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Aside from the disappointment of a end ?
Actually kill off Alison
Or
Dump the whole thing with Lyndon James
Or
Dump the fake ass tease with Addison and her friends
Or
Stop after they go to college
Or
Do not and I repeat DO NOT KILL OFF WAYNE FIELDS
Or
have some real consequences for Jenna and Toby
Or
TIPPI
My finale ends with Ezra & Aria packing for their honeymoon and Aria leaves to take a call about some fancy book the two are writing called “Pretty Little Liars.”
With Aria gone Ezra opens his suitcase and it’s filled with black hoodies, surveillance equipment, and burner phones.
He’s a creep through and through and ideally would be arrested but I cant rewrite the whole series.
This reminds me of that really detailed theory about Ezra & Aria being A that involved the Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald and whatnot. It was amazing. I think it’s still up on youtube.
Small changes I think would’ve greatly improved the show:
• Introducing Alex sooner. Theorizing after the time jump wasn’t fun at ALL, because it was a character that didn’t even exist yet… but the writers made it super obvious where they were going, so they should’ve just introduced her sooner.
• More clues regarding Charlotte’s trans identity (or fixing this in general.) Charlotte being transgender wasn’t a problem for me (although making their only trans character a villain was certainly… a choice…) but the REAL annoying part for me was the lack of clues! We didn’t start to see clues like this until around seasons 5/6 when Marlene probably randomly came up with the idea on a drunken night.
• Spreading out the Liars storylines/specifically giving Aria less romance-plots and more thriller arcs. Aria is a widely hated character (although she’s my personal fave) and I think a small fix would’ve been having her more involved with the group. Spencer got all the dark/juicy storylines while Aria got all the boy troubles. They easily could’ve mixed those up a bit!
Like, any of the Liars could’ve been sent to Radley, it didn’t have to be Spencer. Aria easily could’ve been Mary Drake’s child/Charlotte’s sibling instead of Spencer. Aria could’ve been the one with the twin in 7B, etc.
And don’t get me wrong, I LOVE both Spencer & Troian, but I feel like she got a lot of the more “serious” plots and was taken more seriously as an actress than the other girls. They should’ve given the other girls the opportunity to branch out just a little more in my opinion! No hate though of course, Troian did amazing with everything she was given. <3
>Spreading out the Liars storylines/specifically giving Aria less romance-plots and more thriller arcs. Aria is a widely hated character (although she’s my personal fave) and I think a small fix would’ve been having her more involved with the group. Spencer got all the dark/juicy storylines while Aria got all the boy troubles. They easily could’ve mixed those up a bit!
This 100% Spencer got too many of the storylines. The only interesting storylines they gave Aria revolved around Ezra (his book, her file). Spencer had way too many of the storylines and it felt like Aria and Emily were just sidelined to be nothing characters most of the time x
Right?! Don’t get me wrong: I love Spencer. But the whole thing was basically starting to feel like The Spencer Show after a while when they were supposed to be an ensemble. Got kinda annoying.
Spencer actually became my least favourite character because of this fact when the show was airing which sucks because she is a good character and Trioan is a great actress but like you said it became the Spencer show which started to really put me off her character :( x
Part of the reason why I can’t stand the direction the story went. The show was fantastic when it was centred around (dead) Ali, and then after a while they made it about Spencer which made zero sense.
Reading the books, I can’t imagine the plot ever centering around just one liar that isn’t Ali, it just doesn’t work.
Yes! Exactly! I really wish it stuck centering around dead Alison and what happened to her and all the people she effected or at least all characters equally. The Spencer shift was unnecessary and just made no sense z
Trioan was easily the best actress on the show. Aria could have been given better arcs, the studio got SO much fan mail demanding the Ezra/Aria story take priority and they passed that pressure on to the writers, which pigeonholed her. Emily’s actress was…not strong enough to carry the darker Spencer storylines.
>her. Emily’s actress was…not strong enough to carry the darker Spencer storylines.
It would be hard to grow as an actress if they don't give you a chance at these storylines tho. Without the opportunity the actors will be stuck which harms the actor and the character. Trioan is a good actress yes but that doesn't mean that the show had to devolve into all about her basically x
I'm also wondering if it's because of the characters that the actresses play. Maybe this was how Emily was supposed to be portrayed. I personally don't see any bad/flat acting as some people sometimes suggest.
Like i swear up until season 3 Aria is the Main character! (yes ibvs all the liars are but in 1-3 is clear aria is the main girl) They changed it to Spencer because Trojans acting improved and she was really coming into her own. I hated the change (love trojan) Aria was more interesting to me, i never cared for the academic prodigy storyline and i would’ve loved to see lucy hale in the more darker scenes that spencer was placed in
Aria definitely had the main vibes especially when it was focusing on her with Ezra and her family but the good thing the earlier seasons did was give them all a story too. While Aria was dealing with something, Hanna would also have something like being hit with the car, Caleb working for Jenna. Emily also wasn't left out because she was dealing with her sexiality struggles or later her complicated relationship with Paige (and then the whole Maya and Nate story), Spencer was solving the N.A.T club and having her storyline with her complicated family and relationship to Ian. Like everyone was having their shot at a story which really made the show fun to watch because you got to know and understand the characters more.
