My Final Thoughts on 5x17 (taken from Shattering’s latest A/N...)
The Promo and Sneak Peeks for 5x17 had us thinking that Little Miss Lilly was pregnant and that Fitz was in mortal danger again. Everyone, including myself, freaked out about it in the days leading up to Thursday before calming down, thinking that we’d be able to Handle whatever happened.
We were wrong.
Well, I was wrong, anyway. I would’ve preferred a pregnant Lilly over what we got. Don’t get me twisted, 5x17 was a good episode overall, it truly was but the conclusion to the 3 part New Olivia Pope Arc horrified me, frightened me, and now I am more fearful for my Fixer than ever, especially given the growing trend of shafting/killing black women on TV shows lately.
Olivia is in the one who ended up in grave danger, you guys. Not physically but mentally. What she did in the last 30 minutes, what the whole episode built up to? It was horrifying, vindicating, ghastly, and just...I am so fucking scared for Olivia Pope. I don’t think she’s gonna make it to the end of Scandal 5 without having a complete breakdown.
Andrew Nichols deserved to die. He did. He deserved to die for being a traitor and for spearheading the events that led to Liv being Liv-napped. I’m glad that the bastard’s dead but to have Liv do it like she did, to have her do it and then choose so poorly afterwards? It was just...it was too much. Liv’s needed to come off of her high horse but not like that. The White Hat has needed to go since Season 2 but not like that. It was...god...it was just NO.
All I want for SCANDAL-mas, all I want for Season 5′s endgame, for the show’s endgame, more than a happy ending for Olitz, more than DieJakeDie even (and y’all know it’s serious when I say that because I hate that motherfucker now more than ever!), is for Olivia to be okay.
I want this so-called “journey of discovery” that The Creator is taking her on to end up being what I call Pandora’s Box canon: ugly, painful, horrifying but with hope in the end. I am very glad that we’re getting a mini break between now and 5x18 (because 5x18 is gonna be bullshit on the rocks with no chaser) because we need to recover. I need to recover. I need to accept this new Olivia Pope and hope that she will get through this dark place intact or if she can’t, that she’ll at least be able to break down or die with dignity.