Every time I watch pretty little liars, I always question the fact that CeCe knew Hanna shoplifts. Something that started after Alison disappeared. Wouldn't that raise questions of how she knew that? Hint hint, Mona? :)
I agree with you! That scene was always so weird to me, right down to CeCe talking to Aria like she was the one that likes to shoplift. It really does seem like Mona told CeCe about Hanna’s shoplifting. I don’t trust Mona’s story that the game was stolen from her…more like working together if you ask me.
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Sorry we've been absent, pretties, we've both had a lot going on in our lives, but we're ready to dive back in.
First things first: catching up on last week. The 4B premier was... interesting. A mix of good scenes and dubious writing decisions. The cutesy-cutsey carbon copy friend group of the other missing girl seemed really cheap and only served to reveal the other girls as throwaway characters who won't actually matter.
Ezra and Mona's scene was by far the best scene in the episode. What seemed a pretty cheesy line from Ezra in the preview, in context turned out to be both apt and chilling, and a testament to Ian Harding's acting chops. It's refreshing to see Ezra acting like less of a wet blanket and more of an active character.
It is nice to finally see the Kissing Rock in person after three and a half seasons. We've long suspected that part of the Kissing Rock video from season 1 may have in fact been Alison addressing Emily, and this episode's dream sequence brings that possibility back. Of course, the initials on the rock leave some ambiguity--and now we're kicking ourselves for never noticing that Emily and Ezra have the same initials.
Aria sneaking around with Ezra again, while not unforeseeable, is tiresome because it is clearly done for the purpose of A drama instead of the character development it could advance, and it reduces Jake to a throwaway character who exists only to give Aria a new reason to lie to her friends about Ezra.
And, really, that's the major problem with this episode, and this season--the action feels contrived and dragged out more often than not. Emily leaves the bracelet on the rock as though asking for it to show up again somewhere creepy... and it does, in the same episode, demonstrating the increasingly short attention span these writers have for tying up their own loose ends. Hanna's years-ago hookup with Mike comes right out of left field, in an episode that had more than enough Hanna drama to sustain itself.
There's an urn on Spencer's counter for no reason. But do we care? Will that ever come up? Who knows? Rear Window, the first of the three stories in the book Ezra is pretending to read, is a Hitchcock movie about a murderous neighbor--but who cares? Does it mean anything? The way this show has turned, there's about a fifty-fifty shot that any "clue" will ever come up again. After three seasons, it's hard to ignore that, and it limits how invested we can be in any new development.
To end on a positive note, though, one thing these two new episodes have done very well is to show us the effect Alison's return has had on the girls. To some extent we have seen a breakdown in friendships before this, particularly Spencer being secretive and unfairly mean to Emily. But at this point, it's all of them. Their friendship has essentially reverted to season 1: they're bickering, lying, keeping secrets from each to each other, and hypocritically getting angry at each other for every lie and secret despite having a stack of their own. It's clear that Alison's return has done nothing good for the emotional development of any of these girls--and that's how it should be. Their relationship with Ali was not a healthy one, and if Alison has to be alive, at least the girls are reacting appropriately to that.
We were talking after the midseason finale about why we love the idea of at least one of the girls being A. We've seen other fans ask (not to us, but generally), "Why would you want the girls to be bad?"
It's not so much that we want them to be bad. It's that over time we get tired of seeing these girls victimized. We get emotionally attached to them and then watch them be hurt and threatened and terrified and chased in circles, over and over. But what if the show could turn all that on its head? What if the girls were, underneath it all, more in control than we knew?
In the end, we would rather see them strong, even if it means they aren't "good." We would rather see them as villains than victims.
And let's be real here--when were these girls ever "good?" We watched them stand by as Alison tormented others. We've watched them use other people for their own ends. (How quickly fans forget the way Spencer got close to Toby, how she only became interested in him when she herself was being threatened and she believed he could help her.)
Just about everyone on this show has lied at some point, and has used somebody else for their own ends, and the girls are no different, whether or not they're A.
If I was writing the ending of season 1A, I would have the Mayor have killed Regina. He is so sketchy when it comes to Danny's father, Vikram. It seems likely that he knew about the permits that Vikram submitted to the town for his mysterious company, Marna Realty. He is also very set on proving Danny to be Regina's Killer although there is no real evidence to support this (that the audience knows of anyway). He also had little interest in helping out with the case until Vikram's company was mentioned to him by Chief Masterson, then all of a sudden he is calling in a the private detective to help out with the case.
Do you know the name of the song that Toby's mum used to play? I couldn't really read it and I'm wondering if that's somehow relevant. -G
The song is called “Any Time”. It was really hard to find anything about this song actually! :-) It was written in 1921 by a guy named Herbert Happy Lawson and the lyrics go like this:
(ANY TIME)ANY TIME YOU’RE FEELING LONELY,ANY TIME YOU’RE FEELING BLUE.ANY TIME YOU FEEL DOWN HEARTED, THAT WILL PROVE YOUR LOVE FOR ME IS TRUE.ANY TIME YOU’RE THINKING ‘BOUT ME,THAT’S THE TIME I’LL BE THINKING OF YOUSO ANY TIME YOU SAY YOU WANT ME BACK AGAIN,THAT’S THE TIME I’LL COME BACK HOME TO YOU
Thank you so much for this question! I might do a post about it and would love to credit you for bringing it to our attention so if you like, let me know who you are -G! :-)
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(This is not a spoiler, we haven't watched the episode yet!)
I'm concerned that Melissa is the body that's floating.
Seems she would be someone Emily would mistake for Spencer.
She hasn't been on the show much lately. They practically wrote her out anyway and brought her back only to have a serious talk with Spencer where she claims all she wanted to do was protect her.
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