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I’ve had an idea about Shanks…
… because I can’t see him surprised about Ace being like Roger. (If you remember what he says you’ll know what I mean)
So, I plan this will be the next installment in the Living Fire series. But as I don’t see myself coming back to it to retell it the same way later, I’ll also write it for the Voice of All Thingy universe.
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TV Variety Program: Running Man. Episode 505.
Song Ji Hyo replied: “I want to be a rock.”
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“Perpetual Adoration” (Episode 505): When the show exceeds the books
I was blown away by Episode 505. Here are some of my thoughts about the episode. (The biggest spoilers can be found under the cut.)
An Exceptional Interweave of the Graham Menzies, Penicillin and Perpetual Adoration Storylines
From my perspective, the books in the Outlander series are usually better than the show, simply because they afford more time to develop the subplots. But there are some times that the way in which the show’s writers modify and condense certain storylines improves upon them. I believe this is the case for the writers’ decision to tie together the Graham Menzies, penicillin and perpetual adoration storylines in episode 505.
In the book, Graham Menzies’ death also contributed to Claire taking a leave of absence from the hospital, but under more morally ambiguous circumstances. (Graham, who is dying in the book, asks Claire to euthanize him and she does.) By changing Graham’s death to an unexpected allergic reaction to penicillin, the show avoids the debate about euthanasia and is able to tie the story in with questions raised about Claire’s decision to create her own penicillin in the 18th century.
In the books, Claire creates penicillin but I don’t recall her going through much soul searching about whether or not she should do so. I’m glad that Bree had raised these questions with Claire early in the season and we have seen Claire continuing to struggle with whether she should possibly change history that drastically by introducing a drug that would not be available until the 20th century.
The show was also better able to illustrate how difficult it was for Claire to grow and isolate the penicillium mold (at least I don’t recall much detailed description of that in the book series–it’s been quite a while since I read those passages).
Finally, the Graham and penicillin storylines are all tied together with the perpetual adoration storyline. In the books, Claire participates in perpetual adoration early on in her return to the 20th century. In the show, she only starts participating in the perpetual adoration because of Menzies’ death. But her doing so in this episode is the writers’ symbolic gift for book readers, because it hails back to the first time Claire learned about this practice in the book, which happened to be when she met Father Anselm. It was the book version of Father Anselm who helped Claire to believe that it was okay for her to do what she thought was right in the past, irregardless of its potential effects on the future, trusting that God had allowed her to travel through time for a reason and it was all a part of God’s plan.
So when Claire isolates the penicillium mold in the 18th century, she believes God has answered her prayers and it is all right for her to use penicillin in the past–knowing it can save some people who had previously died and kill a small number who were allergic to penicillin and wouldn’t have otherwise died.
[The rest of this post can be found under the cut.]
[[MORE]]Roger, Bree and Jemmy Also Tie Into the Central Three Storylines
Although it was painful to watch Bree and Roger fighting about Bonnet and Bree’s belief that he is probably Jemmy’s father, there was a tie in with the central storylines. Graham Menzies death propelled Claire to invite her daughter to Britain so that she could finally tell her the truth about her biological father. Claire’s memories back in time help to guide her to give Roger good advice about whether to tell Jemmy the “truth” about Bonnet. Her advice also helps Roger to realize he does not want to be “careless” with “the time” he has left with Bree.
In the past, it is Claire who needed the advice, and both Joe Abernathy and Father Beggs (another call back to Father Anselm) served in the capacity of advisers to Claire, helping her to realize what was important to her (i.e., the love she shared with Jamie and the outcome of their love–their daughter Bree).
Jamie, Lieutenant Knox and the Question of Which Was the Righteous or Good Man
My heart is breaking about how Knox and Jamie’s relationship was resolved. Jamie always does what he feels he must to protect the ones he loves but I couldn’t help but feel that Knox did not deserve what happened to him, merely because he felt obligated to do his duty. (However, maybe the show’s writers had Knox kill the Regulator earlier in the season, so he would not seem a completely innocent victim of circumstances,)
Knox asks which of the two of them is the “righteous” man. Knox believes they cannot both be righteous. But I believe they both were generally righteous men whose circumstances put them at odds with each other.
