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Welcome to the TV Boyfriend Smackdown, a brand-spankin feature on Zimbio! We pit two of television most eligible (and fictional) bachelors against one another, and discuss their merits with regard to three major categories: attractiveness, personality, and potential for capital-D Drama. Based on our spirited debate, we declare a winner, but fear not: you have a chance to weigh in as well.

This week, we pairing up Fitz and Jake from Scandal. If you're not fully caught up to date on the deliciously juicy drama, beware of spoilers here if we going to judge thoroughly, we going to judge on everything that happened so far and we can be held responsible for your inability to Hulu or Netflix in a timely manner. Let the first smackdown begin!

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Lindsay's Take: Ooh, Fitz. This man is my riddle of the Sphinx. I mean, I love when he and Liv smoke up the screen, but the respectable lady in me just wants Liv to wise up, move away, and stop fantasizing about their life together making jam in Vermont. I hate them, and I love them, and I can live without them. I feel the same way toward Fitz, who can be a real jerk sometimes. Having Liv followed? Crappy. Calling her a whore? Crappy. Getting her mother back? Eh, not as crappy. But doesn it hurt so good? Anyway, full disclosure, I would never be with Fitz had I the chance (not for longer than a few hours, okaaay).

Attractiveness: Um, the man is hot. Tony Goldwyn is hot. He looks great in a suit, he tall, and he has a full head of hair. That really all you need to be elected President of the United States (true story). Sure, he a little older, but he a man who has lived and learned and that is sexy, okay? He looked good post-assassination attempt in a hospital bed, he looked good in a fallout shelter, and he looked good in a sweater in a house in Vermont. His aesthetics are relevant to my interests.

Personality: Well, this is where we drop off. Fitz is needy (always has to have Olivia at the ready), selfish (doesn care what Liv is doing when he needs her at the ready), and incredibly obtuse. Let face it: Mellie and Cyrus (aka two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) run the West Wing, and Fitz is just their puppet. Everytime Fitz tries to do something, it wrong. He like the Presidential version of Charlie Brown. He got a chip on his shoulder (#DaddyIssues), and, well, doesn seem like he be that much fun to be around if he clothed or speaking.

Possible Drama: He the President, so it could be, well, anything. Just off the top of my head, I could tell you: trouble with B-613, trouble with Mellie, trouble with Cyrus, trouble with North Korea, too much drinking, assassination attempts, paternity issues, tarnished legacies, murders, adultery, etc. I think I made my point.

Attractiveness: Power is attractive within reason and Fitz lies just within that reason. I agree that he looks good most of the time, particularly in a suit, but I have one major bone to pick re: Fitz attractiveness. Dude, maybe this is because you supposed to be running a country (although we never see you doing that; like, ever) but why do you look so tired all the damn time? Get some sleep, put cold spoons under your eyes, stun gun yourself to jolt some energy into that face, I don care. It not a good look.

Personality: YES to Lindsay claim of selfishness. As Olivia own father said, Fitz doesn care what best for Liv, he doesn really seem to care what best for his family, and he certainly doesn seem to care about what best for the United States because I yet to see him actually govern. Also, have all the #Olitz fans forgotten that the series started with Fitz having another affair? Not Mellie [url=www.buyusacigarettes.com]Cigarettes Brands[/url], not Olivia, but a third woman he was bangin while he was supposed to be frigidly married and also hopelessly in love with Liv. Dude doesn care about anything but what best for Fitz. Drama: Based on the fact that he a President who holds no meetings other than illicit bunker meet-ups with his mistress, illicit Vermont vacays with his mistress [url=www.smokingusacigarettes.com]Cheap Cigarettes Near Me[/url], and a disturbing verbal torture meetings with his mistress father, I say the biggest risk for drama is Fitz impending impeachment once anyone other than Mellie and Cyrus realize what he doing with his time [url=www.cigarettesusastore.com]Buy Tobacco Online[/url]. But Lindsay right: the daddy issues, the wealthy guilt issues, the adultery issues, the murder he committed, the upcoming election, and more are all rife with possibility for some major dramz.

Jess' Take: If you read even one of mine and Lindsay weekly Scandal recaps, you know it no secret that we pretty in love with Super Spy Man Jake Ballard. We even have a pet name for him: Noel, an homage to the first time Scott Foley graced our television sets. Jake and Olivia have a strange relationship: they hooked up last season after Fitz asked Jake to act as Olivia one man security detail (Liv was none too pleased when she found this tidbit out), then Jake spent some time being tortured in a hole at the hands of Liv dad, and this season, save for some wine-and-relief-you make-out sessions, they been somewhat distant, though still working together every second of every day (when Olivia not reuniting with the President). The course of true love never did run smooth, right?

Attractiveness: If you have eyeballs you can recognize that Jake Ballard is an attractive piece of man. He totally adorable, with an earnest face that somehow still conveys pure strength. Maybe it the stubble or the fact that we know he been through hell and lived to tell the tale, but Jake just has that do anything for you and I do it with my bare hands look about him.

Personality: He nice, he devoted, he loyal, and he a badass [url=www.webvipsmoking.com]Pack Of Cigarettes[/url]. And he not stingy with the wine. Okay, I a little worried that his new job as Command of B-613 might take him to a dark place (I don want to see Jake torturing anyone; this is not 50 Shades of Gray, you hear me?), but for now, Jake displayed nothing less than a winning personality. Maybe he tries to Liv a little too hard, but he also been pretty freakin selfless. Even when Liv ditches him for her secret #FitzFone and sneaky trips to Vermont.

Possible Drama: Well, Jake now the head of a government agency so secretive not even the President knows how it operates, and he ousted Olivia father, a renowned sociopath, to get there. I know Rowan isn going down without a fight, and I don think he above using Olivia as a pawn, so there plenty of drama potential there. The real question is what Jake will choose when the inevitable time comes: power or love? DRAMA!

Attractiveness: I know Fitz had a house built for Olivia, but Jess is right: JB (that my pet name for Jake) has an do it with my bare hands thing going on. JB would build Liv that house himself. A man who looks like that, that sits in a hole at the mercy of your father [url=www.cigarettesusaonline.com]Marlboro Black Menthol[/url], and looks like he could build you a house? You lock that down. Immediately. JB walks the perfect balance of rugged and handsome. Mama like (especially in those waffle-knit shirts I have a weakness).

Personality: It could because he a spy or one of the President right-hand men or maybe just because he was thrown in a hole and tortured for a while, but everything with JB is about the immediacy. chug that spackle bucket full of wine you drinking and come with me now! move away from that window! let get moving before we lose sight of Liv mom! Take a Xanax, bro. If anyone could use that wine, it you. Jess said he drinks some, but I don think he drinks enough. Maybe you and Liv could take straws into that bucket o (lol like Liv drinks Franzia) like two kids in a malt shop. Sure would mellow y out.

Possible Drama: What Jess said: Fitz you didn get the memo moment of Scandal winter finale has set JB up for a bigger storm of problems. He crossed Rowan, therefore he crossed Charlie and he crossed anyone who is friends with Rowan/part of B-613. The only person he has on his side (for now) is Fitz, and Fitz has got his own problems. Drama, drama, drama.

Winner: Jake Ballard. Fitz may be the President, but his mood swings, under-eye circles, and general pompous ass-ness can compete with the rugged and sensitive manliness of Jake Ballard.

Disagree with our outcome? Well, you can weigh in, too! Just vote for your preferred winner in this round of the TV Boyfriend Smackdown below, and we see you in two weeks for our next match-up!
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