PLL Roundup, unmAsked
Mar. 19th, 2012 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyOhmygod. OHMYGOD, why do none of you watch Pretty Little Liars so we can sit around and gossip and tonight we could hyperventilate about the season finale and how unfair it is that they hyped it to hell and back and then went and immediately threw a curveball?!
Seriously. If you want to watch this show and have any sense of the same tear-your-hair out every week freakouts that accompany this, turn back because I'm talking serious effing spoilers.
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Heh, remember when that was a thing just about everywhere? God, I feel old... Anyway. "A" Day finally arrived and A was revealed! Only not. Which is probably where a lot of disgruntled fans come in. Only...let's start at the beginning. Book!A is initially Mona, who finds Ali's diary when Maya's family throws all of Ali's stuff away. Then later you find out Ali had a twin sister named Courtney and she... well, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax and it infuriated me because there was no WHY. But yeah, she's the 'new' A. I haven't read anything beyond that one because it pissed me off so badly.
TV!PLL goes on and on about how TV!A isn't Book!A. Now, this is a smart thing to do because it keeps people from expecting Mona to be A. Thing is, when you reach the episode in which you unmask Mona as A? You piss people off because you lied to them repeatedly.
Or wait! Did you? Mona takes the fall as A, but in the last few moments of the episode, someone visits her in the looney bin and she tells them she did what they asked her to do. Um, yeah. That means you lied to us but in a different way. Instead of letting us assume that someone else came along and appointed themselves A (probably the person dressed as the Black Swan at the party) you... lied to us because you said A would be revealed. Not that the Liars would assume that A had been.
That's what pisses me off. I didn't expect A to really be revealed because hello, they have another season at least and hopefully more. But I didn't expect them to immediately expose their lie either, y'know?
I really think they expected Maya's death to off-set this. Only... it really didn't. I think it was really well done how they bookended that scene with the one where Maya tells Emily they found Ali's body, but I also knew Maya was dead and I don't read spoilers and book!Maya doesn't die. She went MIA and never seemed to really speak to Emily and that didn't really fit in with Maya. Suspicious!
Now, before I sound too negative, let's go back to the good stuff.
Lucas appeared! Sadly, he appeared in a circle of the A-Team with Jenna and the mystery person. But he's back so maybe they'll play him more next season! Or maybe he's not really a bad guy and is being blackmailed/threatened! Let me cling to this one little thing, ok? I love him and while I have no grounds to hope for this, I'm going to all the same.
Toby and Spencer are back! :D :D
The thing I liked best about book!Mona being A was how it ripped Hanna to shreds... and that makes me sound awful, but the books needed a dose of realism at times, ok? The way Hanna completely crumbled was just so snifflie-making!
I really loved how when Mona's flashback aired, it looked nothing like the Liars flashbacks and that's because it wasn't real. Loved that twist. I loved Hanna's mask at the ball and how Em went as Hanna's date but drew the line at dressing as Romeo. I loved the way Emily flipped right out at the end and then the way she broke down was painful in a satisfying viewer way.
Melissa is creepy as hell, and while I buy that Garrett became a cop to cover up the truth about Ali's death, I don't think he was A or the only one responsible for her death. (I do wonder what made Jenna turn him in though.)
Dr. Sullivan's explanation for why she stayed away bugged me until I thought of something; maybe Garrett (or, I guess possibly Wilden although I think he's a semi-good guy with questionable ethics as far as Hanna's mom is concerned) threatened her. A high school girl threatens you? No real big. A cop does? A bit harder to shake the paranoia.
Overall, a good episode (not the best) that seriously suffered under the strain of being touted as this big, amazing episode that would finally answer the A question. Only it didn't and people on both sides (those that realized it didn't and those that did) are pissed.
Join the A-Team.
Seriously. If you want to watch this show and have any sense of the same tear-your-hair out every week freakouts that accompany this, turn back because I'm talking serious effing spoilers.
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c
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Heh, remember when that was a thing just about everywhere? God, I feel old... Anyway. "A" Day finally arrived and A was revealed! Only not. Which is probably where a lot of disgruntled fans come in. Only...let's start at the beginning. Book!A is initially Mona, who finds Ali's diary when Maya's family throws all of Ali's stuff away. Then later you find out Ali had a twin sister named Courtney and she... well, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax and it infuriated me because there was no WHY. But yeah, she's the 'new' A. I haven't read anything beyond that one because it pissed me off so badly.
TV!PLL goes on and on about how TV!A isn't Book!A. Now, this is a smart thing to do because it keeps people from expecting Mona to be A. Thing is, when you reach the episode in which you unmask Mona as A? You piss people off because you lied to them repeatedly.
Or wait! Did you? Mona takes the fall as A, but in the last few moments of the episode, someone visits her in the looney bin and she tells them she did what they asked her to do. Um, yeah. That means you lied to us but in a different way. Instead of letting us assume that someone else came along and appointed themselves A (probably the person dressed as the Black Swan at the party) you... lied to us because you said A would be revealed. Not that the Liars would assume that A had been.
That's what pisses me off. I didn't expect A to really be revealed because hello, they have another season at least and hopefully more. But I didn't expect them to immediately expose their lie either, y'know?
I really think they expected Maya's death to off-set this. Only... it really didn't. I think it was really well done how they bookended that scene with the one where Maya tells Emily they found Ali's body, but I also knew Maya was dead and I don't read spoilers and book!Maya doesn't die. She went MIA and never seemed to really speak to Emily and that didn't really fit in with Maya. Suspicious!
Now, before I sound too negative, let's go back to the good stuff.
Lucas appeared! Sadly, he appeared in a circle of the A-Team with Jenna and the mystery person. But he's back so maybe they'll play him more next season! Or maybe he's not really a bad guy and is being blackmailed/threatened! Let me cling to this one little thing, ok? I love him and while I have no grounds to hope for this, I'm going to all the same.
Toby and Spencer are back! :D :D
The thing I liked best about book!Mona being A was how it ripped Hanna to shreds... and that makes me sound awful, but the books needed a dose of realism at times, ok? The way Hanna completely crumbled was just so snifflie-making!
I really loved how when Mona's flashback aired, it looked nothing like the Liars flashbacks and that's because it wasn't real. Loved that twist. I loved Hanna's mask at the ball and how Em went as Hanna's date but drew the line at dressing as Romeo. I loved the way Emily flipped right out at the end and then the way she broke down was painful in a satisfying viewer way.
Melissa is creepy as hell, and while I buy that Garrett became a cop to cover up the truth about Ali's death, I don't think he was A or the only one responsible for her death. (I do wonder what made Jenna turn him in though.)
Dr. Sullivan's explanation for why she stayed away bugged me until I thought of something; maybe Garrett (or, I guess possibly Wilden although I think he's a semi-good guy with questionable ethics as far as Hanna's mom is concerned) threatened her. A high school girl threatens you? No real big. A cop does? A bit harder to shake the paranoia.
Overall, a good episode (not the best) that seriously suffered under the strain of being touted as this big, amazing episode that would finally answer the A question. Only it didn't and people on both sides (those that realized it didn't and those that did) are pissed.