tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post8306592603184696020..comments2024-03-27T23:50:21.307-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Scandal: DefianceBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-89753537283346077872012-12-01T15:28:18.995-05:002012-12-01T15:28:18.995-05:00I definitely got the vibe that Mellie knew, or sus...I definitely got the vibe that Mellie knew, or suspected. Why else would she want to bail on a party she forced Fitz to attend?<br /><br />If Fitz is dead, I'm going to be Extremely Put Out.Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-77213119820199833622012-12-01T15:17:58.655-05:002012-12-01T15:17:58.655-05:00Interesting theory about Mellie! Even if she wasn&...Interesting theory about Mellie! Even if she wasn't part of the plot, maybe she had some knowledge of it. Like Cyrus told her Hollis had been threatening them or something.<br /><br />As for the voting machine scandal bringing down the Grant administration, only James knows so far. If Hollis is willing to shoot the President, something tells me he won't have much of a problem killing a reporter. If it does get out, you're absolutely right, the Grant administration will go up in flames. Not sure even Olivia Pope can spin rigging a presidential election.<br /><br />As for real life voting machines, we still use Inka-Vote where I live which is like a Scantron thing you fill in with a little stamp thing. No hanging chads, no pressing one name and the machine stubbornly telling you that you voted for another (happened in Ohio this year). I don't see why everyone doesn't switch to this system.sunbunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08553429350476841139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-82999750678528794242012-12-01T03:38:45.041-05:002012-12-01T03:38:45.041-05:00I just love a good Holy Mother of God moment. You...I just love a good Holy Mother of God moment. You know, you're calmly watching a show and the next second you are shouting "what?!?" at the television. Fitz getting shot was an exceptional HMoG moment for me. I watched that final scene three times, jumping at the shot each time.<br /><br />I'm not 100% sure that Mellie's misgivings were intuitional. Could she have been part of the plot (it would explain the insistence on the gala) and then chickened out at the last moment? She and Hollis would make a very scary double act.<br /><br />This whole thing with rigged voting machines scares me on two levels. First, it's beginning to feel a bit like the writers are painting themselves into a corner. A scandal like this would reverberate the way that Watergate did, nearly bringing down the government itself. Unless the writers believe that this show is going to end at the end of this season, I'm afraid that they are setting up a situation that will only take impossible story lines to get out of.<br /><br />Secondly, the machine I used to vote on a couple of weeks ago looked not dissimilar to the ones on this show. I agree with your comment -- if they can be rigged, why are we using them?ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843864158239536750noreply@blogger.com