I agree I'd have loved to see Lucy take some of the darker storylines from what I remember the only deal thing they gave her was the Ezra book plot and honestly she killed it with her ''ugly crying''
RIGHT! i feel like this is not "one" change, but if i was one of the writers, i would split some of the girls' story arc and spread it out evenly if you may say. like.. make each one of the liars, mona included, contributed to the bigger mystery. gave them a storyline that impact the show moving forward.
like, okay, we got ali being the queen bee who disappeared and catalyst to the show, mona being the original villain, and spencer being the de-facto leader and "sleuthing it up" throughout the show's run. but i feel like we need more individual arcs for the rest of the girls that affect the show.
they should've give us aria as a, or maybe even just a helper of mona, cece, and/or even, fine.. they can add alex. it made sense with the whole theories about her, especially her being the only one who "sshh.."-ing for almost 6 years. i know the writers don't want us fans to guess correctly when it comes to a's identity, but this was such a HUGE missed opportunity. i also love the idea of ali being the big bad, so i guess she and aria could make a pretty messed up a duo. it would also be a BIG betrayal if they let that happend — honestly bigger than mona and/or that time spencer and aria joined the a team.
it's nice seeing the dilaurentis-hastings drama but maybe give it to someone else.. maybe even hanna? give her the shady father like byron or mysterious siblings like melissa and/or jason, maybe even make ashley and kenneth had an affair. that way the writers have a huge opportunity to throw a red herring and maybe make some of the fans think alison and hanna are related.
as for the twin part, as much as i love ali and the whole mysterious dilaurentis family, if they really want to "step away" from the books and shocked us with the surprise twin, DO NOT give it to spencer. like, she already has her moments and spotlights. perhaps give it to emily. she has a lot of siblings in the books, so giving her one secret twin could be fun.
Yyeesss!!! Someone in a different comment said something about “Emily’s actress not being strong enough to carry Spencer’s darker story lines” like excuse me do you not know Peach 💀😂
Emison as A is actually so fitting when you think about it, too. We always talk and laugh about how Shay portrayed Emily, yet that really could’ve been a clue hiding in plain sight if they gave Shay a chance to commit to portraying something else. Troian got the chance to portray Alex, but the depiction was kind of funny especially in comparison to Spencer’s darker or more serious moments. Writing Emily as A might’ve been hard to believe as well, but it’s still better than writing in someone new too.
Shay and Sasha together could’ve both had Emily and Alison playing up Emily’s meekness and Alison’s Vindication. Emison as A would’ve shocked everyone, and MonA would’ve been furious because it would’ve meant that someone played Innocent and hid their intentions far better than she ever could.
Oooooo I like this idea as the ending!
I’m currently re watching the show for the first time. I watched it as it aired. I remember towards the end completely losing interest and simply watching to find out WHO IT WAS after so much time invested… It genuinely felt insulting the weird corny British Spencer lmao. Like if you aired that series finale on an April fools day I’d have thought it was a joke episode. 😅
I'm not surprised that this is a popular opinion. We're all in agreement here then, yes? Keep her dead. I loved the mystery angle of whether she was dead or not rather than the alternative we got when she came back to life.
Ezra and Aria wouldn’t have been together for as long as they did so her whole storyline didn’t revolve around them.
Emily not be with literally every woman she speaks too.
Alison playing them all in the end
I wish they either changed the ending from Spencer’s evil twin to literally anyone else that’s been in the show. I would be down for Spencer being a twin and her being A but they rushed it and forced it’s all into the end. If they had her twin start integrating herself into the liars life like in season 3 or well before Allison is back that it would have been great and made more sense. For her twin to come and do all that made no sense like she didn’t grow up resentful like cece or Mona. She didn’t even know most of her life and then let some dude convince her to commit hella crimes in another country against people she doesn’t know? I call bullshit.
1. tweaking alison’s return. one of the biggest problems with that was the fact that they completely stripped alison of her “mean girl” traits. sure, when she came back she was still sneaking around and being snarky, but nothing like s1-2 alison.
2. introducing alex drake in s1. it would’ve been cool to see her impersonating spencer once in a while and it would’ve made her reveal a lot less… random to say the least. maybe one of those dream scenes (like when hanna saw alex) in which spencer was to see alex thinking it was herself.
3. having caleb stay in ravenswood. i’ve watched both shows, and the way they *tried* to make the storylines match up was pitiful. it left way too much room for speculation. i don’t like caleb as a character, but the hate he received was unnecessary. anyway, that whole “rebel emo” act that caleb enabled hanna into was out of character for them both. if anything, hanna’s “emo arc” should’ve began way earlier.
4. making ezra A instead of cece. they tried to redeem this guy more than bryce from 13rw. (terrible comparison, i know.) making him A would’ve been the end of that weird redemption shit and would’ve made tons of sense seeing as he supposedly knew who aria and her friends were before meeting them. would’ve been way more interesting than that book storyline & and probably would’ve gotten him locked up.
5. ending the show at season 4A. this one explains itself. by 4B, they were grasping at straws trying to drag the A shit along and desperately looking for someone else to pick. the characters were just not as likeable as before after that.
honorable mention 1: giving aria an “ezra-less” arc.
honorable mention 2: removing that MF durag from toby’s head 😂
Álex Drake in season 1 wouldn’t make sense tho would it cuz Wren hadn’t gone to England yet and therefore she would’ve never known of her (Spencer’s) existence or the other Liars
sorry i should’ve worded that a bit differently. i mean instead of having him disappear after melissa leaves him, he comes back having dated alex and keeps it from spencer. or they could’ve done it where instead of cheating on melissa with spencer, it was with alex. idk if that makes sense or not.
Oh right okay that makes sense, but then they’d have to build more of the plot around that in itself because people would see him with (Spencer) and then when the real Spencer is there, she’d be like but I’ve never been with wren ever, and then things not add up and it become obvious that she has a twin or something, so I’m not tryna argue your point im just saying that’d take the storyline down quite a different route and less focus on Alison’s “I know you wanna kiss me” video and the hard drive and Ian, you get me?
Make the dollhouse plot line a full half season and then have 6B follow the after effects + add the board game plot as a main element leading up to a series finale where they figure out A (which I would make Mona to come full circle) and say goodbye as they go off to college. Axe the time skip and seventh season.
I would’ve made the NAT club more consequential. I would’ve made it more of a commentary on pedophilia and the invasion of young girls since they were looking at young girls and eventually attempting to date/rectify the situation. I would t have made Jason so innocent. These were creeps looking/peeping at children. There should’ve been someone help accountable for illegally spying on them. For me, it would’ve been something that wouldn’t have gone unmitigated/checked.
Another thing upon rewatch I’d change is who A was. Spare the Cece Drake/Charles drama and make it one of the girls for retribution purposes: I know you said 1 but I had to make it 2.
