that habit of hers in the show? Enter Jake Ballard and the relationship she can actually be in and doesn't realise she's chasing.

From the absolute start the BIGGEST difference between the relationships, romantic or otherwise, is that Jake is available. He’s present, and he can be. He and Olivia have a connection that could actually be taken further. Any moves she makes will lead to results. She’s not “stealing” any moments with him that he “should” have with someone else, they’re just…being together. She only knows him available, and progress with him probably snuck up on her as a result. Knowing her at this stage, the realer their relationship got the more scared she'd be, and she'd increasingly want to run.

"I thought we could have some dinner and talk about how our days went."

Despite this though, even when they aren’t together, they’re with each other. They're a team, a 'you and me', a 'we'. Fitz might have been her lover, but Jake was her person. They have a foundation to their relationship that stays steady, regardless of if they’re actually involved at that time or not. She confides in him. She trusts him. She brings her walls down with him. She turns to him for comfort and advice. She literally keeps her place stocked with beer just because he drinks it when he’s there. Only him. I ask this genuinely, has she ever made any attempt to accomodate literally anyone else in her life by making room for them?

"Whatever happens next, we will figure it out."

"We are very, very good together."

It’s not to say she never opens up like this with Fitz, but who else besides her "great love" is she consistently willing do this with? And not just be caught in the moment, actually initiate it, like when she actively calls Jake and opens up about them, her mother, and her associated fears about love. Let's not even get started on the number Olivia's father did on her ability to seek and accept love she doesn't need to break herself to pursue, or view as "weak" and mediocre. At one point she's actively concerned about marrying Fitz, and whether she has the ability to be "a married person", and instead of talking about it with, I dunno, Fitz himself, she calls Jake:

“I need to know what to do, you’re who I talk to.”

There's this small moment at Harrison's funeral that really struck me. She's understandably upset, and just before had been grieving Harrison's death with the rest of OPA. But throughout it, she keeps herself composed, instead acting as a rock for Abby. But once they all leave she's stuck in it for a little bit, until Jake simply reminds her that he's there with a touch, and she suddenly loses it completely, and turns to him for support. She allows him to be her rock in that moment. Truly, how often does she just surrender to someone else without it being a battle of wills, like it so often is with Fitz?

"Olivia used Jake." In a way, yes. She was definitely selfish with him, and half the time she was fighting her own defensive instincts to not get too attached. It was so unhealthy for them both for her to continually try to lean on him and keep him close, and hold herself back in often the same breath. But to say that she didn’t care about him just undermines their relationship, in all its forms. I mean, it’s not like the things she used him for were easy-breezy for her, at times it took something out of her.

Sometimes she pushes through her own walls though. I consider it such a big moment when she talks to him about her kidnapping in season 4, because I literally cannot think of a single other instance that she truly opens up about it (bonus, when she was kidnapped, who was it she pictured rescuing her?). The scene is also such a good example of her avoidant tendencies kicking in, because she stays only long enough to say her piece, be vulnerable, then is immediately gone when the recount ends (Jake literally barely says her name before she’s up and leaving).

They had a relationship that was rooted in the day to day moments, in the reality of life, and it was always reality that broke Fitz and Olivia, whose relationship comprised of ephemeral, stolen moments where they were in their own world. She not only lets herself be upset or lost in Jake’s presence (and that’s a huge concession for someone who wields confidence, control and intelligence as weapons), she lets herself be happy. In the absolute midst of another go-around with Eli, she does something we haven’t seen her do, ever: let loose, smile widely, and dance. And it’s Jake she does it with. While they BOTH are actively beefing with her father, they make a moment of joy together. And then we never see them this happy again because she’s traumatised and generally becomes colder.

So many times throughout the show, Olivia puts Fitz on the pedestal of being her great love, the one for her, she can’t be without him, and on and on. BUT throughout the show, Olivia also happens to place Jake in a position congruent to Fitz, and makes it known to BOTH of them.

“I felt something with you last night, and that feels like betrayal.” To Jake

“I know about him the way I know about you.” To Fitz

“I want Vermont with Fitz. I also want The Sun with you.” To Jake

Not only does she group the two of them, she also establishes that some aspects of her relationship with Jake are exclusive to only them, and that no one, not even Fitz himself, can touch them. The fact that Olivia—who is always so quick to remind Jake that she loves Fitz—gets offended when Jake implies that and says:

is not talked about enough. Especially the fact that she doesn't correct his assertion to Fitz that she loves him, but chooses to correct simply referencing someone else with the sun. It’s her putting Jake and The Sun, in a position apart from everyone else (imo “another man” is an insane way to refer to the apparent love of your life, but that’s just me) in a way that almost seems she feels Jake should know better.

Fitz himself makes an observation literally just after this when she's extremely reluctant to kiss him despite them being completely alone:

"You don't want me to kiss you because of Jake. This is interesting. No, really, it is. You don't know what to do. Is it disloyal to want me or is it disloyal to want him?"

In the same way that Fitz was in the middle of her and Jake's relationship, Jake was often in the middle of her and Fitz. Ultimately though, what people (olitzers) forget is that she chose Jake. She literally makes an active decision to be with him in 5x18 when she says:

“I’m ready to be happy.”

That Olivia could admit that? Not only to herself, but to others? Keeping in mind that she started that season with Fitz? It's huge progress.

And the only reason she doesn’t go through with it is because the narrative doesn’t give her the permission to. It’s also not lost on me that the one and only time we hear her discount her feelings, actually say she doesn’t love Jake, is when she’s doing everything in her power to make him believe it so that he isn’t killed. She was devastated as she walked away, visibly sick to her stomach to have done that to Jake, and correcting his understanding was her first priority when she sees him again afterwards. It's also another time she's latched onto him when letting him go would be easier for her and Fitz, but hey.

Towards the end of the show though, the writers truly switched up or went off the deep end or started doing drugs or something, because the 5x18 erasure from the narrative and Olivia's mind was very real. There's jealousy sometimes, sure, but not the kind you'd think would follow a big decision falling through (and she's lowkey highkey always been possessive of Jake). They both stray so far from "the sun", as a pair and individually, despite how much stress they had put on standing there together. The biggest admission I can think that she ever makes to him again is in season 6, when they are far from being a couple. It's an acknowledgement that they both lost something in sacrificing their relationship:

"There has to be a reason, or else why did I do this to you? Why did I do this to myself?"

Look at the way she's looking at him. The way she always looks at him.

'Looks' are one of the biggest ways that Olivia tries to communicate with him, because so often in the place of speaking, she'll just be looking at him. And he gets it. He can read her so very easily.

I don't think anyone else in the show has the same claim to the "partner" title that Jake does, however you want to take that word. We never saw her lean and rely on someone quite like she did with Jake.

Whenever Olivia spoke about "standing in the sun" with Jake, she's talking about the lived experience of their fantasy. Like, yes, Olitz got the big sweeping speeches and the verbal declarations of love, the constant waxing poetic about Vermont and jam and the vague outlines of a future, but truly not the substance.

Would Fitz recognise the taste of the '94 du Bellay, or even know the name? Know what to get Olivia from Gettysburger? Has he even seen her natural hair, or her in anything close to this state of ease?

It says a lot that in order to stop Jake from being a viable option for her future, the writers wiped the closest that Olivia has come to settling on either of them from the narrative, basically assassinated his character and their partnership, and literally made him inaccessible to her by imprisoning only him out of everyone involved.

Yeah, all that they were and could have been haunts me.

[zalrb]

hi! idk if youve watched manifest (not recommending its a bad show lmao) i watched it by chance with my mom bc it was trending on netflix and now i saw recently that its been renewed and it reminded me of the potential of this one ship. its called jachaela and its an example of ships that have a bad narrative ? or are somehow set up for disaster, which i felt is unfair given the history of the two characters. now bc i am a regular on your blog, i know a thing or two about chemistry and i dont think anything really stands out in that show its just them and baanvi (?) that i like but i dont think they have much chemistry, im just convinced by jared rather. everyone says this ship is toxic and what not but i cant stand the other ship its soooo boring and flavorless and like the female lead is so damn wishy washy, she keeps running away from jared, yet expects him to be there for her like hes still her fiance when shes a whole married woman (to someone else btw). ugh very annoying, i dont recomend but if you could please look at some gifs of jachaela with some context and tell me what you think are examples of ex lovers coming back from the dead and having lingering feelings trope done right bc this show is badly written so obviously they couldnt get this trope right with jachaela.

So I watched a few scenes and literally just went ugh because at least this scene

reminded me so much of Leyton

which reminded me of Delena

and I felt like Tywin Lannister

like any couple who has to say these things are no true soulmates, which isn’t necessarily true it’s just that these are all obnoxious to me because you need chemistry to make melodramatic dialogue work.

I don’t watch this scene

and think they’re tortured and in love, I watch it like get a fucking grip. I hate Olitz so much and if ever “The Light” plays on my spotify, I end up just mocking their dialogue because it’s really fun to do and there is a very big you two are fucking adults response that I have to their relationship but their chemistry makes me believe they’re tortured (just tortured for no good reason because their narrative is weak)

Like watching their scenes reminds me of Cami and Klaus where I’m like you two are trying so hard to create this tension and create this drama and create this feeling around each other

and I can see you straining,

it falls flat

like

really? cause I can’t tell, you’re just staring at each other with dead faces, JTV definitely had its tropes and its dialogue because, you know, telenovela but the chemistry was there so the tropes and the dialogue were enhancements rather than things to rely on

I don’t need “you still take my breath away” because

their angst isn’t strained

Like, I did not grow up with Piper and Leo

and Buffy and Angel

Hell, Ross and Rachel

Olivia and Elliott (WHO WEREN’T EVEN TOGETHER)

Even Ryan and Marissa

for this:

No, no, no, no.

[douxbebearchives]

Meet the Author: tied.knots

Hi, tied.knots!

Stories can be found here.

Twitter.

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When did you start writing Olitz? 2018, after the show ended.

Tell us about yourself! What do you want readers to know about you? I'm from the Philippines, the capital which is Manila specifically. I feel like there's not that many scandal and olitz shippers from where I'm from and I haven't interacted with a local scandal fan haha. Greys and HTGWM are very much more popular here so I guess there's that. I'm basically your regular Millenial girl - balancing work, bills, finances, shopping, the pros and cons of single life hahaha. That's it. I live a boring life!

What drew you to Olivia and Fitz? Firstly, a lot is really credited to Kerry and Tony's chemistry. They seriously have the most potent chemistry that I have ever seen when it comes to tv couples and it's very hard to forget combined with their great acting. I feel like they were really born to play Olivia and Fitz. Next would be the very raw, deeply flawed, and realistic portrayal of their epic love story but dysfunctional relationship. Olitz is a very controversial couple. I would even argue that it is Shonda's most controversial couple in Shondaland. When you go outside of the fandom, they are deeply hated to this day and people have a lot of energy (and apparently are willing to spend their time) to criticize them. But all that hatred and negativity towards them shows how very spot on their story was. There's a lot that could have been improved on but the issues that stemmed out of their relationship and their flaws I think resonated with many people which is why a lot hated them. For a ship to get so much hate even years after show ended, it goes to show that a lot really payed attention to them and were moved by their story. ps. you don't get that much attention with olake haha. that pairing appears to be only relevant when it involves fitz/olitz.  

What made you want to write about them? I was really hoping that someone would write a long-form post-canon fic about them. I really thought their ending would spark a slew of fanfic! So with its absence and after back-and-forth consultation with my writer friend, Nina, I decided to just go on and write (my very first attempt ever!) what I would want to read. Canon olitz doesn't have a good rep understandably but there's really a lot of room to unpack in it and at the same time get a deeper insight on why Liv and Fitz acted that way during the show. There's still a lot of story to tell because as cheesy as this sounds Liv and Fitz storyline as seen in scandal will never be over.  

How would you describe your writing? Angsty, problematic, realistic, raw, hopeful even when it feels not (I hope I do convey these!)

What inspires you to write / create? Olivia and Fitz characterization and their relationship in the show.

Favorite movies, shows, music?

Films - In the mood for love, Fight Club, Parasite, Clueless, Bridget Jones Diary lol. Any films really by Wong Kar Wai, Davin Fincher, and Nancy Meyer 

Shows - Sex and the City, The OC, Succession, Skins UK 1st and 2nd Gen 

Music - Too many but mainly The Strokes, Daft Punk, The XX, Phoenix, Britney, Kylie Minoque, etc.

