I think that many people equating Olivia living in the White House as a jail sentence is taking it a bit too far. Unfortunately, many people are taking Mellie's conversation with Olivia and her view of being first lady as gospel. Mellie viewed the White House as a prison because Fitz treated her as being ornamental…

You can't imprison someone in the White House - I just needed to put that out there. Olivia is free to leave when she wants to. Olivia is free to break up with Fitz when she wants to because they are not married. And if he has her followed, she can always go to the press and point out that she wanted to break up…

He had Olivia watched by Jake, who Olivia ended up sleeping with. As for the pictures, if you recall he had told Tom no more surveillance but he didn't get the message. Yes, he was upset about the pictures, but you fail to mention that he immediately gave Edison a clear path to Senator Majority Leader because Fitz…

Me too but belief it or not some posters that that was the most noble thing a killer could do because at least he didn't let James die alone. I was like wtf.

Everything you said is where I am having serious problems with the show. How, in one season, Olivia pulls the trigger on a gun hoping to kill him and used herself as bait for a SWAT team to take him and finally gets him put away in jail for an extending period all to say now you don't consider him the "bad guy"…

As for gender politics, i'm not with you on that. You say the problem is that Fitz looks domineering but the big knock on Fitz from some posters is that he was too weak and let Olivia walk all over him. So which is it? If he makes a decision is he domineering - if he acquiesed to Olivia's demands he is considered…

I always found it crazy that Olivia being "publicly" the President's girlfriend that she didn't have secret service protection to begin with, especially all the threats made against her (internet).

You are right, people still want to kill Rowan and in Season 4, Olivia actually pulled the trigger and was willing to kill Rowan herself, so this whole story arc makes absolutely no sense what so ever. To me, this whole Rowan get out of jail plot was nothing more than to give Rowan and Jake a story line. Without B613,…

I did a bit more research, because like you, I wanted to know what Olivia said. I get so mad at the writers for silencing Olivia and never letting her voice come through. I loved this scene because I had never seen Olivia so vulnerable with Fitz and was upset that they played music over her voice. But in all…

I see where you are coming from but Olivia denied Fitz "his Agency" by unilaterally deciding to release Rowan. Releasing Rowan has a big impact on Fitz's life. Sometimes you have to look at both sides of the coin.

I was thinking the same thing also. There was absolutely no reason to release Eli. As for the marriage, Fitz knew she didn't want to get married yet, and he seemed okay with it. They were going to get married to stop her from testifying. But The "Gladiators" had time to dig up dirt or Huck had time to find the…

I went on Youtube to watch the Fitz and Olivia's scene again. Some people, who claim they can read lips are saying that Olivia told Fitz "I didn't want him (my father) to die. Like you did with me (West Angola) They are the same right? They said at the end, she said she didn't want them (her and Fitz) to be done. …

I have a sneaking suspicion that Huck is is not going to kill Rowan but instead they are going to team up and fight Rowan's "Sons".

Thank you for saying it. I just couldn't find the words to express it. Even when you read reviews (by women sadly), its all about how "handsome" Jake is and wishing that he took of his shirt. As a woman, I found it so hypocritical because if a woman was posted up just for eye candy, these same female reviewers…

Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with Scandal. During Season 1 and 2, they told a story and they didn't burn through plot. I loved the way they handled Defiance from beginning to end and took their time to tell the story.

Thanks - I thought it was nukes. I guess my bias was showing because on the news (which I watch too much of) the big talk was Iran's "reported" drive to get nuclear weapons and since Shonda has been doing her usual "ripped from the headlines" this Season, I thought that was what I heard.

According to Shonda Rhimes, "with the opportunity of having Olivia by his side, Fitz will actually become the man we all need him to be. So I do think that Fitz's role is going to change and he is going to become more of a take charge type of guy. Just look at the COTW when Fitz signed the peace deal but whispered…

Yeah, she hated it so much that she ended up sleeping with him, lol.

And the kicker is that they still want him dead.

Good points as usual. But I want to add that she also released Rowan because she didn't want to go to the hearing and testify against Fitz. As she told Abby, she loved him too much to send him to jail.