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scandal 5x16

i wanna win, desperately. but i want to win clean. i wanna win because i run the best campaign for the best candidate, i wanna walk away on november with my pride, with dignity.

kerlivia

@indigoalex

indigoalex

OMG! Look at these idiots. They’re all

kerlivia

I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!

meridiandreams

Reblogging for comments and gif. Lol!

dangerousfeminism

katrinapavela

Anyone who wants a love story between Olivia and Jake does not love Olivia, and has not been paying attention to Scandal’s narrative...

I’m free-wheeling here.

I’m truly sorry for people who think O[redacted] is ‘on’ and that includes the shallow media because the show isn’t selling that. Yes, Olivia having sex twice on a Sunday with [redacted] is trite, boring and gross. It’s kinda supposed to be the latter. There is nothing empowering, desirable, or ‘grown’ about that nolationship. Their fluid exchange, lack of intimacy and future reflect the choices Olivia has made for herself. Those choices? Giving up on living in the light. And since she is the sun (407), light itself, Olivia has given up on herself. There’s no more light in her apartment (not a coincidence that in the midst of this dark lair she finally invited daddy over for Sunday dinner); her clothes are predominately not white. She’s not even practicing white knight-hood at work. She is impotent in every way, and this is reflective in the substantive conversation she has with Huck in 512. She tells him the only winning move is not t play. That’s giving up; that’s not taking command of her life—what (to me) the S5 poster eventually signifies for her.

So, Jake is a manifestation of all the dark and nasty inside Olivia. The Olivia who thinks she is so profoundly skewed, that she would not inflict her fuckedupedness on new dick. (after all, she didn’t leave Fitz because he wasn’t enough; she left because she wasn’t enough). This is why she reaches for that same old comfort blanket with whom she doesn’t have to try; who will accept her ill treatment because he has committed worse against her. The one who has a PhD in her psychoses, as trained by the same man who programmed her. And since Jake is a profoundly monstrous person is the umbilical cord to her father. This is why she keeps “forgiving” him (508), and casting him in the role of victim, as she most recently did (512), and has done ad nauseum before. Because so long as she believes Jake isn’t making the choice to do the things he’s done, so long as his misdeeds are just programmatic damage, then she has someone to rescue.

“The secret to you is that you always have to save everyone” (410).–Ian

When she doesn’t have that, she doesn’t know who she is and she feels a profound loss of control due to that loss of identity anchoring. That rescuing forms the substantive basis of her identity, which I’ve written about since S4 (I know it’s tacky to quote yourself but it’s also very efficient):

“For nearly 15 years (she’s almost 35), Olivia created an identity for herself as ‘The Protector’ (newspaper clippings, 308). A protector depends upon objects that need protecting. If nothing and no one needs protecting, does she cease to exist as a person? Who is she outside of that superhero persona? Recall that on an African island with Jake (401), with no one to save or protect, ‘Olivia Pope’ ceased to be. She became ‘Julia Baker’… After all, for so long, indeed, it was like father like daughter. Rowan derives his whole identity from being the protector of the Republic, and Olivia was an extension of that.”–KP

The show has made it unmistakeably clear for those who did not get it in seasons 2, 3, and 4: there is no substance to Olivia and Jake. They will never be a couple. Nor is Shonda trying to sell one. They will never be a love story. Never. Be mad about it.

I hear you: but when will this end? I’ve had enough of this dysfunction! I want better for Olivia!

