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[scandalphile]

Fave tho!!! 🥰😍❤😘🔥

[anincorrectpetunia]

I’ve wanted to write a canon-based story/convo about a thing that happened in the show. But it eluded me until recently. Finally figured out the heart of it. Now I can write my own head canon and heal my lil sensitive ass heart🥺.

[olakeygoodness]

yeah yeah Fitz might be able to make Olivia moan and whatever (and so does Jake but let's leave that for another post) but does he know what her favourite meal is? Would he even know what to order her from Gettysburger?

[richdifeo]

[grantforthepeople]

scandal fam class of 2018.

[katrinapavela]

Sooo, I just found out (because I was googling to find an old quote on my blog) that my university has now digitized my full dissertation and made it open access

(As you judge me, know that I was tired and some typos made it through. I was sick of reading this shit)

Chapter 7 (Full): ‘I want him to be her man’: The Intersectional Fan Politics of Love and Desire

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As promised, here 🔝is a full chapter from my PhD dissertation, which focuses on how (mostly Black women) #Scandal fans interact with the show. This chapter is Olitz-centric. I hope you’ll think I did you proud.

Things you may NOT do with the download:

•Post it in full to any public website.

Things you are free to do:

Post excerpts with attribution

Send it to others

Print it

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#Scandal WYD?!

It didn’t have to come to this, but the show forced my hand. Wow, what a colossal waste of my time last night. I’m not sure why in the final stretch the writers decide to dive face-first into the characters we have been collectively hating for years. I’m talking about Jake & Mellie, I can’t even hate Cyrus because at the very least he knows who he is, and he owns it- the same can’t be said for those other two tasteless slugs/shapeshifters. I don’t even want to watch the next two episodes, in my mind there is nothing they could possibly do to satisfy what I believe the story deserves. This is how horrible I find it that I don’t even wanna make it to the finish line!

 We have been experiencing the identity crisis of Olivia for quite some time now, but I can’t care anymore if Olivia herself is unbothered about her own decisions. She has no conviction, she still wants to play dress up and straddle all the worlds and identities, without ever taking the time to reflect on anything. I gotta get off this train girl & I can’t root for you anymore. If you’re not interested in living a full life, then we can’t force it on you. She has been reduced to doing the dirty work of this lame ass, pathetic ass, stupid ass, mediocre ass, revisionist history ass administration. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MELLIE. The show is not about Mellie, the show is about Olivia.

 I despise the fact that we got an entire episode about Mellie’s humanity. IDGAF. Bitch is inhuman to me and has been for some time. I don’t know why the writers are doing this seeing as to how it truly makes no sense. “Mellie, you’re better than all of us?” FITZ, WTF ARE YOU SMOKING? She is not better than anyone as evidenced by her supremely shitty track record… using Olivia to placate Fitz with sex so he can do his job? Check! Mellie totally sure about going through with Defiance? Check! Hypocritical emotional affair Mellie? Check! Using her rape as a bartering tool? Check! Mellie ok with the death of the jurors for her benefit? Check! Mellie firing Olivia and then proceeding to tar & feather her in the press? Check! And as her crowning achievement ladies & gents: asking Olivia to murder Cyrus!

 If the show had ever bothered to show me that Mellie has ever been an adequate leader then I wouldn’t be able to have anything to base all of this criticism on. But the show has her float on her mediocre ass all along and then wants to rewrite itself into the Mellie, or better yet the Mellivia sisterhood show. It is unconscionable to have Olivia in shambles without a set identity with two episodes left but we are being fed the Mellie humanity hour like they’re gonna turn us into foie gras. What about the humanity of the person this show is about- Olivia Pope?

 Also, what the hell are they doing with Marcus… and Melcus [wannabe Olitz by the window, I see yall!] Marcus is worried about Mellie but can’t be bothered to tell Fitz that it’s Olivia who is doing the dirty work? Some friend you are, Marcus. And once again Olivia’s humanity is ignored, but Mellie’s is considered sacred. GAG! Mellie is a waste of space, as an ineffectual president, and as an even worse person, I don’t understand this hardcore championing of her character. This faux feminism has tapped danced on my last nerve like a landmine. Marcus’ hypocrisy has done the same.