Still, neither was a purely “good” or “righteous” man. Knox and Jamie have some dark aspects to their natures (as do most human beings). Knox showed his darker elements when he killed that Regulator. Jamie’s actions regarding Knox at the end were understandable but also displayed Jamie’s darker tendencies. That these two men who were so alike ended up with such a tragic resolution to their “friendship,” still has me reeling.
“The Impetuous Pirate” vs Stephen Bonnet
It is noteworthy that the show’s writers worked The Impetuous Pirate a “romance novel” that Claire reads in Voyager (1997/ 2004) into the plot during an episode when Bree confides to Roger that Bonnet “haunts” her and that she “see(s) him everywhere.”
What Bree describes is part of a PTSD reaction of her having been raped by a pirate (Bonnet). This is a completely different reaction than the one the heroine has in the mid-20th century romantic fantasy The Impetuous Pirate. In that “novel” the pirate insists on having sex with the heroine Tessa–and of course in true “rape culture” fashion, it is implied that Tessa secretly wants to have sex with the pirate, despite her protests. 🙄
The stark contrast between the reality and the fantasy is nicely symbolized by the writers choosing to mention The Impetuous Pirate in this episode.
Finally, Wee Adso!
Seeing wee Adso at the end of the episode, helped me feel better about what happened earlier between Knox and Jamie. However, I have only one objection to how the show introduced Adso.
In the books, Jamie finds Adso deep in the forest. This time, he finds him in an alley behind the building where he has just murdered Knox.
Jamie has a conscience and he frequently thinks about the people he has killed. I hate to think of Adso as being a reminder to Jamie of what happened to Knox.
On the other hand, maybe Jamie’s finding Adso helped Jamie to remember at a very difficult moment that life goes on and even if he had to take a life he could feed and help this kitten continue to live and grow up. I’d prefer to think that this is what Adso would bring to mind for Jamie whenever he remembers how he found him.
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source for photos (before edits): Outlander Online
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Real Time with Bill Maher
Season 17 - Episode 25: Episode 505
AirDate: August 23rd, 2019, 10:00 PM
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Welcome back to Meta Station for our recap of an amazing episode which is simultaneously a heartfelt emotional drama (Indra saying “I love you!” Kane taking care of Abby! Miller and Jackson kissing! Clarke and Bellamy fireside-bonding again!) and a FUCKING HORROR MOVIE (demon sandworms erupting from stomachs! Eligius IV’s very own Hannibal Lecter! Shock collars for everyone!)
Also we’re solidly #TeamIndra over #TeamCooper, we want a whole webisode spinoff of just Madi roadtripping with the Spacekru girls, Erin thinks Blodreina would be a very bad penguin, we’re gonna be super real with you and let you know that Clarke and Bellamy definitely ate people, Raven/Shaw is everyone’s new OTP, the Lincoln parallels are EVERYWHERE, we’re more than a little worried about the looming possibility of an Ethan/Madi murderbaby conclave, Bellamy is Octavia’s Fredo, and “Don’t Do Drugs or You’ll End Up Getting Blackmailed By Serial Killers” is a WAY more effective anti-drug slogan than anything we learned in school.
OMON GON OSON!
0:00 – Hello and Welcome, Let’s Recap All Our Wild Theories That Have
Already Been Proved Wrong This Season, and Discuss Our Remaining Ones
0:07 – Niylah kom Wonkru, Human Butcher?
