Well, this has been a heck of a ride
This blog started as a way for me to organize my thoughts and create theories, and then it grew into some kind of a community - yall literally made this blog into something bigger, by sending in asks and playing games, and Iâm just truly grateful for it.
I promised you guys I would explain my decision to stop blogging here, so here it goes:
. Iâm starting college this semester, and itâs something Iâve been waiting for my entire life. I plan on working really hard and being very involved - that plus working wonât leave me much time to be active here. The weeks I didnât blog that much this summer made me feel horrible, like I was letting you guys down, so itâs not something I want to do in the future.
. The second reason is that I donât feel like the show has anything to give me anymore. Now, I guess I will go on my final rant here, talking about the many things that made me give up on pll: 1. They built a show around solving mysteries, yet claim that flashbacks aren't to be trusted, and that even though people looked 15 they were actually 4, and the timelines shouldn't matter. This is a show that bases itself in showing clues - how is the audience supposed to engage if we can't trust the clues we are given? 2. Too many suspects deprive the show of true shock-factor. 3. Did a decent job redeeming Mona and Paige, but completely failed on the rest. 4. Even though I didn't like Alison on flashbacks, she was a thousand times more interesting and complex than her modern-day persona. Thereâs nothing special about her anymore and she just feels boring. 5. Filled with horrible representations of horrible relationships (from rape to abusive behavior, to having the girls forgive everyone in their lives without any of them proving they deserve forgiveness) without properly dealing with a single one. They shouldn't have to be forced to forgive every single abuser in their lives (and Iâm talking about love interests, family members, friends etc.) 6. We had better fake-reveals than the real one. They don't dare crossing the lines that would provide true shock factor, and we end up with an A that every one saw coming. The finale was boring, had too many plotholes, had no stakes, and was very poorly done. The reveal itself was very anti-climatic. I won't even talk about the transgender part cause I covered that on my 6x10 recap - but basically, itâs not a representation the transgender community deserved. And then Marlene just gives really important answers on an interview, meaning she won't cover any of that on the show. 7. The writers shouldâve played more on Charlotte growing up with Kenneth and in Radley, and her psycho side. 8. Too many questions left unanswered: How is Sara everyone? Wasnât Cece working with Alison? And where the hell was Alison during the first three seasons, and what the hell was she doing all that time?
9. Six years showing us why we should love these girls, showing us their pretty sides and their ugly truths, showing us how much they mean to each other and how far they would go to protect their friends. yet not a single event in the story had anything to do with them. she spent six years showing us these four girls being tortured by being played as dolls, and that's exactly what Marlene did. She used these girls as pawns, as dolls, for a story that wasn't theirs. I honest to god could not think of anything more disappointing than that, ever. 10. The girls don't believe they actually deserve peace and love. They accept and forgive these unforgivable acts from people around them because they blame themselves. They force themselves into this feeling of guilt, that shouldn't exist, because they never did anything truly wrong. Yet the writers never talk about this. 11. The four girls are amazing and have very distinct qualities, yet are downplayed and dumbed down for plot. They never truly grow, they never truly learn anything, not even how to deal with A. That tells me that Marlene loves more the plots than her characters, and that's not a good thing.
I separated my rant into two paragraphs cause they represent the two âmain reasonsâ for me. One is that the writers broke the unspoken rules of mystery, and the second is how they treat they main characters. The point of a mystery show is to get to a final reveal. To find out the truth. not only can we not trust the clues we are given, but we can't trust the answers we get - and that means the point of the show is lost. And if you say "but the show isn't truly about the mystery, it's about the girls", then please tell me what point did these four girls made at the end? What influence did they had to the plot? Take them away, and the story would've been the exact same. But not only were they treated like dolls in their own stories, but Marlene and the writers have constantly downplayed them - these four girls were the reason I was sticking with the show, cause I just wanted to watch them grow, but if the only instance the writers are willing to show us, for example, how brilliant Spencer is, is at a finale, while they are treated like completely stupid people throughout the seasons, then this is not something I want in my life. Watching characters I love being given nothing but crap is not something I want to watch.
Sorry about all of that, but like I said, it was my last one ;)
But I wanted to write this last post because I wanted to thank you guys. Thank you for every message, for every like or reblog, for every interaction, for every tag, for every theory sent my way, for any time you clicked on my blog. Thank you for making the last few years a thousand times better. I would never be able to fully express how immensely grateful I am for you guys. Thank you for participating in our games and our travel masterposts, these will definitely be my favorite memories. And thatâs the reason I wonât be deleting the blog, cause I never want these memories to be gone.
Please donât ever forget that you can always talk to me on my side blog, about anything (travel, games, how your day went, even about pll)!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sticking around. I love you guys, truly.
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