You And Me Are Always Unfinished Business...

"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.

We molded!  The bomb in the church was a damn front to get us all amped for tonight’s show.  It worked.  Whatever, Shonda! 

So, everyone walked out of that bomb mess alive, including Sally Langston, the Vice President who comes out looking like a shero and a Christian patriot totally in control of the devastation around her.  I should have known she wouldn’t meet her maker in the bomb blast!  She’s too damn mean to die.  Does she remind anyone of Hillary Clinton?  Run, Hilary, Run! 

Mellie is on that stuff and a hot mess.  She keeps a drink in her hand and her palm on her forehead looking like a southern damsel in distress.  And of course it’s Olivia’s fault that things are falling apart so Mellie wants Olivia to give her all her coins back.  I will say it for you, Olivia; “Girl, bye!”

Daddy Pope is alive and talking!  Praise God Jesus Lord today!  *cue the shouting music on the organ*  It’s nice to see Daddy Pope and Olivia share a tender moment with him being her dad and not The Real Command.  Daddy Pope can help baby girl Olivia.  He can!  I believe it but not unless it helps him.  Wait for it…

Huck and Quinn banging it out in the office where Daddy Pope was stabbed?!?!  Really???  And the other gladiators walk right on in despite being grossed out and direct them to get themselves together and at least clean up The Real Command’s blood that they must have stepped over before they started “doing it.” 

U G H.  Of course angry man, Charlie is bitter

and ready to blackmail folks because he didn’t get the girl.  What’s in the envelope that Huck wants?  It’s his family, of course.  Quinn never knows what to do, does she?  She is always making a bad move.  Dang!  Why do we love Huck so much and he’s such a bad guy?  Probably because he looks so conflicted and helpless and vulnerable when he goes to his dark place and you just want to rock him in your bosom like Olivia did.

Once they believe the election is lost because of Sally’s good showing at the blown up church, Olivia and Fitz’s fairytale life can begin.  Jam.  Vermont.  Fireplace.  Fuzzy

white rug.  Lovemaking.  Marriage.  Two Babies.  Wait!  Olivia’s want to wear the white hat again makes her have to tell Fitz of Mellie’s secret (picking the white hat up & dusting it off) and pushes him back into Mellie’s arms.  “Reunited and it feels so good.  Reunited cuz we understood.  The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad.  I realize I love you and I want you back, hey heyyyy.”  Here goes the forbidden love music again that followed the POTUS and Olivia around all season in the midst of their sordid love affair.  There she goes again cleaning up someone else’s mess.  “You is kind.  You is smart.  You is important.”  No jam.  No Vermont.  No babies.  No marriage.  No happily ever after.

I knew Mama Pope would be in that hospital room with Daddy Pope just taunting Olivia.  She’s like the Matrix or something popping up everydamnwhere!  The POTUS’ no longer brother son but actual son is murdered with a meningitis prick after Mama Pope’s failed bomb attempt.  “That man hurt you.  He uses you and he will throw you away when he’s done with you.  I just wanted to give you the chance to be free.  To be happy. “  Mama Pope basically said, “Who gone check me boo?” as she walked away leaving Olivia with her mouth wide open.  Wearing a white trench coat.  Election won behind the death of a child and America rallies around the first family sending them to victory.  And they still didn’t win the election fair and square.  Daddy Pope said he was not  going to harm a hair on the POTUS’ head but that ain’t got nothing to do with his son.  Indeed, the POTUS was going to eventually pay what he owed and The Real Command does not forgive old debts. 

So this is how it ends, huh?  Olivia barely has the white hat perched atop her perfectly weaved head and she is ready to take that plane ride Daddy Pope told her she would take so long ago.  “You’re getting on hat plane come hell or high water.  And to be clear I am the hell and high water. “ ‘Member that?  She is abandoning all her babies.  Leaving them all behind.  Poor Huck is just broken.  Abby is pissed.  Harrison is chasing ghosts.  Quinn is wringing her hands for screwing over Huck.  And Jake can’t believe it.  All because Olivia is the common denominator.  It’s her mother.

It’s her father.  It’s the man she loves.  All connected to her.  “I’m handling this.  I’m fixing this.  I have been over every option.  Every angle.  Now it’s time for me to stand in my truth.  It’s me.  I am the thing that needs to be fixed.  That needs to be handled.  I am the scandal.  And the best way to deal with the scandal is to shut it down.”  Message…

Very clever, Shonda.  Very clever!  If this is the actual FINALE to Scandal it was a good ending.  Olivia leaves with Jake.  The Real Command is back in power.  The Republic is safe.  B6-13 is back under the command of THE REAL COMMAND (cue the Mighty Temptations singing “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”).  Harrison gets a bullet to the dome after The Real Command throws in a young, gifted and black reference (wilding out in your personal life is something Shonda has very little tolerance for). The price of 4 more years in the White House is the death of his child because the POTUS took HIS child.  And dig Cyrus in the background whooping and hollering and celebrating because he got what he wanted.  Where the hell is that pretty brown baby he is Daddy to, anyways?  Mama Pope is revealed to actually be a rogue B6-13 and get’s thrown in the box.  Mellie is back being Mellie coaxing the POTUS up from the floor of the Oval Office, effectively interrupting his nervous breakdown at the realization of what really went down and pushing him back in front of the podium.  And he asks for Olivia.  Damn!!

Will Olivia and ‘nem be back next season?  Will Jake continue to beg Olivia to choose him?  Pick him?  Love him?  Will Huck be able to put away his sadomasochism for the every day life of a wife, a son, a house, a dog and a picket fence?  Will David Rosen ever be able to keep his white hat perched atop his head with the entire files of B6-13 at his disposal to catch the bad guys?  Yeah.  Right.  Will Quinn be found somewhere in a box after having turned Huck’s life upside down with revealing his family to him?  Silly girl.

And so we wait.  Cheers, Shonda Rhimes.  Cheers!

Side note:  A friend of mine (who shall forever go unmentioned) said Daddy Pope and Mama Pope  both have “bad muthaf!*$a” stitched on the inside of their wallets.