How long does it take you to write a chapter? It really varies! The shortest was like 2 weeks-ish and the longest was like 8 or 9 months. Aside from how my life is going, it really highly depends on my mood towards the subject-Olivia and Fitz. Admittedly I'm an on-and-off shipper, sometimes I enjoy them or get in my feels and then there are times that I highly dislike and regret shipping them to the point that I wish they never got back together or argue that Fitz should have been written off the show. Writing for me is very mood based.

Did the show's themes and plots encourage you or discourage you from writing? Encourage.

Writing AU or Canon? Canon.

Reading AU or Canon: Canon.

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A favorite line, scene, or paragraph you’ve written.

"Fitz back then always thought that once he has fulfilled his father’s predetermined life for him at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave that he’ll be back home to this cozy beach town. That was of course before that one fateful day on February in New Hampshire when a tornado stormed into his life that was ornamented by the California sun." (Chapter 3) 

To me, it sounds nice when you read it haha Their fight scene in chapter 10. Even before finishing chapter 1, I knew that I was going to write a big fight scene and one that is similar to 509. It's a very very important scene to me.

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Fave Olitz moments? The 'I hate you. I hate you too' phone call, 'I would cross that line again', those small moments when you could see how deeply and conflicted in love Olivia was (eg. watching him and Mellie dance during the first inauguration ball) - Liv is known to be not "accepting" of their love and whether she love him or not was always questioned, but a lot her actions and expressions when you look back showed how deeply she fell in love with him.

Fave Olitz fanfic moments? I forgot the title and the author but there was this one shot back then about Olivia who decided to end her engagement to Jake because she had unresolved feelings for Fitz. This fic took place a year I think after Fitz presidency. So she went all the way to Vermont regardless if it's years since her and Fitz last encounter and how bad their relationship ended - they fought about him going to war for her I think. So yeah she went all the way to Vermont not knowing what to expect and the writer did a good job of piecing them back together.

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Do you like it when readers engage with you via comments / social media? Yes.

Story Reviews: Love them, hate them? BOTH! The reviews reminds of me of the live tweets when the show was on and the energy back then so I like that aspect. I appreciate readers that are grateful to authors and those that show how curious they are with the stories. I hate the intentional and consistent badmouthing to the point of bullying and creating competition among authors which made some quit or removed their stories. The nonstop attacks by some these "guest" reviewers really says a lot about their character. My friend Nina would always say that the writers don't owe themselves to anyone and that is highly true. We do it because we want to write and we make time for it without expecting anything in return really. Don't like it, then don't read it. Read and review the story you want to read then.

What advice would you give to a new Olitz writer? Just write! Don't care if you don't have experience at all or if you're too conscious about how not perfect your grammar is. The olitz fanfic community I think has a consistently growing audience so there will always be readers. Also most importantly, write the story that you want to tell. It is your work and only you will know how to go about it. Don't focus too much on the reviews/criticisms and don't let it solely dictate you on how to write your story.

Outside of your fics, do you have any fave Olitz stories or authors? PurplePineapple, torri.oats, Only You by anonolitz, that one shot I mentioned above.

Do you talk to other Olitz authors? If so, do you like the camaraderie? I've only interacted with like 2 I think hahaha. It's a very supporting and encouraging group! I think we're just excited to read each other's stories which is a nice feeling.

Have you made friends (people you talk to outside of fanfic) because of Olitz / Scandal fanfic? Yes and we've been friends for almost three years! She knows so much of my life honestly compared to my irl friends.

Before you go, anything else you'd like to share? Thank you for always supporting and encouraging olitz authors! You guys have a really good and organized system which is very helpful :)) 

ps. Beyond Whiskey is an olitz fanfic :))

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Thank you, tied.knots, for allowing us to feature you!  

[teafortwo29]

8 Couples That Hurt Shondaland Shows (And 7 That Saved Them)

https://screenrant.com/author/kdale/

1. RUINED: JAKE AND OLIVIA (SCANDAL)

From the moment Jake Ballard and Olivia Pope met in that coffee shop in Washington, Scandal as a whole began to go downhill.

With the introduction of Jake’s character, Scandal lost its way, becoming mired in plots of intrigue and espionage and characters who chewed at the scenery whenever they so pleased.

As Jake was a member of the shady organization B613, he was always a threat. Jake was assigned to spy on Olivia, even doing so in her most private moments.

He also choked her on one occasion, and landed her in the hospital on another, and let’s not forget the fact that her father considered him the son he never had, and far from a son-in-law.

In Scandal‘s series finale, the cell door is shut on Jake’s future as he is sent off to prison to serve time for his many crimes — thankfully shutting the symbolic door in the face of this toxic relationship for good.

4. SAVED: FITZ AND OLIVIA (SCANDAL)

Star-crossed romances are really Shonda’s forte.

In Scandal, this was the precise tactic used for the long-suffering, on and off again relationship between onetime President Fitzgerald Grant and political fixer Olivia Pope.

With Fitz trapped in an unhappy marriage of political convenience, and as inaccessible as any man could be, the plight of the good ship Olitz often seemed to be a doomed one.

However, over time, once Fitz was out of office and divorced, the two continued to find their way back to one another.

With their relationship now open to the public, rather than Washington’s worst kept secret, their feelings were able to flourish and grow.

By the series finale, it’s beyond apparent that these two are made for one another, and will be together for years to come.

When they greet each other with their signature flirtatious “Hi” at the end of the episode, all fans of the relationship know exactly what that means: their story is just beginning again.

[boombitxh]

The Mellie Grant Pop-Off

FAIR WARNING: I mostly despised last night’s episode with the exception of a few scenes. This is a full-blown episodic Mellie drag on my part.

 The CAUCACITY of this woman. I mean what is going on right now? Do the writers of this show really aim to canonize this fool as the patron Saint of Feminism? White Feminism is more like it. I cannot believe the extent to which they play with characterization on this show just so they can move around the characters like pathetic ass chess pieces. If Mellie had to be a chess piece she wouldn’t even merit being a lowly pawn.

 This whacko has been shading Olivia ever since she fired her, making digs at her sexuality “I don’t sleep with people who slept with Olivia Pope”… girl shut yo bitch ass up you did it for over ten years as Fitz juggled you both, you clearly implied y’all were still sleeping together when you mentioned Fitz would come home all hot and bothered thanks to Liv. Ugh. Hypocrite.

 I don’t understand what the writers are trying to do. Mellivia does not work. It never has. Mellivia has always been about how Mellie can use Olivia. From the very beginning of this show Mellie has been using her, starting with episode 3 when she invites Olivia to the gala because Fitz is not sleeping. Fitz is a more focused president when Olivia “does her job” according to Mellie. Consigning her to Fitz’s sexual plaything as if she were a pacifier for him. Mellie has been available to take ALL the seats since this show’s inception.

This rah-rah sisterhood thing they’re trying to do? They can keep it. If Olivia ever had to bestow the title of ineffectual president on anyone ever again then Mellie is well deserving of the title. First thing she does when she sits atop the presidential heap? Make terrible decisions because she’s got the hots for the President of Bashran. All along Olivia has to coddle her and hold her hand because she downright sucks, while at the same time Olivia herself is out there making terrible choices in the name of the Republic. Which she’s still at. Wake up Olivia! The Republic does not give nary a fuck about you!!!

 This wanting to force the smashing of the patriarchy this season would’ve have worked better had Mellie been a substantially sane character with a bonafide track record. I mean she wasn’t even elected President! WTF?! Her track record is that of a user. I don’t know if Olivia still feels guilt and shame about her affair, and I was hoping that last episode had served as a reflection of that shame she has to bear from the outside world and how she can overcome it, but alas here we are. Mellie emotionally and sexually neglected Fitz, this much is true, therefore that marriage was already dead and over with by the time Olivia came into the picture. Mellie is obviously still bitter about this as she recently mentioned not wanting to be the next iteration of Fitzgerald Grant and some other snide remarks which escape me at this very moment as they were made at least 2 episodes ago and my lil angry mind can’t recall.

 The minute she gets mad at Olivia she switches back to her little embittered persona. Girl you can keep it. I do not understand what exactly Mellie has done to be deserving of Olivia’s seemingly undying devotion. We have not witnessed any of it as the audience. This is exactly why I find this storyline to be not only boring, but at the EXPENSE of Olivia Pope, the main character of this show the last time I fuckin’ checked! It is obvious that the entire point is to test this new and improved Liv with the trappings of power once again, however I am positive the writer’s smoked a lot of meth to come up with what we saw last night.

 You mean to tell me that Mellie is the canonized saint and vessel for fighting the patriarchy? WHILE WE END THE EPISODE WITH OLIVIA BEING PROPOSED TO BE A CONTRACT KILLER? And as the audience we are expected to relish in this mediocre and stale dusty ass storyline? No thank you! The formidable Olivia Pope we were once introduced to does not deserve to be relegated to some sort of hit-woman at the behest of mediocre Mellie Grant. Being Command was obviously detrimental to her well-being and this lunatic has the audacity to ask this of her? I loathe it. It is just another iteration of how Olivia’s actual humanity is ignored so she can serve the dumpster fire Republic and never come first.

 I did say there were a few scenes that I liked, obviously the one between Olivia and Quinn makes the cut. (Special shout-out for labeling Jake as second fiddle again. #true). Back to the master and student… Olivia admitted that she was acting on her own ambitions- that’s ownership and responsibility we hadn’t seen from her yet. It is important to note that eventually at some point Olivia did also use Mellie as her horse conduit to power, but I don’t sense the type of relationship between them that merits the lame-ass dramatics we had to witness last night. Oh, and the preview of next week’s episode that shows Olivia gripping the metal chair while she is alone with Cy?  Please spare me the dramatics. We don’t need the murderous intertextuality. Keep the callbacks to Uncle Andrew’s murder. #RIP

 Also- in what universe are we to believe this Olitz sans tension. The road is free and clear for them to be together, but the writers are holding out. They had the perfect opportunity to do the slow-burn thing for these last 4 episodes and all we get are two cowards who sometimes work together but sort of shut down when it gets personal. What happened to the people who were so desperate to be together to the point that it consumed them? Neither of them has successfully rebuilt their romantic life without the other, and they’ve painted their love story in the most extreme and all-consuming light, so what gives? Some one-dimensional life they’re living. 

 I vehemently despise the idea of even asking Olivia to kill Cyrus. I am downright enraged that this is the only way they found to tease her with the trappings of power again. It would’ve been more effective to just have Mellie ask her for her help…. And the fact that the preview shows Olivia contemplating this shit in some capacity? Infuriates me even further. I’m happy we are getting to the bitter end, I can’t take the character manipulation to fit this fake take down the patriarchy narrative. It’s poorly written, I couldn’t care less about the patriarchy when we’ve got Olivia in shambles being kicked while she’s down and just a few episodes left.

[wonderwoman2-23]

Scandal Finale Season

🗣 Olitz Coven🌓✨✨, it’s Time. Gather round as we discuss “Adventures in Babysitting 7:05”

Raise your hand if you called Olivia Pope a bitch last night, at least 3 times. 🙋🏽‍♀️

And raise your hand if you are still going to ride for Olivia Pope? 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

Last night Olivia was such an asshole, she has lost herself and is in serious need of a reality check! But guess what? If last night ep didn’t prove anything, it proved this: Olivia is about to get knocked on her ass. Her reality check is coming to cash in on that ass! 😎 and I am here for it.💅🏽💅🏽 I have been advocating for my girl to get back to her happy and healthy self. And Ik some people are skeptical but me personally I have been enjoying this 7th season. You have to get so high, to where you feel untouchable and get knocked on your ass. That’s what I see happening for Olivia. She really took it there last night and rewatching today, I see the cracks. She is about to explode and it’s about damn time! Since I’m kind of low on time I won’t go scene by scene , only the good important stuff 😜 I know yal want the goods‼️

“Why”

We open up with Olivia and Eli having a talk. Well Olivia talking and Eli listening because now Olivia has decided that talking to her is a privilege. Can yal hear me cackling? 🤣🤣😭😌 it’s what he deserves. I’m suppose to feel sorry for Eli? In this economy? I think tf not! 😎 this is sweet poetic justice and I shall bath in his misery! Remember ALL the bullshit he put Olitz through, hmmph Olivia has every right to treat him anyway she chooses. This was what he wanted Olivia to be his perfect soldier but he wanted her under his control. Now that she has all the power and doesn’t listen nor respect him, he wanted to go cry to Fitz for help! Baby bye! ✌🏽 But anyway Badass Olivia tells Eli that he is going to deliver a message to Fitz for her. Next thing we see Eli talking to Fitz telling him “ Go home. Speaking to Olivia is a privilege that you will permanently lose if you don’t go home, and stay home.” Whole time Fitz lookin at Rowan like he done lost his damn mind. 😯Now you might be wondering why Olivia couldn’t do this herself? Her and Fitz had just saw each other in the previous episode. Why is badass Pope sending a “do boy” aka Eli, to send Fitz away? Why can’t she face him herself? 👀☕️

Mellie tells the America people she wants to go to war- Pryce on his show is like who the hell wants to go to war- Cyrus, Liv, Mellie, Rashaad, and David discuss how to get Congress to agree to save Mellie’s new man. QPA gets President Rashaad’s niece and “babysit” her while Mellie tries to get back her mans country. Jake and Olivia are in the new b613 headquarters (the old pool in the White House) Liv comes up with a plan and here go joke corny ass “told you it would get easier, being command.” 🤦🏽‍♀️ somebody please give him some attention. Olivia’s seen walking towards the oval, and soon as she gets to the door Fitz comes out. 😈😈

Liv: What are you doing

Fitz: whatever’s necessary

Liv: did you not get my message

Fitz: I got your message and I’m staying

Mellie calls Olivia into the oval and Liv looks at Fitz “what did you tell her?”

