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Scandal Season 3 |OT| DAD?!?!??
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RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
That was the best episode in a long time - made very fun by the copious amounts of Sally - despite the fact that Jake is still somehow alive. FFS.
No. :/
It was a fakeout. :/
No. :/
It was a fakeout. :/
User 10639
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Olivia and Fitz still the messiest yet most ironclad TV couple of all time, I see.
How to Get Away With Murder is the far better Shonda-touched "black female lead is a super lawyer or whatever in the midst of twist after scintillating twist every Thursday night on ABC" show at this point anyway. I'm over your hot mess, Scandal.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Honestly, me too. I'm pretty certain that I'll stop watching after this season ends (There are only two episodes left. Thankfully). I was going to quit the show after season 3 but for some reason I kept watching.
Finally caught up and I can't believe Jake is alive after all that. How the hell are you a trained killer and you mess up stabbing a person multiple times and not kill them? Also come on Jake, I thought you were a badass. I love how whatshisface said the same thing to him. BTW, apparently everyone that Olivia is attracted to is a killer now. I gotta say, I didn't see that coming at the end though...
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
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Skiptastic
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I was saying, "You had hours to kill the guy, and you just stab him repeatedly? GUT THE DUDE. JUST TAKE THE KNIFE AND CUT OUT HIS INSIDES."
I said it before, but this season has gone off the rails. This show is supposed to be about scandal in Washington and being a "fixer", not freaking murderers and shootings and whatnot. My wife doesn't even want to watch it late at night because she doesn't like watching violence before bed. It's just gone completely in the wrong direction.
badcrumble
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Olivia/Fitz is one of those things that will never go away because too many shippers want it to happen even though Fitz is an unbelievably repugnant person.
Also, I take it that nobody ever made a Season 4 thread?
Also, I take it that nobody ever made a Season 4 thread?
Huh. So that was a bit of a fizzle-out of a finale.
I didn't really get that conversation between Jake and Russel. Was it supposed to reveal something about Jake? That he's still intentionally stringing Olivia along? What was that revelation between them supposed to mean? Why did Russell care about Olivia being safe?
And Foxtail - is Foxtail just Millie? Or is it the meeting between Millie and Rowan?
Eh.
[edit] OH WAIT next week is the season finale? The entire time I thought this episode was the finale!
I didn't really get that conversation between Jake and Russel. Was it supposed to reveal something about Jake? That he's still intentionally stringing Olivia along? What was that revelation between them supposed to mean? Why did Russell care about Olivia being safe?
And Foxtail - is Foxtail just Millie? Or is it the meeting between Millie and Rowan?
Eh.
[edit] OH WAIT next week is the season finale? The entire time I thought this episode was the finale!
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
It was made worse this week by Jake's conversation with Russell: "You're the best B613 agent - better than me! Rowan trained you so well!"
lol
Nope!
To all of those: no idea.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
The season finale is tonight, finally.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I'm totally over this show. Meh. Hopefully that'll be the last I watch of 'Scandal' but I guess there's always the chance I'll go crazy and let it suck me back in.
Other thoughts:
I'm glad B613 is finally dead (until in a Shocking Twist it's revealed to have still been alive and well the whole time) and that Rowan is in jail (of course he'll eventually get out).
Olivia's perpetually blazed mom is amazing. Portia de Rossi is too.
Will Quinn shoot Huck?! who gives a shit
Is Jake really gone? Probably not.
Fitz is scum. Just...urgh.
Cyrus is horrible and I don't care what happens to him, but I have no idea if he was behind the kidnapping thing. That was too many episodes ago so I don't remember.
Other thoughts:
I'm glad B613 is finally dead (until in a Shocking Twist it's revealed to have still been alive and well the whole time) and that Rowan is in jail (of course he'll eventually get out).
Olivia's perpetually blazed mom is amazing. Portia de Rossi is too.
Will Quinn shoot Huck?! who gives a shit
Is Jake really gone? Probably not.
Fitz is scum. Just...urgh.
Cyrus is horrible and I don't care what happens to him, but I have no idea if he was behind the kidnapping thing. That was too many episodes ago so I don't remember.
badcrumble
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I think B613 is semi-dead (remember, Rowan killed everyone who knew he was Command, and then was put in jail where no B613 agents know to rescue him).
There are still B613 agents/cells who *don't* know Rowan, and they'll presumably keep operating undercover doing whatever they were already doing and waiting for orders. Also, Rowan probably still knows plenty of codes/safe houses/drop points/et cetera. If he gets out of jail, presumably he can resume control of B613 with only moderate difficulty.
I'm also pretty sure Russell is still alive, since he was notably absent from the murder montage. So he's one remaining B613 agent who also knows that Rowan is Command.
I dunno. All of the Olitz stuff is the worst, obviously, but I actually thought the way they got Rowan arrested and jailed was surprisingly clever.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
He killed all of them...except for the super duper secret mega assassin he kept alive just in case!
It kind of was - I'm glad they tied it into the $2 billion thing that was hanging over everyone's heads.
cloudstrife
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That would have made a good series finale.
I don't know if I want to go back to the show.
I don't know if I want to go back to the show.
That is really the only explanation for all the stuff that has happened this year. At the same time I want to see the VP win. That would be the best series finale. She wins, the truth about Fitzgerald leaks. Olivia, Fitzgerald, melly and syrus end up in jail.
That's really the only storyline that is at least mildly interesting. (Although I don't quite understand their timeline; Fitz only has 10 months or so left in office but their campaigns are only starting now? Then again, of all of Scandal's illogical inconstiencies, that's probably the least glaring.)
But, yeah, I have no idea what the writers are trying to achieve. Almost everyone hates Papa Pope, Jake, and B613, so, of course, Joe Morton becomes a regular and Jake somehow suddenly is director of the NSA (not that it would change anything, going by the last episode). Cyrus has people just flat-out murdered and children kidnapped (and suddenly works with Tom and that other dude, whose name I can't remember).
The Attorney General of the United States more or less is a callboy now, half the characters have virtually nothing to do... what else? Oh, right, Huck almost seems to be the most relatable and normal guy at this point.
No it was part of his plan to get the candidates name out there because no one knew who he was remember.
Matt_
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Anyone still watching? Olivia went full psycho
Jake seems to have an awful lot of time to sit around and eat home cooked meals with eli. I guess being the head of the NSA isn't a particularly strenuous job
Jake seems to have an awful lot of time to sit around and eat home cooked meals with eli. I guess being the head of the NSA isn't a particularly strenuous job
Skiptastic
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My wife is. She ran down what has happened the last few episodes. I told her it was so stupid. She thinks it's ridiculous too but didn't appreciate me calling something she watched stupid. Lesson learned.
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