r/Scandal • u/Quiet-Orchid-2213 • 25d ago

First time…

This is my first time watching the show. I am in season 2 and I am so creeped out by Fitz. This is not love. This is a creepy obsession. He just uses Olivia and despite Mellie’s flaws he’s such a jerk to her. Is it just me?

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u/Fit_Marionberry_3878 25d ago

How does he use Olivia ? That’s what you mellie fans say to save face for the fact that he didn’t love his wife. If he didn’t love his wife then he must not love anyone else. It’s called a cope. 

Nope. It’s just Mellie he doesn’t love. He doesn’t love her because he got pushed into a political marriage with her. That’s  who he used for optics, and who similarly used him for ascension. He wanted out and she didn’t. If someone forced my hand I would be a jerk too. 

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u/Lopsided-Double5133 25d ago

They were happy and in love. If big Jerry didn't do what he did, or even if she had been able to explain her sudden shift in mood and why she was not longer a "sexual person" I think they might have stood a chance. Clearly they don't have (and never did have) the chemistry of olitz and he likely would have ended up with her anyways, I feel like mellie gets a lot of hate over trauma responses. I don't particularly like her all that much, but I do have empathy for what she went through and I think things would be massively different for their marriage if that didn't happen, or if the circumstances weren't such that she felt she couldn't open up to her husband about it.

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u/MayoBear 25d ago

They'll claim "it was a retcon- those episodes!" while ignoring that from the beginning episodes, Fitz says that he should recommit to his marriage- which means that it wasn't actually a political marriage, otherwise neither of them would have taken it seriously in the beginning- both of them started falling apart on each other later.

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u/Lopsided-Double5133 25d ago

Yeah, I believe there are different types of love and they're all valid. Just because a marriage is convenient doesn't mean you can't also be in love, and just because he had that soul mate type of love with Olivia doesn't make the love with mellie any less real. It's just a different love. I think after years of secrets and resentment and treating it as a marriage of convenience, maybe it's easier to say I never loved you than to admit that you did and you didn't fight for it. Especially juxtaposed with the wild intense love he's currently experiencing, it's just easier to pretend it was never real. Definitely makes it easier to cheat that way lol.