Oh I'm sure they have a fairly significant fanbase, but I also get the feeling that a lot of the viewers (maybe more than the writers are aware of?) are growing tired of that relationship and wouldn't have been averse to them shaking it up, so it seems a shame if they are just following what they think that the shippers want. Shippers aren't always the audience majority in any case, sometimes they're just the loudest *g*
And I get the feeling that it was meant to be seen as all just a mislead with Toby I agree, but at the time I thought that it was really weird how he never even attempted to explain to Spencer what was really going on, that he just disappeared for weeks and left his girlfriend feeling absolutely devastated and betrayed. Yes he ultimately confirmed Spencer's suspicions that he'd only been working for A because he wanted to help them from the inside, but he never really gave a reason why he couldn't have let Spencer in on the true story earlier once she had found out about him visiting Mona at Radley. It almost came across like he left Spencer to have a mental breakdown in order to convince Mona that he really was on her team and Spencer had to believe that too, but that seems kind of a cold stance to take from someone that was in love with Spencer... Although incidentally one of my favourite Spencer scenes ever come from that arc when Spencer screams "die" and attacks Mona in response to "Who's looking cray-cray now, Spencer", that was AWESOME
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Re: (Cont'd)
Date: 2014-12-04 08:28 pm (UTC)And I get the feeling that it was meant to be seen as all just a mislead with Toby I agree, but at the time I thought that it was really weird how he never even attempted to explain to Spencer what was really going on, that he just disappeared for weeks and left his girlfriend feeling absolutely devastated and betrayed. Yes he ultimately confirmed Spencer's suspicions that he'd only been working for A because he wanted to help them from the inside, but he never really gave a reason why he couldn't have let Spencer in on the true story earlier once she had found out about him visiting Mona at Radley. It almost came across like he left Spencer to have a mental breakdown in order to convince Mona that he really was on her team and Spencer had to believe that too, but that seems kind of a cold stance to take from someone that was in love with Spencer... Although incidentally one of my favourite Spencer scenes ever come from that arc when Spencer screams "die" and attacks Mona in response to "Who's looking cray-cray now, Spencer", that was AWESOME