Let Me Break It Down In Layman’s Terms.
If the writers really have been working on this story line for the past 3 years like they claim, then how did they miss an embarrassing amount of plot holes that the fandom seemed to pick up on as soon as the finale aired?
(ugh I’m getting so sick of saying those words, plot holes).
The worst part about it is that none of the facts add up (and by the way, if you hate math, then you might hate this post lol. There are a lot of numbers and it’s sorta long, sorry not sorry).
There are many things that factor into the complicated & complex math equation that is Rosewood, Pennsylvania.
For instance, in episode 2x13, which is based in 2008, Toby mentions that it has been one year and one week since his mother’s death.
Wouldn’t that make it 2007 when Marion died?
Well, if we are going by the laws of reality here, then this is a stone cold fact:
2008 - 1 year = 2007.
So here we have it, Fact #1: Marion Cavanaugh died in 2007.
The web of inaccuracies continues to get more and more tangled as we go on, so prepare yourself.
Ali would have been 13 years old in 2007 when Marion died. I get this age based on the fact that we know she disappeared 2 years later (on Labor Day 2009), at age 15.
As we all (hopefully) know:
15 years old - 2 years = 13 years old
(I told you this was in layman’s terms).
Fact #2: Alison was 13 years old in 2007 when Marion died & 15 years old when she skipped town in 2009.
Then according to Aria in episode 5x25, all of the songs on the playlist for A’s dollhouse prom are from 7 years ago.
Spencer mentions it was the same prom theme from her sister’s Senior year & Emily says that Charles is recreating it.
Since the Liars are currently Seniors in high school when they make this statement, it means Melissa, and Jason for that matter since they graduated together, are both 7 years older than Alison & the Liars.
Liars Senior Year - 7 years = Melissa & Jason’s Senior Year
So if Jason is 7 years older, and we take into account that we also learned this season that Charlotte is 15 months older than Jason, then this makes CeCe 8 years older than Ali.
Ugh I’m getting dizzy. I hate math.
Fact #3: Charlotte is 8 years older than Alison & the Liars.
So we also know from earlier in the season that Jessica faked Charles’ death at age 16. Hanna & Spencer discovered the organ donation papers that Jessica forged at Radley & this is when they found out the age Charles “died”.
CeCe tells Alison that she went through the transition when Jessica faked Charlie’s death.
Supposedly Charles was 12 years old when Bethany murdered Marion, so the doctors “doped him up” for the next couple years (although “a couple” usually means 2, but in this instance it seems to mean 4).
Fact #4: Charles transitioned into Charlotte at age 16.
In episode 6x10, it has been 2 ½ years since that infamous night that Ali went missing (she disappeared beginning of Sophomore year 2009, and it is currently the end of Senior year). This means it is only 2012 in Rosewood.
Soph Year Sept 2009 + 2 ½ years = Senior Year May 2012
If the Liars are 18 years old (which most Seniors are by the time they graduate high school), then CeCe is 8 years older, making her age 26 when she is finally revealed as A in the current year of 2012.
This makes her year of birth 1986.
2012 - 26 years old = 1986
Which means she would have been 12 years old (which is the age she claims she was when Marion died) in 1998 not 2007.
1986 + 12 years old = 1998
Fact #5: Charles was not 12 years old in 2007.
So how could Charles be 12 (and still a boy) in 2007 when Bethany pushed Marion from Radley’s roof?
He couldn’t.
Actually, Charles had already transitioned into Charlotte at that point.
This doesn’t only blow a hole in the timeline, but it blows a hole in Bethany’s entire motive for why she killed Marion. It was because Charles didn’t want anyone to see him in a dress, right?
But why murder someone in cold blood if you are in fear that she is going to gossip about Charles’ gender identity, if Charles was already Charlotte at that point? There would have been nothing to keep a secret about because Marion would have walked out on that roof and seen exactly what we see when we look at CeCe Drake: a beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed young lady. So all of this is completely contradicting.
Referring back to Fact #2 & Fact #3, Ali was 13 in 2007 & Charlotte is 8 years older than Ali. This means that CeCe should have been 20-21 years old, as well as a fully grown woman that went by the name Charlotte, when Marion was pushed off that roof.
Alison 13 yrs old in 2007 + CeCe 8 yrs older = CeCe 21 yrs old in 2007
Fact #6: Charlotte was 21 in 2007 & fully transitioned when Marion died.
But instead, we saw this:
Fact #7: Mar fucked up.
I guess she hates math more than I do.
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