Which is ironic because Mellie doesn't hate Fitz. In fact, sadly for her, she loves him, however she torpedoed any chance they had of making it by not telling him that his father had raped her.

Erm, no. Fitz sent Cyrus to negotiate with Mellie because she was threatening to go on national TV and expose the affair. She told Cyrus that she wanted Fitz to come to her and beg like a dog and then she wouldn't expose the affair. He had to be with her by 9pm. Fitz ignored her and went to Olivia's ready to give up…

I was under the impression that you welcomed debate, but you obviously don't have the stomach for it, because you've resorted to defensive little comments.

The problem with Fitz and Mellie is that we're told that both of them are wickedly intelligent, without being shown. We have no evidence that Mellie is smart, and we have no evidence that Fitz is the second coming, and that's entirely on the writers.

Yeah, my comments are obviously because I'm so hurt about…shipping?

I find that when people have no other arguments, they try to make this about shipping. You're going to have to do better than that. I'm here purely to add some balance to the proceedings. The misogyny inherent in some of the comments that I read on here begs to be challenged.

No she absolutely didn't ask Jake to cover up anything on Cyrus' behalf. Cyrus asked her for help to cover up the murder and not to tell Fitz, and she burst into hysterical laughter, but if you recall, she told Cyrus that he was on his own. Olivia only covers things up as a last resort. Everybody around her has made…

The show goes to great lengths to tell us that Fitz is a great president, much in the same way that they try to tell us Mellie is a smart political animal, yet they fail to show us.

Contrary to popular belief, Scandal isn't about Fitz. He's the love interest of Olivia Pope, which means that anything he does has to lead back to Olivia in some way. This isn't HOC or The West Wing, you're not going to see Fitz governing because THE SHOW ISN'T ABOUT HIM.

That's pretty much how I feel about Mellie. She needs to just blow herself up because let';s face it, what use is she?

Cyrus would have left Fitz ages ago? The man who wanted to be president, but knew that he had a few things that would have stopped people from voting for him? What else would he have done? He's the right hand man of the POTUS, this is as good as it gets for him.

Can you please tell me what scene she did this in, because I don't recall her asking Jake to cover up anything, and certainly not for Cyrus.

You thought that Mildew sex scene was hot? I suggest you rewind and watch again. They were about as sexy as Huck and Quinn.

Then why are you watching it? You know that you can exercise free choice and stop torturing yourself right?

If Scandal didn't have somebody on the show who wanted to actually do good, all you'd have is another House of Cards, where you pretty much hate all the characters. What good is any show where all the protagonists are evil monsters without a conscience?

I desperately need for Mellie to have her own spin-off show, if only so that her stans can leave Scandal be.

This is such utter BS. Rowan is a verbally abusive ahole who loves monologuing at his daughter and ranting at her life choices when the fact is, he's the one who broke her in the first place. As far she was aware, her mother died when she was just 12 years old, and instead of sending her to therapy or whatever to deal…

So apparently you didn't understand why Cyrus would want to concentrate on work rather than mope at home or in his office? I should be amazed that you thought that his wanting to immerse himself in work was everything to do with Fitz, and nothing to do with the way he was handling his grief. Perceptive you are not.

How did Olivia set these things in motion? Was she the one who tried pimping out James? Damn, why can't you people assign the blame where it rightfully belongs? Olivia had nothing to do with Sally killing her husband. NOTHING. And that's where this entire mess starts and ends.

I think it's interesting how so many people hate Fitz because of how he apparently treats Olivia badly. I call BS on that, because lots of these people hating on him because he's a murderer (yeah he killed the old bitch who had him shot four times) and he sometimes invades Olivia's personal space, are the same people…