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Who kissed who?!

Just my thoughts obviously but I really wish they'd have explored the issue more instead of it being a throwaway comment that was covered so quickly

~Pretty Little Liars #13: Crushed by Sara Shepard

Okay gotta get this off my chest because people threatening Marlene and the actors are really starting to get on my nerves First off as was seen through the cast's posts on social media and snapchats etc etc TV episodes are filmed MONTHS before they air. And unlike movies TV shows don't get reshoots most of the time because after the pilot/first season they don't go to focus groups before the public the way movies do. So at no point ever had the story been changed due to a spoiler leaking no matter what is written on online. As for missing actors unfortunately that happens sometimes. Actors get contracts for other projects they agree to schedules and they can't get out of it. It sucks but it's an unfortunate truth of filming and theatre as a whole. Second off the CeCe reveal: it made a lot of sense as a mix of the direction the show went and the books. The books contained a neglected misunderstood DiLaurentis sibling being sent off to Radley which caused them to have bitter and angry feelings toward the family. This causes them to take over the game from Mona when her time as A ends (though Mona meets very different fates). The hurt sibling (who for clarity I will simply refer to as C as that is the common initial) returns to rosewood under a new name and manipulate their way into the Liars narrative. Later on C reveals themselves right before almost killing themselves and liars in an explosion. Back before the C reveal Marlene said that the twin theory was not off the table (as is now clear with Twincer). Someone who no doubt read the books snatched up the twin theory with C and Ali and the fandom ran with it on the internet. For CeCe specifically the switch from Charles to Charlotte and then choosing the name CeCe Drake is very understandable. If she was trans in a mental hospital she would have been given the hormones required to transition. Hollywood as a whole tends to make the casting decision to have some characters played by the gender the character had transitioned to so that it is a bigger more dramatic reveal (Law and Order SVU, Nip/Tuck and many others have done this as well I'm not saying I agree with this practice but that is a post for another day). Clues for CeCe's reveal were all over. Take Ravenswood: the mime Charlemange the Great. Charlemagne was a girls name until Prince Charles the Great of Germany was crowned king and took on the name making it male. Charlotte is a name derived from Charles. Also we saw CeCe getting up to some A antics long before the reveal (listening to Ezra and Aria in Ezra's apartment in a black hoodie). She references dolls all throughout her periods on the show and Melissa says no one is quite sure where CeCe came from. In Game Over Charles it was revealed that CeCe was allowed to go to UPenn the school Ali later got her kicked out of. Well if she (CeCe) had been blamed for Mrs. Cavanaugh's death the school would have no reason to doubt her pushing girl down the stairs. CeCe was the only one with an Ali mask besides A which was another clue. As for those who called her an "irrelevant character" at the time of the reveal she had been in 13 episodes. Wren had only been in 20 at the time. That is a 7 episode different making Wren just as irrelevant as her. The neglected CeCe made the most sense. Neglect mixed with obvious an dissociative disorder ("No one died did they?" - CeCe in "Game Over Charles") and other mental health issues (Note: being trans is not a mental illness) added to the obsession with her family would lead to these actions. Add in CeCe's talent for math and stats she made the most sense. Her escaping to England leads in to: The AD storyline: First off on the whole twin thing it actually makes a lot of sense that Jessica or Mary would give birth to twins being twins themselves. Twins or the children of twins have a 50-75% increase in the chance of becoming pregnant with twins. So Spencer being a twin makes sense. Secondly: Alex would have lived her live happily and never bothered the Liars if Wren hadn't found her. Then she learned that if she had just been the first born twin she could have had a wonderful (to her) life with parents and a sister and friends who loved her no matter what instead of being abandoned over and over. That kind of universal randomness can really screw with some people's heads, you see that after random acts of violence etc. Then Alex got what she wanted: a family. She had a family in Archer, Wren, and CeCe. Then Charlotte got sucked back into the game she lost her. When they caught CeCe she lost her for good then Mona killed her. She lost Archer when CeCe was put away. Later on she loses Wren because he begins to realize how screw up this is (your girlfriend asking you to shoot her so that she can pretend to be her identical twin to torture the twin and her friends can do that to a person). Alex was taken over by anger. She had a break with reality and believed she could really become Spencer (the whole twin thing makes me think Alex may have had borderline personality disorder which can cause inappropriately close relationships with friends, abandonment issues, lashing out and the want to be someone else specifically). Then we learned all the weird shit Spencer had done this season wasn't Spencer at all. It wasn't bad writing we just weren't looking deeply enough. And the way Toby figured it out is actually very smart. Horses are animals who can sense energy like no other. Horses become used to the energy one exerts and it doesn't matter if you look like the person they are used to (because horses have shit eyesight and it gets worse the closer you get to them) if you don't have the exact same energy they will spook (I have some experience with this my best friend is an identical twin. He is very comfortable around horses but his brother is not. The horses get spooked when the uncomfortable one comes near them and tries to touch them but relax when the comfortable tries). Horses are prey animals so their default setting is nervous and they are very aware of their surroundings. Add in the book he had seen Spencer writing in not having notes and there you go. (For those saying "it wasn't her vagina either" that's not how that works at all). And they showed that Mona was always Mona. She was obsessed with the game so she found a way to keep it going with her beau "arresting" them and setting up a new doll house Last part of my rant: The ships Can't we just be happy all the wanted loved ships sailed? Like come on how often does that happen? I never thought Emison would happen because Ali had been so manipulative to Emily throughout the series. Ezaria: Listen I have a unfortunate history with predatory relationships. Age, status etc etc doesn't immediately make the relationship predatory. Should Ezra have dated Aria while she was his student? No. But just because he did does not make him immediately a predator. Yes he made a stupid choice with the book but so has LITERALLY EVERY OTHER CHARACTER. Pretty Little Liars exists because they don't think their actions through they think it'll all be okay or they act when they are scared. As for the pregnancy thing: Some times unfortunately that is a real deal breaker and people break off engagements for it. So of course Aria was scared and guys don't always understand what goes through a woman's head when they find that out. A lot of women don't understand either. It's a complex personal thing. In the end Aria decided she could look past the book thing. Ezra decided he could look past the times she had lied too and they got married. It's fine. I think they tied up a lot of loose ends very nicely. We had all our questions answered even if you didn't like the answers they were there so it's all fine. Okay rant over.

Before i end this i just want to say thank you to all the cast, producers, and everyone that took apart in the show and made this completely and beautifully amazing. This show will go down with me forever. Thank you.