PLL, whyyyyy
May. 30th, 2017 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI finally caught up on last week's PLL. I meant to do so earlier but you have to be in the right mood, I guess. And um... it was...
Weird? At this point we're pretty much in filler territory without it technically being filler since I think we're supposed to be able to look back and go OHHHHH, I GET IT when the finale happens. But as it is, having Lucas know Charles and have made a comic book together as kids (?) and Mona getting to see the game are the big reveals and oh, yeah, Spencer fucked up royally and is likely going down for the using Rollins' card when she first hooked up with the cop is still kinda meh as it happens.
Those are all sorta interesting moments in their own way (Mona's most interesting because she remains amazing and she's just so over the top and I love her) and I think Lucas is the next most interesting for me because I'm one of the three people who actually cares about him. But he's not gonna be AD because we're five episodes from the end and having everyone at 85% sure he is means he won't be. I'm torn on this, btw. I spent literally every other season he was in praying he'd stay good and not be involved in things (and for the most part he was only involved superficially. Enough to make him want to leave town but not enough to be considered a bad guy) but at this point I would've cackled long and hard if he'd turned out to be AD. I can't tell if it's just seven seasons of this insanity has finally broken me and I don't care anymore, or if it would just be interesting to have him come from the C-list and have been the evil mastermind all along... or however long AD's been doing things.
And none of this really matters because like I said, it's too soon for AD to be revealed, so I'll just sit here and want to protect Lucas. I think I said this before in one of my ancient PLL recaps, but I love the fact that Hanna's basically the only one with friends outside of the group. Seriously, she's got Lucas and Mona and while you could argue that both are (not so) kinda in love with her, she's still miles away from the others.
My main sticking point with this episode, and this part of the season so far, is the Ali/Emily storyline. It's awful. The kind of awful where you just cock your head to the side and think, "really? This is what we're doing now?" and before you know it, you've said it aloud.
To get the full effect of the WTF, I'll give you a little background. Emily has been in love with Ali since forever. Ali has used this to her advantage for pretty much the entire time they've known each other, though you could argue that after the time jump (when the show skipped over the college years by going five years into the future) she's been doing so unintentionally. Emily and Paige were probably the other other really big 'ship Emily's been apart of, so of course they brought Paige back to town and were setting them up to be a couple again because sure, why not. Also, we never really got closure on the E/P thing to begin with.
To make money, Em sold her eggs and our big bad A stole them. Probably. It was a plot thing that kind of gave way as so many do when something bigger came along. Ali winds up pregnant, thinks at first it's her deceased psycho husband's kid because duh, but nooooo. While in the looney bin she underwent a procedure that involved Emily's egg and an unknown sperm donor and now she's pregnant with Emily's baby!
Which is WTF enough already, k? Every bit of this storyline is WTF and yet...
When Ali thought it was just psycho husband's, she wanted an abortion. But when she found out it was Emily's baby, suddenly she's asking Em what she thinks and Em waffles and then eventually says she wants Ali to have the baby.
The.
Fuck.
WHAT.
The ONLY way this would work as not painfully WTF is if they'd mentioned that Emily couldn't have kids due to some fuckup somewhere. They have not. People have rewatched very carefully to make sure that's not been a throwaway line or anything. Nope. Em. My love. If you and Ali are being launched as end game (ugh, no, why, this is awful. It's pretty much one of the only ships I can't get behind as even a crack pairing and normally I am capable of shipping all sorts of madness!) and there's no medical reason that this has to be the baby... At no point was this consensual. Why. WHY. WHY is no one pointing this out on the goddamned show? Why is this being presented like the bestest thing ever? Seriously, wtf! What the actual goddamned fuck?
Over in Aria land, she's landed on the A Team because she wants out of the game and A-Whoever is using her to get intel from the Liars' side and it's just bad all around. Nyargh. Also, Phone!Aria is totally Sydney's voice and I can't with anyone else not getting that. I'm not saying Sydney is supposed to be AD because that makes no sense at all, I'm just saying the actress is clearly the one supplying the lines.
Annnnnnd finally, I think the general consensus is that the final Spencer scene with Wren is that it wasn't Spencer and Spencer has a twin. Sure, why not.
Sooooooo overall this episode had stuff going for it, but it felt like filler and needed more Mona. Or less Aria being backstabby and then grumpy about Ezra. OR... 1000% less creepy baby storyline.
