Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Touch Of Weevil
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 02.21.2011
And of course let's have a big stupid girlfriend fight in the middle of a glass-walled fishbowl with Berber carpet and everybody we know watching and let's just furthermore assume that nobody knows what we're fighting about, Ezra. They are so dumb! So anyway, basically it comes down to their futures may or may not be linked -- which causes Aria to puncture her own skin -- but that it's not because of him: "The whole point of college is to broaden your world, not pack up your high school English teacher and bring him with you!" (Nice one, Fitz.) She is all aghast and wonders about whether or not he just admitted he's molesting her -- "Is that how you see yourself?" -- but he assures her they are still a pair of star-crossed idiots and that he's more worried about her outgrowing him: "But you will, when the time comes."
Ah, the old You'll Outgrow Me thing. You know who never, ever has to deal with that? People who have actual, honest-to-God relationships with the appropriate people. If you find yourself worrying about that sort of thing, break up with the person immediately because you have been doing a number on yourself and never should have gone there. Either you're being weak or they are, but either way it's no bueno.
BUENO:
Spencer: "Your character is suspicious."
Hanna: "It doesn't say that in the script."
Spencer: "That's because it's underneath the words."
Hanna: "That's the reason why she's drinking?"
Spencer: "No, she's drinking because her kid drowned."
NO BUENO:
Somebody, who even cares who, as though this is a transition from any part of any conversation, ever, to any other part of any other conversation: "...Maybe there are no accidents! We never questioned what happened at that party..."
...Aaaand right into the flashback again. That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. I love this show, you know, but when they get lazy, man, you can see the whole ass. Back in the flashback, the drunk girl Ian was planning on raping went flying down the pool table just as one of the Liars was trying to talk Emily into flirting with one of the cutest dudes we've ever seen on this show. Drunk ho: Bottom of the stairs. Ian: Top of the stairs, doing his usual thing of staring like a fucking lunatic.
Back in real life they're all, "Why didn't you mention the part where Ian was at the top of the stairs, during this party that none of us ever thought to mention where that girl broke her neck?" Well, why does it matter at all? Because it establishes precedent for Ian killing girls, like Alison and this drunk girl, and possible future girls, like all of us girls for example. Mona goes, "I'm having a hard time figuring out who's evil and who's just naughty!" And Ezra just grins and tells her to work it out. Spencer, on the other hand, is totally sure that some people are pure evil.