First of all, a little rant. So, I am up in the middle of ep 9 of s1 of PLL and I want to rant about the Rosewood police department, which simply must be the most incompetent police department in the country. If I want to commit a crime, I know where I am moving.
* Let’s see, we have a young woman stabbed and strangled. I realize that in this type of show, someone near and dear is most likely involved in the crime but come on - that screams ‘serial killer’ to me - at least as a possibility. Instead the police seem to be fixating on four future sorority sisters to the exclusion of everything else. Ummmm, what? I can think of a few more likely things - like a meteor hitting someone in the head, for example. I am beginning to wonder if the cops think the Scream franchise = real life.
* Toby, Toby, Toby. So the cops think he may be connected to Alison’s death (which at least has the virtue of being mildly more likely than four teen girls who are obsessed with moisturizer and shoes). He disappears and - nothing. They cannot find him. He’s wrecked his motorcycle, so he’s probably on foot. He doesn’t exactly blend into the crowd. He is seventeen. Unless he moonlights as a ninja on his days off, the fact that they cannot locate him is insane. Insanely incompetent, that is.
* Cop dude keeps waltzing around and interviewing minors without their parents’ knowledge and permission, without a warrant, etcetc. Not only is it problematic from a minor-without-parental-consent thing, if the girls put any thought into it, they should just tell the cops they won’t speak to them without a lawyer and there is the end of that.
* Not that the cops are getting much help. I love our four heroines, but good at priorities they are not. I think Alison was a sociopath and good riddance to her, but she was their friend! Their friend who got brutally murdered! Shouldn’t they exhibit more grief and desire for her killer to be caught and less worry about being busted for the Jenna thing, even to the degree of destroying evidence. And that brings me to Jenna - I realize she is not the most likeable person out there, but their little prank blinded her! Shouldn’t there be at least some guilt and remorse for blinding her mixed in with all their ‘she is going to get revenge!’ freakouts? (The same, to a lesser degree, applies to Toby and the fact that he took the fall for their actions).
Anyway, on with the caps...
I know all the actors look like they won’t see 25 again (and I approve of that fact) but the fact remains that they are supposed to be minors. And unless Rosewood somehow managed to escape being part of the United States of America, it is illegal for tattoo parlors to give tattoos to minors. I am left wondering whether there is a thriving underground illegal tattoo scene in Rosewood or whether Toby did it with those fake peelable tattoo things that places like Ben & Jerry’s hand out to their littlest customers :P
Your stepsibling is hot. You:
a. Scrub your brain with bleach for even thinking that. Ugh!
b. I’ve seen Asian dramas. I am a few snowfalls away from starring in my version of BokuSuru.
c. I am too lazy to go outside the house to look for make-outs. Fakecest away!
If you picked (c), congratulations, you are a character in PLL. I have never thought I’d ever have to reference Boku wa Imoto ni Koi o Suru in connection with an American show but OMFG WHUT WHUT WHUT WHUT. Toby and Jenna were knocking boots?!?! And that is how Ali blackmailed Toby into taking the fall for the girls’ arson? (Side note - teens and their lack of proper judgment. Sleeping with one’s stepsis is frowned upon, but it’s not a criminal offense/big black mark on one’s future the way arson is. Ummmm. I think I know which one is a better choice to confess to). I have to say they do not appear in love or even to like each other at all. Hmmm. In fact, she pretty much bosses him around and he puts up with it - are they exes by now? That is why you shouldn’t hook up with someone you can’t move away from…
Aria and Ezra and aaaangst and prettiness in ep 6 of S1. When he tells her she deserves more than being with him - my heart!!!! Though he is probably right, alas...
More evidence that dear deceased Alison was a sociopath...
Girls and their beautiful dresses…(side note: every time we see Spencer keep going on and on about what a freak Toby is and/or that he is a killer who needs to be behind bars forever, I keep going: “Heeeee, I’ve seen youtube vids, you’ll be sticking your tongue down his throat soon enough.” :P)
How to go from going with a date to Homecoming to fleeing from him after believing he is a maniacal killer in thirty minutes or less, by Emily Fields…I suppose Emily-Toby friend!shipping is over? Obviously, she doesn’t get murdered in this ep, nor is he Ali’s killer, but this is going to bit awkward to get over…Noooo, I loved their friendship. Boo!
I am loving Hanna’s friendship with Lucas (I think that’s his name). I am loving Hanna, period. She is the nicest of the girls and is my favorite (the other three rotate for n2 spot depending on the ep).
Ezra, I missed you! Don’t ever disappear for eps again as it leaves me shipless. Though I did feel a pang for how normal Aria and her high school dude seemed to be - things should be easy when you date :(
I am in love with Spencer’s Mom! First she finally told the cop what I’ve been screaming at the screen for the last gazillion eps (about questioning minors without an adult violating rules) and then the scene with her and Spencer. I love you, Mama Awesome!
I continue not to care about Spencer/Alex (so when Ezra was not around and Spencer/Alex were the shipping quotient, that was boooorrrrring). I mean, he’s a nice guy, he’s not hideous, blahblahblah whatever. I just don’t care. I guess this is what happens when you are introduced to a show via spoby videos.
