Alison is faking her pregnancy.
This is something I’ve gone into at length in my episode recaps, but I wanted to condense some of it into one single post dealing just with this topic.
We’ve known of Ali’s pregnancy for six episodes now, and we have yet to see one bit of proof that she is actually carrying a baby, let alone one conceived from Emily’s eggs.
In 7x10, she announces that she took a pregnancy test, and yet we don’t see it. She’s not holding it when she comes out of the bathroom, she doesn’t show it to Emily, Kind of strange, considering you’d think a normal reaction would be to insist it’s not true and demand to know if Emily could see the two lines on the test as well.
Then Emily arranges to take her to the doctor, to get the pregnancy confirmed. But Ali informs her that she’s already gone without her - and she is indeed pregnant. Why did she suddenly change her mind? Why didn’t she want Emily at the appointment with her? Perhaps because there was no doctor’s appointment, no pregnancy confirmation…and no pregnancy.
Finally, we’ve seen no actual evidence of the baby being Emily’s. Sure, they went to get blood tests together, but I highly doubt the doctor would have felt the need to ensure that Ali really is pregnant beforehand (after all, what kind of person would make this up?). We don’t hear what the doctor has to say about the results. We don’t even actually see the results themselves. Once again, all we get is Ali’s own words, that she got the blood test results and that Emily is the mother.
Three separate instances where the writers easily could have provided some kind of proof, whether through doctor’s words or through a physical piece of evidence, that Ali is pregnant…and they keep choosing not to. Why is that?
Maybe because she’s not actually pregnant. And if she’s not carrying a baby, she’s not going to have one to deliver in nine months, either.
But then why didn’t she just fake having the abortion? That would be the perfect way for her to end the pregnancy without anyone being any wiser.
If there’s one thing Ali loves, it’s being the victim. We’ve seen it time and time again since she returned, back in high school. She loves making herself look helpless, and she loves being coddled and protected by her friends, especially Emily. Getting an abortion would be the opposite of being victimized - it’s taking control of her own life and making a conscious, strong decision.
And that’s not good enough.
There was something very sketchy about that fall in the school. She supposedly got pushed down by someone she conveniently couldn’t see well enough to identify. And yet we didn’t see it happen, didn’t see a shadow pass along the wall or even hear footsteps running away. All we heard was Ali let out a scream and then her sitting at the bottom of the stairs.
There is absolutely no way anyone pushed her. Mona was all the way at the other side of the hallway, the person Emily heard and ran toward. And why would A.D. even be there? The whole point of that set-up was to distract the girls so Aria could sneak in to Ali’s house and destroy the nursery. There’s no reason why they would be sneaking around the school.
So why fake it? Maybe because falling, especially down the stairs, is an easy way to trigger a miscarriage. And what would be sadder than that? Ali finally gives in and decides to have the baby, to start a family with Emily, and then A.D.’s antics force her to miscarry. Once again, she’s the total victim, the one that needs to be comforted and babied by the others, just as she likes it.
I will not be surprised at all if Ali ends up “miscarrying” within the next few episodes. You can’t exactly give birth if there’s no baby, after all.
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