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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Pretty Little Liars - The Blonde Leading the Blind


If A kills Caleb, we will jump into our TV screens, find A, and kill him/her ourselves. Earlier, we posted a spoiler that said “a beloved character will die” and it won’t be one of the main four. If this “beloved character” is Caleb, we will be really and truly sad. It has to be Ezra! It just has to be! Caleb and Hanna have a real future. Aria and Ezra will have to sneak around for a very long time. It just makes sense from a writing perspective to tragically kill Ezra off so that Aria remembers him as her forbidden Romeo (redundant?) and free up the Aria character to have a different romantic arc.

After Toby falls and breaks his arm (because A is evil) Spencer sees Jenna in the hospital, visiting Toby, and realizes that she needs to re-break up with Toby. Dr. Wren is conveniently there, working on Toby’s case. Spencer gets Emily to tell Toby that Spencer is getting back with Wren. Toby does not take it well, confronts Wren from his hospital bed, and then drives the doctor out with threats of impending punching. Toby leaves a goodbye letter for Spencer. We guess Spencer is the only reason Toby had to stick around. Hell, we know that’s the only reason. The whole town thinks he’s creepy and we’re sure Toby is elated to be miles and miles away from creepy Jenna. In a cast of total weirdos, Jenna is the weirdest.

Speaking of creepy Jenna: Noel Kahn is dating her. Man, you just know that Noel Khan is the key to everything. He’s probably A. Meanwhile, Hanna is freaked out about Caleb’s involvement in the A situation. She refuses to tell him what’s going on and snatches his USB drive right out of his hands. Then she puts it in a blender right in front of his shocked face. Caleb says, “I want to protect you!” and begs to know what’s going on. We collectively swoon. But Hanna is stern-faced and decidedly against Caleb getting more involved. The way she sees it, he’s the one who needs protection, gender stereotypes be damned.

Caleb (obviously) had a back-up of the video Hanna destroyed and he is still going to decrypt the phone files for the other three girls. They will be keeping it a secret from Hanna. Oh Caleb, you are so dead. So, so dead. The hacker, Aria, Emily, and Spencer want there to be enough on the video that A's identity will be revealed and they can finally turn everything over to the police. If we were in this gang, we would have Caleb leave town to work on this project. Heck, we might run away and go with him until it is done and then blast everything to the police over the internet. Our parents would understand and forgive us later. Mona is still upset about being dumped. Hanna, you’re Leeard’s favorite, but you need to learn how to comfort people.

One thing we are sick of is this show playing shocking music and closing in on shocked faces when the revelations just aren’t that shocking. The NAT club was in Alison’s room the night she died, and Ian taped their meeting because Garrett wanted to quit the club and stop being such a freaking creeper?!!? Yawn. Alison was being threatened by A? Well, of course she was. We knew that from Halloween. Now the girls do too. Double yawn.

Aria is the Rachel Berry of this show: Always making things about herself. As soon as Spencer started lamenting about her relationship with Toby, Aria brought up Ezra. What a drone. She calls Ezra up and tells him to meet her in Philly, in front of this clock. Ezra has a lick of sense these days. Maybe he’s dating college girls now instead of high school ones, and they are teaching him the ways of adult women. So Ezra doesn’t even pick up the phone. Aria leaves a message and then goes to town with Holden as her cover. We still don’t know what that boy’s up to, but at least he’s not another A red herring.

Then an undergrad student who wrote a sappy love story convinces that love conquers all for the brave or something, and he runs into town to meet Aria. Of course, it’s raining. They kiss and are back together. Wouldn’t it be amazing if A were Ezra? We know he’s not. But still. This episode was strong on the romance front and weak on the mystery aspects. It’s great to see the show moving along and building toward the revelation of A. The last A scene, where she cut the photos of the girls’ boyfriends, was super creepy. At this point, we think the death is either Ezra or Caleb. For now, Toby is safe.

Episode grade: B

If you want to know the song that was playing while Aria was waiting for Ezra and Spencer was looking out the window, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekNG8-hqm10

12 comments:

  1. NO! Caleb can't die! He is the ONLY guy on the show I actually like! Seriously. I hate Ezra, Toby annoys me, I loved Jason but he's inexplicably disappeared, and I have been in love with Caleb since day 1. If he dies, that's it, I'm not watching the show anymore...


    ...well, I'll still watch it because it's so damn addictive. But I will make it clear that I disapprove of who gets the axe on this show. DIE, EZRA, DIE. Save Caleb!

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    1. Agree about Caleb being one of the best guys on the show. We think Noel is cute and we are Toby fans, but Caleb is our fave.

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  2. Another very entertaining episode. Maybe I'm not as good at figuring things out as you all or maybe I just have a really bad memory, but I was surprised to see that "A" was bugging Allison. I'm interested to see who dies...Personally I hope it's not Caleb, Toby or Ezra...Maybe one of the girls' parents?

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    1. We found out that A was after Ali in the special Halloween episode.

      Toby died in the books, but since they've said that they aren't having the same A as the books, we think they'll have a different death too. Having one of the parents die would be interesting, but we don't really know who we could stand to lose. Maybe Byron? Everyone else has awesome parents (Ella, Ashley, Mrs. Hastings) or absent ones (Emily's parents in Texas).

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    1. Doubt it. She's not beloved. She's just funny.

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    2. Psh speak for yourself, Ern. Leeard loves Mona.

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  4. HAH! It appears Caleb will NOT be dying. Tyler Blackburn has been promoted to series regular for season 3.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/pretty-little-liars-tyler-blackburn-caleb-285956

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    1. Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!

      Then it might be Ezra!

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    2. Oh please, show, PLEASE let it be Ezra.

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  5. Mona mentioned Noel's "mesmerizing eyes" in this episode...a reference to the midseason finale perhaps?

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