Alison is A.D.

Theories and hints that Alison is Uber A

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PLL: OS Thoughts and Spoilers!!

Okay I just finished the first three episodes of PLL: OS and I have many, many thoughts and also I am totally hooked, but what I keep coming back to is this - 

This whole twin thing with Karen and Kelly HAS to be part of this, right? I mean, Kelly has played such a relatively small role in the show so far, it’s not like she has some clear purpose in the plot as of now. And yet the writers have gone to all of this extra effort to have Mallory Bechtel film scenes as both twins, use a body double for those scenes, edit it all together…instead of just having Karen be an only child, or giving her a fraternal twin played by a different actress. Would they really go to all that trouble just for the sake of having identical twins “just because”? I don’t think so.

I also have to point out that when she first arrives at the dance, Imogen “mistakenly” identifies Kelly as Karen. But was it really a mistake? Imogen used to be best friends with these girls, how likely is it that she would so easily mix them up at this point? And Kelly’s “twin-fusion” response seemed a little nasty and out of character…a little too much like Karen.

So I think it’s pretty clear at this point that Karen and Kelly kept up their switching places trick from earlier in the episode and it was really Kelly who died at the dance, with Karen taking her place and masquerading as her, and I will die on this hill (for now).

Anyone else watch? My inbox is open for anyone who wants to shoot me a message about it!

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Okay so my update to this after watching episodes 4 and 5 (spoilers incoming if you aren’t up to date) is that I’m not ruling this theory out, but I’m no longer totally on board with it.

Now I’ve shifted to believing that Karen really is dead, but that Kelly is intentionally trying to take over her life. That’s why she was wearing Karen’s leotard. That’s why she was switching over to Karen’s locker. That’s why she was making out with Karen’s boyfriend. And that might even be why people seem to be mistaking her for Karen - she’s purposefully putting on Karen’s mannerisms because she wanted to be her all along.

When Faran confronts her at the party, she says - “Why can’t I be a great dancer? Why can’t I have the hot boyfriend? Is it really so hard to believe that Kelly Beasley could be popular and talented?”

And I think that’s what it all comes back to. Kelly lived in Karen’s shadow for her whole life. She even admits to Faran that she had to downplay her ballet talents so she wouldn’t outshine Karen. Maybe she had something to do with Karen’s death or maybe she didn’t (I lean toward the former), but now that Karen’s gone, Kelly is doing everything she can to take her place.

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Omigod! I’m starting a new musical theater project and I’m in need of singers! Check out the video/description to find out more!

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PLL: OS Thoughts and Spoilers!!

Okay I just finished the first three episodes of PLL: OS and I have many, many thoughts and also I am totally hooked, but what I keep coming back to is this - 

This whole twin thing with Karen and Kelly HAS to be part of this, right? I mean, Kelly has played such a relatively small role in the show so far, it’s not like she has some clear purpose in the plot as of now. And yet the writers have gone to all of this extra effort to have Mallory Bechtel film scenes as both twins, use a body double for those scenes, edit it all together…instead of just having Karen be an only child, or giving her a fraternal twin played by a different actress. Would they really go to all that trouble just for the sake of having identical twins “just because”? I don’t think so.

I also have to point out that when she first arrives at the dance, Imogen “mistakenly” identifies Kelly as Karen. But was it really a mistake? Imogen used to be best friends with these girls, how likely is it that she would so easily mix them up at this point? And Kelly’s “twin-fusion” response seemed a little nasty and out of character…a little too much like Karen.

So I think it’s pretty clear at this point that Karen and Kelly kept up their switching places trick from earlier in the episode and it was really Kelly who died at the dance, with Karen taking her place and masquerading as her, and I will die on this hill (for now).

Anyone else watch? My inbox is open for anyone who wants to shoot me a message about it!

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"Legally Blonde" Cover w/ Clark on Stage | Legally Blonde: The Musical

What's this?! A singing video on my main channel?? I learned this song literally yesterday and couldn't help but cover it with the help of the amazing Clark ...

Legally Blonde has been my musical obsession over the past week or so, so I had to cover a song from it, with the help of the fantastic Youtuber “Clark On Stage!” 

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"Legally Blonde" Cover w/ Clark on Stage | Legally Blonde: The Musical

What's this?! A singing video on my main channel?? I learned this song literally yesterday and couldn't help but cover it with the help of the amazing Clark ...

Legally Blonde has been my musical obsession over the past week or so, so I had to cover a song from it, with the help of the fantastic Youtuber “Clark On Stage!” 

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My newest full episode voiceover is done and filled with amazing talent! Check it out in the video description!!

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“We can go back. You can be you again. I’ll be me. Just like before.”

There’s no mistaking the slackening of “Courtney’s” grasp now. “You’d switch back?” she asks. Her voice is full of suspicion. “Just like that?”

Ali takes a deep breath, feels her lungs fill up with air. The rest of her life - and the length of it - could potential depend on what she says next. “I’d switch back,” she confirms resolutely. “Just like that.”

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What if Alison and Courtney’s final confrontation had gone differently on that fateful summer night? “Once Upon A Time,” coming soon.

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**Major PLL book spoiler warning!!**

(This post also includes descriptions of eating disorders that could be triggering.)

I’m currently kicking off summer by rereading my favorite of the PLL books, “Ali’s Pretty Little Lies,” and it really strikes me as funny that the book version of Alison (or at least the Alison that the girls knew) is actually in some ways a much better person than the show version of Ali, even though she’s intended to be at least somewhat of a villain and certainly not a good person.