0:11 – Shit Went Down In That Bunker and Miller and Jackson Do NOT Want
to Talk to Clarke About It
0:15 – “We Could Have Used You in the Bunker” Presupposes that the Bunker
Wouldn’t Have Fucked Up Clarke as Much as It Did Everyone Else
0:17 – Clarke as the New Lincoln
0:22 – Bring Us ALLLLLLLLLLL the Indra vs Cooper Palace Intrigue,
Please and Thank You
0:28 – The Great and Terrible Beauty of “All of Me For All of Us”
0:40 – Octavia, Indra, Bellamy, Niylah, and “Love Is Weakness”
0:49 – Gaia, Nightblood Novitiates, and Blodreina’s Succession Plan
0:58 – Madi, #1 Skairipa Stan, Is Unlikely to Fangirl Quite So Hard Over
Blodreina
1:01 – Biblical Plagues, Biological Warfare, and Mother/Daughter Mad
Scientists: TIME FOR SOME SANDWORM DISCOURSE!!!
1:10 – Clarke and Bellamy Getting to Know Each Other Again
1:20 – Heads and Hearts and Reversals Thereof
1:28 – Okay So Like … This Is For SURE a Love Triangle
1:31 – Give Echo a Great Arc This Season That Doesn’t Screw Her Over in
the Aforementioned Love Triangle, Please and Thank You
1:39 – Madi and the Road Trip Adventure Squad Was Everything We Never
Knew We Wanted
1:43 – Octavia’s “Love Is Weakness” Delusion Is Not Borne Out By Fact
1:48 – Shaw and Raven, Our New OTP
1:50 – The Sinister Magnetism of Paxton McCreary
1:53 – We Love Charmaine Diyoza With Our Entire Hearts
1:59 – Diyoza’s Achilles Heel May Be Underestimating Shaw and Raven
2:06 – Kabby Fans, Please Ease Your Minds, Kane and Abby Are Not Going
to Bang Diyoza or McCreary Except In All the Amazing Fanfic We’re Going to Be
Getting This Season
2:10 – Abby the Addict vs. Abby the Scientist
2:18 – It’s So Important That the Addiction Storyline Is Also Being
Fair to the Emotional Impact on Kane
2:24 – Mr. Abby Griffin Gets His Political Mojo Back and Then Is
Immediately Humbled By Tequila and His Failure to Put a Ring On It, In Our New
Favorite Kane Scene of the Entire Series
2:31 – Always Take the Second Shot, Diyoza
Episode 5x05: "Shifting Sands"
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Scandal Review, Episode 505, You've Been Served...
Well waddaya know, two episodes in a row, and I’m still mostly happy.
Of course I knew that Zahir McGee would have to call Olivia some kind of derogatory name during the episode, he never disappoints. He did it through Edison, but he still did it. Overall it was a really good episode, and I was all set for giving him so much kudos for Olivia’s speech, only to find out that somebody else apparently wrote it. So sorry Zahir, you are still a douche to me. To be honest, even if you had written Liv’s amazing monologue, you’d still be like shit on my shoe.
Anyway, let’s get on with it shall we?
What I Hated
Every scene with Jake’s irrelevant ass of course.
Why can’t he just be killed off? Why Shonda, why?
And to find out that they cut the scenes of Liv and Fitz on an actual public date, just so we could watch Jake feed Olivia Gettysburgers? Really? Did anybody actually give a fuck about that scene? Did it even add anything to the episode? Even the fact that he finally admitted Elise was his wife was anti-climactic because as we saw, Olivia didn’t give a shit. What a waste of two minutes that could have been spent on that date and on this goodness right here:
God I hate Jake so much. I hate him in every capacity, and I will hate him forever and ever, Amen.
What I Loved
1. Michael: "We talked about this, we talked about keeping it together, didn’t we?“
Oh my fucking God, the show finally remembered that Cyrus is married! Woohoo!
I liked that he seemed to be the voice of reason for an ever spiraling Cyrus. Now all we need is to see his adorable brown baby.
2. Mellie voting yes to open an investigation into impeaching her husband.
Oh Mellie, you are such a tool. How the fuck does this woman not realize that involving herself in this mess will, A, scupper her chances of being voted in as president, and B, her hands are as dirty as the rest of them. Mellie Girl, you had an affair with Andrew, the guy who had Olivia kidnapped in the first place. The guy who blackmailed Fitz into choosing between going to war for her, or letting her die. Mellie, you are the flaming idiot who handed the names of 16 jurors to the man who arranged for them to be slain. Mellie, you were a key part of Defiance. Mellie, Daniel Douglas was murdered because of what you and Cyrus did, and you helped cover it up.