I want it to end and I want better for her, too. I’ve had false starts before, but I now see that Shonda needed to eliminate all of Olivia’s excuses. She needed to try and fail at the relationship with Fitzgerald so she could see that his love can’t fix her. Her love of self needs to do that. The good thing about what’s happening now is that as Olivia is purposely deluding herself about her father (he’s the lynchpin to her formation; the man who makes chaos normal), she is also surrounded by people who are tired of her antics and have begun to see through her. They calling out her denial (Abby in 510, Mellie in 511, Huck in 512). Huck however, is best placed to call Olivia out. Not only has he suffered the most from being an adopted family member, but he has also achieved something Olivia has not: he worked at overcoming his mental trigger and he won. Of Huck in 509, I wrote:

“Olivia’s only excuse is herself. I wonder if Shonda will now allow her to seek therapy, though it’s hard to imagine. Huck managed to confront his greatest trigger: Rowan. He tested himself and he prevailed. Before that, however, he spent time working on himself after looking to others to fix him proved fruitless (501, 502). Olivia has the same trigger, and I want her to prevail. Season 5 is the season of Olivia Pope putting love on top, and that includes love of herself. I still believe she’ll put in that work, even though she’s hit a hurdle. We’re only nine episodes in, so there’s plenty of time for the confrontational work she needs to do. If Olivia does not deal with the spectre of her dysfunction, which is the legacy of her father, she will forever remain stuck in gear. Whoever she is with, she will always be there. She cannot be happy alone, or with anyone else until she confronts herself.”–KP

The incestcapades with Jake have to stop for Olivia to begin moving on. She’s the only gladiator who isn’t trying to move on at this point and seek some normalcy. The only one who no longer has a future in mind (“There is no future”—509). The dysfunction she has come to know isn’t normal, it’s just familiar. Familiar and empty because she’s certainly not happy. What the hell is the point to life if you can’t be happy? The naked quest for power is not going to bring her that, and I know she’ll figure that out.

spectaclesinscript

(our WhatsApp conversations in long form. LOL!)

Good point about how Olivia is the only one who isn’t thinking of the future/seeking some kind of normalcy in her life. She really has given up on herself and collapsed into the Rowan-created hole as if being her father’s daughter is the only avenue available to her now, as if the person she tried to be before was a fictitious. Surrogate brother’s words to her after she freed Rowan must have done a number on her.

And speaking of surrogate brother….I have no further comment on that relationship other than to wish it had died in S2B, but as you said, there is a story being told here.

raytwin

Hmm… Good point about Olivia retreating into a metaphorical “hole”… I think there is a story being told here. And it probably mirrors Huck’s actual experience of being cut off from the ones he loves. A creepy, slightly gross story, but a story nonetheless. Didn’t someone actually describe the hole experience (was it Huck or Jake?). That you get used to being in the hole??? And that also reminds me of Olivia describing being kidnapped. That she got used to “dirty bathrooms”. They are definitely repeating a captivity theme, I think. She “escaped” feeling confined and controlled by Fitz in the White House but she has completely acquiesced to her father and his patriarchy.

kerrygoldwyn

Posted on Tony’s Facebook 😭🙌😍

inthedarkestnighthourxo

The feels😭😭😭😭😭😭

aliasvaughn

Tony directing at OPA today.(I assume since Verica just tweeted it and didn’t say it was old).

vitalinae

Hmm, so no pictures of “director” Fooley who directed for 100 years, but yes please to Tony :)

aliasvaughn

Yes, isn’t it amazing how at least someone knows that NO ONE wants to see the other one, and a HELL OF A LOT OF PEOPLE want to see Tony instead? Actually the only person left in that cast that can garner this much publicity.

olitzisallthatmatters

Apparently everyone knows T’s importance to the show except the show runner and the gopher.

aliasvaughn

And meantime Verica posted ANOTHER photo of Tony directing at OPA. With Kerry being directed, too. LOL

olitzisallthatmatters

And Tony was also interviewed today by Extra while on set. Don’t remember any of that during the 2 months that gopher was filming. 😂😂

debnamcarevs

Leo and Kate hugging after Leo’s first Oscar win.

xlexican

Leo & Kate || Oscars

aliasvaughn

Always the perfect gentleman lifting up his boo.

homerly

Awwwww😍😍😍

torisoulphoenix

ALL THE FEELS!!!!!!

scandamonium

Whatever happens tonight and in future episodes, This is what I am here for…….. Always…….OLITZ IS ENDGAME.

beliskner

#Olitz Holding hands!!!

simplyjazzie21-deactivated20160

😭😭😭

younggiftedblack23

It’s the little things like this that make you miss Olitz. They had chemistry without even trying.

terryanon-blog

Any chance that they will change things now they've seen the ratings? They're already on 516 so that's at least 5 more episodes of unedited shit. What's word BTS now, you must have some juice?

