#pll madame giry

[swan--writes]

y'know

i haven't been lurking enough to know if this point has been made, but i find it interesting that the pll og sin showrunners chose to give their working class, likely underfunded school a decent enough dance program that their instructor calls herself 'Madame,' treats her students like shit, and nobody questions it bc she clearly gets results

and i find it fascinating that her name is Mme. Giry - a character who (depending on the actor ofc) is firm with her pupils but has a soft spot for the protagonist whom she still refrains from protecting in deference to a phantom she is aware exists and whose backstory she herself delivers in the show

(the strength of the character would more indicate the ALW version of the character than Leroux's, and if the showrunners are going with the '04 film version of the character (and i'm guessing they would, given all the references to other films in the show), then she very much knows about the phantom and is not particularly conflicted about endangering anybody)

but she had nothing to do with the archie or principal clanton reveals

so like

why name her Mme. Giry and feature her so prominently if the reference wasn't gonna go anywhere?

i don't think the showrunners misunderstand how references work. they handled all the others just fine - or at least the ones i understood

[lord-blue-jellyfish]

so im watching the mikes mic pretty little liars 2 electric boogaloo video and THE DANCE TEACHER IS NAMED MADAME GIRY? LIKE THE WOMAN FROM PHANTOM OF THE OPERA? HER? WHOSE DAUGHTER MEG WAS A DANCER??????????????

[lightsinthemist]

Is the name of the ballet teacher in the PLL Original Sin seriously Madame Giry??? :DDDDDD

[septembersghost]

the most important thing you need to know about the first episode of pll: original sin is that, without a hint of irony, they named the ballet instructor madame giry

[choijrie]

Thoughts on Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

First off, i liked it, it’s definitely a enjoyable show and it would’ve been way better if it wasn’t a pll reboot, bc of the og pll? nothing alike. It’s like show need it the name for it to be popular, made some references here and there (the ezria one? 🤢🤢), made the villain go by A and called it a day. Bc truly it doesn’t feel like a reboot, it doesn’t have the same feel to it that pll had, that made it so good even tho it wasn’t a good show at its core. Also i don’t see how are they gonna make second season? when we already know who A is? unless there is someone else working with Archie it wouldn’t make sense for more seasons.

Now, my opinions

First off, gotta get this off my chest, what the actual fuck is that Mouse storyline? like i honestly don’t get it, it’s so fucked up and we don’t even know a lot of it, why does she it do? why does her mom go to that group? why do they act like she was actually kidnapped when she wasn’t, wasn’t even taken for 5 minutes? it’s all so weird

I also don’t like how they made it clear that Wes is a creep but Tabby is still around him? I’m sorry but if 15 yo my daughter told my her 20 something boss made a move on her, i would make her quit and report him, why does she keep working with him seriously

I honestly don’t think Imogen pregnancy was handled well, i get that not everyone goes through the same things but it was like sometimes she wasn’t even pregnant, also zero safety awareness for this girl

Faran is my girl, love her, my favorite. The only thing i don’t get is why would herbully be madame giry? like idk i feel like she quite liked faran, she kept wanting to give the lead part and all, her bully is clearly her mom but it’s like they picked whoever bc her mom was in the other place

When it comes to Noa, there’s not much to say? at least for me, i liked her and that’s it, hope her mom goes to rehab

For the guys, nothing bad to say about Ash and Henry, i liked shawn but i don’t trust that he actually stopped using and i hate to say it but i truly liked Chip at the beginning, it’s wasn’t until he showed interest in Imogen that i thought he was a but weird, and if i’m not wrong it was after tabby and imogen talked about what happened to them? so it was pretty obvious

I liked Kelly, and i think she IS Kelly, but she doesn’t really know who she is without Karen that’s why it seems confusing, but i think her storyline was interesting, but i hate that she ended up with Greg

The moms sucked, all of them, a few of them less than the other but at the end of the day they all sucked

Also i wished the showed the principal a but more, like i think he could be involved in what happed to angela bc i thought he was showed as a teacher in 99 but wasn’t even sure it was him, so i ended up not giving him much thought, so it was a little out of nowhere

Overall it was too convoluted of a show to have only 10 episodes, it’s like 8 different storylines, it’s crazy. It would be way better if it wasn’t a pll reboot that’s all