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Rewatching season 4 and how many times they pretty much tell us Cece is A is ridiculous. Lol
shareI can't say this with 100% certainty, but I'm almost positive she was just supposed to be a red herring back then. They didn't decide to make her A until mid-season 5. They never would have shown someone dressed up as A if they were planning on making them A at that moment. We know for sure that they weren't planning on making her Charlotte until much later, because the scenes between Ali, Cece, and Mrs. DiLaurentis don't have any sort of continuity to them.
sharewhat was the point of introducing CeCe when they did if that wasn't their intent for her? what was the point of admitting that Marlene didnt know who big -A would be until early season 3? that just made it easier to figure out it was her.
even with the charlotte stuff, id disagree. Marlenes been shown to be incomeptent even more than shes been shown to be untrustworthy.
she had no reason to (before CeCes reveal) tell us when she got the idea for big -A, but she did, and the timeline poitns to them creating CeCe right as that happened.
id wager that the continuity errors with the dilaurentis family stem from her not having the 'bigger picture' planned out and the fact that she doesn't write the majority of scripts herself. the continuity issues likely stem from a lower level writer writing the episode and marlene being too lazy to think about whether or not that contradicts her bigger plan
*when life gives you lemons*
Sara: are you a sour lemon?
There are clues in Season 3 that point to CeCe being A. At the end of 3x06, we see A looking for apartments then in 3x07, CeCe says she just moved here. Marlene said the song Crazy was significant and that's the name of the episode CeCe first appeared in. The numbers that were on Spencer's shower control (307620 or something like that) were said to be significant by a writer. CeCe first appeared in 3x07 6 minutes and 20 seconds in or something like that. And you can find more clues in Season 3 and 4. There may have been more clues for other characters (but I don't think so) but those are because, they want you to think it's them and make them obvious like Wren, Melissa, etc. .
Marlene did say they didn't know who Big A was until a few episodes in to Season 3 but they had an idea of a few people who they wanted to be when they first began Season 3. But I will say that when 3x07 first aired, Marlene intended CeCe to be Big A or else there was no point in her character, she literally had no other main storylines really.
Now, idrk if Marlene always intended for CeCe to be Charles though (or thought of the whole Charles thing back in Season 3) because, I feel like there would have been much bigger clues of Charles in Season 3 since that was the whole 'bigger storyline'.
I think the biggest problem with the CeCe reveal was that
1: CeCe wasn't prominent that much. She appeared in like 2 episodes in 3A, 3-ish episodes in 3B. 3-ish episodes in 4A. 2 episodes in 4B, 2 episodes in 5A, none in 5B and obviously 1 in 6A. Now, had they made CeCe stay for at least the majority of the episodes in 5B when she visited in the 5x13 Christmas Special, and stayed all throughout 6A up until the 6x10 finale of course, I don't think it would have felt 'as' weird for a character like CeCe to be Big A. Instead of appearing in like, 12-ish episodes between seasons 3A-6A, she should have appeared in like 25-ish or something by adding in appearances in 5B and 6A.
2: Plot holes: Charles being in Radley with Bethany and Bethany killing Marion when Toby and Ali were like, 3? Maybe younger. Why they couldn't have made Bethany kill Marion a couple years before CeCe came to Rosewood idk cuz that would've been kept in line with when Marion died. Or, when she ORIGINALLY died.
3: CeCe's motives weren't that 'big' so it made Big A seem like she was doing a good thing by trying to bring Ali home instead of terrorizing the girls.
I think Marlene originally had CeCe as Big A with her motives being Ali and the girls getting her kicked out of college so CeCe killed Ali and CeCe became A towards the girls to get revenge on them too when she heard about Mona being A when Mona was in Radley.
What always throws me is that Jessica always called her a daughter when Jessica and CeCe both knew she wasn't. I'm fully convinced she took the name Drake for a reason. And then the flashback of Jenna and CeCe talking about the identity of her real mother. If Jessica said she was her son and put him in radley and then raised him into CeCe, why was grown CeCe (whom as -A could do/know everything) didn't know her real mother? What was the point of IMK making us think she was Jessica's daughter just to turn around and say "Oh, she's a cousin" When the whole time she could've just said she was a cousin but never revealed Jessica's twin. They could've just said she adopted her as a baby and that would've been that, we didn't even need to know it was her sister's baby even.
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