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Originally posted by chjw
The premise of this show is completely different now to how it was in Season 1 and in Season 2. I preferred OPA (with Quinn) actually fixing things each week with different scenarios each week with a longer sub-plot going on in the background i.e. defiance, Lisa Kudrow. Although I felt the season finale was great, they really need to stop Season 4 being all about B613 and Papa/Mama Pope and get back to what Scandal was all about.
They also need to stop the flip-flopping minds of Quinn and Olivia in regards to who her allegiances lie with and whether she wants to be with Fitz.
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Yeah I thought season 3 was a mess overall. Yeah there was some good moments but like you said the show lost it's moments. It was so good in season 1 and most of season 2. But then shonda started changing the direction of the show. For whatever reason she just wants this show to be like Alias, but to me if it ain't broke don't fix it. But apparently she was on to something cause people love the melodrama and bad writing and the "OMG moments". As for the finale there were so many things wrong with it.
1. Killing their son. It was so unnecessary yet it felt so "meh" cause we had just been introduced to him a few episodes ago so it really did nothing for the plot as I'm sure Rowan could have made Fitz win the election another way without killing his son. I mean his logic ?
you took my child I took yours? From what we seen him and olivia had been distant for years before the olitz affair.
2. Huck and Quinn....it's so forced. Shonda essentially brought them together just to forgive Huck when in reality he doesn't deserve forgiveness cause Quinn made a effen mistake. No one asked him to torture her and abuse her there was other ways they could have made her pay. To be honest I'm over Huck. His character is too one dimensional and the actors delivery is so annoyingly creepy.
3. Mama and daddy Pope. I really want this to be over with and everything that comes along with it ie b613 this is just ridiculous. It's taken over the show in a bad way. This isn't a spy show it's a legal/political drama about a bad ass who fixes problems. I really hope David brings down b613 in the first episode of season 4 so we can focus on something else. I mean there's so much plot from him actually dragging b613 into the light. It creates a problem that really needs fixing.
Overall they have a really good show but they just need to bring it back to what it was.