I still don't understand why Cece hated the girls that much, yes they did talk bad about Alison after she was 'dead' but what about before that when Ali got her kicked out of college? What did she think the girls did?
*I know this post seems VERY LONG, but I really think it is worth a read. Please give this a chance before you scroll past and please spread this around before the premiere next week*
OMG Iāve been waiting for someone to ask this. Thank you :))
This is the thing that the majority of the fandom just doesnāt understand. And Iāll admit, at first I didnāt either. On the night of the finale, I literally said to myself when the episode finished āsoooooo, I still donāt get why CeCe hated the liars so much????ā
But then I went and re-watched episodes and with the following information in mind: āCECE DILAURENTIS IS A, SHE ACCIDENTALLY āKILLEDā HER SISTER WHO SHE LOVES, AND CECE WANTS TO BRING HER SISTER HOME ALIVE SAFELYā, literally the whole entire show fell into place for me. Itās really quite brilliant BUT ONLY IF YOU RE-WATCH or you simply wonāt see the pieces fall together.
This needs to be made very clear so Iāll put it in capitals, not because Iām yelling though haha.
CECE DID NOT HAVE ONE SINGULAR MOTIVE THAT CARRIED ACROSS THE SEASONS.
IT IS NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE LIKE THAT.
Everyone needs to stop thinking āwhat did the girls do to CeCe to make her hate them so much?ā and instead be thinking āwhy did CeCe do that?ā
Because majority of the time, the answer as to āwhy did CeCe do that?ā is NOT because CeCe hated the liars. To quote CeCe āI love all of my dolls. Thatās why youāre still aliveā.
āWhy the hell did A hate her sister enough to dig up her own grave?ā WRONG QUESTION to be asking! She loved her sister. CeCe dug up Aliās grave in 3x01 because she had a hunch that Ali is truly alive (CeCe said she was seeing a blonde in a red coat and thought it might be Ali - it was Ali) and thought by digging her grave she may get answers about her sister who she thought she killed.
āWhat did the liars do to make CeCe want to burn them alive at the lodge?ā Thatās how the fandom is thinking. Wrong question to be asking!! Totally wrong approach!!
Iāve said this a million and one times, long time followers are probably sick of me now but Iām happy to say it again in case youāve missed it - CeCe did not want to kill the girls. CeCe wanted to put the girls in what SEEMS to be a dangerous situation because CeCe knew that her sister would come out of hiding to save the girls (ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE WHEN SHANA AND WILDEN SHOWED UP AND TURNED CECEāS FAKE THREAT TO A REAL THREAT - Shana and Wilden wanted Ali dead for their own reasons and thought Ali was going to be in that house, Shana failed to get justice for Jenna here and tried again in New York), to which CeCe wanted to know if her sister is alive. And she was. Alison pulled out Hanna.
āWhy the hell did A kill a cop?ā Well Wilden wasnāt going to let Aās sister to come home and tell her story because Wilden covered up the true āmurderā. Again, CeCe is helping her sister!!!
āWhy the actual f*ck did A frame Ashley Marin for Wildenās murder? Why did A hate Ashley?āAgain, WRONG QUESTION TO BE ASKING!!!A didnāt hate Ashley. CeCe killed Wilden. CeCe wanted to get away with it. CeCe thought that by pinning it on the person who ran Wilden over with a car a few episodes ago, she may get away with the murder and she may be able to bring her sister home without Wilden stopping her.
This is where the part that majority of the fandom isnāt happy with comes into play. CeCe overdid things, and perhaps those tiny events are without reason: driving the car through Emilyās house. Almost cutting Emily in half. Freezing Aria and Spencer to death.
But ONLY BY RE-WATCHING WILL YOU NOTICE THIS:
THE TIMING OF THE STUNTS A PULLED ARE GENIOUSLY DONE, WELL DONE MARLENE.
Driving a car through Emilyās house?? Happened ONE episode after all the liars found out from Nigel that CECE WAS THE ONE WHO ORGANISED THE FLIGHT PATH TO THE LODGE.
Cutting Emily in half? Happened right when CeCe was on the news for killing Wilden, and right when they were ramping up investigation about CeCe and her connection to Radley and Marion (Spencer literally asked Dr. Palmer ādo you know a CeCe Drake?ā) The girls were SO close the uncovering the truth! CeCe got mad!!! CeCe needed to protect herself! CeCe nearly cut Emily in half!!
Again, please notice the timing!!!