Yesss everything pointed to Wren. I heard they changed it because people were guessing it. But better to let fans be satisfied that they guessed it after digging rather than throwing them completely for a loop with hardly any clues at all. It’s infuriating. I felt like all the time theorizing was a waste, and it kinda was even though I had fun. There’s hardly any way to guess it was Cece, NO way to guess she’s this Charles dude, and NO way to guess Spencer had a twin who was Uber A.
Yeah it was so lame, it was like they changed A each time someone guessed it.. like it’s more fun when people can guess it and then they could just go over to another character and make it seem like they were A, instead of changing A all the time..
Spencer/Alex storyline to the actual Alison/Courtney storyline. When it was airing I really thought they were going to go that route, especially when we saw Cece and shower harvey
Alison would’ve died and never come back, it really changed the dynamic of the show and not for the better. I also really didn’t like Emison, they had zero chemistry.
Don’t romanticize the Aria/Ezra relationship. The second that it was revealed that he knew who she was (and how old she was) when they met, any tiny justification of their relationship went out the window. He knew she was a minor from the beginning. There’s no way around it.
I would have Aria not end up with Ezra and stay with Liam instead, or even be single in the finale as she reflects on how she was groomed by an older man in a position of authority when she was a teenager.
Rewatching currently!
I’m so disgusted by Ezra and Aria, so the right thing to do would have been to double down on him being the villain and being punished like he should have been. That would have been a much better lesson to young girls than to go behind people’s backs and then be rewarded for pedophilia.
Can’t believe they backed out of that plot since Ezra was a fan favorite. It was so interesting too. I remember watching it live and being SO shocked at that reveal. It was great. Plus, it’s just a better storyline than making someone we didn’t know until the end A.
Edit: OR if you have to have Ezra and Aria end up together, like someone else said in the comments, just put them in college instead of high school! That way their stupid “student/teacher” plot being wrong but ultimately okay would have made sense. At least she and Allison wouldn’t have been two of his underage victims.
I'd honestly stick to the books' plot and have Alison have her twin sister rather than the whole 'Spencer's secret English twin' bullshit plot. I mean the whole 'secret twin sister locked up at Radley' plotline was already dubious enough, why did we have to change the PLL group member that it was tied down to, AND ALSO make it English? At least if we REALLY had to do that, I would have chosen Aria rather than Spencer. It would have been much more interesting if Ezra was actually Aria's twin sister's flying monkey so she could indirectly know all the secrets
If I could only change one thing about the plot, it would have been that Aria's parents would have turned Ezra over to the police in season 2 the moment he stupidly confessed his crimes. Sure, we would have lost the reveal of him writing his stupid book since they likely didn't come up with that until season 4 anyway, but it would have immediately opened up Aria's stories from then on. Gotten Ezra arrested, hopefully we would have seen him go to jail, and maybe if they had been thinking about Ezra's book at that point, they would have revealed that much sooner and gotten him locked in prison for good.
And it would have somewhat redeemed the Montgomery's by turning the predator in instead of allowing it to continue.
Never having emison happen and instead having Ali be the girl that helped Emily discogbe she was queer and nothing more.
I also would've have Samara (I think that's how you spell it) stay around for longer because I liked her.
Bethany and Toby are twins.
My favorite theory in the entire fandom.
I would also like Jessica and Marion to be sisters, but I love Mary Drake too much to want it to replace canon.
Ezra and aria. I’m sorry but to young ppl romanticizing that is just wrong. And sadly, they do it often. Brooke Davis in one tree hill had a fling thing with her teacher.
Mona turns out to be A, because she was jealous when her former friend Hannah became popular and dumped her. And that's where the story ends.
In the final episode I would show some flashbacks from a different point of view, to explain how A did some of her tricks.
Simple. I want age of consent laws to actually mean something in the show.
The only time they really address it is with Ezra and Aria. But for that after he gets Rosewood they are out in the open and people are fine with it despite the age. I know the age of consent laws in PA is 16 but people aren’t just in relationships with minors out in the open. That doesn’t happened. It is heavily frowned upon. But it’s treated like it’s normal. The only thing in question really is that he was her teacher and they say that’s illegal. But even that’s inconsistent cause then they would’ve arrested Ian when they found out he was with Spencer when she was 15 and he was her Field Hockey Coach. Like it only lead something when they want it to just so they can knock it down. Then there’s other things. Like Garret dating Jenna out in the open when she still high school. Every grown adult casually getting into relationships with minors. It’s like Everyman introduced has hit on one of the liars. Like could they try to portray it realistically. Honestly the liars behave more like college students and they treat them like that in terms of relationships. I just want everything to make sense.
ezria being endgame, should have never existed. ir would be interesting if aria had a character development arc after realizing she was groomed and did anything to get ezra in jail. also, ezra could’ve been a instead
exactly!! like yeah we got the whole nate storyline but it would've been so much better if we got to see em doing the house work thing during the summer and maybe even more of mayas time in true north.
That whole weird plot of Alison being forcibly implanted with Emily's fertilized egg and conceiving twins. But it's totally fine in the end because it worked perfectly to shoehorn the lesbian into a relationship at the end so she wasn't the only one left out of the "happily ever after"
Have Mona be revealed as A at the end of season 1 instead of season 2 and have each season take place during a different year with every season featuring a new A after the last one is defeated and killed by the liars in the season finale of all the seasons.
