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"Scandalous Thursdays!"

"Hi!  My name is Faith Margaret and I watch Scandal."  I enjoy it.  Thoroughly…and will blog  right here about all new episodes on Thursday nights beginning next week.  Oh!  Your theories about what is happening next in this suspenseful show are welcomed along with my musings. 

Take a deep breath, sweet babies.  It went down tonight!

That damn Sally Langston!  Running for President of the United States?  Has she forgotten that she killed her husband just a few months ago?  She should be in somebody’s psych ward babbling about how the devil made her do it or something!  And she said so (good possible set up for an insanity defense, actually)!  Bless her heart.  It just takes a random reporter here or there to start peeling back the layers of that onion that is going to come and STANK up the entire room with the VP’s mess.   *Peep the House of Cards tribute with the text words on the screen?*  Never mind the Gladiators getting all up in her business.  And she has a BIG mouth?!?  This can’t end well.     

Anyone else notice Olivia calling the POTUS, “Fitz” in front of everyone else looking mighty, mighty comfortable as his girlfriend?  No, “Mr. President” rolled off her lips not nary a time when they were handling business in the White House.  I mean, is she really a mistress if she is not a secret to the wife and the wife sorta kinda maybe really supports her husband’s love affair for the sake of her own selfish and desperate thirst for power?  Hmph!  I am still NOT a Mellie fan simply because she takes zero, zilch, no responsibility for her poor choices.  Oh, but she will never miss an opportunity to dress down Olivia when she gets the chance, “Pick one.  Any one of them.  Tall, short, black, white, skinny, fat, Republican, Democrat.  Pick one.  So that people can stop thinking you’re screwing my husband.”  blank stare  Is there not one brotha in the nation’s capital that Olivia can canoodle with?  Come on, son!    

Sometimes they tango, waltz, salsa, jitterbug…even step. At times they are in step with each other and other times they are on different beats all together.  The dance between Olivia and Fitz is always fascinating!   They have that desperate, breath taking, lustful, balls to the wall love affair.  There is this strong force between those two that keeps drawing them back to each other even when the odds are stacked high against them.  “You are NOT resigning!  I refuse to accept your resignation.  You can’t leave me.”

Cyrus and his husband are even speaking?!?  First he ran to pitiful David Rosen giving him the juice and then he back tracks when Cyrus makes it right by making him the White House Press Secretary?  Hilarious!  Everyone can be brought for a price on this damn show!  Wait!  He scurries back to David Rosen after Cyrus reminds him he is still just a reporter.  He is so conflicted.  He can’t be trusted.  Period.  And who the hell is watching that pretty brown baby while her Daddies are running about town getting in and out of mess?!?

Harrison is scared of this cat woman coming for into the county.  WHY?  Don’t cry, sweet, sweet Harrison.  The foreign cat woman is sending him pictures of when they were TURNT UP and folks in the pictures are now dead.  Baby looked mighty nice handling that steel, huh?  What in the hell?  “Who dis woman, Harrison?!?”

Beat it, Jake!  I do not buy Jake as Command.  Sorry.  He doesn’t seem mean enough, diabolical enough, too clean cut, too much of a good guy.  Jake is Command to protect the dirty secret the POTUS is holding from the country and that is all.  He seems like the boss you have that you really are not worried about so you do what the hell you want to do until you no longer want to do it.   “Quinn Perkins is not B-613.  Never will be.” Quinn still seems pretty unstable and silly and basically uninformed, if you ask me.  I am concerned about her and she kidnaps children.  She’s officially on my “S!#T List!”  And she will never be a Gladiator!  Even though Olivia still wants to save Quinn and make right what she did to destroy the life she once had.

I want Daddy Pope and Olivia to be close.  I want to see them have a positive relationship, a loving relationship.  Sunday dinners done the right way and rebuilding their fragile relationship.  I want her to be a Daddy’s Girl because that will resolve all of her issues with men.  Right?  Wait!  I spoke too soon.  That cat delivers another stunning dialogue that had me over here whooping & hollering & clapping my hands.  He said:    

“You know what happened (insert diabolical chuckle).  No, you have no idea what happened.  You have no idea what is currently happening.  You’re skipping around in a field full of bombs and mistaking them for daisies.  This, dear sweet child is what happened.    The married man you can’t seem to stay away from had me abducted and locked me up in chains and spoke to me about the way you taste, while he allowed the terrorist who snaked her way into my marriage bed to clear US airspace.  What happened was the man you screwed betrayed me by freeing the woman who gave birth to you as a bargaining chip.  What happened was the man who defiled you also defiled an organization I gave my soul to build.  THAT is what happened.  What is currently happening is that President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant the Third has made an enemy, the worst kind of enemy because I know all his secrets.   I know where every body is buried and the greatest weapon I can use against him calls me, “Dad.”  Uncommon valor was a common virtue.  The thing about that quote, Olivia is that it is from the good old days.  It no longer applies today.  Everyone is afraid.  Everyone should be afraid.  The President should be very afraid and if I were you, Olivia I would be terrified.  I would pick up whatever chips you have left and run as far away as possible from that burning building known as the White House.  Run, Olivia.  Run because mark my words, Fitzgerald Grant is not going to make it to the end of his term.  Watch me.  Start grieving now, Olivia.   Rend your garments, curse the heavens, it will save you time down the road.  But first, run!” 

Ladies and gentlemen, that’s good acting. Good Broadway trained acting!  And I don’t care what you say, the REAL Command is back whether he is called Command or not!  You know why?  That VP candidate is a set up by good old Command.  The real Command!  And Mellie’s old…lover?!?!?  HOT DAMN!!!    *applause all around* 

Side note:  They are doing a good job hiding Kerry's "Love On Top."  Position arms here.  Hold bag this way (and that was a bad bad bag!), place a random object in front of her standing there or sitting there.  Make sure Fitz holds her just so to hide her growing belly.  Clever. 

Side note to the side note:  Where is her husband?

Eight.  More.  Episodes.  Yasssssssssss!!!