Fitz: everything, I told her everything. And proceeds to walk off like a mfkin boss 😎🤣🤣 Olivia was floored! Fitz was damn unbothered she was mad af and he walked off. Not 1 fuck was given 🤣.

So Mellie is pissed that Olivia went behind her back , stole funds and killed luna Vargus. She yells and make a big ass deal and says she don’t wanna hear shit else about b613 or she gone put the smack down on Olivia’s ass 😂😂 just kidding but she did yell at her to shut it down 👀 hmmph! Mellie asserting her power ain’t it. Next we see Charlie trying to be nice to Pres Rashaads niece because let’s face it we all would be bored af locked up in a room with no internet access or cellphone. Next Cyrus puts in work to get people of congress to agree to the war. Rowan is seen looking around his empty museum. Olivia comes in yelling “I gave you one job.” Rowan is fed the fuck up and he goes off and then screams “🗣 I want my bonessssss” and Olivia says “who you are. What you have become. Every single thing about you makes me sad.” She walks off and being the petty woman that I love she adds “No bones for you”

Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕🏽 🗣it’s what he deserves. Listen Olivia is going to have to beat him like a slave for me to feel sorry for him 🤷🏽‍♀️ he shouldn’t have been a evil fuck! He shouldn’t have sent men to have sex with his daughter! 🤷🏽‍♀️ he shouldn’t have killed Fitz son just to prove to Olivia that she was gonna get her ass on that plane and far far away from Fitz. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Me feel sorry for Eli Rowan Pope? 🗣 fucking never‼️‼️

QPA loses Pres Rashaads niece. Quinn gets mad at Charlie cuz he let her use his cellphone.

A drink: we asked for Olivia to have a drink with Fitz not Pete Joke Harris. 🙄 So Fitz asks Joke a series of questions about Liv, his life , and his wife. Pretend catch up with an old friend. Joke is obviously still jealous of Fitz being the leading man in Olivia’s life/heart. He’s like let’s not pretend to be friends and go home because Olivia is command and she’s a lost cause. “Taking away all of Liv’s toys.”

Me: listen up you little gremlin looking bitch! Fuck you and everything you stand for! I can’t believe we still dealing with this 🤦🏽‍♀️ I can’t believe it was people really trying to ship Olivia Pope with this weak ass excuse of a man. Once again he has showed us why he is inferior to Fitz. Jake is a little kid who needs to be lead in life. What woman wants a man who is a child? Damn joke grow tf up! Fitz immediately says “you don’t believe that.” Fitz won’t leave Olivia in the dark. Even if she did step over that line he would do any and everything to bring her back! That’s a man! That’s a man who sees you as a human being and loves you and everything that comes with you. Not someone who just wants you to stroke their ego and save them without putting in any work themselves 🙄🖕🏽‼️

Olivia uses Curtis so she can get President Rashaad on his show. She wants Curtis to go easy on him, to help sell his image to the American people so they can accept this war. Curtis is like don’t tell me how to do my job and Olivia gets up and puts on her clothes. She thinks Curtis is trying to get in his feelings and he’s like na bruh you just using me and I peep ya game! 👀☕️ and of course he ends up doing exactly what she wants 🤣🤷🏽‍♀️ why even say shit if you just gone do it Curtis 😂.

So Olivia goes to find Mellie but Mellie is watching the interview and she ain’t tryna hear shit Olivia is talking about. (It was right here I started saying Mellivia is over.) Cyrus new boyfriend tells him this war is bullshit and convinces him that he shouldn’t do it. QPA finds the niece she tried to run off with her girlfriend. Quinn says something mean to Charlie and he walks off! Cyrus goes to Olivia and tells her he’s not voting for the war. She lowkey threatens him and then he tells her you could do me harm but then you still wouldn’t have the vote and you would lose a friend. She realizes he’s right. So now she’s pissed and guess who she goes to take it out on. Yes Fitz.

She goes to Fitz hotel, he opens the door.

Liv: MOVE!

Fitz: Olivia

She starts going off and fit tells her to sit down and she blows up “when have I ever listened to you.”

Me: 🤔 um when he said “take off your clothes.” “Sit there and watch me choose you.” “Get out of the damn car Olivia.” I mean I could type you up a list sis 🤗

So Fitz folds his arms because he sees she got some shit she wanna say. Liv: did it make you feel good going to the principals office and tattling on me?

Fitz: 😌 yes

Liv: 😧oh!

Fitz: I’m delighted, I’m ecstatic, I’m great. Somewhere along the way you misplaced your white hat. I just handed it back to you.

Liv: I see. So you think I’ve suddenly turned into some power hungry boss bitch, who thinks she can play and use the president like a pawn. Fitz I’ve been doing that for years at least every since I’ve put you in that office.

Fitz: listen to yourself

Liv: I stole b613 right from under you it was actually easier than I thought but then again you make everything so easy. Did you honestly think you could come here , buddy up next to my father, worm your way back into my life and make any kind of difference, I’m sorry Fitz I really am. But you can’t.

Fitz: you can say all the nasty things you want, I’m not going anywhere.

Liv: what’s it going to take, when are you going to leave?

Fitz: when I see someone I recognize, when I see Olivia Pope. And when you do too. So do me and yourself a favor , let me know when she’s back.

Liv: on hush mode.

Me: 🗣 Olivia you bitch! How dare you! Girl I almost went through that tv on her ass like white on rice‼️🤧 Ain gone lie she could have caught this round last night‼️ On her ass I go. She couldn’t say shit else to Fitz because she knows he was right. If she truly felt like her OG gladiator self she would have defended herself. And we all know she was just saying this to get under Fitz skin but the thing is he was unbothered af! Just like she knows what to say to get to him. He knows she’s saying things to make him give up. But my thing is Olivia if Fitz really wasn’t affected you at all, why are you so pressed that he’s in Washington? And yal know she was lying. She had just went to Rowan asking if being together with Fitz was possible while still having command over b613. So please don’t get discouraged about what she said, it was bullshit from the time she opened her mouth and Fitz knew it. Fitz sat his ass down , and turned on the tv on her ass 🤣🤣😌 who taught bae how to be a savage? And can we just applaud Fitz for a sec because no lie it hurt me when she said that ! 😭🤧 how dare you Olivia! Bitch! She almost caught these hands! 🤧🤧 when it’s all said and done I just want yal to respect Fitz and his resilience! And can I just point out that Fitz has always had the “woman” role in Olitz. I know yal know that right? Woman have always catered to, stood by their mates thru thick and thin, held 👏🏽it 👏🏽down 👏🏽, ride or die. That’s Fitz. He has always been the nurturing role in their relationship. That’s why when some people called him weak for showing emotions I knew those bitches were crazy. Girl women want their man to show emotions and you bird brains who called him weak clearly don’t know what a healthy man is. 😎 yea I said it, who wanna fight? 🤷🏽‍♀️ square up if you mad 🤣🤣😌. Fitzgerald slander shall not prosper. Did I mention Fitz smirked when she left 😂😂 he knew he had struck a nerve!

Mellie and Rashaad finally fuckin kiss 😩 I thought the drought was finna be over for Mellie but she stopped herself b4 I got hectic.

After Fitz struck a nerve Olivia is shown in Quinn’s office, staring out the window. Now why is Olivia in her old office? Why there? What brought this on? 🗣 Fitz 👏🏽 struck 👏🏽 a👏🏽 nerve 👏🏽. 🤔👐🏽 But Olivia I thought you didn’t listen to Fitz? So sis what is the truth? Hmmph. So Quinn walks in and is surprised Olivia is there. Quinn starts talking about how she messed up with the niece because she didn’t ask her the Olivia Pope 101 cardinal rule “what do you want?” So Olivia has an Epiphany and rushes off to find Mellie. So she goes to find Mellie on the Truman balcony and Mellie tells her “ I want president rashaad, I want him alive. I want this treaty, I want this war, I want peace, I want it all.” And Olivia tells her ok we will start a campaign and get things done the right way and then Mellie says NO. They won’t have time for that because it will take months and he will be dead by then. “We need to do something now”

Me: 😧bitch! 🤦🏽‍♀️ I seen it coming yal!

Olivia “what are you saying?” Mellie “I’m not saying anything, I’m the president.” And just like that b613 was back! Mellie you bitch! Olivia was about to handle this the right way and you flipped the light switch back on for b613. “I don’t need to know the details.... what I need is to have some deniability”

Me: 🗣Bitchhhhhh 🖕🏽 and at this moment Olivia should have fuckin knew this snake in the grass Melody was showing her true colors🤦🏽‍♀️ but alas Olivia says “consider it handled, Madame President.” 🙄👐🏽

Mellie tells Rashaad he can go home safely now, Quinn convinces his niece to go back with him as well. On Twitter I said I felt like Quinn handled that situation wrong because it just didn’t feel right. It was almost like she forced into going home. The girl is from a middle eastern country where they didn’t even want women to go to school she just tried to run away with her girlfriend, do you think it was wise to send her back home knowing they wouldn’t except her being gay? Even if her uncle is making changes that didn’t stop a coo from happening, I felt Quinn made the wrong call! Olivia goes to Mellie and tells her it’s handled and that she still needs her to do one more thing. Fitz comes strolling in all happy and Olivia meets him at the door “ I’m sorry it had to come to this.” Mellie tells Fitz to go home, talking to her is a privilege and blaaah blahhh blaaa! Olivia got b613 back so again why is it a problem that Fitz is in Washington 👀☕️

Next up this predictable ass ending! Everybody on Twitter knew what was about to happen! The plane exploded with President Rashaad and his niece on it! 🤧 RIP, to them both.

Now 👀 a ending that wasn’t so predictable: Olivia is waiting back stage for Curtis. He asks her what do she want and she’s like I just wanna thank you. And he was like it’s not like I had a choice.

Olivia: am I really so scary?

Curtis: scary? Naaa I’m not so scared of you.... I just don’t like you. I was attracted to you, your power, your beauty, I still am , me being honest. But I made a mistake.

Olivia: and what was that?

Curtis: “thinking you had other qualities. Human ones. My bad. I’ll see you around.” And proceeds to walk off! 😌🤷🏽‍♀️ drop the mic on that ass then Curtis 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😌 it’s what she deserves. It’s crazy how Curtis checked her ass! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 She was shook! I was shook and proud! I was like you go boy! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Oh yea but that plane exploding.... guess who is about to be blamed for it? You guessed it Olivia Pope. 🗣 Mellivia is over. Mellivia is over! I been said they were cancelled but that just solidified it. Mellie is about to kick Olivia’s ass to the curb! She’s about to let Liv take the blame for all this. But who really blew up that plane? My guess is Rowan or Jake.

Rowan: wants Olivia to get kicked out of b613 I honestly believe he wants his power back and I don’t believe that he’s powerless and just sitting at home waiting.

Jake: he wants Olivia to be command, this could be a way of pushing her hand.

Now the only shocking way is if it ended up being Fitz 🤔 who blew the plane up. I doubt he did but let’s play conspiracy theory right quick. What if Fitz blew the plane up so Liv could take the blame and get kicked out of the power circle? 😂😂 But I doubt it cuz that’s not Fitz way of doing things but that would be a shocker! That would be the only way I would be shocked!