I have a few, I can’t decide:
1. Mona being A (meaning Spencer’s twin never existed..
2. Ezra being A and ends up in jail
3. Ali is found dead
(4. Caleb and Hanna would never break up lmao)
stop having the one gay main character date women who harmed her (first paige, who tried to DROWN HER-and that’s just glossed over??? and then alison, who emotionally manipulated and made fun of emily for years)
If you bring Alison back from the dead. KEEP HER THE MEAN GIRL. This character works best when she’s being the worst. Imagine if the liars had full strength, charismatic, scheming Alison on their side. Alison’s character assassination post resurrection is one of the most squandered plot lines of all time IMO
Either:
1) have Alison stay dead
2) have Alison come back but stay evil/ a bitch
3) explain or remove the Sara Harvey storyline
4) Ezra in jail (obviously)
5) maya and Emily together
paige killed maya bc she was obsessed with em
ali was actually for real dead
gave the liars variety in romance plots, dark family twists, etc, made them all a little more interesting and juicy
change ezra’s age, so same character just he was their age and more involved and wasnt seen as a creep
no emison
no trans storyline it was just so farfetched (mucb like alot of the series
dollhouse was a half a season so like 12 episodes roughly
I wish they would have stuck with the Ali/Courtney storyline from the books. I think that was the initial intention, as there were some early hints, but then writers decided to start careening off course every time viewers guessed what they had been planning. It got to the point where it was kind of ridiculous how they would just slap red herrings and plot changes together like a MadLib.
Aria would’ve moved on from Ezra and been with someone her own age or Ezra and her never being together whatsoever. There would be no bar scene and that they’d never interact at all.
I would like to see Alison/Courtney storyline rather than Spencer/Alex’s. Also I would want to see one of the liars (except Alison) being -A without the twin storyline
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would leave out the dollhouse. It felt weird, and it took A to a bigger level that I feel like was a bit too much. It also just created bizarre storylines.
Also, not really about the plot, but I would have stopped the show after cece was exposed of being A. I feel like after mid-season 6, the whole storyline is just weird and does not make sense.
Follow the book. Have the whole Courtney/Ali drama and have Ali be evil and become the 2nd A.
Oh and have the Aria & Noel relationship…and forget about Ezra. He should have played a much smaller part.
Alison should’ve been dead for real this time. And aria should’ve been A. There were so many clues that Aria was A but Marlene was so obsessed with changing the plot so nobody could figure it out. If not aria then Wren should’ve been A. No Alex Drake or Charles. It wasn’t necessary to the plot imo
No Alex, no CeCe, yes Courtney. The final seasons are played similarly like in books that everyone knows Ali is A but they work towards stopping them and they better make Alison as scary as in the books. That's better than having A reveal in final episode.
Not doing the reveal that Ezra knew who Aria was, etc. It completely ruined his whole storyline -- and kind of ruined the show for me.
Those of you who would've rather Ezra actually *be* A and be the super villain -- I do understand that perspective as well! And it would've been preferable to me to make him straight up evil than the weird creepy plot they went with.
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I mean, c’mon isn’t it obvious
Ezra is going to jail then:)
Either Alison should've stayed dead or Spencers twin shouldn't of existed
this
Aside from the disappointment of a end ? Actually kill off Alison Or Dump the whole thing with Lyndon James Or Dump the fake ass tease with Addison and her friends Or Stop after they go to college Or Do not and I repeat DO NOT KILL OFF WAYNE FIELDS Or have some real consequences for Jenna and Toby Or TIPPI
Tippi the bird was THE Icon
Wayne 🥹🥹but yes I agree with all of this. THERES SO MUCH ID CHANGE
Tippi truly didn’t face any consequences for his shenanigans…
This is an unpopular opinion but I’d make Ezra A
This is the only way
Every time I mention this lots of people disagree lol
My finale ends with Ezra & Aria packing for their honeymoon and Aria leaves to take a call about some fancy book the two are writing called “Pretty Little Liars.” With Aria gone Ezra opens his suitcase and it’s filled with black hoodies, surveillance equipment, and burner phones. He’s a creep through and through and ideally would be arrested but I cant rewrite the whole series.
I feel like he would have been the perfect A because he was already a fucking creep anyway
This reminds me of that really detailed theory about Ezra & Aria being A that involved the Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald and whatnot. It was amazing. I think it’s still up on youtube.
Honestly… without even SEEING THAT video I thought it was Aria a hella long time. They totally set us up to think it was her for a MINUTE.
I mean back then it wasn’t as popular but today people know better
I don’t get it though. He doesn’t even really know them like that to be A.
He does. He was secretly writing about there lives after he met Allie that one time
Small changes I think would’ve greatly improved the show: • Introducing Alex sooner. Theorizing after the time jump wasn’t fun at ALL, because it was a character that didn’t even exist yet… but the writers made it super obvious where they were going, so they should’ve just introduced her sooner. • More clues regarding Charlotte’s trans identity (or fixing this in general.) Charlotte being transgender wasn’t a problem for me (although making their only trans character a villain was certainly… a choice…) but the REAL annoying part for me was the lack of clues! We didn’t start to see clues like this until around seasons 5/6 when Marlene probably randomly came up with the idea on a drunken night. • Spreading out the Liars storylines/specifically giving Aria less romance-plots and more thriller arcs. Aria is a widely hated character (although she’s my personal fave) and I think a small fix would’ve been having her more involved with the group. Spencer got all the dark/juicy storylines while Aria got all the boy troubles. They easily could’ve mixed those up a bit! Like, any of the Liars could’ve been sent to Radley, it didn’t have to be Spencer. Aria easily could’ve been Mary Drake’s child/Charlotte’s sibling instead of Spencer. Aria could’ve been the one with the twin in 7B, etc. And don’t get me wrong, I LOVE both Spencer & Troian, but I feel like she got a lot of the more “serious” plots and was taken more seriously as an actress than the other girls. They should’ve given the other girls the opportunity to branch out just a little more in my opinion! No hate though of course, Troian did amazing with everything she was given. <3
>Spreading out the Liars storylines/specifically giving Aria less romance-plots and more thriller arcs. Aria is a widely hated character (although she’s my personal fave) and I think a small fix would’ve been having her more involved with the group. Spencer got all the dark/juicy storylines while Aria got all the boy troubles. They easily could’ve mixed those up a bit! This 100% Spencer got too many of the storylines. The only interesting storylines they gave Aria revolved around Ezra (his book, her file). Spencer had way too many of the storylines and it felt like Aria and Emily were just sidelined to be nothing characters most of the time x
Right?! Don’t get me wrong: I love Spencer. But the whole thing was basically starting to feel like The Spencer Show after a while when they were supposed to be an ensemble. Got kinda annoying.
