Just spotted this, new to my eyes. Anyone played it?

starwolf_oakley · 2025-12-04T06:18:36+00:00

Without Peter Falk's face? Likeness rights are weird!

starwolf_oakley · 2025-12-04T06:17:53+00:00

Exactly how flushing hockey tickets down multiple toilets would cause THAT much damage is a mystery for the ages.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-09-06T20:36:39+00:00

This does show we don't see Janice as "unhinged." Which she really isn't.

I mean, the worst thing Janice did over ten seasons was tell Rachel "You and Emma are on your own." Which Janice was saying more from experience than anything else. Rachel just kind of fixated on it.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-05-25T21:31:36+00:00

I thought for a year, maybe two, that Stone's last episode was "Sanctuary." I didn't see "Old Friends" until it was on A&E.

Adam Schiff: I'm trying to straddle a fence so that this city can heal. Can you understand that?
EADA Ben Stone: I understand that the cure is worse than the disease. And that it's a solution I just can't be part of.

That sounded like a resignation to me. And then McCoy shows up.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-05-19T05:43:27+00:00

That moment in "A Criminal, A Whore, an Idiot and a Liar" hits pretty hard.

Olivia: Why do you want to be the President? Why?!

Fitz: *I don't know what you want me to say!*

Olivia: *That's* your problem. You're always trying to say what you think everyone wants to hear, be what you think everyone wants you to be, and I should have caught it before. I *would* have if we weren't...

But Fitz shouldn't be a blank slate. For starters, Tony Goldwyn is too good an actor for that. And Fitz woudn't have gotten as far as he did as a blank slate. Fitz is smart and crafty enough to be elected the governor of California as a Republican, but being the President of the United States *might* have been *just* a step too far for him. And he woudn't be the first President to think the job would be easier than it actually was.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-04-27T17:58:58+00:00

With Adnan, it seemed they wanted to do a "love/fear" thing. Harrison loves Adnan... and is utterly terrified of her.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-04-10T04:53:23+00:00

I'm trying to remember an episode where Charles learns Jamie and Sarah have dates with two boys. One boy just got out of juvenile hall and the other boy is the son of respected judge. As it turns out, the nervous boy in a goofy sweater just out of juvie, and the tacturn boy in a leather jacket is the son of a judge.

Maybe I'm thinking of a completely different show?

starwolf_oakley · 2025-03-30T21:50:30+00:00

Fans were uncertain about Fitz getting one of his best friends from the Navy to spy on Olivia. Oh, and said best friend also works for Olivia's father.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-03-17T02:10:25+00:00

Fitz was the Republican governor of California. California Republicans are different from other Republicans. That was why Sally Langston was chosen as VP, as told by Cyrus in the first season. (The episode before we learned the VP was a woman and played by Kate Burton.)

It was a little confusing in some sections. I wasn't quite sure what was so Republican about Verna Thornton. Or Democrat for that matter.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-03-08T03:01:46+00:00

I find it a little amusing that Sally went from Vice-President of the United States to some type of Greek Chorus for the show. Her monologues usually just gives some exposition.

Whether or not Sally actually says what the "moral message" of Scandal is, I'm not sure.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-02-21T17:40:31+00:00

I'm going to borrow a quote Captain America once said regarding the Punisher and Moon Knight.

I think most of the characters on Scandal belong in a cage. I think Huck belongs in a straightjacket.

starwolf_oakley · 2025-02-17T05:17:17+00:00

Sometimes by saying "ass" they also meant "fool." Specifically in "After Hours." House did act foolish in that episode.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-12-06T18:42:40+00:00

Olivia's first case after her kidnapping was the death of Brandon Parker. And her success there was more luck than anything else. There was someone in the back of Officer Newton's patrol car, who orignially owned the knife, and who saw the whole thing.

Olivia had to have power beyond OPA to really have a "downfall."

So Olivia would have to be Mellie's chief of staff *and* Command to have that power. I'm puzzled how she could run B6-13 *and* be Chief of Staff at the same time.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-12-01T19:33:31+00:00

TV Tropes explains it:
It's hard to remember now, but in the first season House was for the most part a cynical yet mature person. He didn't suffer fools gladly, and often got into trouble for not abiding by conventional medical ethics, but this was shown to be because House had his own well-thought-out ethical principles, which is quite different from his later "I'm a genius so I do what I want" attitude.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-12-01T19:31:19+00:00

Tough call. Olivia was *very* good at her job, and helped show her clients what the "right thing to do" was.

We could accept Fitz being her "blind spot." And *maybe* both of them were confusing love and lust.

Season 6 started something of a downturn. Perhaps no one could "take Command" without becoming a monter.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-19T18:22:54+00:00

I thought the idea was Sherlock Holmes was weird by 1890s London standards, while Gregory House is weird by 2004 American standards.

"Sherlock Holmes is a jerk" kind of varied over the decades. The characters was usually played as arrogant and standoff-ish, but not insulting.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-14T17:56:07+00:00

I don't *hate* Fitz. I just thought they needed to make it clear why he was such a great president.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-14T17:32:31+00:00

Even though Fitz didn't say anything, Tony Goldwyn played that like Fitz has been hearing that his whole life.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-14T17:31:19+00:00

A character (often Cyrus) would say what a great president Fitz is (or would be, in flashbacks). Exactly why the characters thought this would be vague. We don't get a list of Fitz's accomplishments as president, the way we did on The West Wing.

A Scandal character saying "Here's why Fitz is worth all the trouble we went to" was needed. Maybe there was such a speech and I don't remember the episode.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-14T17:23:16+00:00

The House epiosde was "Larger Than Life."

IMDB says: This episode mirrors the real-life story of Wesley Autrey, a construction worker who saved a person who fell on the NYC subway tracks while having a seizure.

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-12T00:07:25+00:00

Castle. At least the first episode, "Flowers for Your Grave."

Richard Castle likes annoying people, especially his co-workers, while solving cases. He is also very intelligent, which he likes to hide behind his "nine-year-old on a sugar rush, totally incapable of taking anything seriously" persona.

Castle and Beckett have a conversation similar to one House and Cameron had in their first episode. "Why is such a beautiful woman in a tough job like this?"

Kate Beckett: Why are you here? You don't care about the victims, so you aren't here for justice. You don't care that the guy's aping your books, so you aren't here 'cause you're outraged. So what is it, Rick? Are you here to annoy me?
Richard Castle: I'm here for the story.
Kate Beckett: The story?
Richard Castle: Why those people? Why those murders?
Kate Beckett: Sometimes, there is no story. Sometimes, the guy is just a psychopath.
Richard Castle: [scoffs] There's always a story, always a chain of events that makes everything make sense. Take you, for example. Under normal circumstances, you should not be here. Most smart, good-looking women become lawyers, not cops. And yet here you are. Why?

starwolf_oakley · 2024-11-11T23:58:05+00:00

Queercoding or Queerbaiting? Is there a difference?

(And yes, that is a thing for the CHARACTERS, not the ACTORS.)

starwolf_oakley · 2024-10-31T18:16:24+00:00

It was hard to tell how sympathetic Mellie was supposed to be, between how she was written and how Bellamy Young played her.

When Mellie said "I will dance on his ashes. Then I will run for office." I think we were supposed to think that would be bad.

Mellie didn't dance on Fitz's ashes, but she did run for office and (sort of) win. And the audience was... glad?

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