PRETTY LITTLE LIARS

Just thinking outloud. Online. Whatever.

We need to do better.

There is no reason in this world for anybody to send Troian Bellisario or Tyler Blackburn volatile comments on any social media platform for something their characters are doing or have done. None. Not a single reason.

They are actors and they are doing their job and even if you dislike their storyline – which is allowed, I’m not saying it’s not – they deserve your kindness. No one who is a part of this show should have to even think about compromising their creative integrity based on the fact that they’re scared of what the backlash from the audience will be. They are doing their job and when they’re faced with bitterness and hatred, it compromises their job. 

I find this fandom has a problem with separating characters from the people who portray them. You can go onto Troian’s instagram right now and see people who aren’t differentiating between Troian Bellisario and Spencer Hastings. I briefly went to her profile and on one photo there were comments like “you a lil hoe for kissing caleb”, “i cant believe u and caleb kiss!!!!”, “how could u do that to hanna?!”, “you’re a slut!!!”. 

SHE IS NOT HER CHARACTER.

Troian ≠ Spencer.     Tyler ≠ Caleb.

Troian didn’t kiss Caleb. Tyler didn’t hook up with Spencer. Spencer kissed Caleb. Caleb hooked up with Spencer. They are very different things. And chances are, if you follow them on instagram, you know their real names. Troian has been very open about people who see her on the street or somewhere and call her Spencer because THAT IS NOT HER NAME. SHE IS NOT SPENCER HASTINGS. 

It’s okay to comment things such as, “wow that’s so weird, spencer and caleb made out!!”, “what do you think of spencer kissing caleb?”, “it must be fun to get to work with tyler more!”, “i love you, but i definitely can’t get behind spaleb, i hope that’s okay! i still love you as an actress though <3”

Things that are not okay include comments like, “i hate you i can’t believe you did this”, “you’re trash for hooking up with your friends ex”, “i can’t believe you don’t respect us fans”  – anything you wouldn’t say to her in person is probably not okay.

Why should Troian – or anybody – respect you if you don’t respect them? Respect isn’t something you automatically have. Respect is earned by being a decent person. 

We’re lucky to have social media.  We now have an open invitation to most celebrities lives. So don’t fucking blow it. Don’t take it for granted.

1.       Timeline inconsistencies. Timeline inconsistencies. Timeline inconsistencies.

2.       We left the PLL moms in the basement for the five years? Poor moms!

3.       Mona, Spencer, Emily, Hanna and Aria and their respective families, after CeCe stole the game from Mona and became “Big A”, are actually irrelevant and faced pointless torment and trauma for the past years over something they had no control over whatsoever.  

4.       Marlene, how do you explain that Alison and Toby had a scene with Marion, but CeCe was a child when we saw Bethany push Marion off the roof? When Marion was killed, according to the logic in “Game Over, Charles”, Toby and Alison would have had to have been children as well. However, we have a flashback of an alive Marion with Toby and Alison in their mid-teens? So, is Marion a supernatural being? Is Marion a time traveler? What a joke.

5.       In the 6A finale, CeCe claims that she needed to know that Alison was alive and the only way to do that is to lure her out of hiding. However, CeCe already knew that Alison was alive. CeCe was one of Alison’s helpers when she was hiding. Hmm, okay…

6.       CeCe was Rosewood High School Prom Queen, in Drama and in the Debate Club, but she never attended the school? How does that work? Yes, you tried to explain that in the finale, but it was weak—at best.

7.       Incest. CeCe knowingly dated her brother? Wonderful. According to the finale, she didn’t do “anything wrong”, but the idea of someone knowingly dating her brother is just appalling.

8.       Also, congratulations to Jason on dating not one, but two of his four sisters. Big “kudos” there, buddy.

9.       CeCe was able to complete gender reassignment with no problem at a mental institution – apparently.

10.   The idea that a mental institution would allow one of its patients “in-and-out” access is ridiculous. So, you’re going to tell me that a mental institution knowingly let one of its patients spend a whole summer on vacation. Wonderful!

11.   Radley Sanatorium gives out day passes so its patients can go and come as they please to attend funerals and the university? Awesome.  

12.   The idea that a mental institution would allow three of its patients access to a rooftop unsupervised. Another wonderful idea.

13.   Charles or Charlotte/CeCe should be five years older than Bethany, but in the rooftop scene between CeCe, Bethany and later Marion, Bethany looks older or even the exact same age as CeCe.

14.   The escalation of the argument between Marion and Bethany was unbelievably fast. Also, the lack of explanation for why Bethany killed Marion.

15.   Wren gave CeCe a visitor’s pass to visit Mona at Radley. However, CeCe was already a patient when Mona became a patient. CeCe would have had no need for a visitor’s pass if she was a patient. Even then, someone visiting an unstable patient at a mental institution seems unlikely.

16.   Also, Wren was almost suspended for letting CeCe into Radley when CeCe was already a patient at Radley? Great work there.

17.   We were told that CeCe got kicked out of UPenn because of Alison. That was a lie. She got herself kicked out when she hit Alison in the head.