 As for the Olitz element- they should’ve kept it. First of all, they didn’t even have a conversation, this was pure escapism on Olivia’s part again. She shows up at his door without addressing any of the drama that is between them. I don’t care for the romance when they can’t even discuss reality between them. Their reunions, if we can even call them that, never have any permanence. I can’t take them seriously anymore. And it’s all based on a lie regardless because Olivia was just out about to murder Cy, so besides her not knowing who she is, well Fitz doesn’t have a damn clue either. Also, I never thought I would truly feel this way about Fitz, but he is beyond pathetic at this point. He hasn’t bothered to get an actual house, the hotel he lives in is a reflection of how he has no foundation – a home would indicate this- in his life. What does he do? Wait around to see when Olivia is gonna come by? Marcus mentions he’s haunted but I highly doubt that it has anything to do with his presidency- it’s the void left in his life when he and Olivia broke up in 509. Neither of them have truly bothered to move on, but they also don’t move forward, which is what makes them equally pathetic in my eyes. They’re wasting their lives, and each other’s, and the more they do this jumping into bed without a conversation… the more muddled the water gets. I am uninterested in a relationship without any communication, their toxicity continues.

 The show can’t really convince me that all of a sudden when the story needs him to… that he is going to feel guilty about Verna. Killing her was the solution to not only save his illegitimate presidency [LET US REMEMBER THAT HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT BTW] but also did it to save the fate of all involved, otherwise none of them would be walking around committing more crimes now. This was obviously resuscitated because the original sin of Defiance will rear its ugly head towards the finale.  The last two episodes have been more than disappointing for me, and I am at the point where I don’t see them doing anything that will right the course they’ve taken the show on. Next episode is more of the same Jake & Mellie hour. It’s so bad that I can’t even be bothered with the Olitz aesthetics, their inability to communicate like functional adults makes me hopeless for them, and in turn repulses me.

[wegotpopedsir]

#me having cereal for 3 meals a day

[saddiedotdk]

Mr. Tony Goldwyn, ladies and gents.

[soph-okonedo]

Kerry Washington on the set of “Scandal”

[mytvjunk]

Papa Pope is out here fathering Quinn's child better than he's ever done with Olivia

[democrattotheend]

Scandal Finale Spoilers - Read at Your Own Risk

As promised, here is a summary of all of the spoilers or potential spoilers I have pieced together. Sorry this is long, but hopefully it has some useful tidbits. I don't work on the set, which is why I am allowed to disclose whatever I can find. All of this is out there if you really know what you're looking for. That said, read at your own risk, as some of these things could be big spoilers, including the potential fate of the Vermont house. 

Spoiler 1: David is the Law, and the Law is David

This might be old news, but I deciphered most of the lines from the clip Darby posted of the last take on the last night of filming. This is a scene at QPA with Liv, Quinn, Huck, Abby and David. Here's what I was able to make out. They filmed some of the lines multiple times so it may be out of order.

QUINN: [Something inaudible]

DAVID: In theory, yes.

LIV: David is the law, and the law is David. He wears the white hat. We can't ask him to take it off, not again. We didn't come this far just to escape. If we go to jail, we go to jail. So if anyone wants out, speak now, and speak up.

SPOILER 2: Quinn's Wedding Bouquet

On wrap night, Kathryn Coulliard, who is one of the second team members and also plays Sally Langston's production assistant (and Fitz's in the AU), posted an Instagram Story with a prop that was labeled "Quinn's wedding bouquet." The flowers do not appear to be the same as the ones used in the attempted wedding in 706, so this probably means Charlie gets out of prison and they get married.