My money is on Rowan, I believe he did it. This reeks of him , and Jake! This the type of shit they do for fun. 🤔 but anyway Olivia is about to take all the blame for this! Mellie is gonna be begging Fitz for help cuz she is not gonna know what to do. Lmao if I was Fitz I’ll be petty and be like naaa you just wanted me to go back to Vermont. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hope you all enjoy this read , xoxo Chaun💋

[eaaazzzyy-doesit]

wait. scandal time ...

why do we think that liv blew up the plane??? i'm actually asking.. did i miss something?? does anyone else think she blew it up or is it just the crazy asses on twitter lol.

also, the olitz reunion that's brewing is going to be SOOOOO good. curtis, AKA shorty side piece, was like "girl you are an awful human being what in the hell" right after zaddy fitz was like will the real olivia pope pls stand up. i think olivia is finally like "oh wait... shit." hopefully she starts REALIZING THINGS.

AND CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT HOW PERFECT FITZ IS. he is the only person who is like, this is not olivia. everyone else is letting her go about her demon ways but he's like no this ain't my girl, i know you're suffering right now and i'm not going to force you, but i'll be here when you figure it out. "let me know when she's back." THATS MOTHER EFFIN LOVE.

you know the series won't end with liv being the way she is now. i can't promise olitz, even though i don't know HOW they won't end up together, but there's no way the show will end with olivia not happy.

i think last nights episode was the beginning of liv hitting her rock bottom. jacob thinks she's a lost cause. shorty side piece thinks she's awful (she is lmao). mellie is going to blame her for her bae getting blown up. a lot of people think she's going to get fired. idk what it's gunna be but it's gunna be something, AND SOON.

interested to see how quinn & charlie's wedding (next episode i'm pretty sure) is going to affect liv. can we get some googily olitz wedding eyes please👀😩.

let's remember people, ITS ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN. don't sleep on it. PEACE.

[mwendesunstar]

Fitz and Rowan, Again...

Lets talk about the new son, the new Jake: FITZ! Boy, was he in full swing last night! Rowan sent Fitz to do what Jake was originally sent to do, but refused: lure Olivia away from something, for their own purposes, by wooing her. Aside from Fitz following through on what Jake refused to do, Fitz also has his OWN personal interest for his covert activity. While Jake would have been a through way for Rowan's intention, Fitz let Rowan know that he himself had HIS own intentions for essentially manipulating Olivia, so that BOTH Rowan and Fitz are double teaming in working Olivia for their very own intention! Where they were each other's competition throughout the seasons in trying to leash Olivia for their respective reasons, now they are working together towards their own end! Jake so happened to find out and warned Olivia about their secret meeting, showing her that her gut feeling that something was off was accurate. Fitz all up and through QPA like Jake was in OPA, as if sincere like Jake was! How ironic that Fitz would be placed in Jake's position years later to follow through in actively presenting himself as the real phony, when viewers always questioned Jake as the phony in being Rowan's gateway to Liv!!!!!! EVERYTHING Jake was bashed for in being Rowan’s agent into Liv’s life through emotions, here Fitz is fully participating in a condensed version, AND is serving his own interests in the manipulation! Fitz can’t use the scapegoat of having been manipulated by Rowan due to ignorance, because he already KNOWS Rowan after having been played by him in S4 with Jake in jail. He knew Rowan prior to that, even! He knows this since, as mentioned, he told Rowan in their secret meeting that he wasn’t doing what he was doing for Rowan’s reasons. Nothing felt authentic about Fitz's actions last night, not even the apartment scene with Fitz and Liv. I FELT the need to distrust and underlying motive for their actions; it was in the air.

Olakers may be disappointed with the state of Olake’s troubled relationship, but the thing that continues to satisfy me about them is the fact that I continue to get a transparent Olivia in her interaction with Jake. In a world identified as fake, phony and fantasy, where you can’t trust anyone, I greatly appreciate the honesty and transparency we get in private Olake scenes. Whatever it is they are going through, from great to terrible, they are still an authentic team. They are still true partners. I still get the sense that they have their very own world that they exit from in masks to deal with the outsiders. Olivia has many masks, but Jake gets HER face. There is no other reason for the character of Jake Ballard to still be here if not for all of this! All of his time has been spent next to Olivia in development. His Scandal presence has always been about Olivia and how whatever he does or happens to him impacts her soul. Their self defined/unique commitment to one another is beyond their surrounding circumstances to overpower. I’m not concerned with an end game for them as if they are approaching the possibility of a certified relationship of love; Olake LIVES right now. They are engaged in what I consider beautiful relationship that satisfies me right now. It is REAL right now. The core of love is being expressed right now, albeit unconventional, which is what many are still searching them for. I want to see all facets of this relationship expressed before my eyes, even such stormy periods as they are experiencing right now. We don’t need a ton of scenes to witness it; Olitz needs this! Olitz needs big and razzle dazzle since they aren’t anchored by the meat of a multi-faceted, deep relationship experienced and earned over years. It’s theater, and theater needs big. Olake doesn’t since the authenticity of bond, partnership, and earned relationship is so POTENT with them in just moments... 

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this season unraveling! Olake endgame or no Olake endgame. Whatever Olivia’s end is will not negate the truth of what we are given of Jake & Olivia right now, over the course of many seasons. We have them right now, while Olitzers are honestly still waiting. That is, if we can appreciate the unconventional, anti-fantasy.

[rkrispyt]

some show speculation

Scandal & This Is Us spec under the cut, some light spec about Jane the Virgin  as well as some Bachelor comments. SPOILERS for all! 

SCANDAL: Is it just me or is anyone else not exhaling just yet that Quinn is still alive? I realized we don’t KNOW that at the ‘present’ the show is at, she’s still alive. I initially thought she would be because we saw Rowan away from the house so much in the last episode and if Quinn wasn’t alive then who’s with the baby, right? I thought “ok, this episode is gonna pick up with Rowan getting strangled and Quinn showing up and pulling Charlie off of him” but since that didn’t happen... maybe I’m just being super suspicious because of the show. But I kept expecting her to die somehow after the baby was born - whether Rowan did it or it was complications of the birth and not being seen by a doctor. Still can’t let my guard down there. I mean, why does he have baby clothes going up to 2 years old? Something’s still not right there. And considering he’s talking about how his daughter is now dead too, that baby would be a nice little fresh start, no? 

I do hope though that this feeling I have is wrong (about Quinn still being the body that was in the trunk/car fire), and that instead Quinn and Rowan decide/have decided to work together to take Olivia down. With her knowing Liv would have let her die and him being pushed past his breaking point with Olivia, and all that Olivia’s becoming and it feeling like a big set up for nothing but some Olitz ‘happy ending’ where he saves her from herself, I’m not here for it. She crossed a line for me and I’d almost rather see her get her come-uppance for all this damage she’s done this season. Cause I really can’t tell where else they’re going with this aside from Fitz making her ‘see the light’ somehow. She can be redeemed IMO however she went too far for me to simply forgive and there be no consequences for her. 

THIS IS US: Gah! I cant’ figure it out! All I KNOW is that they’re definitely hinting at Jack dying in the fire because he goes back in for Kate’s dog. Which thus means that there will most likely be a quick 180 at the last moment where something else happens that causes his death. They’re never that obvious. They do well at hinting though and making you think you’re picking up on something others aren’t and you’ve ‘figured it out’ - I mean, who else thought he was gonna forget to turn off that crockpot and that would be why the house caught fire? That subtle little red light glowing in the background of so many scenes, catching it and thinking no one else is noticing it but you’ve got it figured out. But then he turns it off and I for one was like “wait, what? Ok, so he turns it off so...? Wait, does the DOG start the fire somehow, is that how it ties in?” I feel like this show makes you think you have enough info to figure it out, but then throws in another twist with information you never had but needed to REALLY suss it out. 

So I’m seeing lots of speculation and I gotta say, it all sounds plausible. But I think it’s gonna be something no one’s even THINKING of right now cause they’ve subtly led us astray so we’re not on the scent. If I had to guess right now though, I think I’m leaning towards a tragic situation of “dad went back in for so-and-so but then they show up around the corner and he can’t know that they’re not in there” kind of a thing. Like in The Fire episode of The Office when Dwight goes back in for Michael’s cell phone and shortly after, it starts ringing in Michael’s pocket, and they have no means of letting Dwight know to get out of there (a crappy, not at all parallel example, I know! lol).  I will say I’m very interested to find out what it is, but emotionally I’m not ready. I love that this show is so beautiful and makes us feel so much but man is this season HEAVY so far. I gotta prepare better. 

ETA: Reality Steve is saying he doesn’t know anything but that given what he knows of the show, how actors and producers talk and things they’ve said, he feels certain that Jack doesn’t die because of the fire. I was thinking the same thing however there HAVE been a couple interviews I read after the last episode where things were said about Kevin not having made up with Jack yet and Dan Fogelman talks about how that’s true and Kevin never has that closure. I’ve caught a couple things where people referenced where things were left relationship-wise from the last episode and it was directly stated that that was how their relationship with Jack was left. So I would believe maybe it’s not because of the fire, but at the same time it seems that it will still happen at this point in their lives as when the fire happens? Unless people just lied which they don’t normally do, they get vague or talk around something. Maybe Kate chases the dog into the street after the fire and Jack pushes her out of the way and gets hit or something, I dunno. I DON’T think it’s gonna be anything drinking related, just because of how they talked about him in therapy. They all seemed set on not realizing that even though Jack wasn’t drinking or drunk all the time, he still dealt with that alcoholism every day. If he died cause he was driving drunk or some other accident happened cause he was drunk, wouldn’t they be less likely to say things like “dad wasn’t an addict” or whatever it was during therapy? 

JANE THE VIRGIN: I know some people think this episode ‘proved’ Mateo is the narrator because of the ‘ah, memories’ line regarding his first day of kindergarten, but I ask you again: why/how would Mateo suddenly have an accent when he’s grown? I’m not 100% sure who it’s gonna be, but my leading theory is her grandfather Mateo. 

Also, I LOVE Jafael but I was kinda thrown by that episode. Mostly by the way they came together at the end. I LOVE that they did, but I didn’t quite catch the shift in Jane. Even her “ok, kiss me again” wasn’t as if she was really considering it might feel differently, and somehow suddenly it was romantic but we didn’t see that revelation for her in that moment, so did I just miss it during the episode? I’m legitimately asking - I had to step away once or twice to get dinner out of the oven and could hear but not see. I find it hard to believe the show would just skim over that, did I miss it? It was just a little odd to me - like without seeing her catching feelings about it was odd to me. 

ALSO I get it, people loved Michael and they loved Michael and Jane together. You’re still upset because he died and that you didn’t get to see Jane mourn that every day since. I understand that, I do. But it seems like such a waste of time and just rude and unnecessary to constantly drop in the tags to point out that you’ll never forgive the show and aren’t watching and can’t get on board with Jafael and Jane doesn’t deserve Michael and blah blah blah. Just don’t watch the show. It’s not that hard. I did it with Glee more than once. I’ve done it with PLENTY of other shows when they lost my interest or I felt I didn’t trust the writers to do the story/characters justice anymore. Why continue to come back just to say “just so you know, I’m still not watching and this show sucks”? Trust me, I got it. You can go on with your life now assuming I am constantly aware of that fact. 

AND so many people were bitching about how terrible Rafael was for not going to get Louisa out of the wellness center (see what I did there? ;) ) after it was discovered that she hadn’t imagined Carl. Now all these people are hating on Rafael for being mad at Petra for not telling him Carl wasn’t imagined so he COULD go get Louisa out of the wellness center? How does that make sense? You’re either enraged for the injustice to Louisa or you’re not, it can’t change cause you are determined to make Raf the bad guy. You can be pissed at him for the same thing Petra DID DO but he can’t be pissed at her for it? How does that make sense? Miss me with that nonsense. That being said, I do want something to work out for her. She’s been through a lot and grown yet she keeps making some same old silly mistakes. I want something to start to work out for her so she starts moving towards her happy ending. 

BACHELOR: HOW DID I GET CONVINCED TO WATCH THIS MESS AGAIN? Such garbage. And yet, I cannot stop following along. I just read the spoilers that he pulled a Mesner. Yeesh. 

