#donor gets too invested is just a plot that makes me want to rip my skin off and choke someone with it

[captainbfresh]

I know everyone's loving theorising for the sperm donor stuff/excited for Bucks breakdown but I can't stand it.

It just..makes me feel sick.like I just wanna beat buck with a broom screaming "its not and never will be your kid leave that couple and their baby alone"

Like any sort of trouble conceiving is hard enough without some 12 foot labrador ruining the fact they have got a bun in the oven by getting overinvolved and I love buck but this is just one storyline I don't want to see play out

[ocalaghan]

So... I finally finished Pretty Little Liars, and honestly, WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK WAS THAT? The final season was a bit of a shit-storm as it was but the actual finale itself... what the literal... fuck... I’m not even sure I fully understand everything that happened? And the night that Alison got buried/ran away still doesn’t fully make sense to me? 

I just can’t believe that after seven seasons, they went with the evil twin route... TWICE. I’m shook and not in the good way. 

I just still have so many questions. Like, they definitely tied up a bunch of loose ends in the finale which I appreciate but things are still messy and unanswered here and there... I dread to think the amount of plot-holes this show must have? 

I don’t regret watching it or anything because I was genuinely invested and loved the characters so much but it just got so messy. It should’ve ended after season four or five, I think. It suffered from over-arcing climax syndrome where they’d defeat one bad guy and then suddenly, there was another bigger, worse bad guy to get rid of, who had conveniently never been mentioned until the first bad guy was out of the picture. And they did that, like... four times over or something. 

But I am gonna have to read up on the Wikia site for the show and try to figure out some answers to questions I still have lmfao... I’m just so confused. 

However, I do really like that they gave pretty much everyone a happy ending. I appreciate that cheesy shit lol. 

Emily and Alison finally working things out to be together was a relief, and the fact they got two daughters out of it was really nice. I like to think they maybe had a third baby to give Emily a chance to be pregnant this time, except maybe through a consensual sperm donor for once. And Jason still being in Alison’s life was nice; I like to think their dad kinda came back around too. I mean he does have two granddaughters now, so. 

Spencer’s life has been totally ripped apart this entire series but I’m glad they gave her Toby again. I didn’t see how they would get back together after Yvonne died right in front of him but that year-long time-skip in the final episode made it all good lol. Toby and Spencer absolutely deserved to be happy and successful together (and have a baby on their own terms eventually). And it also made me happy that she seemed to finally be at peace with her family. Getting along with Melissa and her mom... I kinda can’t envision Mona being able to keep Mary and Alex imprisoned forever in France so I guess it would also be nice if they went back to jail and Spencer was able to visit Mary again because I can picture her doing that regularly. The finale didn’t seem to mention her dad so I can only imagine she was estranged from him after the divorce, understandably, but maybe they’ll reconcile someday. Who knows. ALSO I was rooting for Jenna for once in that finale too, like yaaaassss girl??? Telling off the school bullies and warning Toby about Spencer/Alex. I hope Jenna, Toby, and Spencer can all get along. It would’ve been cool if we saw Jenna happily dating somebody too (another girl, preferably, because I need more lady-on-lady action). 

As for Hanna and Caleb... my LOVES... I love them so much. I panicked when they seemed unhappy at first in the finale despite their financial and career success but I’m glad they were all good again by the end. I was shook as hell that Hanna was trying for a baby/got pregnant though. Like all these girls seem so bloody eager to have kids; they’re only in their early twenties, hahaha. But I was just so happy for Hanna and Caleb because they really deserved the financial success, and I was even more happy to hear that they were still friends with Lucas. I almost don’t want Mona to end up back in a psychiatric facility -- she can stay hiding in France with her hot French boyfriend as long as she writes to her mom and Hanna occasionally lol. I didn’t really want Mona to go crazy again, I was sad about that. Also, as for Hanna’s mom, I thought it was really cool that she transformed the Radley into a hotel but I was HELLA bummed when it seemed like she and the priest dude who was Charlotte’s real dad seemed not to be engaged any more? I liked them together, I want them to get married. 

And then there’s Aria and Ezra. Vom. I knew they were endgame before I even started watching the show but I’m still really annoyed about that. They took a toxic, manipulative, ILLEGAL relationship between a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl and her English teacher and totally normalised it, even after it surfaced that Ezra had been lying the entire time and using Aria so he could write a book. But, whatever. I’m glad Aria was having success with her book and it being turned into a movie. Again, shocked that she and Ezra were prepared to look into adoption the second they were back from their honeymoon. Like, honey, no. Wait a few years, write more books, make more money, travel... babies can come later. But as long as they’re happy, I’ll deal with it. I would’ve way preferred to see her end up with someone like Holden though. I liked that they brought him back, I’m glad he and Aria met again. Kinda sad that we didn’t see more of Mike in the final season (or see him at all, actually). But he was at college so I guess that can be forgiven lol. He doesn’t have time for his sister’s blackmail drama. 

I liked that all the parents seemed happy too (bar Spencer’s dad, who’s probably gonna be working for the rest of his life to earn his daughters’ trust again), although I’m still so sad about Emily’s dad dying. But she mentioned her mom was dating again so I guess that’s okay hahaha. 

But, yeah. Other than being really happy that all the characters got a happy ending, I wasn’t satisfied with the plot itself. Like, an evil twin? Really? I didn’t even see it coming, mostly because you’d think they’d try and explore something else after already shocking us with the twin thing in regards to Jessica and Mary. I was never even happy about who A was -- Mona, I was surprised at, but when the ‘official’ A turned out to be Cece/Charlotte, I wasn’t very impressed. The girls had already speculated it might be Cece and then veered away from that theory so when it turned out to actually be her, it didn’t feel very shocking, just annoying. 

Also, the actual final end where it shows the mean girl Addison going missing the way Alison did in an absolutely identical fashion with her friends (one of whom was Maya’s niece or something?) was SO cheesy. Like, no, I don’t wanna think about this thing being a cycle. Let it die with Alison and her friends. Addison was just a bitch. I don’t know if they were going to try and create another (failed) spin-off or if they just thought that would be a really clever way to end a seven-season show but regardless, it was dumb. 

I’m also still annoyed we didn’t get a start-to-finish sequence of the night Alison vanished. Like I was really hoping that the final episode would have a flashback of that night, and show everything in the order that it happened, so I could make sense of where everyone tied in, because it was just so fucking over-complicated when they kept adding bits over the years. 

Overall, I don’t think it was a waste of time, it was just a show with a good premise that sadly went downhill after a few years. But the girls are all really talented actresses (as are the guys, actually) and I’ll definitely be keeping track of their careers!