Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 60 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Smartest Guy In The Room
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 01.28.2014
You know what that girl needs is some extra-credit homework. That should help.
FLASHBACK
Spencer is putting the clues together. She is figuring this out. It is actually kind of a neat thing that they do where in this instance of reading the Tale of the Hart & Huntsman, the older murderous gentleman is blurred out, but then at the end when Spencer goes to the actual Hart & Huntsman, and the story starts happening around her, we revisit this exact same flashback but with the person included. It feels like it takes a long time, both times, but they're both such weird experiences -- the first time, Spencer supplies the man's dialogue, so it's a blur flirting with Alison using Spence's voice, and then the second time it's the person, etc. -- that it's worth it. You come to feel that you are on Spencer's, um, level.
THE TALE OF THE HART & THE HUNTSMAN
We're at a college bar. The Hart & Huntsman. He likes to take me there. But he doesn't like to call them "dates..."
Alison: "So, what do you think of my fiction?"
Spencer: "You have a strong voice, but... I mean, it's only going to get more distinctive as you grow up."
Alison: "Excuse me? 'Grow up'?"
Spencer: "You know what I mean. Mature."
Alison: "So you don't think that I -- Alison DiLaurentis -- am mature enough?"
Spencer: "I didn't say that. I just think... All great literature boils down to two themes. Love and Death."
Alison: "Eros and Thanatos, I'm getting, from a man who eats boysenberry pie with beer."
Spencer: "It's delicious."
Alison: "I should write a story about you. Maybe about right now. Maybe call it The Hart & The Huntsman, and it'll begin, 'We're at a college bar...'"
They make out. Spencer feels weird about having decoded the story. But you and I, we know what is going on here. Not just because of other stuff, like we're watching the show that they are only living, but because exactly one man on Earth would have the audacity to go straight for the "as you grow up and mature" creep vibe. Only one pedo would be so ludicrous as to think lecturing a self-important child about the great themes of literature counts as having a conversation. Only one freak needs the pie for Jekyll and the beer for Hyde, and only one person in the whole world is dorky enough take his underage sex predator date to a place that is literally called "The Hart & The Huntsman."
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