If you read that, I thank you for joining me in the land of wtf.
Weird? At this point we're pretty much in filler territory without it technically being filler since I think we're supposed to be able to look back and go OHHHHH, I GET IT when the finale happens. But as it is, having Lucas know Charles and have made a comic book together as kids (?) and Mona getting to see the game are the big reveals and oh, yeah, Spencer fucked up royally and is likely going down for the using Rollins' card when she first hooked up with the cop is still kinda meh as it happens.
Those are all sorta interesting moments in their own way (Mona's most interesting because she remains amazing and she's just so over the top and I love her) and I think Lucas is the next most interesting for me because I'm one of the three people who actually cares about him. But he's not gonna be AD because we're five episodes from the end and having everyone at 85% sure he is means he won't be. I'm torn on this, btw. I spent literally every other season he was in praying he'd stay good and not be involved in things (and for the most part he was only involved superficially. Enough to make him want to leave town but not enough to be considered a bad guy) but at this point I would've cackled long and hard if he'd turned out to be AD. I can't tell if it's just seven seasons of this insanity has finally broken me and I don't care anymore, or if it would just be interesting to have him come from the C-list and have been the evil mastermind all along... or however long AD's been doing things.
And none of this really matters because like I said, it's too soon for AD to be revealed, so I'll just sit here and want to protect Lucas. I think I said this before in one of my ancient PLL recaps, but I love the fact that Hanna's basically the only one with friends outside of the group. Seriously, she's got Lucas and Mona and while you could argue that both are (not so) kinda in love with her, she's still miles away from the others.
My main sticking point with this episode, and this part of the season so far, is the Ali/Emily storyline. It's awful. The kind of awful where you just cock your head to the side and think, "really? This is what we're doing now?" and before you know it, you've said it aloud.
To get the full effect of the WTF, I'll give you a little background. Emily has been in love with Ali since forever. Ali has used this to her advantage for pretty much the entire time they've known each other, though you could argue that after the time jump (when the show skipped over the college years by going five years into the future) she's been doing so unintentionally. Emily and Paige were probably the other other really big 'ship Emily's been apart of, so of course they brought Paige back to town and were setting them up to be a couple again because sure, why not. Also, we never really got closure on the E/P thing to begin with.
To make money, Em sold her eggs and our big bad A stole them. Probably. It was a plot thing that kind of gave way as so many do when something bigger came along. Ali winds up pregnant, thinks at first it's her deceased psycho husband's kid because duh, but nooooo. While in the looney bin she underwent a procedure that involved Emily's egg and an unknown sperm donor and now she's pregnant with Emily's baby!
Which is WTF enough already, k? Every bit of this storyline is WTF and yet...
When Ali thought it was just psycho husband's, she wanted an abortion. But when she found out it was Emily's baby, suddenly she's asking Em what she thinks and Em waffles and then eventually says she wants Ali to have the baby.
The.
Fuck.
WHAT.
The ONLY way this would work as not painfully WTF is if they'd mentioned that Emily couldn't have kids due to some fuckup somewhere. They have not. People have rewatched very carefully to make sure that's not been a throwaway line or anything. Nope. Em. My love. If you and Ali are being launched as end game (ugh, no, why, this is awful. It's pretty much one of the only ships I can't get behind as even a crack pairing and normally I am capable of shipping all sorts of madness!) and there's no medical reason that this has to be the baby... At no point was this consensual. Why. WHY. WHY is no one pointing this out on the goddamned show? Why is this being presented like the bestest thing ever? Seriously, wtf! What the actual goddamned fuck?
Over in Aria land, she's landed on the A Team because she wants out of the game and A-Whoever is using her to get intel from the Liars' side and it's just bad all around. Nyargh. Also, Phone!Aria is totally Sydney's voice and I can't with anyone else not getting that. I'm not saying Sydney is supposed to be AD because that makes no sense at all, I'm just saying the actress is clearly the one supplying the lines.
Annnnnnd finally, I think the general consensus is that the final Spencer scene with Wren is that it wasn't Spencer and Spencer has a twin. Sure, why not.
Sooooooo overall this episode had stuff going for it, but it felt like filler and needed more Mona. Or less Aria being backstabby and then grumpy about Ezra. OR... 1000% less creepy baby storyline.
If you read that, I thank you for joining me in the land of wtf.