Mellie, where the fuck are your brains? Right now, you’re just an embarrassment and I’m not sure what Shonda is trying to do with you. We keep being told that you’re usually the smartest woman in the room, but guuurl, you haven’t been the smartest person in the room for five seasons now, even when it was just you and Baby Teddy. Girl go get your life and learn to strategize for the love of all things Oprah.
3. Fitz and Olivia on a date.
Fitz looked so proud bless him, he has not one fuck left to give. He has Olivia by his side, and that’s all he cares about. My blinkered little romantic you. Olivia on the other hand looked like she was going to a lynching. This is not who she is at all. All this attention from the press. Literally her worst nightmare come true.
As a Fitz and Olivia fan though? I squeed like a two year old. I love the idea of them just stepping into their truth and finally doing what we’ve longed for them to do for 4 long seasons.
4. Fitz: ”I have done nothing wrong and I certainly haven’t committed any impeachable offences.“
Fitz sweetie, you need to sit down with that mess. You’ve done a whole lot of shit during your tenure as president, it’s just that nobody knows about them. Yet.
5. David: "I’m just here to say, you need a lawyer.”
David was actually great in this scene. How often can we say that? Bless his cotton socks, but the truth is, he’s usually surplus to requirement.
6. David telling Fitz not to talk to Olivia about the possibility of impeachment.
Oh how I laughed. David, Sweetie, have you met this man? That’s like asking him not to breathe.
7. Olivia putting up all the newspaper headlines about her.
Sorry, all I could think was how pretty she looked in that black and white blouse, and her hair was flawless. Shallow much? Well I guess it was better than reading some of those awful headlines.
8. Quinn: “A lawyer can’t do all that.”
Leo: "No, but I can.“
Quinn: ”You hired Leo?“
Leo: ”Thing 1, and Thing 2, and a new additions to the bestiary? Hold on, familiar face, recent headliner, yes, the man who hid in a closet while the mayor’s wife was being filleted. The coward of the county, Marcus Walker! If this bunch is your go-to, you obviously called me just in time.“
Oh how I love Leo’s presence. Olivia needs somebody as ruthless as him in her corner. I love that she was being proactive and trying to take control. Unlike Mellie who was still walking around clueless, without a solid plan. We’ll get to her later.
9. Leo: ”We’re going to take what the public views as a cheap and tawdry affair between the president and his former Communications and we are going to spin it, into the greatest romance ever told. Olivia and Fitz, a love like no other. See my plan even has a name.“
Olivia: ”No.“
Who was surprised that A, Liv said no, and B, that she would have to change her stance by the end of the episode? I have to give her props though, the ”Olivia Pope, woman of the people“ slant was working until the discovery of Doux Bebe. Which I’m still confused about, but we’ll address that later.
10. Leo: ”That’s the thing about the great ones, they perform no matter what utter crap they are dealt.“
Leo has Jokes, and he made me laugh so much this episode.
11. Leo going through Olivia’s apartment.
So many lols. I especially love that he told her that she had to do her shopping at a regular mall. Poor Liv, even her wardrobe is under attack.
12. Olivia: ”He never gave me anything.“
Oh Liv, there’s the matter of a house in Vermont and a ring from his grandma. I knew one of them would have to come out before the end of the episode. Luckily it wasn’t the house.
13. Leo: ”Where’s all her food?“
Huck: ”You mean her wine and popcorn?“
Leo: ”Whatever, where does she buy it?“
Huck: "She uses a delivery service.”
Olivia: “I don’t have time to go grocery shopping.”
Leo: "Of course not, you’re too busy getting your freak-on with the Prez.“
Leo is so freaking shady though. But I did laugh, even while I was low-key thinking that was a Zahir McGee type line. I can’t help it, I’ve hated him since he called Olivia The Help in that horrendous episode in season three.
14. Olivia: ”Edison.“
Edison: ”Olivia.“
Oh. Ugh. Ok. That guy.
