Scandal at Paleyfest 2016
It’s really an interesting experience to sit in a room of people and watch an episode of Scandal together. I’m so used to freaking out by myself within the confine of my four bedroom walls that it was extremely liberating to watch (and gasp and laugh and scream at) an episode with other fellow gladiators. So that’s how I spent my Tuesday night, I was at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles attending Scandal’s Paley Fest panel. Not only did we get to preview the newest episode but we also got to see the cast, along with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers discuss the show in a refreshing, insightful and hilarious new way. 
The fans got a chance to ask the hard-hitting questions and they did not hold back. One fan asked when Fitz will find out about Olivia’s abortion and Shonda replied, “My question is does he need to? … a woman made a choice about her body that she legally has the right to make. I haven’t actually decided, but I wonder sometimes. We talk about it a lot.” Admitting that she thinks about the answer to that question a lot and still hasn’t decided whether he’s going to find about or not. Another fan asked why we had to wait for Olivia and Fitz to get together, only for them to be ripped apart. “Olivia is on a journey and Olivia has been on a journey since we started. It’s interesting to me that her primary story is a romance — that’s what you’ve seen — because to me, her primary story has been discovering herself,” Shonda Rhimes explained, “I’m happy that you have fallen in love with Fitz because that is the journey that Olivia went on … she went on the fantasy and she realized that the fantasy was not real. That does not mean that she does not love Fitz, that does not mean Fitz does not deserve love. It just means that Olivia does not know who she is yet.”

The event all in all made me fall in love with Scandal all over again, not that I had fallen out of love but just like with a regular relationship sometimes you go through a period in time where you’re kind of just co-existing. I am all in now! I am fully embracing the Gladiator within me and I am so excited to see what is to come for the rest of this season on Scandal.
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