I'm sorry that you don't recognize clearcut signs of abuse. How many times has Fitz put his hands on Olivia when she clearly said "no?" We saw that in the first episode. We saw it in a flashback the first time Fitz made a move on her. He had the secret service kidnap her once. He doesn't respect her wishes or her…

Huh? I said no such thing about Mellie—you're confusing me with someone else.

No, he's a bad person because he is blatantly emotionally abusive to both his wife and his mistress.

Good god, can't we just agree that both Fitz and Mellie are terrible, awful human beings? This constant pitting characters against each other as if anyone on this show has the moral high ground is ridiculous.

Every episode of Scandal is an A/F.

Jake and Fitz are both irredeemable.

Reading that thread was quite surreal. I'm sad to live in a world where anyone thinks either Jake OR Fitz are good romantic choices. Both of them are abusive monsters. Jake is worse, but Fitz is also an awful human being.

Do you really think people aren't already complaining that there isn't enough representation of LGBT people in fiction? Especially genre fiction?

I'd like to meet the NBC executive who decided that a fun comedy block theme would be "funerals."

I'm always amazed when I remember there are people who DON'T think video games are sexist. Like, there's privilege, and then there's just blindness.

Exactly. Sunnydale was never a very realistic place in the first few seasons, but there was still a sense that Buffy and friends were a part of a larger community. The gang purposefully protected and saved people outside their social group all the time. This started fading in Season 4 when the writers just didn't know…

"Season 7 actually made an effort to connect the events of the plot to the lives of the average people who would be affected by it."

PREACH. Season 7 was poorly realized on nearly every level: plot, characterization, pacing…there is no defense of it.

I've actually met both Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters at a play that Marsters did in LA. It was supposed to be a reunion with he and Juliet Landau, but she dropped out at the last minute due to too many other commitments. To make up for it, they brought in a bunch of Buffyverse actors for select shows to meet…

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

It is the S4 finale, and I never made that connection. Good call.

I agree that Season 4 is underrated, and while I was never his biggest fan, Riley's character assassination in Season 5 is truly egregious and often overlooked.

Dark Willow is terrible. I don't even accept her as a version of Willow; she's just some monotones idiot that replaced Willow for two episodes.

I would take out "Fredless," "Soulless," and "A Hole in the World" and sub in "Hero," "Sanctuary," and "Your Welcome."

I don't understand this gimmick account, and I won't respond to it.