I guess we were bound to see him again, but I hate that Olivia had to go to beg him for help. Oh well, desperate times…
15. Edison: ”A criminal. A whore, an idiot, and a liar.“
Olivia: ”Excuse me.“
Edison: ”A criminal, a whore, an idiot and a liar. That’s what you said to me. You dressed me down, then implied that I was clinically insane for suggesting that you were screwing the president.“
Olivia: "I should go.”
Edison: “Sit down Olivia. If you want me to help you, you’re going to be honest with me. You’re going to admit to my face that you were never in love with me, that you never had any intention of marrying me. That you tried to make a fool of me for seeing you for exactly what you are. A criminal, a whore, and idiot and a liar. You want me to lie, you owe me the truth.”
So that was how Zahir McGee chose to call Olivia a whore this time round huh? I was waiting for it, and there it was. Told y'all.
Edison was so salty though, and I kinda get it, but then I don’t because nobody in their right mind would divulge the fact that they were sleeping with the president. Also, Olivia called off their engagement, and she didn’t string him along for too long, and I think she meant it when she said yes, but then she agreed to wait for Fitz, and we all know how that mess turned out. Edison and Olivia were so incompatible though. They just did not fit, and when you’re telling your guy about having Chinese Walls between you, there’s a serious problem. Sorry Edison, I didn’t feel you back in season two, and I don’t feel you now. I guess you’re better than Jake though, in that you haven’t physically abused her, so there’s that.
Also. I guess he did as he promised in the end and gave her a glowing personal testimonial on national TV. I’m still salty though. Edison, dude, she was way outta your league, you just need to deal with it.
I noticed that he must have given somebody else his grandmother’s ring though because he had a wedding band on. Still didn’t stop him from being salty and petty, four years later. Ugh.
16. Cyrus giggling at the Edison interview like he was watching a spectator sport.
Hilarious.
17. Olivia and Fitz watching the Edison interview, looking like an old married couple.
I love them. So much.
18. Fitz: "It can’t have been easy going to him.“
Olivia ”Hmm.. He called me a hypocrite.“
Fitz. ”But he did what you asked.“
Olivia: ”Even hypocrites get to call in their chits.“
Fitz: "It’s good. It changes the conversation. Those chits might have just saved us both.”
Seriously, I could literally stare at the both of them together all day long. I can’t help but love how much Fitz adores her. The romantic in me practically screams whenever he looks at her. There’s just so much adoration there. I’m telling you, their relationship is more or less the only reason I’ve kept faith with the mess that the last two seasons wrought.
19. Patty Snell.
I’m in love.
20. Patty: "What I want is to glue your hands to the podium and say that the president and his administration are cooperating fully with the committee and the investigations, over and over, a thousand million times. Sing it, yell it, don’t care, just as long as that’s it.“
I’m a fan. She’s the female version of Leo and I loved it.
Although, when she had the bright idea of sending all the apparently pointless White House document files over to the investigators at the senate, I did wonder if that was going to come back and bite them in the ass. Well this is Scandal after all. Nothing is ever straight forward.
21. Mellie: ”But also it makes them look like they have something to hide. We should take these over to the senate gallery, hold a press conference and show the American people how scared and sneaky this White House is behaving.“
Good Lord, Mellie Grant has to be the dumbest person on this show. Is this supposed to prove how worthy of winning the presidential election she is? Do the writers think that that they are actually selling her smarts? She’s dumb as fuck and I can’t listen to her without wanting to choke the bitch.
22. Senator Gibson: ”I’m sorry, we?“
Mellie: ”Not just us, the whole committee of course.“
Women’s Caucus Lady: ”You do realize that you have to recuse yourself from this investigation.“
Mellie: ”Recuse myself?“
Gibson: ”Yeah, resign from the committee. The conflict of interest is as clear as day.“
Mellie: ”This investigation is far bigger than my relationship with the president. I represent the people of Virginia. You can’t expect me to step down from this.“
Caucus Lady: ”Mellie, you’re in the middle of divorcing the man we’re investigating, your presence on the committee would be highly…
Gibson. “a distraction. A sideshow. It would taint an already salacious…
Mellie: ”I am not some scorned woman bitching about my ex, I am a senator and a member of the judiciary.“
Gibson: ”As far as the American people are concerned, you are a scorned woman bitching about your ex.“
Mellie stays being dumb as hell for not realizing without being told what a conflict of interest her even being involved in the committee is. As for not being a scorned wife, that was the entire reason she decided to get involved in the impeachment in the first place. Idiot.