Also THAT GIRL WAS ABOUT TO DRINK HER OWN PEE? TIA KEEPS SAYING STUPID SHIT LIKE ‘I’M IMPRESSED’ THAT THAT DUDE DRANK HIS OWN PEE! These women...I wish they’d have a season where they allow the women to realize this guy ain’t no catch and decide on their own each week if they even wanna stay. I would LOVE to see that: him having to actually try to impress them and convince them to keep going. It’s so terrible. I’m such a reality tv junkie and even this is too much for me man. Ugh. 

Finally, Arie seems like a SKEEZ in sheep’s clothing. It grosses me out. 

[olitz48-blog]

Why I ship OLITZ:

From day 1 Olivia and Fitz has loved❤️ exactly 1 person and that's each other. Yes both of them hurt each other but Liv done worst and Fitz love for her was unconditional love ❤️ that man loved his Livy like 💗 it was no tomorrow. But Liv herself Loved Fitz as well like it was no tomorrow. I can recall Fitz showing Liv many times how much he loved ❤️ her.

#1: Running Out The Clock 🕦

#2: Giving Up The WH Many Times

#3: Going To War For Her

#4: Saving Her Monster Of A Father For Her

#5: Built Her/Them A mansion In Vermont

#6: Gave Her A Ring

Now that's a man for Liv all roads lead to Fitz

Liv words. But when I look at how much Fitz love ❤️ his Livy I got to look at why Liv always got 1 foot out the door ready to run far away 🏃. When I look at Liv relationship with her father it's no love from him he treats her like shit 💩 he don't tell Liv he love her he call's Liv out her name I mean he called his own daughter a stripper and front of everyone and the only person stood up 👆 for Liv was Fitz

#Show Your Daughter Some Damn Respect

Liv is afraid 😱 because she never been Loved ❤️ before like that and it scares her but she love ❤️ Fitz as well as being in love with him just the thought of losing him scares her.

Flashback to when Fitz got shot 🔫 and almost died ⚱ Liv was breaking down inside her face said so many words and at that moment all Liv could do was cry 😭 I mean 😏 she was breaking 💔 my heart to see 👀 her cry 😭 like that. I respect Fitz as a man because he doesn't push Liv to say 🙊 she Love ❤️ him I mean 😏 Fitz then told Liv so many times how much he love ❤️ her even loved her more then being president. Or how about giving zero fucks when Millie was saying how she wasn't going to go on national television about him having an affair with Liv and the only good part from that scene was

Fitz: That's Me Being In Love With Another Woman. I damn near screamed 😱 my wig off 😂 lol. When it comes to Fitz & joke there is no comparison between 🖖 them Fitz is the man joke was just someone to toy with until he got his eviction notice from Liv, all I know is Liv words to Joke

#1: I Love Fitz

#2: I'm In Love With Someone Else

#3: You Was Never An option For Me

#4: I Don't Love You Joke

#5: I Love Him

#6: When I'm With You All I Think about Is Him

#7: Fitz Is Who I Choose

#8: He's Who I Will Always Choose

#9: You Are Just A Lesser Version Of Him

#10: A Sad Reminder Of The Men I Truly Deserve.... No matter the length 📏 Between 🖖 OLITZ the heart 💞 wants what the heart 💞 wants and Liv heart belongs to Fitz & vice versa. When Fitz eyes 👀 locks with Liv theirs no need for words to be spoken. Nothing Liv do to hide her feeling or emotion from Fitz works he knows Liv better than Liv knows herself and that's why Liv always hide or run 🏃 but more of she is scared 😱 because she never felt love ❤️ like that. I don't care who they slept with it was nothing to serious 😒 between 🖖 other people because Fitz has Liv heart 💞 and Liv has Fitz heart 💞 with these two you can't go wrong others who realize what Fitz in Liv have.

Verna: I Seen You Two Together You breath in sync.

Millie: He Need You Liv / You Everything To Him Liv.

Huck: She Wears It For Him She Never Takes It Off.

Joke: But You Are In Love With Him

Rowan: In She Love You... You...

Yes OLITZ will be end game they been through hell and back

Liv words to Edison

#1: I Want Painful

#2: Difficult

#3: Devastating

#4: Life Changing

#5: Extraordinary Love

Yes ✔️ that's what OLITZ have in nothing will change that between 🖖 em. Another quote from Liv declaring her Love ❤️ for Fitz.

Just Don't ask me to undo ↩️ the past

Don't ask me to fall out of love with Fitzgerald grant. Because if I could 👏 I would. Yes ✔️ Fitz left his mark on Liv heart 💞 no other man can compare to her Fitz baby it's em against the world 🌏 and no matter what OLITZ brings out the best of each other,

Liv words to Fitz.

:The Fish Rots From The Head.

:The Secret Service Taking They Q From You.

:Because You The Head Of The Fish.

#1:Reckless

#2:Negligent

#3:Selfish

You Letting Things Get Out Of Hand In Your Boys Are Following.

What Kind Of Example Are You Setting For The People Who Works For You For The Country For Your Son.

He Looked Up And Saw His Dad With Some Woman He Didn't Know. Some Woman In A Bathrobe. What Is That A Grant Family Tradition, You Basically Saw Your Own Father Do The Same Thing Right.

Is That Who You Are, Is You Big Jerry Now

I Don't Care What You Do In Your Spare Time I Really Don't. But This Long Ass Speech To Fitz Beg The Difference Liv Know Damn Well She Do Care ✅ lol 😂 OK I'm back.

But You... Liv Take A Deep Breath To Exhale The Pain, You Better Think 🤔 You Better Ask Yourself Is This Really Who You Want to Be.... Liv was hurt but at the same time she put it to the side to put her man in his place OK 👌 y'all I'm about to cry 😭 also

Another thing that caught my attention was when Liv said to Marcus

You will be on the road with a presidential candidate #Liv:That's Brass Ring 💍 OK 👌 now I'm really about to cry 😭 Liv was speaking 🗣 from the heart 💞 when Fitz gave LIV that Doux Bebe/Sweet Baby ring Liv was shooting fireworks 🎇 through the screen from her heart 💞 she was missing Fitz but was having a hard time but she was also letting the people know when she was talking it was about the love ❤️ of her life giving her a Brass Ring. All I know is OLITZ is end game no matter what Fitz/Liv belongs together I mean 😏 that night and the rose 🌹 garden put the icey on the cake 🍰

Fitz: What's Wrong You Pace And Circles When Something Wrong. When You Just Thinking 🤔 It's Back In Forward. But When Something Wrong It's Circles.

Liv: Did You Need Something Mr President.

Fitz: See You Use To Sound Sexy When You Called Me Mr President Now It Just Sounds Like I'm A Gym Teacher.

Liv: Did You Need Something

Fitz: The Sally Hampton Thomas Jefferson Comment Was Below The Belt.

Liv: Because It's So Untrue.

Fitz: You Playing The Race Card On The Fact I'm In Love With You, Come On Don't Belittle Us It's Insulting And Beneath You And Design To Drive Me Away I'm Not Going Away.

Liv: I Don't Have To Drive You Away You Married You Have Children You The Leader Of The Free World You Are Away By Definition You Away You're Unavailable.

Fitz: So This Is About Millie

Liv: No No This is I Smile At Her And I Take Off my Clothes For You. I Wait For You I Watch For You My Whole Life Is You I Can't Breathe Because I'm Waiting For You

You own Me You Control Me I Belong To You.

Fitz: You Own Me You Control Me I Belong To You, You Think I Don't Want To Be A Better Man You Don't Think I Want To Dedicate Myself To My Marriage You Don't Think I Want To Be Honorable To Be The Man You Voted For I Love You I'm In Love With You You're The Love Of My Life My Every Feeling Is Control By The Look On Your Face I Can't Breathe Without You I Can't Sleep Without You I Wait For You I Watch For You I Exist For You

#We In This Together.

Next day Liv Tells Fitz

Liv:I Love You To I'm In Love With You To.

Fitz:So We In This Together

Liv:We In This Together OLITZ will be the death 💀 of me and no matter what Fitz/Liv are true soul mates #1: They way they eyes 👀 lock

#2: They Heart 💞 Beats As 1

OLITZ 4life........

[trumpetnista]

My Final Thoughts on 7x08 (taken from Shattering’s latest A/N...)

Quinn Perkins' fate may just be sealed after all but at least Shonda didn't kill her baby. Of course, after 509, last season or not, killing yet another baby wasn't gonna happen but Quinn herself? She may very well be gone and even if she's not, I'm pretty tempted to sue ABC for emotional distress. Everyone (even Joke Bastard's crash test dummy looking and acting ass) was affected by the apparent loss of Quinn and that 21 gun salute funeral scene made me cry. It's like when Harrison died but a million times worse because that was on Rowan. What's happened is on Liv.

No amount of private guilt will count until she fesses up to her Evil and starts making up for it. What little humanity she did show was potent and heartwrenching but it's not enough. Neither was her going to Fitz for comfort like we knew she would, even though she was an absolute bitch to him for no good reason beforehand. She always lashes out at him, especially when she knows that she's done wrong and Fitz just...it's honestly sad at this point. There's a difference between unconditional love and taking emotional abuse and it seems that Fitz has reached that conclusion because even though he did take her in with loving arms (god, the scene was so sweet but so sad), he's on the verge of giving up on her for good and I ain't mad at it.

I said it on Thursday and I'm saying it here: unless Liv starts getting some professional help or even semi-professional help, Fitz needs to bounce and never, ever look back. Enough is enough. He may love her and she may love him but unless they're both human and acting like adults, Olitz just isn't gonna work. Fitz has put the work in to be a better man solo and within Olitz. He's always put the work in and I'm tired of Liv doing the bare minimum in response or worse, making one big positive gesture and then backtracking on it the second things get complicated. It's fucking bullshit.

Olivia Pope needs to own her Rowana sins. She needs to tell the whole truth to her remaining friends and family and face the consequences. Afterwards, she needs to put the work in to fix herself or she shouldn't get to be happy with Fitz or by herself, that matter. It's been 7 years of the same bullshit from her and I'm tired. It's probably an unpopular opinion but I don't give a fuck. I've stood by my convictions before and I'm gonna keep doing it.

However, there was good in the 7B premiere. Huck carried the episode (and figured out the ugly truth in like 30 seconds), the rest of them are about to find out because Quinn had the Intel hidden on a flash drive just in case, Cyrus faced more consequences for his Evil, Mellie was only around for like a minute, Joke Bastard has been reduced to Lady Rowana of the Sith's personal chauffer, Olitz made love like they did in 1x06 (sans the broken lamp and solid mental health, unfortunately) Quinn's baby girl is alive and beautiful (her name is Robin, BTW if you wanna cry a little inside) and the episode ended with Rowan getting the shit choked out of him by a very angry Charlie. It's likely the bastard isn't gonna die but it was gratifying to see. I haven't been that happy to see someone get fucked up since Joke got shanked in 4B. I am cautiously optimistic about 7B and the Series Finale in April but there are 10 eps left and anything can happen, good or bad.

[zalrb]

What did you think of Olitz first meet in 'the trail'? I know you don't ship them but what did you think of it from a writers POV and chemistry wise

I have always been upfront that Tony and Kerry have palpable chemistry. Like Kerry essentially vibrates when Fitz and Olivia are together

Even when I did the rewatch and was asked to do some reviews, when I wrote about the pilot and saw the way they just stare at each other I was like, I mean I can’t say they don’t have chemistry, it’s undeniable.  

What I also say is that, personally, 98% of the time, their chemistry makes me feel uncomfortable and not in that “do you want me to leave you alone?” kind of way but it’s more like a lot of the time there’s a dominance or aggressiveness to Tony’s energy in comparison to Kerry’s that doesn’t sit right with me, it’s why I prefer Olake’s chemistry because I find that their energies match and they play around a lot with that.

But that’s all to say that the problem with Olitz was never their chemistry, it was their narrative and that goes for how they meet as well. 

It’s absolutely clear to me that Shonda just wanted to get to the juice of Olitz, she was eager to get to the tumultuous, passionate, love-hate, consuming relationship (which is something that she does even in Grey’s. Derek and Meredith have no real reason to fall in love within the first season either) and so she rushed their meeting and she didn’t really give them a build-up (which I can sort of understand because I can see her just wanting to get into the thick of Kerry and Tony’s chemistry but it damages their story imo).

