thebestplltheories answered:

*I know this post seems VERY LONG, but I really think it is worth a read. Please give this a chance before you scroll past and please spread this around before the premiere next week*

OMG I’ve been waiting for someone to ask this. Thank you :))

This is the thing that the majority of the fandom just doesn’t understand. And I’ll admit, at first I didn’t either. On the night of the finale, I literally said to myself when the episode finished “soooooo, I still don’t get why CeCe hated the liars so much????”

But then I went and re-watched episodes and with the following information in mind: “CECE DILAURENTIS IS A, SHE ACCIDENTALLY ‘KILLED’ HER SISTER WHO SHE LOVES, AND CECE WANTS TO BRING HER SISTER HOME ALIVE SAFELY”, literally the whole entire show fell into place for me. It’s really quite brilliant BUT ONLY IF YOU RE-WATCH or you simply won’t see the pieces fall together.

This needs to be made very clear so I’ll put it in capitals, not because I’m yelling though haha.

CECE DID NOT HAVE ONE SINGULAR MOTIVE THAT CARRIED ACROSS THE SEASONS.

IT IS NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE LIKE THAT.

Everyone needs to stop thinking “what did the girls do to CeCe to make her hate them so much?” and instead be thinking “why did CeCe do that?”

There’s a difference.

Because majority of the time, the answer as to “why did CeCe do that?” is NOT because CeCe hated the liars. To quote CeCe “I love all of my dolls. That’s why you’re still alive”.

“Why the hell did A hate her sister enough to dig up her own grave?” WRONG QUESTION to be asking! She loved her sister. CeCe dug up Ali’s grave in 3x01 because she had a hunch that Ali is truly alive (CeCe said she was seeing a blonde in a red coat and thought it might be Ali - it was Ali) and thought by digging her grave she may get answers about her sister who she thought she killed.

“What did the liars do to make CeCe want to burn them alive at the lodge?” That’s how the fandom is thinking. Wrong question to be asking!! Totally wrong approach!!

I’ve said this a million and one times, long time followers are probably sick of me now but I’m happy to say it again in case you’ve missed it - CeCe did not want to kill the girls. CeCe wanted to put the girls in what SEEMS to be a dangerous situation because CeCe knew that her sister would come out of hiding to save the girls (ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE WHEN SHANA AND WILDEN SHOWED UP AND TURNED CECE’S FAKE THREAT TO A REAL THREAT - Shana and Wilden wanted Ali dead for their own reasons and thought Ali was going to be in that house, Shana failed to get justice for Jenna here and tried again in New York), to which CeCe wanted to know if her sister is alive. And she was. Alison pulled out Hanna.

“Why the hell did A kill a cop?” Well Wilden wasn’t going to let A’s sister to come home and tell her story because Wilden covered up the true ‘murder’. Again, CeCe is helping her sister!!!

“Why the actual f*ck did A frame Ashley Marin for Wilden’s murder? Why did A hate Ashley?”

Again, WRONG QUESTION TO BE ASKING!!!

A didn’t hate Ashley. CeCe killed Wilden. CeCe wanted to get away with it. CeCe thought that by pinning it on the person who ran Wilden over with a car a few episodes ago, she may get away with the murder and she may be able to bring her sister home without Wilden stopping her.

This is where the part that majority of the fandom isn’t happy with comes into play. CeCe overdid things, and perhaps those tiny events are without reason: driving the car through Emily’s house. Almost cutting Emily in half. Freezing Aria and Spencer to death.

But ONLY BY RE-WATCHING WILL YOU NOTICE THIS:

THE TIMING OF THE STUNTS A PULLED ARE GENIOUSLY DONE, WELL DONE MARLENE.

Driving a car through Emily’s house?? Happened ONE episode after all the liars found out from Nigel that CECE WAS THE ONE WHO ORGANISED THE FLIGHT PATH TO THE LODGE.

Cutting Emily in half? Happened right when CeCe was on the news for killing Wilden, and right when they were ramping up investigation about CeCe and her connection to Radley and Marion (Spencer literally asked Dr. Palmer “do you know a CeCe Drake?”)

The girls were SO close the uncovering the truth! CeCe got mad!!! CeCe needed to protect herself! CeCe nearly cut Emily in half!!

Again, please notice the timing!!!

There is no underlying motive. It’s all about the timing and what is going on in CeCe’s world that causes her to attack or not.