There is no underlying motive. Itās all about the timing and what is going on in CeCeās world that causes her to attack or not.
āWhy the hell does A hate Ali so much that she would attack her in her own living room and text her saying āif you leave Iāll kill you?āAli was going to leave Rosewood⦠right after CeCe worked so hard to bring her home safely! CeCe even BLEW UP JENNAāS HOUSE TO MAKE ALI SAFER AS JENNA WAS A REAL THREAT (dead girlfriend Shana, the Jenna Thing), yet Ali was going to leave. CeCe didnāt want her sister to leave after ALL that effort!!
āWhat did Mona do to CeCe to make her kidnap Mona?ā Mona was building an army against Aās sister. Mona told Ali to get out of Rosewood (yet CeCe attacked her to stay) once and for all. CeCe aināt having any of that.
AGAIN, to help her sister, CeCe got rid of Mona. āMona canāt hurt you anymoreā, said CeCe to Ali in the Christmas episode.
āExplain to me why the heck CeCe threw Jason down an elevator shaft.ā Jason and Emily were getting too close for comfort!! Jason and Emily were SO close to getting to the truth about CeCeās connection to Wilden. Remember earlier that episode, CeCe lied about knowing Wilden yet later Jason finds a picture of CeCe and Wilden in Cape May. Clearly, they had a history. CeCeās true identity of being Charlotte was on the line. CeCe needed to act fast before they got the photo. CeCe got mad. CeCe broke the elevator. Whoops. Oh well. No one got seriously injured. No one died. Identity safe. CeCe won. She can move on with her day.
I could go on for DAYS and DAYS and break down every SINGLE event that happened. There are NO plot holes OTHER THAN Marionās death in the timeline. How the hell was Charles like 10 when Marion was killed, meaning Toby was a child when his mother died, yet she was alive when Toby was a teenager. Impossible. I donāt believe Marlene saying āflashbacks are interpretativeā. THAT is the ONLY plot hole.
So please. Message me if you think there are plot holes. I will try my best to clarify. In my mind, I have all the answers. Iāve been re-watching and everything makes sense. Everything. Sure some of it is heightened reality such as CeCe blowing up Jennaās house to protect her sister, but hey, there is SOME logic there. Itās not bizarre as if āCaleb blew up Hannaās house because she said no to dinner and a movieā. Iāve had messages saying āyouāre just an obsessed fan that is too in love with the show to admit that they screwed upā. That couldnāt be more further from the truth. I talk shit about the show when they deserve it, my followers know that I speak my mind! I donāt hold back! But in this case, I genuinely think Marlene has done a fantastic job at crafting an A storyline that wouldnāt have worked with anyone other than CeCe. Sure Wren is suspicious, but he was never A.
āThere wouldāve been less plot holes if it were Wrenā. People who say that get me mad. Then how do you justify the CeCe clues that are there by fact, not opinion? There would be MORE plot holes if it were Wren. He could be Uber A, donāt get me wrong, he is so suspicious. But he was NEVER ever Big A. (I say that politely. I know thereās some huge Wren is A theorists.)
I need to rap it up now (again Iām not yelling, just want to emphasise)
CECE DID NOT HAVE ONE SINGULAR MOTIVE ACROSS THE SEASONS.
CECE DID NOT HATE THE LIARS BECAUSE THE LIARS DID SOMETHING TO HER.
IT IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. ITāS NOTBLACK AND WHITE LIKE THAT.
This is where the negativity of the fandom is coming from, not everyone has dug that deep (fair enough, whose got the time when it wasnāt said IN the show - we gotta do it ourselves)
IF YOU TRACK THE TIMING OF EACH OF CECEāS MAJOR ATTACKS, AND TAKE NOTE OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN CECEāS WORLD AT THE TIME OF AāS ATTACK, IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
DIFFERENT MOTIVES AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
Thatās how I end it. Different motives at different times, with Alisonās safety being at the CORE.
PLEASE share this post around, I really want more and more people to see the positives especially with the premiere next week.
Not asking for you to all of a sudden LOVE CeCe being A. Each to their own. You have the right to your opinion, obviously, and I respect your opinion.
Though if you say āI donāt like CeCe being A because it doesnāt make senseā, thereās a problem. It does make sense. You just donāt like it for other reasons. AND THAT IS TOTALLY FINE.
Thatās probably the last time Iāll speak about why it makes sense. Hope this clarified for some people :)