You Know You Love Me, A

Let’s tie the last few episodes of Pretty Little Liars together and count the continuity issues!

Last week: Aria and Ezra indulged in a public makeout session in the parking lot of her high school where he just resigned. Thousands of PLL viewers melted in their seats.

This week: No mention of Ezra. Aria seemingly alone and later flirting with Jason di Laurentis. Did I miss the scene where they broke up? Was it buried somewhere beneath the passion?

Last week: Emily’s mom is extremely anti-gay. She is finding it very difficult to accept her daughter. She looks through an old box of crap and cries.

This week: Not only does she accept Emily but she’s inviting her girlfriend over for dinner. Who ends up in her bed. I’m seeing a pattern here, Em.

I’m not sure of the exact timeframe of this one, but I’m sure the actor playing Jason changed. And now the new Jason gets speaking lines, more intrigue, and more of a plotline.

This week the big mystery of Ian was solved when Melissa followed his text messages to find him dead in a barn. Must be a hard acting bit; he went from dead to dead. Way to go, A.

And that brings me to my biggest issue. A is someone residing in the tiny town of Rosewood, privately torturing and manipulating four girls. A is not Gossip Girl, a mystery blogger in the massive metropolis of NYC targeting a number of wealthy, pretentious families and exposing their scandals online. So when she sends the girls messages signed off XOXO, A? That’s a little much. Consider your competition, writers.

Mimi

You Are Just Like Alison, Aren’t You?

On Pretty Little Liars, Jason di Laurentis was about as off from the books as Emily Fields is, and had shown up for yet another long, drawn-out Ali Memoriam.

We had to watch Hanna limp out her faux-relationship with what’s-his-face when all her feelings were toward Lucas, the rapidly-less-nerdy kid.

One more betrayal of Alison’s reared its ugly head after her death. Being repeated in her words by Odd Girl Jenna and Big Brother Jason. 

Emily suddenly mentioned her father-character as being absent due to the military. So it can be a big deal when he comes home. I’m sure her mother already mentioned him at some point, like, “your father and I were worried sick” if only because this show has major continuity issues.

Jason was way too interested in his late little sister’s group dynamics, constantly bringing up the way things used to be; a bit of a Toby Cavanaugh himself.

The Rosewood movie theater, which has already made one tiny-town appearance, plays (bottom rate, old timey horror) movies right away; without previews or even opening credits. Believable? Hardly.

Our episode theme was forgetting Toby and the twist at the end proved we were making way for Ian.

At last, the girls realized they had been duped when Alison’s, “original” bracelet turned up, from the hands of her blood relative.

Pretty Little Liars hijacked my MP3 Player, with Carolina Liar‘s I’m Not Over and US Royalty‘s Every Summer. Good one.

Mimi