18.   CeCe supposedly snuck into Radley and pretended to be Alison, but CeCe already lived there? Wouldn’t the staff recognize one of their own patients? No? Okay, that makes total sense.

19.   Also, why would Jessica be angry that she got a call from Radley because her daughter was “sitting in Radley” and it turned out to be CeCe Drake? CeCe is her daughter. Her daughter was already in Radley. Shouldn’t she have known that? Why would have Jessica been angry that her daughter was where she was supposed to be?  

20.   The poor excuse how CeCe had the income to be “A” in the first place.

21.   Wilden changed the report for Marion’s death to protect CeCe. However, how does that logic work? If Wilden was only a couple years older than or roughly the same age as CeCe, then he would have had to have been a kid when the crime took place. Unless Wilden is a vampire or has been the same age his whole life, he couldn’t have been a police officer when the crime took place.

22.   Sara as both Red Coat #3 and Black Veil. Are you serious? What motive did Sara have to join CeCe’s revenge? You’re telling me that a stranger ran away to join another stranger’s revenge against five other strangers. Makes sense.

23.   Ian killed himself, according to a recent interview with Marlene. Why would Ian have killed himself? Wasn’t Melissa on her way to help Ian? Doesn’t add up.

24.   In episode 19 of season 3, Jason claims he saw CeCe speaking with Melissa “that night”. Okay, yes, Jason was drugged that night, but… In the season 6A finale, CeCe claims that Bethany stole her clothes and snuck out of Radley. Alison calls her out and says that Emily was told by Jason he thought he saw CeCe wearing the infamous yellow top that night. CeCe claims that he must have seen Bethany or Alison that night because “he didn’t see me”. Yet, also in season three, CeCe says to Emily that she WAS there that night because Alison called her. Alison was freaking out because everyone wanted the N.A.T. videos, specifically Melissa. CeCe said she was talking to Melissa that night and Melissa begged her to talk to Alison. So, what is it? Were you there or not, CeCe? If what CeCe says is true and Melissa was actually talking to Bethany, that makes zero sense. What would Melissa have had to discuss with Bethany? Bethany and Melissa never even met. YEP. This makes so much sense Marlene.

25.   When Spencer was recalling the night she met Charles/Charlotte/CeCe, she said that there was something “really familiar” about Charles. Can someone explain to me how CeCe would be familiar to Spencer if they weren’t even close or even friends? They were acquaintances at best.  

26.   The “stand-in” that they used in place of CeCe at the dollhouse was bigger and taller than Spencer. Spencer is clearly taller than CeCe.

27.   Alison became a teacher at Rosewood High within five years. Let’s remember that Alison missed most of high school because she was “missing” or “dead”. Seems legit.

28.   At the fake prom in the dollhouse, CeCe yearned to be Prom king with “Ali” a.k.a Mona as her queen. That’s strange for someone who identifies as a female.

29.   If CeCe wanted to be a woman so badly, why did she dress-up as a man in the dollhouse?

30.   We were promised a “gender reveal” in the season 5 finale. “A” was presented as a man in the episode, and not a transgender woman.

I could post a long message about my thoughts on the finale, and I may still do that, but it’s late so I’m keeping this short. 

My opinion on Cece being A:

Doesn’t make perfect sense, but we all suspected it at one point or another (come on, her initials are the same as Charles) and tons of us theorized about the transgender theory. It’s not totally surprising. But I don’t get why she chose to date Jason to get close to the family. She could’ve just befriended Ali, who was the one that she really wanted to be close to. That way she wouldn’t have had to make out with her brother.

Cece’s motive also was pretty shaky. She hated the liars because they were happy that Ali was gone?? All of Rosewood was happy to see her gone, not just the liars. Cece knew Paige. I’m sure Paige was glad to see Ali gone. Why wasn’t Paige targeted too? Jenna and Toby hated Ali too.

How did she have access to all of the medical supplies and cadavers that she used? Was she working with Wren, and if so, why wasn’t it mentioned?

Why was there a visitor’s badge at Radley found by Spencer saying that Cece Drake was authorized by Wren to visit Mona? Did he lie when he said that Melissa suggested that Cece visit Mona?

When did she stop being a patient at Radley? How did she get out of there to parade around town and have a job at a boutique after killing Ali?

My opinion on red coat/black widow:

I’m furious about this. Sara Harvey?? When they introduced those characters, we had no clue who Sara Harvey was. They could’ve done so many amazing things with it and instead they did this. They said we’d have no questions after the finale, but I have no clue how the Sara thing happened. Was she ever kidnapped? Why did she work for Cece? SO CONFUSING!

A few more loose thoughts:

Overall props to Vanessa Ray on the acting, particularly the scene when she realizes that she killed Ali and not Bethany. 

I’m upset that they didn’t integrate the other characters like Melissa, Wren, Jenna, Noel (what was his secret that made him help Ali?) etc. What about Maya? 

Marlene just said in an interview that Jenna knew that Ali was alive which is why Cece targeted her. Why didn’t they talk about this? How did she know?

They said that someone who we thought was dead wouldn’t be dead. That was a lie. But then again they also said that they wouldn’t do the transgender storyline and then they did.