BURNING questions after 7x11
So Friends,
Kate here <3
Gavin and I re-watched the first episode of 7B last night, hit the theories boards and discussed our findings out at dinner (to, Iām sure, the delight of our surrounding patronsā¦ part of me hopes they think we were talking about real people and thereforeĀ lead very mysterious and exciting lives!)
Intriguing other diners aside, here are my burning questions:
-Ā If Mary Drake was locked away in Radley for all those years, how and why was she casually chillin in a restaurant (presumably alone) when Peter Hastings walked in, assumed she was Jessica and had his way with her? I mean, she HAD to be in there alone, right? If she was with a nurse from Radley they would have been all āNo no, Peter, put your dick away, this here is Jessicaās crazy twinā. Was she vintage Radleyās Mona - skilled at sneaking out and then back in? OR is this another lie and Ron-Ron (my name for Veronica Hastings) stupidly believed that Mary Drake and Peter bumped into each other in a restaurant and, again presumably, had a quickie in the bathroom? Oh, well they were both married (since he thought she was Jessica and Jessica was married to Kenny D) so I guess the bathroom quickie partĀ makes senseā¦ Still - this seems suspicious to me to say the least! HOW AND WHY WAS SHE IN THERE ALONE!?
- WHERE IS MELISSA!? What does she know!? How has this NEVER come up between her and Spencer?! I know she would have been young but I was 4 when my brother was born and I remember the whole lead-up to a new baby joining the familyā¦ Melissa is smart and sheās old enough to get married and knocked up when Spencer is a junior in High School (season 1)ā¦ Iām not sure they ever give an exact age difference, but if Iām not mistaken sheās out of college when she bring Wren home in season 1ā¦ so sheās around 5 years older than Spencer. She would remember a rando baby showing up one day, wouldnāt she?! How did the Hastings explain this to her?! āOhh heyyy Melissa, this is your new baby sister, Spencer. Yeah, we KNOW Mommy didnāt look pregnant but one day a baby just fell out!ā Now I want to re-watch all of Spencer and Melissaās interactions and see if there are any hints or clues that Melissa knows Spencer isnāt Ron-Ronās kidā¦
- This is not a question I have following 7x11 but its a question I have after searching for theories post 7x11 re-watch: WHY IN HANNAāS DREAM WHILE BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY AD DOES āDREAM SPENCERā NOT HAVE BANGS!?!? There is a LOT of āSpencer has a twinā theories floating around and I seriously called bullshit on each and every facetā¦. until this whole bangs business came up. High School Spencer had no bangs. Post-time-jump Spencer has bangs. These are facts. While I wrote this off as a hair-and-makeup decision (since all the PLLs have come out of the time-jump looking different ā especially Ali and her air of soccer-mom) (oh wait, Emily is still dressed in as much sporting wear as possible to remind us sheās Rosewoodās #1 lesbian), a theory I read on the wiki-board yesterday uses Spencerās lack of forehead warmers as evidence suggesting she may indeed have a twin. Letās fondly remember the sceneā¦ My fav chica Hanna got poached by AD when the whole Scooby Gang tried to outsmart him/her, offering up Hanna as āCharlotteās killerā. AD fakes them all out by leading them to the bell tower where that freakily realistic Hanna-dummy is hanging (they realize its a mask, if you remember). Then we see Hanna held in a shack, practically naked, being tortured with water and cattle prods (BREAK MY LITTLE HEART!) While being tortured, Hanna has (what we believe is) a dream or hallucination of Spencer being in the shack with her. This Spencer is, letās face it, rather weirdā¦ which did lead me to believe it was a dream anyway. Spencer also gives Hanna that little mental boost that helps her escape and later on, Hanna relays this to Spencer. What I failed to see (cause apparently my observation powers arenāt as keen as I would like!) is that this ādreamā Spencer DOES NOT HAVE BANGS. Nothing on this show is accidentalā¦ and its not like Troian woke up one day and was all āOops, my bangs grew outā and the hair people were all āWell, its cool, let your forehead be free!ā This is clearly deliberate. Yes, yes I KNOW this could just symbolize Hanna recalling the Spencer that taught her all she knows - High School, bangs-less Spencer - BUT IF THAT IS THE CASE HOW DID DREAM SPENCER AND HANNA DISCUSS AD WHEN THOSE INITIALS WERE ONLY FIRST USED AFTER HANNA WAS POACHED!?!? This is making me crazyā¦
- Who can we completely and totally rule out?! Wellllll, letās think. Yes, AD could be a main character and have minions but I believe whoever poached Jenna at the end of the last episode and dragged her into a van and threw off their mask is the actual and total AD so if THAT is the case, who can we rule out? (Thatās a better place to start, in my opinion, than ruling people in). We can rule out the main PLLs as they were all there and accounted for andĀ then all at the hospital immediately following the Spencer shooting. We can rule out Mary Drake as she was rocking Spencer and revealing the shock that she is Spencerās mother (a revelation that, I want to point out, caused Gavin to jump off the couch, scream, whip off his shirt and go running and screaming around my houseā¦) Jenna was dragged off while this was happening so we know its not any of them. Its not Noel (heh) since thatās a death you canāt recover from. We know its not Ostinato (how I refer to Ezra) since we saw him on tv in the jungle hugging his presumed-dead-girlfriend. We know its not Jenna. Its unlikely to be Caleb or Mona as they were at the Radley, being duped by irrelevant-until-one-needs-a-Jenna-lookalike (or seeing-eye-dog) Sydney. There is always the possibility that was not as simultaneous as we are lead to believe, so Iām not putting them in the DEFINITELY NOT column but its unlikely. Chime in if Iām forgetting to rule someone definitely outā¦. (Iām only ruling out peeps who are officially dead and for whose whereabouts we can confirm at the time Jenna was carted off and shoved in a van by someone in a maskā¦)
-What was, in fact, Noel and Jennaās issue? What did the PLLās āknowā?Ā None of us know too muchā¦. They arenāt AD so what was their issue or motive? They know ABOUT AD since at the end of the last episodeĀ Jenna blindly feels around at that rubber mask and says āYouāre ADā. And now, its over a week later and Jenna is still being held captive (anyone else get MAJOR doll house vibes from the way she drank her tea in a panic? In a pretty china cup, no less?) But she had that SHIT EATING GRIN on her fucking face when reading the Braille and whispering āendgameāā¦ after someone in scrubs and medical gloves took her tea and handed her that binderā¦ WHY would someone want to keep Jenna captive for over a week? And then share secrets with her? I mean, clearly she hates the PLLs and we now know she was friends with Charlotte and knew about Archer Dunhill/Rollinsā¦ who is ALSO a British ādoctorā (Wren! Wren! Wrennnnnnn!) Could Noel and Jenna have been minion-ing for AD without knowing who they are? Like a nouveau Red Coat situation?
- WHO IS THIS MONSTER!?!!!?!?!?!!
Someone other than the millions of PLL voices in my head please chime in and throw some addition perspectives our way!
Kisses, -K
