Was it the finale that made you decide to stop watching?
I think the finale was the last straw tbh
here’s the thing about me: I love puzzles and mysteries. my future career is literally huge medical puzzles, one of my favorite authors is Agatha Christie, and the book that made me love books was called “Horror House” and was about three kids solving a mystery.
I stuck by the show for a long while even though life was getting in the way. I told myself, “hey it’s ok if I have less hours to study, let’s go watch the episode again so I can come up with theories for the blog.” Because it was a puzzle, it was fun, and I thought it was worth it.
Then the finale came. And if you read my recap, you know exactly how I felt about it. But here’s the thing: nearly all of that didn’t actually make me finally decide to stop watching. It was the fact that they broke the puzzle. We all knew that flashbacks, for example, could be left a little to interpretation - but to have a scene with two teenagers then say they were 4 year olds? That destroys the purpose of the show. And sure, you can say that the purpose wasn’t the mystery, but the life of the four girls: then why did they had nothing to do with the entire freaking plot? So even if the writers try to say otherwise, the mystery is a gigantic part of the show. They keep referencing chess: a person can’t get to the end of the game, say “oh see, this one wasn’t my real queen, it was just a piece of gum. and I just added this new piece I made up and now its the most powerful one in the game” and yell checkmate. Agatha Christie can’t get to the end of the book and say a super important scene with a kid was actually with an old man, but Poirot just interpreted him as a kid. Mysteries don’t work like that.
So even though the show itself wasn’t my only reason, the fact that theories are now irrelevant and null (because if we can’t trust clues and scenes, how are we supposed to create theories? or provide evidence in them?) was most definitely the last straw. That’s my contribution to the pll fandom: theories. And if I can’t do that, then I don’t think there’s much left I can contribute /: