Pretty Little Pilot
I am re-watching the pilot episode of Pretty Little Liars and realized that the first ten minutes of the series completely surround ARIA.
The girls are hanging out in the barn when they hear a loud bang. They go investigate and it turns out to be Alison just messing with them; they all sit back down.
Alison hands only ARIA a drink. Spencer says, “Don’t drink too much ARIA, or you’ll tell us all your secrets.”
Alison says “Secrets keep us close,” and tells ARIA to drink up. You can see Pigtunia in the background.
The girls (minus Spencer and Alison) are shown sleeping. ARIA wakes up first. She wakes the other girls. They see Spencer walking back into the barn and ask her where Ali is.
Spencer says, “She’s gone, I looked everywhere for her. I think I heard her scream.” The music gets dramatic and the camera zooms in on ARIA’s face.
*Cut to 1 year later*
The front of ARIA’s house is shown.
ARIA is standing in front of a MIRROR, cocking her head to the side (exactly like the photo Bethany drew in Radley).
We find out the Montgomery’s spent the last year in Iceland. Ella asks Aria to bring Mike to lacrosse practice.
As she is walking out of the house, Byron asks if she is okay. She replies that she is still keeping his secret (that he had an affair with Meredith). He says he meant if she was okay about Alison, she just walks away without answering him.
Aria drops Mike off at practice. The car clock shows that it is 4:15pm. Mike says practice ends at 6pm, and Aria says she is going to go grab some food.
She looks down at her phone, but decides not to make a call.
Aria is sitting at Hollis Bar and Grill.
It looks like she just arrived. She asks the bartender for a cheeseburger. The bar clock shows that it is 5:03pm. What did she do for the last 45 minutes??
She looks at the caulk board and there is a missing poster of Alison, but I noticed that behind it there is a note and you can see the word hoddie written, which is interesting because a black hoodie is A’s favorite get-up.
Ezra is sitting next to her. They talk about traveling, he says he is about to start his first teaching job.
Aria says she loves the song that’s playing, Ezra replies, yeah B26.
He asks what her major is, she hesitates but says she is leaning towards English, and he says that’s what he’s teaching.
Aria: I write too, but it’s mostly personal, just for me.
Ezra: I’m impressed, I tried writing, I didn’t get very far. You’re lucky, if your writing for yourself, it’s true passion. Maybe you’d let me read some of yours. Aria: You’d really want to?
Ezra: Yeah, you’re smart, you’ve traveled, you have great taste in music, I’d like to know more about you.
This conversation reveals a lot considering what we know now. Ezra had a thing for Ali, which he broke off that night when he found out her age. He proceeded to get close to Aria to get information on Alison. Something I never understood was why Ezra wouldn’t date Ali when she was 15, but is perfectly fine dating 16 year old Aria?…
The show cuts to them making out in the bathroom
Then the theme song comes on, and ARIA does the Shhh!
They spent the very first 10 minutes of the show all on ARIA.
It seems like the writers were making ARIA the main character. WHY?!
Because she is related to the plot in a huge way!?!?? I HOPE SO!
I think he justified ARIA over Alison because he is Charles. He hid under the truth of Alison’s age, because she had no idea about Charles even existing.
When he was writing his book, he was writing about the family he never knew. I think that’s why Alison’s line in that scene, “If you write the book, at least spell my name right,” is so crucial. Because it’s his family.
That would explain all of the investigative equipment, kinda. Idk I still think Ezra is A (or ARIA).