Like it starts right away. Fitz initially tries to kick Olivia off the campaign because he’s just SO attracted to her after seeing her across the room for, like, 30 seconds, he doesn’t even know her, he literally just sees her and listens to her tell him that he looks like he’s never been laid (which is super heavy-handed and convenient) and that  had me like ………… I guess. But because of their chemistry, even though the narrative is contrived, I could buy that they had this crazy tension right off the bat because Shonda shows that they do

And I could buy that throughout the campaign, they’re just fighting this insane sexual chemistry

That’s all fine, but Shonda expected me to believe it was more than that, she expected me to believe that they have this transcendental, epic connection to the point that Verna later on says “I’ve seen you two together, you even breathe in sync”, Shonda expected me to believe that was what they were fighting and that was where she loses me because I didn’t see that on the trail. 

Stefan and Elena have their instant attraction, their instant chemistry, their instant pull

but they talk throughout the pilot 

The episodes ends with them going into her house to talk some more 

Fitz and Olivia talk about the campaign, strategize for the campaign and he complains about Mellie being a terrible person because of course he does. If I’m being super generous, I can buy that Fitz is attracted to Olivia because she’s young, beautiful, brilliant and ballsy and that’s his type but it doesn’t go deeper than that for me and I never understood what it was about Fitz that Olivia loved so this connection they’re supposed to have has ALWAYS been narratively weak. 

[ikonics44]

A post worth reading found on The Tony Goldwyn FB Fan Page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/thetonygoldwyn/

For those who don’t know where I stand with Scandal these days… I will let you know that I am a STRONG WARRIOR who has made a CHOICE to not give Shonda Rhimes Live Viewing numbers for any new Episode of Scandal since 5- 09.  In fact, I am one of the co-founders of the Scandal Warrior page encouraging those of us in the Fandom that are NOT happy with the Direction of Scandal; do not like the OP Character being reduced down to a degrading factor, are not happy with the little screen time Fitz and Tony Goldwyn are getting on the show, are not here for the advancement of the Diluted Amount of Supporting Characters like Mellie, Jake & Rowan at the cost of reducing the airtime and importance of the main characters, are sick of the plot holes and lazy writing of constant WASH, RINSE & REPEAT themes …. I encourage those people FED UP with the Series, to not Reward Shonda and ABC for putting out BULLSHIT on screen each and every week by NOT watching — in hope for a FORCED Intervention and CHANGE of Direction with the series.  If ABC and Shonda want my Viewer Number, they are going to have to “EARN IT” by returning Scandal back to true form!  Where OP was the Bad-Ass Fixer, scoring Cases….the White House overcoming obstacles that cross over with the Fixing Process of OPA and a Healthy Relationship for both Fitz and Olivia (not even necessarily together anymore…but happy and content).  I have yet to see anything worth giving Shonda Rhimes my Viewing number since her destruction of the series w/ 5-09. Replaying this BS Election night over and over like “Groundhog Day” – minus Bill Murray… starring everyone but the Butler’s point of View is Pointless, a waste of Time and doing NOTHING for Olivia’s “Journey” IMO.

That being said and put aside…  ABC has decided to give us a “GIFT” this Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. EST by airing one of its BEST EPISODES of the Series.  This GIFT on Screen will be the Replay of “The Trail” Episode 1-06, which was Written by Jenna Banns (Creator of “The Family”, and really the best Olitz Writer that Scandal ever had who wrote the phone sex scene and many other pivotal, epic love story lines of the series); Heavily Supported by Executive Producer Pete Norwalk (Creator of “How to Get Away with Murder” which gave us the twists and mystery behind Amanda Tanner and the Mole storylines; hell we haven’t had good mysteries since he left Scandal) and directed by Tom Verica.  For the OLITZ Nation…. “The Trail” is the OLITZ Bible, Foundation for the Scandalous Affair… and the Reason we Fell in love with the LOVE STORY of Fitz and Olivia .  It was why we put this Series on EVERYONES RADAR.  This is the Episode in which most of us with Morals, actually gave a Pass on the Infidelity Card and rooted for this Couple that had an undeniable EXTRADORINARY LOVE.  This is where we see Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn’s Chemistry Explode and Electrically Shock us through our TV Screens.  No doubt that this is probably the Most Watched & Re-Watched Episode of all of Scandal.

Why cross the picket line and watch the trail?  Let me just spout off SEVERAL reasons why I encourage those that have LEFT the Bullshit, yet still follow the actors, the series through YouTube and Blogs, Message Boards, Twitter, Tumblr, FFic etc… should buckle down and Watch the first Block of Scandal this Thursday night.

1)         I want ABC to know that THIS IS THE QUALITY that we want to see on Screen. This Writing, This Storyline is what we will come back to, hold Scandal Parties for, be more than Active on Social Media with and promote the series to our Friends…  this Quality and Formula is what MADE Scandal a Success.  For an OLITZ Fan…. We need to HONOR this Epic Episode, our Foundation, by Coming out of the Woodwork and Watching and boosting the ratings of this OLD EPISODE over any new Crap shown in that next hour.  If the new Episode out performs this OLD EPISODE in ratings, it only will serve as FUEL to SR Fire of Getting Rid of OLITZ for good.  Her argument might be that FITZ (Tony Goldwyn) can be written off the show now and still have this Series more than Survive.  By not showing up for this Episode, SR will convince ABC that  the OLITZ fans are GONE now….  ‘I gave them “Their” BEST Episode and they still NOT watching attitude— so ABC….let me Continue down this Path without Tony and Fitz…. ‘  HORSESHIT!!! I want to be HEARD that this IS THE QUALITY of show I WILL WATCH.  ABC needs to know that WE ARE STILL OUT THERE …but have CHOSEN to not support the current Direction.  For some of us — we are still Viable Viewers given better Material to watch. For others it will always be a lost cause…as they may never be back and that is each and everyone’s individual choice. I do not stand in judgment for those who were lucky enough to escape the Toxicity of the series for good. However, SR and ABC needs to be sent a LOUD MESSAGE NOW — that Getting Rid of Tony Goldwyn on Screen would be Suicidal to the Series.  SR thinks that she can push him aside as she has done to several major characters on Grey’s — she needs a WAKE UP CALL NOW… we are Still out there and she better Slow her Roll with phasing Fitz off the show!  We are NOT the same Fans of Grey’s that will Roll Over and Accept anything she puts out there…we are a DIFFERENT, More LOYAL to our Actors type of Fans.  We have more than proved that by actively boycotting the series and bringing ratings Dramatically down.  What Better way to show them that the “Creepy Cult” is Still Around than to HONOR and WATCH “The Trail”.

2)        I want OLAKERS to know that we are still out there lurking and are the Majority of the Scandal Fan base and can make or break this series for good.  I am SOOO damn Sick of the OLAKERS that have NO CLUE about the Foundation of this Series being OLITZ because they damn jumped in Watching Scandal at the end of Season 2 and beginning of Season 3, bypassing these critical episodes of “The Trail”, “Happy Birthday Mr. President” and “A Criminal, A Wore, an Idiot and a Liar” that show the deep history of OLITZ. They need to be Educated.   I want us to come out in FULL FORCE to overtake SM on this Episode Alone and to Silence those Buffoons that do nothing but Hate on Fitz and Tony Goldwyn and the OLITZ love story.  We need to Remind ABC that this episode helped make Scandal a Success and this FORMULA could possibly resurrect the damn series to over 5M viewers if steered in the right direction.

3)        Last — I sadly am not an ORIGINAL Gladiator.  I did not see the original Airtime of this Episode back in 2012.  I missed out on the Live Tweets during this Eppy and if I never watch another LIVE SCANDAL episode again, I would rather end all my Live Viewing on this OLD EPPY than have it be 5-09.  To Me Episode 5-09 will go down in TV HISTORY as the WORST JUMP THE SHARK EPISODE IN ANY T.V. SERIES (mark my words).  Hell they should re-name that episode as JUMP the WHALE…cause I’ve never seen an Audience Bail as quickly as they did — cutting the Viewership by 1/3rd overnight…   So “The Trail” may be my Last HOORAY — of LIVE Scandal,  especially if Rumors of Fitz being killed off or written off come true within next 8 episodes down the road.  Tony Goldwyn missing out on the 100th Episode Party was HUGE in where his head is with the future of this series.  I don’t care what excuses the Fandom has come up with… this party was important PR and he was AWOL with NO Explanation (not that he owes us one).  His Absence stirred more talk alone than the damn Series Milestone Accomplished.  To not be there in that Picture was HOLLOW. I do know that the man had the knowledge of the Finale at the time of this party because he is Directing it and gets the script ahead of the cast and table reads.  So turning your back on the Scandal Family, not being a part of the 100th for the Media, always being that PR cheerleader for the series in fact I’d say he was the Captain of PR for Scandal ….he not being a part of it was a Huge AMISS… I don’t care how people try to sugarcoat it….  It was a LOUD STATEMENT for me and I heard it!  So when SR has already said she is arguing about the S6 finale with the Writers a few weeks ago… the last Argument she had with them was S4 Finale with OLITZ on the Balcony… so you do the math on this one and speculate however you choose.  I have the answers well enough to know that ABC needs to see my Viewer # this this Thursday for “The Trail” so that they factor me in as a possible LOST (FOR GOOD) VIEWER if Tony Goldwyn leaves Scandal.

So there you have it….  Why I think it is IMPORTANT to watch “The Trail” and be HEARD.  This WAS the Scandal Series I fell in Love with. This is the QUALITY I will come back to and watch.  Make no Mistake, I’m not a ride or die Olitz Fan…  whether they come back together or not is NOT what this is about for me.  You have seen me joke about “Ritz” etc…  So the “No Olitz No Scandal” is Not really My Motto or message here, although I think those reasons are fine for others.   For me I’m perfectly HAPPY having the S4 Finale be “My Ending” with OLITZ on that Balcony with “Whatever we Want” to get my happy OLITZ ending.   I’m not sure that I will get anything better than that to be honest from SR and her team of writers, EVER.  But I will SHOW UP for this Episode this Thursday Night.  I will Honor a Past Episode and give Credit to: Jenna Banns, Pete Norwalk and Tom Verica for putting out a Quality Episode; that Sets the Example to the type of Quality I will Return to for Live Viewing.  I will HONOR a time that The Characters all were Likeable. Unfortunately for me the ONLY character I currently like is FITZ, who outside this last episode has been getting minimal screen time. (And yes, I don’t watch but keep up with the storyline through active boards and sites I participate in and clips/gifs I see before some smartass makes a comment on how I know).   Should there be an element of LOVE in the Series…. ABSOLUTELY — and if SR is DUMB ENOUGH to Ignore the “GOLD” she has with the Chemistry of OLITZ….so be it.  But don’t waste Tony Goldwyn or Kerry Washington’s Sex Appeal all together…. Find a way for their characters to be happy ,in a true growth style, and you may have viewers back.  I’m a Ride or Die FITZer.  So I will be LOUD and PROUD one last time this Thursday Night for the First HOUR of Scandal…and will Turn the Channel as soon as OLITZ says their Goodbye in her Apartment…  until SR and ABC give me a Solid Reason to Come back in the present storyline…… I will continue to turn the channel.  I hope MANY of you I know are still out there…like me… will join me in doing the SAME thing this Thursday!

[boombitxh]

Scandal Ruminations 7X07

I think that I can finally, for once in my life, with clarity, can tell where Scandal is going! It took me ten thousand years to finally get here but for some reason once I reached the point of indifference I was finally able to objectively watch this show.

 Let’s face it, this show loves to tap dance on our very last nerve. First things first: For what it’s worth I don’t think that Quinn is dead. The actress gave no exit interviews to any press as is customary. I know she just had a baby but these interviews are arranged and conducted way ahead of time.

 I will start by saying this: Olivia still has a few stages to go through before she gets to where she’s going and I’ve identified the stages as follow:

 1)    The Catharsis: the breakdown of what’s left of this version of Olivia. It began this last episode as she grappled with her very own chewy center. She has one but she has deluded herself into thinking that she doesn’t. All the baggage she dropped on Rowan’s living room floor is the most self-aware moment she’s had in years! I found her statement to contradict everything she told Fitz in that 509 argument but I will delve into that later and how S4B & S5 are what bring us the Olivia we see today.

2)    The isolation: Olivia must spend time alone to come to grips with the choices she has made. The choices that affected her personally and the ones that affected her friends/family. This introspection will also serve as the foundation for what Olivia wants to do with her life. If you had asked me a week ago I would’ve told you she needed this introspection but I would have not been inclined to think that she was ready for it. Her moment of self-awareness, in which she acknowledges the root of her problems, her father, serves as the beginning of the breaking down and breaking through to move the show forward and onto her introspection.