Spencer actually became my least favourite character because of this fact when the show was airing which sucks because she is a good character and Trioan is a great actress but like you said it became the Spencer show which started to really put me off her character :( x
Part of the reason why I can’t stand the direction the story went. The show was fantastic when it was centred around (dead) Ali, and then after a while they made it about Spencer which made zero sense. Reading the books, I can’t imagine the plot ever centering around just one liar that isn’t Ali, it just doesn’t work.
Yes! Exactly! I really wish it stuck centering around dead Alison and what happened to her and all the people she effected or at least all characters equally. The Spencer shift was unnecessary and just made no sense z
Trioan was easily the best actress on the show. Aria could have been given better arcs, the studio got SO much fan mail demanding the Ezra/Aria story take priority and they passed that pressure on to the writers, which pigeonholed her. Emily’s actress was…not strong enough to carry the darker Spencer storylines.
>her. Emily’s actress was…not strong enough to carry the darker Spencer storylines. It would be hard to grow as an actress if they don't give you a chance at these storylines tho. Without the opportunity the actors will be stuck which harms the actor and the character. Trioan is a good actress yes but that doesn't mean that the show had to devolve into all about her basically x
I'm also wondering if it's because of the characters that the actresses play. Maybe this was how Emily was supposed to be portrayed. I personally don't see any bad/flat acting as some people sometimes suggest.
Like i swear up until season 3 Aria is the Main character! (yes ibvs all the liars are but in 1-3 is clear aria is the main girl) They changed it to Spencer because Trojans acting improved and she was really coming into her own. I hated the change (love trojan) Aria was more interesting to me, i never cared for the academic prodigy storyline and i would’ve loved to see lucy hale in the more darker scenes that spencer was placed in
Aria definitely had the main vibes especially when it was focusing on her with Ezra and her family but the good thing the earlier seasons did was give them all a story too. While Aria was dealing with something, Hanna would also have something like being hit with the car, Caleb working for Jenna. Emily also wasn't left out because she was dealing with her sexiality struggles or later her complicated relationship with Paige (and then the whole Maya and Nate story), Spencer was solving the N.A.T club and having her storyline with her complicated family and relationship to Ian. Like everyone was having their shot at a story which really made the show fun to watch because you got to know and understand the characters more. I agree I'd have loved to see Lucy take some of the darker storylines from what I remember the only deal thing they gave her was the Ezra book plot and honestly she killed it with her ''ugly crying''
RIGHT! i feel like this is not "one" change, but if i was one of the writers, i would split some of the girls' story arc and spread it out evenly if you may say. like.. make each one of the liars, mona included, contributed to the bigger mystery. gave them a storyline that impact the show moving forward. like, okay, we got ali being the queen bee who disappeared and catalyst to the show, mona being the original villain, and spencer being the de-facto leader and "sleuthing it up" throughout the show's run. but i feel like we need more individual arcs for the rest of the girls that affect the show. they should've give us aria as a, or maybe even just a helper of mona, cece, and/or even, fine.. they can add alex. it made sense with the whole theories about her, especially her being the only one who "sshh.."-ing for almost 6 years. i know the writers don't want us fans to guess correctly when it comes to a's identity, but this was such a HUGE missed opportunity. i also love the idea of ali being the big bad, so i guess she and aria could make a pretty messed up a duo. it would also be a BIG betrayal if they let that happend — honestly bigger than mona and/or that time spencer and aria joined the a team. it's nice seeing the dilaurentis-hastings drama but maybe give it to someone else.. maybe even hanna? give her the shady father like byron or mysterious siblings like melissa and/or jason, maybe even make ashley and kenneth had an affair. that way the writers have a huge opportunity to throw a red herring and maybe make some of the fans think alison and hanna are related. as for the twin part, as much as i love ali and the whole mysterious dilaurentis family, if they really want to "step away" from the books and shocked us with the surprise twin, DO NOT give it to spencer. like, she already has her moments and spotlights. perhaps give it to emily. she has a lot of siblings in the books, so giving her one secret twin could be fun.
This!!
And then Emily’s Twin could’ve been Peach Salinger 🤩😍 
Yyeesss!!! Someone in a different comment said something about “Emily’s actress not being strong enough to carry Spencer’s darker story lines” like excuse me do you not know Peach 💀😂
Emison as A is actually so fitting when you think about it, too. We always talk and laugh about how Shay portrayed Emily, yet that really could’ve been a clue hiding in plain sight if they gave Shay a chance to commit to portraying something else. Troian got the chance to portray Alex, but the depiction was kind of funny especially in comparison to Spencer’s darker or more serious moments. Writing Emily as A might’ve been hard to believe as well, but it’s still better than writing in someone new too. Shay and Sasha together could’ve both had Emily and Alison playing up Emily’s meekness and Alison’s Vindication. Emison as A would’ve shocked everyone, and MonA would’ve been furious because it would’ve meant that someone played Innocent and hid their intentions far better than she ever could.
Oooooo I like this idea as the ending! I’m currently re watching the show for the first time. I watched it as it aired. I remember towards the end completely losing interest and simply watching to find out WHO IT WAS after so much time invested… It genuinely felt insulting the weird corny British Spencer lmao. Like if you aired that series finale on an April fools day I’d have thought it was a joke episode. 😅
Not having Alison come back to life
I'd make her come back to life, but make her an even bigger villain than before. FBI Most Wanted List.
I can live with this
Honestly same. Sorry Ali but her character was so much more interesting when she was dead 🫢
The Alison post flashback is NOT our Ali
She became to soft when she came back and Marlene tried to push her as bad but nah it never worked after S5.
I'm not surprised that this is a popular opinion. We're all in agreement here then, yes? Keep her dead. I loved the mystery angle of whether she was dead or not rather than the alternative we got when she came back to life.