I don’t have the screenshot of her post here, but I noticed after writing this that the flowers match the flowers Abby was carrying into what looks like a prison in one of the #peepingtom tweets. This is probably wild speculation, but now I am wondering if Charlie and Quinn get married while Charlie is still in prison so one of them doesn’t have the testify against the other. Parallel to 506 maybe?

SPOILER 3: Jake’s Grave?

Some people reported that Scott Foley briefly posted, then took down, a picture of a grave with Jake’s name on it. Take that for what it’s worth. I can’t believe Scott would have posted it even for a second if Jake actually dies, so I’m not getting my hopes up. (Sorry, I know some people on here like Jake but this is just my perspective).

Below is the biggest potential spoiler I have, which may break your heart, depending on where you stand. You’ve been warned.

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SPOILER 4: Why Vermont is (Probably) Not Happening

For the record, I am an olitz shipper who has never quite bought into the idea that Olivia would be happy living in Vermont making jam all day (although 710 made me reconsider a little), so this is written from that perspective.

The “Vermont” house is actually located in Ventura County, at 1350 W. Potrero Road. Fortunately for us spoiler hungry fans, Ventura County provides citizen access to real time records of applications for film permits. I am sad to report that the producers of Scandal did not apply for a permit to film there for the finale. The last time they filmed there was for 710.

This would seem to suggest that Olivia and Fitz will not end up in Vermont and that we won’t see the house again, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. In preparation to shoot 710, they applied for a traffic encroachment permit, which allowed them to block the road to film a FOR SALE sign in front of the house, according to the scene map they submitted with the application. 

Obviously, we have not seen a for sale sign in front of the house in 710 or any other episode, so there are two possibilities:

They cut this scene from 710 (more likely); or

This scene was filmed for the finale, and they did it that way so they wouldn’t have to rent the house again and bring the crew there just to shoot one scene.

Just to add yet another wrinkle to the saga, right around the time Scandal wrapped, Tim Ballou from ABC, the same locations manager who applied for Scandal’s permit for 710, applied for a permit to film a pilot called “The Fix” at 1350 Potrero Road. At first, I got excited, knowing the British name for Scandal is The Fixer. I thought perhaps he used a code name in case any fans thought to check Ventura County permit records. But then I found out The Fix is a real show that began filming about a week before Scandal wrapped, and based on the synopsis for the pilot episode the Vermont house would be a logical place to film. So most likely it was just a coincidence, but there is a remote possibility that they used it as a cover to avoid spoiling Scandal. Probably sounds crazy, but I know they took crazy security measures to fly Kerry and Scott to the island for 401 and avoid spoiling it, even though that wasn’t even really a spoiler since we saw them leave for the island in 318.

This was the application for Scandal for 710:

And here is the payment receipt for the permit for The Fix, which Tim Ballou (the same guy who applied for the Scandal permit) applied for two days before the official wrap date for Scandal:

Probably a coincidence, but I wouldn’t completely rule out them filming after the official wrap date (and using another ABC pilot as a cover) in order to avoid spoiling it.

SPOILER 5: No Georgetown Either?

Yesterday, the scandal makeup account on Instagram posted a shot of Georgetown, which got many of our hopes up, but then clarified that they didn’t film there, but were just staying there. It’s possible that they were lying because they realized it was a spoiler, or that they posted it not realizing people would get the wrong impression because they didn’t remember that part of the AU and didn’t realize Georgetown has significance to Olitz shippers.

Of course, they may have filmed Georgetown scenes back in LA, before the trip to DC, or they could still have that ending without actually filming a house in Georgetown. So I’m not losing hope yet (and people who hate Fitz shouldn't rejoice just yet).

[olakeygoodness]

Was just rewatching some S4 Olake scenes and I came across the episode where Jake's in custody and Liv is missing her boo so she's leaving him messages.

I'm left with these unanswered questions - Did Jake listen to them? Did they talk about it??? Like surely that was something that could've been revisited?

But alas Olake were never meant to be in Shondaland....

...So has anyone written a fanfic on this?

[memoriesxdust]

Tony Goldwyn in ‘All I Wish’