Well, here's the article: http://www.ew.com/article/2…. I think it's because they both come from money, and as ASP says, are "charming, smart, and not quite the dependable soul that you need. Or, at that time, was not the great dependable soul.” Alexis Bledel has an interesting take on Rory/Logan: “It’s a relationship…

I found it helpful to read a recent article in which ASP stated directly that Logan was meant to be about Rory's "daddy issues"—or, as she says, back in season 5, "We wanted Rory to date her father." I understand how that obviously brings it full circle in that last moment; but it's just so frustrating to see Rory…

It never really "deals" with any of those things though; it just uses them when it's convenient.

It's like the writing room met and said: what can we do to make Jake more likable and sympathetic? "I know, let's have his mother abused by his father." "Cool, yeah, and let's have his sister raped by his father!" "Great, but let's go one step further: the sister hung herself after she aborted her brother/son! That…

To be fair to Zahir McGhee, I don't even blame him. The whole writing room and the show runner should be held accountable for the failures of continuity and failures to actually write Olivia's PTSD.

Hey sweettweeny, I've missed reading your posts, too! Yeah, they'll probably show her dealing with the effects of killing someone for part of one episode (if that much) and then what? Pretend it never happened and have her PTSD magically disappear again?

I think blaming the director misses the whole point: this episode deserves an F because the writers did a terrible job writing Olivia's PTSD. Her mental state after the kidnapping could have been a proper storyline—it could have been written thoughtfully and with care. Even if the writers didn't want Olivia to get…

I completely agree that Jake was gaslighting Olivia. I just think that Olivia already knows that she has daddy issues and we already know that she has daddy issues, and Jake was only participating in and exacerbating her Daddy issues by using Rowan's techniques on her. Gaslighting has been Rowan's tactic of choice…

I watched that clip of when Jake "reads" Olivia and you realize he wasn't actually reading her—he was purposely emotionally manipulating her in that scene. To deflect her suspicion that he's up to something, he deployed tactics designed to make Olivia doubt herself and her perceptions.

Jake has physically assaulted Olivia. I know all of these people are murderers and the show asks us to "accept" it, which is horrible enough, but maybe the show (and the audience) should draw a line against violence and assaults in the context of intimate relationships?

While I strongly agree with you that Shonda's race shouldn't be invoked as the reason she's still the show runner—she's the show runner based on her talent to develop material audiences care about, as well as her power and ability to generate $ at ABC—I think you are overcorrecting. Essentially from this list, you are…

The shoving and concussion took place in episode 2x18. Olivia is at Jake's apt, they've just slept together, she wakes up & gets a glass water, tries to turn on the tv, and finds he's secretly recording her apartment. She goes to leave, he grabs her to prevent her, she struggles back, he continues to physically…

I don't think the show's problem is it injects feminist views; however, I agree that one of the show's many problems is, as you say, inconsistency with its own feminism and gender politics, and it should be called out for it. The show is essentially feminist when it suits a plot point or one episode's theme, but then…

They didn't rig the election to allow great things to happen—they did it for their own power and personal gain. Cyrus wanted to become Chief of Staff, Mellie wanted to become First Lady, and Olivia…supposedly did it for "love," or believing in him but, at this point, who even knows. You don't really rig an election…

I agree, except that maybe with season 2, the Defiance plotline really worked and the White House was important to that. However, it was never just a White House story; it was her story and her plotline because she was contending with her past decision. I mean recently it's like Olivia doesn't even have a past…

Olivia still didn't want to be First Lady though. And the show seems to think being First Lady is the worst, most demeaning position for a woman b/c it means being a fancy housewife. While I disagree with the latter, I have to still understand the former. The thing is, at some point, couldn't they have given Olivia…

While it's clear that ABC knows it's having problems and sees the plummeting ratings—hence the change of studio heads and things like how they are suddenly soliciting more viewer feedback through that panel—I seriously doubt that translates into real changes for the show. It's unclear to me how the change of studio…

I just watched it—that's sad. Their priority should be protecting their lead, not keeping Rowan and Jake on the show.

I feel pretty strongly that the misogynist on this show is Rowan (for the considerable amount of truly horrid emotional abuse and manipulation he has leveled at his daughter). Fitz has been rude, petulant, and generally stupid, though. Also, I don't think that either Fitz or Olivia—or actually anyone on this show…

Fair question—I think the three months the show was off the air just gave me time to question if I still wanted to watch this writing and to move on to some other things. I sort of lost faith enough in the writers' ability to give Olivia a journey and character continuity—instead, they basically make her do anything…