CREDIT FOR THIS IDEA GOES TO @theplltheorist
The overall idea of what A.D. stands for IS NOT MINE - credit as above! I repeat, the idea of what A.D. stands for is not mine! But, since I loved the idea so much Iâm going to explain it in my own way and give my own clues that I found myself.
Iâm fully convinced that A.D. stands for Advocatus Diaboli, which is Latin for Devilâs Advocate. Here was our clue:
Oh and at the end of 714, what do we hear in the final song? Devil, devil. These are the main lyrics they make us listen to, on full blast. Devil, devil!
Another occasion of a song about a devil playing, is in episode 401:Â âThe Devil Withinâ plays. It plays during a scene with Black Widow:
More devil references in the above scene. Is a âdevilâ endgame?
So there are clear devil references in the show. But what does it all mean? Advocatus Diaboli?
The job of a devilâs advocate is to prove that people are not saints, and actually, they have flaws. There is someone out there in Rosewood who is so obsessed with these five pretty girls, but absolutely cannot stand the idea that they come across so perfect, when in reality, they create their own problems through lying. Throughout the series weâve seen Aâs obsession with the girls - stroking Ariaâs pink hair, making dolls of the girls, eating popcorn while watching the girls on TV⌠the list goes on. A.D. finds these girls so pretty! But theyâre not pretty on the inside. They create their own problems and they need to own up to it.
Advocatus Diaboli wants to expose the truth behind these five pretty girls. Why do they keep getting into terrible situations but somehow come out the other side clean?
Aria killed Shana, got away with it.
Hanna (and Emily?) killed Noel, got away with it.
Emily killed Nate, got away with it.Â
Hanna killed Archer - got away with it. Or did they? A.D. was close with Archer and is working to punish the girls for this, starting with âthe fingerâ.
Aria is in a relationship with her teacher - well sheâs not the innocent perfect girl everyone sees on the outside.
Hanna stole sunglasses - she shouldnât be Rosewoodâs it-girl.
Spencer kissed her sisterâs fiancĂŠ. Why is Spencer considered Rosewoodâs greatest achiever and role model student?
The list goes on of problems the girls create themselves but somehow manage to get away with it.
This is the whole theme of the show: these girls are not perfect. They actually create their own mess, and A.D. is obsessed with exposing the fact that theyâre not as pretty on the inside. I remember one quote from Hanna: âI donât even know why I just liedâ.
You know what is really making me believe in this theory? WHO THE HELL WROTE THIS? This was NOT Andrewâs diary - the writers wanted us to think it was his, however he was revealed to not be Charles, so it makes no sense for Andrew (an innocent person) to have written this. Somehow, A.D.âs diary stumbled into Tannerâs hands while she was investigating Charlotte (further highlighting the relationship between Charlotte and A.D.)
The girls indeed are Pretty Little Liars.
Followers of my blog know I am obsessed with the idea of Bethany Young being A.D. (You can read posts entirely dedicated to Bethany here and here.) I believe this idea of A.D. standing for Advocatus Diaboli works perfectly for Bethany.
She never ever draws her face properly. Is it possible that she was the Black Widow as mentioned above (when The Devil Within played, again hinting to Advocatus Diaboli) and her face deformity is precisely why she sees the girls as so pretty; these girls have what she will never have - a pretty perfect face, and sheâs frustrated that everyone sees these girls as so perfect, and so she becomes the Advocatus Diaboli/Devilâs Advocate to expose their flaws. Perhaps, she was caught in the fire of The Jenna Thing too, which caused her face deformity, making this more personal too for her to attack Spencer, Aria, Hanna, Emily and Alison. They did cause that fire.
Is this our true Uber A/A.D.?
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