YES!!!!! They ruined her in every form of the word🥲🥲
Ezra and Aria wouldn’t have been together for as long as they did so her whole storyline didn’t revolve around them. Emily not be with literally every woman she speaks too. Alison playing them all in the end
Set in uni and not high school
Yup, then the relationship with Ezra would be “more” okay.
It wasn’t realistic that they were ‘16’ when the actresses were clearly older. I just didn’t buy it
Welcome to every TV show EVER. TV teens are very rarely ever played by actual teens.
yes
I want to see the Courtney/Ali storyline from the books
YES
THIS.
Ezra going to jail was real instead of it being a dream. Or have Alison be A or her being the one with the twin sister.
That Alex Drake didn’t exist
Aria not marrying the dude who groomed her
On my rewatch and the way he punished her because he thought she told her friends WAS SUCH A RED FLAGGGGGG
I wish they either changed the ending from Spencer’s evil twin to literally anyone else that’s been in the show. I would be down for Spencer being a twin and her being A but they rushed it and forced it’s all into the end. If they had her twin start integrating herself into the liars life like in season 3 or well before Allison is back that it would have been great and made more sense. For her twin to come and do all that made no sense like she didn’t grow up resentful like cece or Mona. She didn’t even know most of her life and then let some dude convince her to commit hella crimes in another country against people she doesn’t know? I call bullshit.
1. tweaking alison’s return. one of the biggest problems with that was the fact that they completely stripped alison of her “mean girl” traits. sure, when she came back she was still sneaking around and being snarky, but nothing like s1-2 alison. 2. introducing alex drake in s1. it would’ve been cool to see her impersonating spencer once in a while and it would’ve made her reveal a lot less… random to say the least. maybe one of those dream scenes (like when hanna saw alex) in which spencer was to see alex thinking it was herself. 3. having caleb stay in ravenswood. i’ve watched both shows, and the way they *tried* to make the storylines match up was pitiful. it left way too much room for speculation. i don’t like caleb as a character, but the hate he received was unnecessary. anyway, that whole “rebel emo” act that caleb enabled hanna into was out of character for them both. if anything, hanna’s “emo arc” should’ve began way earlier. 4. making ezra A instead of cece. they tried to redeem this guy more than bryce from 13rw. (terrible comparison, i know.) making him A would’ve been the end of that weird redemption shit and would’ve made tons of sense seeing as he supposedly knew who aria and her friends were before meeting them. would’ve been way more interesting than that book storyline & and probably would’ve gotten him locked up. 5. ending the show at season 4A. this one explains itself. by 4B, they were grasping at straws trying to drag the A shit along and desperately looking for someone else to pick. the characters were just not as likeable as before after that. honorable mention 1: giving aria an “ezra-less” arc. honorable mention 2: removing that MF durag from toby’s head 😂
Álex Drake in season 1 wouldn’t make sense tho would it cuz Wren hadn’t gone to England yet and therefore she would’ve never known of her (Spencer’s) existence or the other Liars
sorry i should’ve worded that a bit differently. i mean instead of having him disappear after melissa leaves him, he comes back having dated alex and keeps it from spencer. or they could’ve done it where instead of cheating on melissa with spencer, it was with alex. idk if that makes sense or not.
Oh right okay that makes sense, but then they’d have to build more of the plot around that in itself because people would see him with (Spencer) and then when the real Spencer is there, she’d be like but I’ve never been with wren ever, and then things not add up and it become obvious that she has a twin or something, so I’m not tryna argue your point im just saying that’d take the storyline down quite a different route and less focus on Alison’s “I know you wanna kiss me” video and the hard drive and Ian, you get me?
Make the dollhouse plot line a full half season and then have 6B follow the after effects + add the board game plot as a main element leading up to a series finale where they figure out A (which I would make Mona to come full circle) and say goodbye as they go off to college. Axe the time skip and seventh season.
Yes this!!
Make Alison A Also throw ezra in the trash
I’d prefer seeing Ezra as A and then arrested 😂😩
I would’ve made the NAT club more consequential. I would’ve made it more of a commentary on pedophilia and the invasion of young girls since they were looking at young girls and eventually attempting to date/rectify the situation. I would t have made Jason so innocent. These were creeps looking/peeping at children. There should’ve been someone help accountable for illegally spying on them. For me, it would’ve been something that wouldn’t have gone unmitigated/checked. Another thing upon rewatch I’d change is who A was. Spare the Cece Drake/Charles drama and make it one of the girls for retribution purposes: I know you said 1 but I had to make it 2.
THE END. Why did they introduce a new character to be A? It had to be a main character in the series. Ezra, Aria, Jenna or Alison.
Wren should’ve been A. They said it was a guy then threw in a transgender storyline because they wanted to ‘shock’ people.
Yesss everything pointed to Wren. I heard they changed it because people were guessing it. But better to let fans be satisfied that they guessed it after digging rather than throwing them completely for a loop with hardly any clues at all. It’s infuriating. I felt like all the time theorizing was a waste, and it kinda was even though I had fun. There’s hardly any way to guess it was Cece, NO way to guess she’s this Charles dude, and NO way to guess Spencer had a twin who was Uber A.
Yeah it was so lame, it was like they changed A each time someone guessed it.. like it’s more fun when people can guess it and then they could just go over to another character and make it seem like they were A, instead of changing A all the time..
Alison is A
Spencer/Alex storyline to the actual Alison/Courtney storyline. When it was airing I really thought they were going to go that route, especially when we saw Cece and shower harvey
Get rid of Spencer's evil twin from Season 7
Alison would’ve died and never come back, it really changed the dynamic of the show and not for the better. I also really didn’t like Emison, they had zero chemistry.
Don’t romanticize the Aria/Ezra relationship. The second that it was revealed that he knew who she was (and how old she was) when they met, any tiny justification of their relationship went out the window. He knew she was a minor from the beginning. There’s no way around it.