However, did y'all notice that the caucus lady said ”You’re in the middle of divorcing the man that we’re investigating?“
So the divorce is going through? Wooohoooo!
About damned time.
Now I just need Fitz to take off that damned ring.
23. Leo: ”Wake her up, separate her from that presidential spoon and drive her out of bed.“
Lol. Leo was mad. As Liv herself would have been.
24. Noah Baker: ”The president liked it, and he did indeed put a ring on it.“
So somebody leaked the existence of Doux Bebe to the press. What I can’t figure out is how this made things worse for Olivia? What difference did it make? Why was she no longer ”Every Woman?“ She was still the same woman that the president was having an affair with. Surely the ring validated what she meant to Fitz? I need somebody to explain this crap to me.
25. ”What is the first rule? Your first rule?“
Olivia ”Do not lie.“
Leo: ”DO NOT LIE! Olivia Pope, woman of the people, she is gone, she is history. It’s time for Olivia Pope love struck teenager.“
Olivia: ”I can’t sell that.“
Leo: ”You will sell that! You will sit down with an interviewer of my choice and you will speak as if you were chatting with your bestie about your innocent and your uncontrollably doe-eyed love for the president of the United States. That is the plan, that is the only way to spin your way out of the diamond ring you neglected to tell me about.“
Lol. Leo was mad as hell. At least it wasn’t Vermont that was revealed. Now that would have been a nightmare for everybody.
26. Mellie basically crawling over to Cyrus’s house, looking all sorry for herself.
So she was the one who told the committee about Doux Bebe? I wonder how she even knew? Actually I don’t care how she knew. All I know is, instead of hiring herself somebody to work on her image, she went to Cyrus with her bottom lip dragging on the carpet. I can’t with her woe-is-me bullshit.
27. Senator Gibson and the Caucus Lady trying to blackmail Marcus.
Really?
28. The next scene after that one was Olivia going over to the Human Vibrator’ house, and I just didn’t give a shit about it, so I saw up to the point where Elise tried to make a point by kissing THV, I saw Liv’s non-reaction, and I just fast forwarded. Jake doubling up as Lyanla trying to fix Liv’s life isn’t what I watch this show for.
29. Marcus telling Gibson and the Caucus Lady that he wants to be a good citizen.
I didn’t think for one second that he’d sell Olivia out, but it was nice to get the confirmation of that later.
30. Olivia starting out the Noah Baker interview trying to be all girly.
Girl what are you doing? I cringed so hard.I have to say that’s a testament to Kerry’s embodiment of this character, that Liv trying to be all girly and cute just made me want to die of second hand embarrassment, considering that that is how Kerry herself is in real life.
31. Noah: ”What about getting involved with the president in the first place? Do you regret that?“
Olivia: ”I wish I’d never laid eyes on him. I wish we’d never met. If we never… I can’t tell you how hard it’s been to watch my friends, my family, my acquaintances being dragged into the spotlight because of me. Clients being investigated and harassed by the media. because of me. Loved ones potentially having to drain their savings to hire lawyers and face congressional committees because of me. I wish I’d never laid eyes on him, because of them and what they’re going through right now. But also, because I’ve worked very hard to build a business. A business who’s only aim is to help people become the best version of themselves. To stand in their truths and face the consequences of their actions so they can gain forgiveness and move past their mistakes. Building that business was hard work, I didn’t do it alone, but I built that business, and it’s something I’m proud of. Something that could all go away because I laid eyes on that man. That married man.