3)    The penance: Olivia is not a very verbal person in terms of apologies, I mean I can count on my hand the few times she’s apologized. I think her making amends will be more about actions and less about words.

4)    The Rebuilding: Olivia will eventually power through and finally envision who it is she wants to be and what she wants to be doing. She looked so unenthused when Mellie was giving her the “No man between us” speech that I felt as if she was on the verge of quitting right then and there. The WH at the service of Mellie ain’t the place for her. She isn’t cut out to be command as we’ve clearly been shown. There’s only one place left for her to go: back to the white hat, whatever the white hat means for her from this point forward.

5)    The reconciliation: this applies to all aspects of her life, with Fitz (I was a skeptic but if they’re going to make second-rate Dabby endgame then what has been the point of dragging Olitz out all these seasons. Come on!) and the reconciliation with what we were introduced to as her initial family: OPA.

 I mentioned earlier how her speech to her father was the opposite parallel to what she tells Fitz in their argument in 509. Her words during that argument reflected her and were a deflection of her own actions that lead to that point in the relationship. In no way am I implying Fitz was innocent in all this. Olivia specifically hits Fitz where it hurts by saying she came from a palace compared to him but my oh my how the tides have turned and now she’s capable of acknowledging that she was emotionally deprived and made in her father’s image.

  Kidnapping Arc Revisited

 I am almost certain that Rowan was responsible for her kidnapping. Throughout the whole ordeal he behaved with such aplomb that no harm would come to Olivia and was so aloof that I have no doubt in my mind that he orchestrated the whole thing. It’s important to note that Quinn is wearing her ring when she is snatched in the elevator, thus leaving her ring behind for the crew to find is an intentional act that parallels Olivia’s kidnapping. Since Rowan snatched Quinn (although I’m positive it was Jake who physically did it because what other loyal goon does Rowan have otherwise?) As I was saying, since Rowan snatched Quinn I think the parallel is intentional and would connect him to both kidnappings.

 I think that Rowan orchestrated the kidnapping to further separate Olivia and Fitz. The kidnapping placed Fitz between a rock and a hard place and no matter what he chose he would disappoint Olivia, so by design this would further drive a wedge between Olitz since little Jerry’s murder was not enough to keep them apart.  

 Fitz was torn between two choices:

Not rescue Olivia -this would disappoint her and make her believe he never loved her and would have destroyed her confidence in his love. Keep in mind she tells the kidnapper that the President would be looking for her.

Rescue Olivia –As Fitz acquiesces to go to war to save one person this also shatters Olivia because Fitz makes a choice that she vehemently disagrees with. She does not want to feel responsible for a war, much less the lives that will be given in exchange for her survival.

Fitz would lose no matter what choice he made, and either choice would forever change him in her eyes, further driving a wedge between them. No matter what he chose he could not win and would be tarnished in Olivia’s eyes, between a rock and a hard place.

 Note that the S4 finale has Olitz reuniting but it is only possible because her father is finally locked away and out of her life. It is obvious that Olivia has not dealt with her PTSD at this point in S4 and all the trauma that remains bubbling beneath her surface comes to light in S5A.  

 Fitz’s marriage proposal under the worst circumstances possible triggers Olivia’s commitment issue which at that point in the story is not new.  Under the pressure of an impending wedding that neither of them were ready for at that point in time Olivia does what she knows will relieve her of this - she frees her father.  If her father is free Olivia is under his control, whether she knows it or not. Olivia’s PTSD reaches new heights when Fitz creepily moves her in without even asking and this is when it takes a drastic turn—Olivia is now caged and is reliving her prior traumatic experience. To free herself she severs all ties with Fitz, abortion included, and fully begins to live in her father’s image post 509.

 Motherhood & Babies

 Something that I’ve noticed for a while now is the consistent theme of babies and motherhood. All of which can be traced back to the very first season and I have confessed on here that I don’t think that Olivia wants to be a mother but it’s just so in your face that I had to stop and reconsider. It’s likely that Olivia thinks she won’t make a good mother, what could be called her family life has been nothing but torture so it’s not hard to see why she would think that, and that is further reiterated with her choice to have an abortion. HOWEVER, I have been having conversations with people analyzing the motherhood/babies theme for a few months now and it is obvious that on some level Olivia resents Quinn because she has a life that Olivia might’ve imagined for herself. In this season alone Olivia has touched her lower belly, like she did in 509 when she says there is no future for Olitz anymore, at least 3 times that I can easily remember. This is intentional

 After thinking about it for a while I came to two conclusions: One that I’ve discussed on here before, the idea that Olivia having a child would further advocate for choice in alignment with the social messaging of the show. Allowing the character to experience both ends of the spectrum re motherhood would cement the idea that women are in control of their bodies and should be able to choose when to take on motherhood if they so desire.

 The other conclusion is the fact that what Olivia has come to believe about herself & her abilities/lack thereof regarding motherhood are untrue. Olivia is the matriarch of OPA, it was her nurturing force that brought them together. She found all those people, took care of them, and put them back together! If that doesn’t stand out as one of the foundations of her mothering abilities, then I’m not sure what will.

 Now that makeshift family is sort-of broken, and notice that every single member has done morally questionable things, all their ugly has been exposed and their relationships deconstructed.  After they get over their final hurdle with this Olivia & Quinn situation they have nowhere to go but up. Notice that no one has said the words “over a cliff” in a while because they no longer have that sycophantic relationship with one another, and especially with Olivia. That wasn’t healthy, which is why the deconstruction is pivotal to change within this group of people.

 Extraneous Characters

 This episode confirmed my suspicions that Jake is working behind her back. My spidey senses tingled in the beginning of the season and I was right. Jake is not interested in bringing Olivia into the light, his only concern appears to be freedom. Therefore, he is participating in this whole charade with Rowan and undermining Olivia. He looks like he’s involved to the point where he is taking orders from both Rowan and Olivia, but at the end of the day he’s interested in freedom the same way other characters were interested in freedom this last episode. Rowan’s bones are just a sad euphemism for his freedom to take back command. Notice that Jake suggests Olivia kill Rowan because he is too weak himself and wants Olivia to subconsciously free him. That thing she told him about him needing her too much? It’s true. And Olivia gambles with her father until the very end so that she can prove that she is the one in control and free of him. The complete opposite is true; she is still his prisoner as she described how she was made in his image. Rowan has never stopped being in control.

 Now that I mentioned Jake it’s also important to mention that I’m sure his days on here are numbered. This last episode planted the seed in Cy’s brain that something is amiss. Using Fenton as a scapegoat was a bad idea; Cy is now questioning the intel Jake claims he had and he seems to be the only person who remembers that this asshole killed James in cold blood. It’s the perfect time for revenge.  Cy will help unfurl what exactly has been going on under the roof of this WH all along. THE TIME IS NIGH! PLEASE! PLEASE JUST GET RID OF JAKE!

Also, important to mention that Pryce of power guy was (is?) a member of the press just like James, it was no coincidence that Cy of all people has that discussion with Jake.

 Mellie ,*cue eyeroll* The most useless character on here that can’t do anything unless she is coddled and spoon-fed. She needs Marcus for advice, she needs Olivia to hold her hand every second, SHE is the one that’s President but in the end, she relents and decides to pick Fitz’s brain (and reports) to see how she should propose Criminal Justice Reform. No idea ever comes from her! EVER!

Her whole “we don’t need no man” speech was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever witnessed on this show. I’m not sure if it was the acting or what but I picked up on the strangest tension. And about men coming between them? Fitz was between them in the beginning, and he is between them now because Mellie is discussing and setting policy goals with Fitz instead of with her COS, especially after Fitz has been pseudo-banished. No man between them? LIES! It’s always the same man, now it’s just not in a romantic context.

 In the end this whole Rashad thing will blow up but I refuse to think that this bitch will have the satisfaction of firing Olivia. Olivia looks like she’s barely hanging on by a thread as it is, I want her to quit and reclaim her agency! For all the times that Mellie treated her like some whore that was responsible for serving her now ex-husband! And all the times she’s been dismissive of her this season! Or how she wants all sort of plausible deniability while Olivia gets her hands dirty as command! Enough of this kumbaya sisterhood shit, it’s fake, let’s end it!

 The only thing I can’t quite decide on is Rowan’s fate. The kill order is still standing; we were left with that cliffhanger… But I wonder if the show is gonna go down the whole patricide route? I’m not sure. It is obvious that Rowan and Olivia cannot coexist, for her to be able to live her life she needs to be free of him. It is no coincidence that she was somewhat functional the first two seasons when Rowan was not in the picture. Once he entered the scene her life started to spiral, culminating with this last episode in which Olivia unloads all her baggage and all the fingers point to Rowan.

   Last Few Words

 For the first time in a long time I am eager to see the show return. We only have 11 episodes left but these are all loose ends that need to tied up. For a long time, I resented the show because I felt as if the writing was constantly contradictory and I felt like it was impossible to interpret it. The characters would act a certain way but their words were the complete opposite and I just found myself running out of patience and not knowing what to believe. I had to reach a place of indifference to be able to interpret it. I in no way believe that all, if any, of these predictions will come to fruition and this may be more along the lines of wishful thinking perhaps. I want to fall in love with Olivia the same way I did at the beginning and I REFUSE to think that they will let her go out unhappy. Whatever her version of happy is then so be it, but she is not cut out to be Command.  The writing’s on the wall and we are reaching the end so everything tends to feel on the nose and too intentional for there to be coincidences. I’ve thought of other things that I did not include on here because this is so insanely long but would love to discuss and pick at other ideas. :) 

I think that we will come to find that Olivia has a deliciously chewy center. (And I’m sure Fitz can attest to that!)

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That first Olake scene had endgame undertones PJ. They've been in contact this entire time. I've missed them but I love how they subtly show they can never stay away. They also paralleled Charlie and Quinn this episode with Liv not even daring to lose Jake. I mean Peus didn't even get a chance to threaten Jake with death lol. I noticed that everybody was still in separate rooms when Liv sought Jake out. Which means she really did it to gauge his feelings about O/itz sleeping together.

What her father said is true. She slept with Fitz as a thank you. They have never shown any development outside of sex and his suffocating obsession. She was embarrassed and sought Jake out.  

I believe the whole weak, pathetic, jealous thing about as much as I believed it when she said it in the church. Especially since the weak, pathetic, jealous one in the relationship has always been Olivia (spy cams, really?)

Jake is done, about as done as he can be. When he said the definition of insanity line he was talking about himself. Until Olivia makes it clear that she is in love with him, says the words, he is going to keep the relationship platonic. Which is fine with me because they work well as friends. As long as they are in each other’s orbit, I’m good. If they are end game we won’t see it for a long while anyway.

And it does parallel Huck, Jake and Charlie. I think even Olitz fans pointed it out after we saw the hospital scene. What they didn’t expect was Quinn choosing Charlie.  And I love how Charlie was done until she did. Just like Jake’s going to be. 

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Scandal Finale Season 7:04 “Lost Girls”

Hellooooo Scandal Sisters, welcome to the Olitz Coven🌓✨✨. Please have a seat as we sip on this Chamomile Tea darlings. This tea was brought to us by none other than Olitz 🌪.

This season easily gonna be top 3 for me. If they continue on this path of bringing Olivia back and speaking on Today’s problems like they are! I love how they are incorporating these social issues 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. It almost feels like season 1&2, back when Gladiators ruled the world and not some b613 junkies but I won’t start 👐🏽🙄.

😎 Fitz Effect: So we open up in the hallway. Fitz, Olivia, Curtis, and secret service are all standing around. Fitz is lookin like you gonna introduce us or Na and Curtis takes it upon himself to speak first (as you should lil fucker!)

Curtis to Fitz “President Grant 🤝 it’s an honor.” (Damn right it is.)

Olivia “What are you doing here?”

Fitz “ I was hoping for your help on some business but if it’s a bad time.”

So Curtis leaves without being told (good he knows his place 👋🏽😎)

Fitz: “that’s exciting”

Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 did he really just say that #Petty

So Olivia turns around and her face shows emotion “what are you doing here?”

Fitz hands her an envelope and starts to explain the case and she gets an attitude quick! She tried to hand it back to him, but his hands were in his pockets. He was letting it be known he wasn’t taking it back. Liv talks about how she’s busy, trying to organize a summit and Fitz was like “it’s right up your alley.” She gets flustered and turns around tryna open the elevator 🤣 it’s not a door Olivia! She was tryna escape, I’m tryna figure out why and then boom‼️ shit‼️ got‼️ real‼️

Olivia with her back turned.