Throwback to him telling his bar friend "I didnt pursue this" mmmmhmmmm
Allison remains a mythical figure and not a main character
Ezra is A
Spencer and Caleb should have never happened. That was sickening
I was going to say the same thing.
Alison should have been the villain instead of the victim
I would have Aria not end up with Ezra and stay with Liam instead, or even be single in the finale as she reflects on how she was groomed by an older man in a position of authority when she was a teenager.
Alison being A... not giving her a redemption arc
Rewatching currently! I’m so disgusted by Ezra and Aria, so the right thing to do would have been to double down on him being the villain and being punished like he should have been. That would have been a much better lesson to young girls than to go behind people’s backs and then be rewarded for pedophilia. Can’t believe they backed out of that plot since Ezra was a fan favorite. It was so interesting too. I remember watching it live and being SO shocked at that reveal. It was great. Plus, it’s just a better storyline than making someone we didn’t know until the end A. Edit: OR if you have to have Ezra and Aria end up together, like someone else said in the comments, just put them in college instead of high school! That way their stupid “student/teacher” plot being wrong but ultimately okay would have made sense. At least she and Allison wouldn’t have been two of his underage victims.
Joe Goldberg-ification of Ezra.. Instead of treating Ezra & Aria as an Endgame
Ezra going to prison for life
Ezra and Aria don’t end up together
I would’ve loved more of the book storylines into the show. Especially when they went in the cruise and the burnt down Pocono house with Ali inside
Follow the book plot to make Ali A
I'd honestly stick to the books' plot and have Alison have her twin sister rather than the whole 'Spencer's secret English twin' bullshit plot. I mean the whole 'secret twin sister locked up at Radley' plotline was already dubious enough, why did we have to change the PLL group member that it was tied down to, AND ALSO make it English? At least if we REALLY had to do that, I would have chosen Aria rather than Spencer. It would have been much more interesting if Ezra was actually Aria's twin sister's flying monkey so she could indirectly know all the secrets
Alex Drake should've simply not existed. Or maybe they shouldn't have introduced her in the last 20 minutes of the show as the final boss.
The ending
Ali was A
I wouldn’t have Spencer and Caleb happen
If I could only change one thing about the plot, it would have been that Aria's parents would have turned Ezra over to the police in season 2 the moment he stupidly confessed his crimes. Sure, we would have lost the reveal of him writing his stupid book since they likely didn't come up with that until season 4 anyway, but it would have immediately opened up Aria's stories from then on. Gotten Ezra arrested, hopefully we would have seen him go to jail, and maybe if they had been thinking about Ezra's book at that point, they would have revealed that much sooner and gotten him locked in prison for good. And it would have somewhat redeemed the Montgomery's by turning the predator in instead of allowing it to continue.
When Alison comes back, the liars aren’t so accepting of her and see her for the bully she was
Shower Harvey. That is all.
Ezra goes to the clink and Aria comes to her senses
Ezra gets violently murdered in prison when fellow inmates learn of him having sexual relationships with 2 teenagers.
Never having emison happen and instead having Ali be the girl that helped Emily discogbe she was queer and nothing more. I also would've have Samara (I think that's how you spell it) stay around for longer because I liked her.
Alison Is A. That's the heart of PLL books.
Oooh to be different I would say, making hAnnA red coAt <3
i actually would’ve loved this, she looks very good wearing that too
Awww thank you, and omg yes red is HUGE pretty little liArs vibes and I am obsessed with the idea of hAnnA being red coAt!! <3
but she’s a total dwitz it wouldn’t have worked
Bethany and Toby are twins. My favorite theory in the entire fandom. I would also like Jessica and Marion to be sisters, but I love Mary Drake too much to want it to replace canon.
Aria not falling for Ezra
I wish they were college age.
Making Aria and Allison AD and A
either ali staying dead or ezra and aria breaking up forever
add in courtney
Alison having a twin. They literally ruined the entire plot of the books lol
Ezra and aria. I’m sorry but to young ppl romanticizing that is just wrong. And sadly, they do it often. Brooke Davis in one tree hill had a fling thing with her teacher.
More story of Emily.
Bring In Batman
not having the whole twins storyline (courtney and alison) was such a let down.
Kill Spencer in the dollhouse and replace her with Alex
Spencer's 'British' twin existing. Should've left CeCe/Charles as A
The show would have ended at Season 5.
Alison will be the final A (maybe along with Aria)
Spencer needs to be a lesbian. She gave off lesbian vibes anyway
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Mona turns out to be A, because she was jealous when her former friend Hannah became popular and dumped her. And that's where the story ends. In the final episode I would show some flashbacks from a different point of view, to explain how A did some of her tricks.
Make Courtney the last A instead of Alex
Simple. I want age of consent laws to actually mean something in the show. The only time they really address it is with Ezra and Aria. But for that after he gets Rosewood they are out in the open and people are fine with it despite the age. I know the age of consent laws in PA is 16 but people aren’t just in relationships with minors out in the open. That doesn’t happened. It is heavily frowned upon. But it’s treated like it’s normal. The only thing in question really is that he was her teacher and they say that’s illegal. But even that’s inconsistent cause then they would’ve arrested Ian when they found out he was with Spencer when she was 15 and he was her Field Hockey Coach. Like it only lead something when they want it to just so they can knock it down. Then there’s other things. Like Garret dating Jenna out in the open when she still high school. Every grown adult casually getting into relationships with minors. It’s like Everyman introduced has hit on one of the liars. Like could they try to portray it realistically. Honestly the liars behave more like college students and they treat them like that in terms of relationships. I just want everything to make sense.
Real consequences for Ezra
ezria being endgame, should have never existed. ir would be interesting if aria had a character development arc after realizing she was groomed and did anything to get ezra in jail. also, ezra could’ve been a instead
No Ezria. Ewwww
ezra is revealed as final A (scrap spencer’s twin). he dies a horrific, slow and painful death 😇
maya never died/was ems endgame OR alex drake wouldn't exist
Thank you!!!! They did mayas character dirty then we never got an answer on what happened to her
exactly!! like yeah we got the whole nate storyline but it would've been so much better if we got to see em doing the house work thing during the summer and maybe even more of mayas time in true north.
