Fall Finale Update: Scandal

Not only will this be an update on how I feel about this season, but I will include a little summary on how my feelings for this show has changed. This might be a little long so let’s get to it.

When things started to change

I have to be honest, my love for this show has shrunk and there are 3 main reasons for this; B613, the case of the week becoming nonexistent, and Olivia and Fitz on and off relationship.

• B613
• They spent a season and a half trying to take down this organization which was too much time for me. Then add to that, the way it was finally taken down was not satisfying to me. Rowan going to jail was nice but, first he didn’t go for his crimes as command. Second, he got out and the hunt for him was on again. So he’s free to do whatever he wants when he should be in jail. He’s like that one villain that never dies, the only difference between him and other villains like this is that the others eventually die. There are so many threats on his life and they never follow through. It’s getting old.
• No more case of the week
• OPA cases was the thing that hooked me on to this show from the beginning. How they handled cases was the difference between this show and all the other crime dramas I’ve watched. OPA’s goal is to help the client, not solve whatever crime happened. Sure, they solved crimes but only to help their client.
• Once B613 came into the picture it went from different case each week to trying to take down B613 each week. Like I said above, that was too much. It was an overload.
• Olivia and Fitz (Olitz)
• Ever since "The Trail" (Season 1 Episode 6) I wanted Olitz together and fought hard for them. With this episode plus "Molly, You in Danger, Girl (Season 2 Episode 18) when Fitz said he and Mellie were arranged, I've felt that Olitz belonged together and should be together, and you could've tell me anything different.
• Olitz really started to annoy me after "No Sun on the Horizon" (Season 3 Episode 13). I was over the back and forth of this relationship at this point. The break-up/make-up storyline got old for me. Whatever happened with this relationship didn’t matter to me because if they broke up I knew they would get back together and if they made up I knew they would break up a few episodes later.
• This final nail in the coffin was the Vermont dream Olivia had in "Run" (Season 4 Episode 10). Seeing her with the job of making jam and walking the dog while he’s off being governor didn’t feel right to me. I didn’t think that Olivia would be happy quitting OPA and becoming a housewife.

Thoughts on season 5 thus far

I’m going to start off with what I actually liked about this season.

• Mellie
• Mellie choosing to start an impeachment trial on Fitz. Mellie’s filibuster! But my favorite Mellie moment of this season was the speech she gave to Fitz after she signed the divorce papers. Everything she said was so on point with how I’ve felt about that relationship. I’m so glad that was finally said!
• Susan Ross
• She will always be a favorite of mine. I love how she wanted to quit because she didn’t want to become president and her little crush on David is hilarious.

Now on to the things I didn’t like so much.

• OPA had about 2 cases this season and I’ve already talked about why that upsets me. But I do have a smidge of hope things are changing in that department. Now that Olivia is out of the white house, it looks like she’ll get back into that work again.
• Rowan’s out of jail and it looked like he would finally die but, no. I have no reason to believe that he will ever be killed off this show. Why? Well, in the fall finale Huck realized that Rowan actually wants to die and fears living. So why kill him and give him what he wants when letting him live is a bigger punishment?
• The thing that made me the most mad was Olivia and Fitz.
• First, this entire front half of the season was all about them and that was too much for me.
• Second, I never thought that Olivia was happy living in the white house with Fitz. She gave me no reason to believe she wanted any of it. She regretted saying she was his mistress, she let her father out of jail so she wouldn’t have to marry Fitz and stopped any chance of them having a family. I’m just mad it look this long for them to finally realize this.
• But, no matter how many time they say this relationship is over forever, I have no doubt that they are over forever. They always end up back together. I’d be shocked if this was actually the end.

Overall, this front half of the season had it’s ups and downs for me. I have a little bit of hope that the back half will be better. I just want things to be different. Give me more OPA cases. Let Olitz be together forever or over forever and let’s squash this on and off stuff. And let’s finally end this Rowan storyline. Make him go away forever or kill him because I’m tired of what we’re getting now. If things don’t change for the better, I might now be around for a season 6.

Pic credit