In the books, Ali (actually Courtney) walks in on Hanna forcing herself to throw up with a toothbrush. Hanna admits that it’s something she does occasionally. Alison is pretty horrified by this, and at several points in the book tries to convince Hanna that what she’s doing is unsafe and that she should tell her mom about it. She also makes an effort to refrain from making nasty comments about Hanna’s weight or binging after finding out the extent of Hanna’s eating disorder, at least until her own life starts to spiral at the end of the book. It’s not a perfect response, by any means, but considering book!Alison isn’t exactly an award-winning friend, it was a surprisingly kind one.

Now in contrast, in the show, Alison is the one who first gives Hanna the idea to start throwing up the food that she binges on. She even teaches her how to do it. And even after, once she knows just how badly Hanna is struggling, she continues to regularly make awful remarks about Hanna being heavier, Hanna eating too much, Hanna not being as pretty as the others, etc. 

Ironically, it’s the show that tried so hard to redeem their version of Alison and convince us that she was a good person all along, when in reality so many of her actions were far more destructive and almost sociopathic than her book counterpart.

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Are you gonna watch PLL: Original Sin?

I'm not super psyched by anything I've seen of it so far, but I'm definitely going to give it a fair shot!

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Episode two of my Perfectionists rewrite, “Good Girls Don’t Lie,” is now up! You can find the link in the description of the video.

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An Analysis of Alison’s Subtle Manipulations (Part 1?)

After putting together a dub of this scene, I just had to go back and make a post about it and the storyline that it kicks off, because it’s such a perfect example of how Alison was so brilliantly written in the flashbacks, and why the Liars loved and remained friends with her despite the way she treated them.

One of the subplots in the fabulous Halloween episode “The First Secret” is Spencer running for class president. The storyline really kicks off with Alison showing up at Spencer’s house to break the news to her that she checked in with “a friend” on the election committee, and it looks like the results could go either way as opposed to the guaranteed win that Spencer was expecting.

Spencer is immediately horrified by the possibility that she won’t win, and cries to Ali that her parents have already planned her victory party, complete with booking a location and sending out invitations. This kicks off the first two layers of Ali’s manipulation.

First, she insists that Melissa must have been behind the party planning, with the motivation of secretly hoping for Spencer to fail and propping herself up in their parents’ eyes. We see earlier in the episode that at this point, Spencer idolized Melissa and felt none of the resentment that we see as early as the Pilot. It’s in this episode that Alison begins planting the seed in Spencer’s mind that eventually leads to a lot of the competitiveness between the sisters.

And Ali’s response to Spencer’s horror is also very revealing. She slyly offers to rig the election in Spencer’s favor, which on the surface comes across as a great act of generosity, but really accomplishes two things. The first is subtly making sure Spencer knows that she wasn’t capable of winning the election on her own, and that she needed Ali’s help to do so. The second is making Spencer feel indebted to her for taking such a big risk on her behalf. As we’ll see if I end up making more parts to this post, Ali was very good at making her friends feel like they owed her.

This plot continues after Spencer does end up winning the election, when Ali presents her with a few stolen ballots at the Halloween party. Spencer immediately throws them into the fire, prompting Ali to mention that she should have taken a look at them first. The implication of this scene is obviously that the votes she’d taken belonged to some of the other Liars, and that they hadn’t voted for Spencer.

I’ve always loved the addition of this little moment, because it adds yet another layer to Ali’s manipulations. By suggesting that some or all of their friend group voted against Spencer, it sends the stronger message that they’re not really her friends - just one of many examples of Ali attempting to isolate the girls from each other. And what’s more, not only did Alison vote for Spencer, but she went so far as to make sure that she won. This gives Spencer the impression that Ali is a far better friend than the others, and that she’s the only one Spencer can really trust.

Now my hypothesis on all of this is that Spencer was always going to win the election, and Ali fabricated the story about the close votes to make Spencer feel like she needed to depend on Ali to win. I also imagine that the votes she showed to Spencer at the party were fake, or didn’t say what she claimed - note that she only gave details after Spencer had thrown them in the fire. Aria, Emily, and Hanna all probably did vote for Spencer - Alison just wanted Spencer to believe they hadn’t to further isolate her and convince her that Ali was her only true friend.

All in all, this super long post really goes to show how intricately written Alison’s manipulative games were, and I think is a great example of how she managed to keep her friends so closely in her orbit while feeding on their insecurities and giving them such bad complexes. This is the Alison that was one of the best characters of the show.

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The first episode of my Perfectionists rewrite is now up!! I threw together a little promo this morning, so check that out and then head to the description to find the link to the full script!

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My newest cover is now up - would appreciate anyone who can take a few minutes and check it out!!

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The Perfectionists Rewrite Character Profiles ~ Mackenzie Wright

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The Perfectionists Rewrite Character Profiles ~ Ava Jalali

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The Perfectionists Rewrite Character Profiles ~ Julie Redding

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**PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!**

As if I don’t already have enough in-progress projects on my plate, I’m adding another one! For years I’ve wanted to create my own version of “Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.” One that, at least to me, more closely represents the book series and actually follows through on some of its potential.

And almost three years later, I’m finally in the process of writing the script for the Pilot episode! As you can see from the poster I created above, we’re seeing some familiar faces from the show, as well as some new (or, I should say, old) characters. As I work on finishing up the first episode, I’ll be sharing some quick profiles for each character, which will give you some info on what to expect, and how certain roles differ from their book or show counterparts.

My other upcoming “Perfectionists” project is getting so much more love than I was anticipating, so I’m hoping that means that people haven’t completely forgotten about this show! If you enjoyed my PLL season 6 rewrite, I hope you’ll consider giving this new series a chance - and if you aren’t familiar with that project, you can check it out here!