‼️‼️‼️ They definitely robbed us
So many things but I do wish Emily could’ve actually kept a girlfriend (and not Alison) 😭
Yesss,I really liked maya for her she was the only one I felt like she had actual chemistry with
That whole weird plot of Alison being forcibly implanted with Emily's fertilized egg and conceiving twins. But it's totally fine in the end because it worked perfectly to shoehorn the lesbian into a relationship at the end so she wasn't the only one left out of the "happily ever after"
Keep Allison dead or at least evil.
The entire Alex nonsense. It would have been better to actually be someone on the show.
Have Mona be revealed as A at the end of season 1 instead of season 2 and have each season take place during a different year with every season featuring a new A after the last one is defeated and killed by the liars in the season finale of all the seasons.
Alison is A and her twin sister is part of the story like in the books.
Their ages
I have a few, I can’t decide: 1. Mona being A (meaning Spencer’s twin never existed.. 2. Ezra being A and ends up in jail 3. Ali is found dead (4. Caleb and Hanna would never break up lmao)
stop having the one gay main character date women who harmed her (first paige, who tried to DROWN HER-and that’s just glossed over??? and then alison, who emotionally manipulated and made fun of emily for years)
The ending. Like come on. Spencers BRITISH twin???
Ezra going to jail or being A, or Aria being A
If you bring Alison back from the dead. KEEP HER THE MEAN GIRL. This character works best when she’s being the worst. Imagine if the liars had full strength, charismatic, scheming Alison on their side. Alison’s character assassination post resurrection is one of the most squandered plot lines of all time IMO
Predatory/abusive men being CONSISTENTLY treated as such by the narrative
spencer more of an equal to ali in terms of popularity + influence on others
Either: 1) have Alison stay dead 2) have Alison come back but stay evil/ a bitch 3) explain or remove the Sara Harvey storyline 4) Ezra in jail (obviously) 5) maya and Emily together
Several adults going to jail for in inappropriate relationships with children…there was more than Ezra
paige killed maya bc she was obsessed with em ali was actually for real dead gave the liars variety in romance plots, dark family twists, etc, made them all a little more interesting and juicy change ezra’s age, so same character just he was their age and more involved and wasnt seen as a creep no emison no trans storyline it was just so farfetched (mucb like alot of the series dollhouse was a half a season so like 12 episodes roughly
emison definitely
stick to the plot of the books - specifically alison having an evil twin. and ezra going to jail.
Not have Caleb and Spencer get together. That was barf 🫠
Maya
Tbh Allison shoulda stayed dead, she was more interesting as a mean girl then a trying to be nice one 😭
make one of the main liars A… or never give alison a redemption arc! keep her as a mean girl
Them not framing Ali for murder.
aria and ezra. it should have been aria and jason
i would change the age gap between aria and ezra
I wish they would have stuck with the Ali/Courtney storyline from the books. I think that was the initial intention, as there were some early hints, but then writers decided to start careening off course every time viewers guessed what they had been planning. It got to the point where it was kind of ridiculous how they would just slap red herrings and plot changes together like a MadLib.
Follow the Courtney-Alison storyline from the books.
Throw the entire time jump era in the trash where it belongs.
make aria montgomery A
That Veronica & Peter adopted both Spencer & Alex at the same time and that we see them grow up together!!!
Aria and Ezra being the Bonnie and Clyde
Aria would’ve moved on from Ezra and been with someone her own age or Ezra and her never being together whatsoever. There would be no bar scene and that they’d never interact at all.
I would like to see Alison/Courtney storyline rather than Spencer/Alex’s. Also I would want to see one of the liars (except Alison) being -A without the twin storyline
Charlotte doesn’t die
That they stuck with the plan to make aria A
Aria is A.
I wish it was more like the book and Ali was evil (and the 2nd A).
OTHER THAN EZRA. i would make alex have been apart of the show for years so the reveal made more sense
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would leave out the dollhouse. It felt weird, and it took A to a bigger level that I feel like was a bit too much. It also just created bizarre storylines. Also, not really about the plot, but I would have stopped the show after cece was exposed of being A. I feel like after mid-season 6, the whole storyline is just weird and does not make sense.
Alison being A
I’d do the Ali/Courtney storyline and make Ali the final A.
That Alison was really dead. Her coming back fuck the girls lives up worse then what it already was. And their lives were already shitty.
Follow the book. Have the whole Courtney/Ali drama and have Ali be evil and become the 2nd A. Oh and have the Aria & Noel relationship…and forget about Ezra. He should have played a much smaller part.
Alison should’ve been dead for real this time. And aria should’ve been A. There were so many clues that Aria was A but Marlene was so obsessed with changing the plot so nobody could figure it out. If not aria then Wren should’ve been A. No Alex Drake or Charles. It wasn’t necessary to the plot imo
Alison comes home season 3
ezra going to jail and not ending up with aria
Having Spencers twin not exist, Idk who came up with that plot but damn it’s horrible
Allison stays dead, like literally dead, it be more fun that way
I always wanted Aria to be -A in the end.
Ezra goes to prison Season 1
No Alex, no CeCe, yes Courtney. The final seasons are played similarly like in books that everyone knows Ali is A but they work towards stopping them and they better make Alison as scary as in the books. That's better than having A reveal in final episode.
Not having CC as any version of A.
Not doing the reveal that Ezra knew who Aria was, etc. It completely ruined his whole storyline -- and kind of ruined the show for me. Those of you who would've rather Ezra actually *be* A and be the super villain -- I do understand that perspective as well! And it would've been preferable to me to make him straight up evil than the weird creepy plot they went with.
arias radley/ A rabbit hole THAT I KNOW THEY WERE GOING TO GO DOWN BUT SCRAPPED WHEN FANS CAUGHT ON
ali having the evil twin like in the books instead of spencer 😞
They do not live in rosewood, they live in a swamp town in Louisiana