If I never laid eyes on him, then j wouldn’t have fallen in love, and he wouldn’t have fallen in love. That may have made for two more lonely people in the world, but also a lot less pain and heartache for many, many others. Senator Grant and the Grant children, for the people I love, for this country that I love. A country that expects us in Washington to to solve problems not to make them. Is the love of two people worth all this destruction, all this attention. If it were a choice, who would choose this kind of love? So I wish we never met, but we did, and I tried, I tried and failed, and tried and failed again to hide, to stop loving him, but I couldn’t. I was weak. I hated myself. I wore this ring to remind me of my weakness. And when our affair was exposed, I had to follow my own advice and stand in my truth. To own who I am, to accept my faults, and I won’t ask for forgiveness, just don’t ask me to undo the past, don’t ask me to fall out of love with Fitzgerald Grant, because if I could, I would.“
Gah, this was so honest. So real so, heartfelt. If I’d have been watching this at home and if it had been real, I think I’d have sympathized and empathized with her, because actually you can’t choose who you fall in love with. Even Noah Baker looked like he was going to cry himself.
Kerry absolutely killed this monologue. Once again very understated but hugely impassioned and emotional.
Fitz was obviously watching the interview, and the look on his face made me want to cry, but I think that he got it too. This is such a baptism of fire for the both of them, but especially for Olivia.
Now I just need her to stop taking Mellie’s shit and we’ll have complete growth.
I saw the usual suspects on Tumblr say that they were done with Olivia because she was so disrespectful or something like that. Ugh, I literally gave one comment along those lines my middle finger when I saw it. I wouldn’t mind, but it’s not like the commenter had liked Olivia anyway, she was all about Fitz, and was more worried about his well-being than Olivia’s.
32. Mellie: ”There’s one thing that Olivia and I agree on, I wish they’d never met too.“
Oh cry me a fucking river Mellie. If I hadn’t seen and heard you pimping out your husband to Olivia when it suited you, I might feel some semblance of sympathy, but alas, you used that relationship whenever it suited you so fuck you and your retcon bullshit. Where was that regret when you begged her to come back to the White House because Fitz “couldn’t breathe” without her? Where was your regret when you invited her to the State Dinner when Fitz wasn’t sleeping? Seriously, girl go fuck yourself and your self pitying bullshit. I haven’t bought it for five seasons and I’m not about to start now.
33. Cyrus apologizing for bringing Olivia onto the campaign.
Bitch, you were losing. If they’d never met, Mellie wouldn’t have been FLOTUS and you wouldn’t have been Chief of Staff so shut the fuck up.
34. The committee having the tape of Olivia’s kidnapping.
Welp. West Angola coming back to bite Fitz on the ass.
35. David: ”Your voice is calm, measured. You’re complimenting me. Is this a new genius way of putting the screws to me?“
I love that David knows what a puppy he is when it comes to doing Liv’s bidding.
36. David: ”The good news, it doesn’t mean anything unless somebody can corroborate that the president watched the video.“
How come they were only interested in Cyrus? There was a room full of people who saw Fitz watch the video? So did the writers forget that Fitz had a huge discussion with the CIA lady over what to do? Or was that just about the decision whether to attempt an extraction or to kill Olivia rather than him actually watching the tape? I feel that there’s something amiss here.
37. Fitz walking into his bedroom and not seeing Olivia lying on the bed wearing sexy lingerie immediately.
Really?
38. Liv and Fitz sexy strategizing time
This scene was hot as fuck. I’m not gonna lie, I felt everything I was supposed to feel. And I don’t care. It was smoking. And the fact that they were doing it to Let’s Get It On? Sheer perfection.
By the way, was it me, or did Fitz attempt to dance over to Liv? Whatever, it was hot, she was hot, he was hot, they were hot together and I was sweatin’.
Also, shout out to Tony Goldwyn’s amazing abs. They should have had credits of their own at the end of the show.
39. Olivia: ”They know about West Angola.“
Fitz: "Are you serious?”
Olivia: "They have the tape of me, from when I was taken.“
Fitz: "That’s impossible.”
Olivia: "They found something in the documents you gave them, and it led them to the CIA.“
Fitz: How do you know this?”