“Why the hell does A hate Ali so much that she would attack her in her own living room and text her saying “if you leave I’ll kill you?”

Ali was going to leave Rosewood… right after CeCe worked so hard to bring her home safely! CeCe even BLEW UP JENNA’S HOUSE TO MAKE ALI SAFER AS JENNA WAS A REAL THREAT (dead girlfriend Shana, the Jenna Thing), yet Ali was going to leave. CeCe didn’t want her sister to leave after ALL that effort!!

“What did Mona do to CeCe to make her kidnap Mona?” Mona was building an army against A’s sister. Mona told Ali to get out of Rosewood (yet CeCe attacked her to stay) once and for all. CeCe ain’t having any of that.

AGAIN, to help her sister, CeCe got rid of Mona. “Mona can’t hurt you anymore”, said CeCe to Ali in the Christmas episode.

“Explain to me why the heck CeCe threw Jason down an elevator shaft.”

Jason and Emily were getting too close for comfort!! Jason and Emily were SO close to getting to the truth about CeCe’s connection to Wilden. Remember earlier that episode, CeCe lied about knowing Wilden yet later Jason finds a picture of CeCe and Wilden in Cape May. Clearly, they had a history. CeCe’s true identity of being Charlotte was on the line. CeCe needed to act fast before they got the photo. CeCe got mad. CeCe broke the elevator. Whoops. Oh well. No one got seriously injured. No one died. Identity safe. CeCe won. She can move on with her day.

I could go on for DAYS and DAYS and break down every SINGLE event that happened. There are NO plot holes OTHER THAN Marion’s death in the timeline. How the hell was Charles like 10 when Marion was killed, meaning Toby was a child when his mother died, yet she was alive when Toby was a teenager. Impossible. I don’t believe Marlene saying “flashbacks are interpretative”. THAT is the ONLY plot hole.

So please. Message me if you think there are plot holes. I will try my best to clarify. In my mind, I have all the answers. I’ve been re-watching and everything makes sense. Everything. Sure some of it is heightened reality such as CeCe blowing up Jenna’s house to protect her sister, but hey, there is SOME logic there. It’s not bizarre as if “Caleb blew up Hanna’s house because she said no to dinner and a movie”. I’ve had messages saying “you’re just an obsessed fan that is too in love with the show to admit that they screwed up”. That couldn’t be more further from the truth. I talk shit about the show when they deserve it, my followers know that I speak my mind! I don’t hold back! But in this case, I genuinely think Marlene has done a fantastic job at crafting an A storyline that wouldn’t have worked with anyone other than CeCe. Sure Wren is suspicious, but he was never A.

“There would’ve been less plot holes if it were Wren”.

People who say that get me mad. Then how do you justify the CeCe clues that are there by fact, not opinion? There would be MORE plot holes if it were Wren. He could be Uber A, don’t get me wrong, he is so suspicious. But he was NEVER ever Big A. (I say that politely. I know there’s some huge Wren is A theorists.)

I need to rap it up now (again I’m not yelling, just want to emphasise)

CECE DID NOT HAVE ONE SINGULAR MOTIVE ACROSS THE SEASONS.

CECE DID NOT HATE THE LIARS BECAUSE THE LIARS DID SOMETHING TO HER.

IT IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. IT’S NOT

BLACK AND WHITE LIKE THAT.

This is where the negativity of the fandom is coming from, not everyone has dug that deep (fair enough, whose got the time when it wasn’t said IN the show - we gotta do it ourselves)

IF YOU TRACK THE TIMING OF EACH OF CECE’S MAJOR ATTACKS, AND TAKE NOTE OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN CECE’S WORLD AT THE TIME OF A’S ATTACK, IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

DIFFERENT MOTIVES AT DIFFERENT TIMES.

That’s how I end it. Different motives at different times, with Alison’s safety being at the CORE.

PLEASE share this post around, I really want more and more people to see the positives especially with the premiere next week.

Not asking for you to all of a sudden LOVE CeCe being A. Each to their own. You have the right to your opinion, obviously, and I respect your opinion.

Though if you say “I don’t like CeCe being A because it doesn’t make sense”, there’s a problem. It does make sense. You just don’t like it for other reasons. AND THAT IS TOTALLY FINE.

That’s probably the last time I’ll speak about why it makes sense. Hope this clarified for some people :)

Please spread!!