Fitz: Olivia

Olivia: Was. Was up my Alley, this isn’t. Your not suppose to be here. We’re not *chokes*

Me: 😱🍿🍿🍿🍿☕️sip tea ladies.

Olivia C. Pope got choked up. She couldn’t bring herself to say “we’re not together?” 🤔 Now I can remember a few times in the past Fitz has had this effect on her. But this isn’t the same Olivia, this is command Olivia. I run the world Olivia. She’s not suppose to be feeling any emotions 🤷🏽‍♀️ or at least that’s what she wants us to believe ☕️.

Fitz isn’t letting up about her helping with this case , she gets mad. She tries to tell him to go to Quinn and Fitz says “I don’t want Quinn Perkins, I want you.” And Olivia twirled around so quick “well you can’t have me.” Listen Scandal is all about double meanings. We all know Fitz is putting on a front with this case, although it is a good cause, his real reason for coming was her. He really came back to say Olivia, I want you. And Liv is really saying You can’t have me because I’m running B613, and your love has always been made to be my weakness. 🤧🤧

‼️🤔but hol’ up.. 🗣 whose fault is it that she feels this way??? ‼️ and by the way all of this happened within 1 minuet of the show 👀

QPA: The gang is all together - Olivia.

Charlie was like how much we getting paid, we got a wedding to pay for 😂😂 you got the save the date right.

B613 🙄🤣: Joke was tryna really be professional and talk about Pres Rashaad and knowing who his enemies are. And then he says “we need to talk about hiring more agents.” Olivia didn’t hear none of that shit cuz she was like “I need you to look into Fitz.”

Me:🤣🤣🤣🤣 Boy boy boy Pete must really hate his life. He gotta spy on the man he can’t even measure up to be. *cackles* Olivia really told her old boytoy to spy on the love of her life. Man I know Pete feels like shit *lil uzi shoulder dance*

And of course Pete reminds her that Fitz went 3 months without wanting to see her 🙄 damn bitch you salty ain’t it. But Olivia was like boy fuck you “We had an understanding.” “He stays away and keeps his nose out of my business.” (Her b613 business cuz he’s not suppose to know ☕️)

Joke: What are you afraid of?

Olivia: I don’t know

Me: Love. You’re afraid of love.

‼️🗣 and once “a fuckin gain” whose fault is it that she is afraid of love😤‼️

QPA: so back at QPA , they are trying to find the perfect black girl who has a white name and squeaky clean background so white amerikkka can pay attention to missing black girls 😤😠😡

Rowan 😕: Fitz and Rowan meet up and Rowan is skeptical about Fitz plan. But Fitz 🤗😍 my boy! Fitz let’s him know a case is the way to Olivia’s heart. “Remind her who she is, what she cares about” 😭😭😭🤧👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Get our girl back to her roots Fitz, she’s definitely not on the dark side yet. She’s walking that line but she hasn’t tipped over. And let’s just take a minute to admire Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III, this man knows his woman. 😍 damn when Fitz walked away I couldn’t help but to admire that walk 😩 damnit Tony!

😒And once again Rowan shows us why he is the worst father in the world 😤 “the case isn’t her bait. You! You are. You are her weakness, it is why I always hated you with the passion of 1000 suns.”

Me: well bitch if you hated me so damn much why tf you begging me to save ya daughter! Send Jake to do it, oh he can’t cuz he a piss poor mans Fitzgerald 🤣🤣. Or get another agent cuz ya sorry ass love dangling Dick in front of Olivia to control her 👿 damn I just wanna stop a hole in Rowan’s ass 😤‼️ I told yal he 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 not 👏🏽 to 👏🏽 be 👏🏽 trusted👏🏽

Fitz is better than me cuz I promise I wouldn’t have no dealings with Rowan manipulative ass! He’s the reason behind this anyway. Had he left Olivia life alone she wouldn’t have went this way. Olivia was fine until Rowan came and tried to rip her away from Fitz. How many times did we watch Olivia feel helpless and powerless and it all came from Rowan. Now I’m not blaming all of Olitz problems on Rowan but yal know he has his hand in majority of them. What Father sends men to sleep and spy on his own daughter? You created that monster and now since she’s taken your power away you run yo ass to her “weakness” and now you need his help to get her back on track 💅🏽 oh how sweet is this irony. 🗣Rowan fuck you. Fuck them fake ass tears we at the Olitz Coven do not believe you at TF all✌🏽.

How’s Vermont?: Olivia is in her office and her secretary comes in and tells her that Marcus wants to see her and that Curtis has been calling. Olivia tells her to send Marcus in and tell Curtis she’s unavailable ☕️👀. Marcus comes in because he wants to see Mellie but of course Olivia is cock blocking. And also he tells her they found a Tv friendly black girl and that she should come by the office and get her hands dirty. Olivia says “this is my office, my hands are plenty dirty.” 🙄 She then starts to type on her laptop asks “How’s Vermont?” To which Marcus answers “Cold. White.” And she says “No I mean how’s Fitz. In Vermont.” To which Marcus answers “Cold. White.” Cold as in Miserable, white as in entitled.” Fitz has never been a bad guy to me so them trying to act as if he forces people to get in line was BS. Yes he did grow up privileged but let’s be real Mellie is the one with entitlement issues not Fitz! And Fitz started to work on those issues after him and Liv broke up in 5b so 🖕🏽😎miss me with the Fitz slander. It shall not prosper. So Marcus and Liv laugh and then he goes on to say “He misses you.” (Ok, Marcus look at you being a team player✊🏽) Olivia’s smile faltered and she fans him to come in.(sis was a lil shook wasn’t it👀) Marcus closes the door. Olivia: So this new found passion for finding missing black girls, is what ..a excuse to see me? Marcus: if it means we are able to bring even one of these girls home then, who cares? ☕️🍿 Olivia was not expecting that answer , sis was like oh shit he really did come for me.

Old stomping grounds: Next scene we see Olivia back at OPA… sorry QPA Headquarters 🤧🤧. Yal it was so good to see Olivia back in that office looking on her big windows where they hang the pictures. She looked so sad and distraught looking at all those missing black girls. And honestly it was just a reminder that, that is a real issue happening everyday. So Quinn, Charlie, Huck, Abby, and Marcus are walking in and Quinn stops everybody cuz she was shocked lol. Huck: What’s is she doing here? Man even Huck was shocked 😩 Marcus: I invited her. Quinn: What, when? Olivia: Yesterday, I can hear you. (🤣🤣 they were literally in the hall right in front of the door talking.) So everybody rushes in and she ask how’s the case going and she helps them by telling them they need a story teller, the girls mom. And Olivia says she will make sure they get all the press they need. This was a bittersweet moment 🤧 it really made me miss OPA.

🤗Liv!: Olivia is walking out of the door headed to the elevator when Fitz and the mother of the Zoey, our missing black girl comes out. As soon as Fitz saw her!

Fitz: Liv! (It was so casual, I melted 🤗 my babies)

Olivia: smiles and they meet each other in the middle of the hallway.

Fitz: I didn’t expect to see you her.

Liv: shrugs(like it’s no big deal) I had a few minutes, thought I’d pitch in.

Fitz: looks at her adoringly

Liv: smiles, with a little laugh “what”

Fitz: shrugs a lil (like she did) , he looks around “you, in this office, feels like old times.”

Liv: hmmm

Fitz: steps closer to her “we should get a drink, before I head back”

Olivia: 😯swoons

Fitz: laughs “or we can keep meeting outside of elevators”

Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this mane so petty! I love it! The causal ness of this scene really had me fangirling ☺️☺️☺️☺️🤗 my babies! And Fitz is smooth AF‼️

Liv: laughs , with some flirty eye 😏 so they just kinda stand there lookin at each other and then Liv says she should go and he’s like sure and so we see Liv get on the elevator and Fitz is just smiling watching as she leaves. Gaaaawdd 🤧 I love this ship 🚢 S.S.Olitz‼️

So I’m gonna skip over to the wanna be drag that Curtis attempted to do! Fitz and the mother of Zoey are doing an interview and towards the end Curtis tried to come for Fitz saying “if it’s a national crisis now, it was a national crisis when you were still president” and he tried to say why hasn’t Fitz and his justice department been tryna do something for these missing girls. Fitz: I wasn’t aware.

Curtis: your claiming ignorance

Fitz: I am, as I’m sure many of your viewers would have before I talked tonight because girls like Zoey aren’t just being ignored by the Justice system they are being ignored by the press.

Curtis: So the media is to blame

Fitz: No Curtis the media is to blame for them STAYING missing , and for the fact that zoeys picture is on tv tonight is because a rich white guy is sitting next to her mother.

Me: 🗣 Curtis pick ya lip up son! Listen coming for Fitzgerald ain’t the way to go. You really don’t want these problems. Honestly, Truly.

👀☕️ and guess who was at home watching when Fitz said “who says I’m going back” “I’m strongly considering moving back permanently, Vermont can wait.”

Me: 😌well , well, well, well, well. Looky what we have here. Curtis really just made a 🤡 out of himself and he made Fitz say that on national television where everybody including a certain Olivia Pope was watching. 💅🏽 yal see the way she her head turned when she heard him say that? ☕️☕️☕️☕️

🤷🏽‍♀️💆🏽🙎🏽🤦🏽‍♀️: Olivia went to Rowan. She really said “I popped by to see if you’re behaving yourself”🤣🤣🤣 yal know I was dying laughing! Listen he deserves it. BUT Olivia ass starts going on about how she remembers him coming home and how he use to tell her and her mom stories about his day at work(the museum.) Rowan said yes , it’s called lying and Olivia said yea, you figured it out. She goes on to say “there were times you could have came clean but you didn’t so you must have thought it was worth it.”

Rowan: ahh, you’re asking if it’s possible to be command and share your life with someone.

Liv: I’m not asking anything.

Rowan: No! The path that you are on is a lonely one.

Liv: shakes head, “it doesn’t have to be.”

Rowan: sharing your life with Fitzgerald

Liv: 😲who said anything about Fitz (yal know how ya mom will bring up a ex lmao she had that face like who was even talking about him)

Rowan: yelling, “I saw him on television last night (Liv loses her smile.) talking about staying, I know you Olivia. You want to share ya life with him and you want me to say it’s possible, well it is not. Not if you insist on being command. (Liv got that Kevin Hart face on)

Liv: your b613 is not my b613 I’ve been saying that from the beginning, just because you were miserable

Rowan: bangs his hands on table and Liv jumps and folds her hands in front of her. “Damnit, Olivia. Look at you! You’re asking ME for boy advice.” She walks away he continues “your own father, that’s how alone you are, the people’s whose advice you normally seek, you can’t go to them anymore. They can’t know the secret….. …and despite your contempt for me, I’m all you have , dear. old. dad.” 😔 Yal seen her face when she was walking away? He was absolutely right. She is lonely and isolated. She’s keeping herself away from the people she needs most. She was so distraught in this scene. And you know it’s something when I’m agreeing with Rowan 💆🏽 as she was walking out the door “you don’t have to like me Olivia but , you’re a fool if you don’t learn from me.” And he is absolutely right. She does not deserve to be tied down or to b613 fuck no! Our girl deserves so much better than that.

Summit: Mellie was tryna make amends and she almost got that treaty signed just as they were about to agree. President Rashaad people bursts in the room and grab him. Come to find out somebody staged a coop while he was away. 😩👀 owwweee chil’

Command or someone’s girl? You can’t be both: Joke has had enough 😂😂 he slick tried to go off on Olivia. I told you we needed more agents, but instead of working you got me following your ex boyfriend around like ima babysitter (not his actual words but close enough🤣🤣🤣 he hates his job)

Melody:“Olivia, where is your humanity?” Bitchhhhhh I hit the flo‼️😩 did Mellie really just call Olivia ass out like that? 🤓 why yes. Yes she did. Liv goes on to “He’s no longer a leader , He just because irrelevant to the United States.

Mellie: the rebels will kill him

Liv: our hands are tied

Mellie: well we need to untie them

Liv: by going to WAR, I can’t let you do that.

Mellie: proceeds to go in on Olivia’s ass! “We brought him to the table, he was ready to sign and make peace with his enemy. You and I had finally found a solution to a 50 year old problem because of him! If that’s not enough to go to war for you tell me what is.” And in that stare off between them it was like something clicked. She remembers Fitz went to war for her, and he did it based on feelings alone. But you know Liv she still needed to weigh her options.