Olivia: “It doesn’t matter how, I know. Going to war for your mistress is an impeachable offense. That tape is all the proof they need.”
Fitz: “So we find a way around it. We say it’s been doctored.”
Olivia: "And no one will buy it.“
Fitz: ”Then I never saw it.“
Olivia: “What?”
Fitz: "I never saw the tape, I never knew you were taken. The war has nothing to do with you.“
Olivia: ”That could work.“
Fitz: ”It will work"
Olivia. “As long as Cyrus doesn’t say otherwise. Cyrus is the only person who can…he can say you saw it.”
Fitz: "He wouldn’t. Ok, he would.“
Gahd this entire scene was just fire and I was here for it. I know I’m not the only person who kept rewinding over and over. In fact it took me about twenty minutes to write out that conversation because I kept rewinding. Lol. Yeah I’m a pervert so sue me.
40. The next scene was Olivia and Jake joking about the fact that she likes married men, so I’m going to spare you all.
41. Fitz inviting Cyrus to the Oval.
He should have just been upfront, Cyrus was never gonna buy that he was asking him back because the country needed him and they had unfinished business.
42. Cyrus: "You don’t like bananas…. I dream your dreams and I sweat your nightmares, this is what you are to me.”
I wanted to write out Cyrus’s entire speech, but honestly I couldn’t be bothered. Needless to say, he sounded like a stalker, and he’s definitely in love with Fitz in some capacity. The truth is, Fitz should have been considering getting a restraining order, not inviting him back into the White House. I guess he had no choice though.
43. Fitz: "I’m sorry, truly, deeply sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what happened to us, we both made some mistakes along the way, but your mistakes were for me. My biggest mistake was forgetting that we are family.“
I love this entire conversation, Tony and Jeff absolutely killed it.
Lol at Lizzie being thrown out of the White House. In the end, her leaking those images lost her her job and made life hard for her as COS. Welp. Talk about Karma coming back to but her in the ass.
44. Cyrus: ”I serve at the pleasure of the president. The honor is all mine.“
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What a really good episode. I don’t fully trust Cyrus, but he’s probably better in the inner circle than out of it with all the dirt that he has on all of them. Now though, he’ll have a pardon from Fitz so his crimes probably won’t stand if the shit was to hit the ceiling. Maybe.
I see that they’re teasing a wedding a next week.
Is that second gif supposed to be after the wedding, because apparently Liv has a different ring on?
I just can’t see it happening, and besides, I think they deserve to have a wedding fit for their love, not a wedding borne of political convenience. Hasn’t Fitz already gone that route already? Also how are they going to have a quickie wedding when Fitz is still wearing his damned wedding ring, and he’s still married? I feel like Shonda was on a go-slow for 4 season, now she’s going from 1-1000 without taking a breath. Girl, slow your roll, aint nobody asking for an Olitz wedding next week. We just want to see them navigate these choppy waters together and united, they don’t need a wedding to do that.
Either way, I’m ready for whatever comes. As long as Olivia and Fitz are together, I can handle any of Shonda’s fuckery. And you know it’s coming.
Here are some more Olitz sexy time gifs to keep all you thirsty hoes hydrated until next week.
Damn they’re pretty together.And hot, And pretty. And hot. Yep, they’re pretty hot.
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On a scale of 1-10, how pissed do you think we'll be after the 505 episode has aired?
Let’s bear in mind that the episode will be written by that asshole Zahir McGee.
I’m fully expecting Olivia to be called many derogative names by the time the episode finishes. Zahir represents all those black men out there who label Olivia a negro bed-wench and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.
Also, after Shonda’s tweet about one of the writers calling last week’s episode “sidepiece dreams” I’m convinced it was him.
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I still remember how you smiled when I put that doll in your cradle. How you pressed it to your cheek. By the time we burnt the doll, it was too late.
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axechucker has gathered up the best and funniest Twitter reactions around for his famous Game of Thrones Twitter recap. Enjoy this week’s episode “Kill the Boy” again with:
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