Didn’t you see that Verica re filmed a huge amount of scenes for over 10 days? Those weren’t for the premiere. And 515 has been entirely scrapped. They didn’t film it and went straight to 516. Things are changing already. And if the ratings keep going down, they will change for the better. Big if and bear in mind, if these low ratings are only for the premiere, they won’t serve the purpose. They need to keep going.

aliasvaughn

@redorkulous in case you’re interested, this is confirmed, this is the official part. Verica himself said on Twitter they filmed new scenes. That went on for about 10 days and included Tony and Kerry filming together on location. Clearly it wasn’t for the premiere.

blackstaraura

Whatever new stuff was filmed, it probably involves Olivia hollering at Fitz. Again. CLICK. #SoDone #ItsATrap #NoThanks

aliasvaughn

LOL. They need a complete 180 to fix this. And for Olivia to apologize to Fitz, yet again. I was discussing this yesterday and the only thing I could think of that isn’t “make it all a dream and by all I mean since the second half of s2″ is to start showing Olivia making mysterious phone calls. Talking about a plan, and the next move. Do it for two episodes, you don’t see who is on the other end. At the third episode of this, we see that it’s FITZ she’s talking to, and all the breakup stuff, yelling, her sleeping with Marmaduke again was all her and Fitz’s master plan to finally get justice over all the people who hurt them, killed Fitz’s son, sold Olivia out, etc. So ROWAN and Marmaduke are atop the list. Olivia and Fitz said all those things and did all those things at the White House knowing full well they were monitored, and they wanted those listening to see a believable break up, so they went that far.

Then at that point you also have flashback material to show how Olivia and Fitz came up with the master plan, how Fitz wanted to die at the idea of her sleeping with Marmaduke again, but Olivia convinced him it was the only way to make sure they’d bu it hook, line and sinker. Fitz putting him atop NSA would be part of that, too. This would make both Olivia and Fitz regain respect and value in the eyes of the viewers: it gives both characters their intelligence back AND it shows how Olivia and Fitz are a unit and love each other, period. AND, to top it off, Olivia would be “helping” Mellie as part of the plan, too.

This is the only way to fix it that I could quickly think of, that doesn’t use the “make it all a dream” trick. Considering the new synopsis, clearly they aren’t doing this, so it’s more idiocy with “Olivia trying to figure out what Marmaduke is up to” LMAO. NOW she questions it? SMFH. I just can’t.

Please note this is also a very economic way of fixing it, because it would only require filming a few phone calls with just Kerry and then flashback scenes with Kerry and Tony, that can easily be put in an episode in lieu of other ridiculous stupidity that’s unneeded. This fixes both the plot and the budget problem. Which is exactly why it is NOT happening. LOL

sues52-deactivated20230120

I like your idea for fixing it, @aliasvaughn! Maybe Olivia trying to figure out What Jake is up to is the first of some slow steps in the direction you suggest. They have to backtrack, in my opinion, one way or another. We could go daytime soap opera & Olivia could have an evil twin who actually broke up with Fitz & had the abortion. LOL

aliasvaughn

LOL honestly, other than what I suggested, the only other way is dreams and evil twins. LOL. I can’t think of anything that is quick enough and effective enough to fix it. This way allows both Fitz and Olivia to look intelligent and in love with each other, it shows them as a unit, it shows them being “devious”, it shows them finally making it even with people who did all sorts of things to them. And it’s also not expensive to execute.