CHARLOTTE

‘A’ is for Audience. ‘A.D.’ is for Assistant Director.

There are two stories on Pretty Little Liars. One is the story we know, which originated with ‘That Night’, which will be resolved either in 7x19 or early 7x20.

 The second story will be revealed in the “twist” ending of 7x20. 

 The first story will wrap up why the girls have been targeted, and explain what happened that night. It will cover all of the Hastings and DiLaurentis drama, and whatever this has all been mounting up to. The second story will explain that much of what the girls have been through was actually engineered and staged. 

 Someone has been setting these girls up from the beginning. And not for the reasons that we think. Not just for revenge, but also for entertainment. 

I have put off writing this theory for actual years, because I still don’t know how to put it in writing with any eloquence. Because it is really so all encompassing, but if you’ve been reading my blog for any real time, you’ll see I’ve been hinting around it since at least season 4. As we inch ever closer to the end, I start to feel like there’s more reason to believe it’s possible, so I guess now is the time to commit it to writing. It’s like a much more tolerable version of the “It’s all a book”/  “It was all a dream” ending, because it doesn’t dismiss the actual story, but rather incorporates it. 

Here are the highlights of the theory.

1. The NAT club (”Nos Animadverto Totus” meaning “We See All”) is still very much active, and profiting off of the ‘A’ drama. 

2. What began as a group of teenagers filming unsuspecting girls, has now grown into a full fledged entertainment empire. 

3. In 3x06, Jason confides in Spencer that he believed that Garrett and Ian may have been paying girls to set up their friends to be filmed. And he believes that someone was paying them to film specific stuff for them. 

4. This was the beginning of the NAT empire. This went from a few pervs filming girls undressing for their own entertainment, to a semi scripted, semi interactive live stream. There are people who pay a pretty price to subscribe to the service. They have input as to what they’d like to see next, and some are even regularly interacting with the girls on behalf of the rest of the ‘Audience’. 

5. The girls story arc for the NAT Production began on “That Night”. It’s the night that Ali faked her death, to get the story rolling. Ali is was fully involved from the beginning in setting the girls up for the NAT, as Jason suggested in 3x06. 

All I want is for this show to FINALLY tell it how it is and call what Jenna did to Toby rape. Men and boys get raped too and women can be perpetrators as much as they can be victims of rape.

It would be such an important signal to so many male victims out there if they’d just get some representation from a show as well-known as PLL. Show people that this does happen, that it isn’t your fault, that the responsibility for what has happened is not yours but the rapist’s. That you can live a happy life afterwards without having to pretend it never happened, but that, at the same time, it will leave scars and it will change you in ways you sometimes don’t fully understand until years and years have passed.

Of course you're right - female to male rape has never been systematically used to silence and oppress an entire gender like male to female rape has always been.