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[shipperx]

Scandal has become pretty incomprehensible at this point.  I don't even understand what the point was in the assassination. Olivia has the creepiest taste in men...well, not ever.  Her ex-assistant Quinn has even creepier taste in men.

And frankly, Mellie may be a villainess, but you go, girl!  Jump that.  You deserve it (and he actually seems genuine and supportive, which I'm sure will be destroyed like everything else, but right now... Mellie, you've earned this.  Enjoy.)

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[elsaf]

WARNING: Spoilers here, if you haven't seen last night's Scandal

The assassination may mean no more than that the actor wanted to move on. On the other hand, it may be karmic payback for Cyrus' many bad acts. Frankly, James seemed like a manipulative little weasel to me, as opposed to Cyrus' "love of his life."

In the bigger picture, I think Shonda just likes to shock the audience, and there doesn't have to be any rhyme or reason. It would have made a hell of a lot more sense to kill David. David has a lot more likelihood of threatening the powers that be. However, James was less important to long term plotting, so he got the shock-the-audience bullet.

Frankly, if government worked anything like it does on Scandal, we'd all be better off moving to Afghanistan. House of Cards does a lot better job of building a "government powered by corruption" scenario that is just a tick off of credible. I watch Scandal just for the trashy ridiculousness these days.