Honestly I was hoping that they might be planning for a twist with Toby, after introducing and then dismissing the possibility of him as A in season 3, I thought that would have been so much fun if he has been A all along and managed to convince Spencer thst he only joined the A team for her. Keegan's many recent interviews on how exciting the A reveal was also made me wonder. (And huh at some of the stuff he said, like A being there since the pilot and how it's going to come together as so obvious when you go back and watch every episode?)
It's stupid for the writers to be that afraid of backlash, I believe that Troian has spoken about the network stepping in as well. For example when Spencer was briefly on the A team at the end of season 3, they originally wanted to have that last much longer, but the network objected to her working against the girls in cases audiences turned on Spencer. They don't seem to get that the audiences watch the show partly because they want to be knocked back by the big reveal, not have it just be random characters introduced specifically to be shady, why else would the Aria as A possibility be so popular! Toby or Ezra would have been such daring choices, and it would have been so much more fun to go back and rewatch with thst knowledge in your minds, whereas CeCe's character was barely even there as recurring most of the time after her episodes in season 3. I am reasonably happy with her backstory with Allison, but it is a big let-down that they couldn't do more with her motives for targeting the other girls
And yes Sara was just completely lame, it totally felt last-minute to make her both Red Coat and Black Widow, and not playing fair either as she wasn't even a character in the show when we were trying to guess who those characters could be. Nor was it even well-done, nearly everyone was wondering why we spending so much time with her and why they were forcing her romance with Emily
At first I was happy with how much Allison had grown, but during the romance with that police officer I did start thinking about how she's an entirely different character now. I wish that they could have kept some ambiguity about her as Sasha was always so good at playing the more vivacious and charming Allison, but from the flashforward it doesn't look like Allison as a teacher is going to be all that different from today? She seems to have been aged up way too much, ironic considering that she's the only one of the main actresses who actually is still a teenager
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Date: 2015-08-14 11:06 am (UTC)It's stupid for the writers to be that afraid of backlash, I believe that Troian has spoken about the network stepping in as well. For example when Spencer was briefly on the A team at the end of season 3, they originally wanted to have that last much longer, but the network objected to her working against the girls in cases audiences turned on Spencer. They don't seem to get that the audiences watch the show partly because they want to be knocked back by the big reveal, not have it just be random characters introduced specifically to be shady, why else would the Aria as A possibility be so popular! Toby or Ezra would have been such daring choices, and it would have been so much more fun to go back and rewatch with thst knowledge in your minds, whereas CeCe's character was barely even there as recurring most of the time after her episodes in season 3. I am reasonably happy with her backstory with Allison, but it is a big let-down that they couldn't do more with her motives for targeting the other girls
And yes Sara was just completely lame, it totally felt last-minute to make her both Red Coat and Black Widow, and not playing fair either as she wasn't even a character in the show when we were trying to guess who those characters could be. Nor was it even well-done, nearly everyone was wondering why we spending so much time with her and why they were forcing her romance with Emily
At first I was happy with how much Allison had grown, but during the romance with that police officer I did start thinking about how she's an entirely different character now. I wish that they could have kept some ambiguity about her as Sasha was always so good at playing the more vivacious and charming Allison, but from the flashforward it doesn't look like Allison as a teacher is going to be all that different from today? She seems to have been aged up way too much, ironic considering that she's the only one of the main actresses who actually is still a teenager