History Headscratchers / PrettyLittleLiars

* In ''Deadly'', it is revealed that [[spoiler: Nick and Ali]] have planted evidence to frame the girls for Tabitha's murder and for being A, including rerouting all text messages through the girls' cell phones, planted their fingerprints on all physical evidence, and faked a security video of them committing the murder. The part about the cell phones, I can believe, but how is it possible to falsify the fingerprints and the video well enough to fool the FBI? The video especially - even if [[spoiler: Nick]] were a professional visual effects artist, I cannot suspend my disbelief to imagine that level of deception realistically working.

* And why are there so many gay women in Rosewood? I mean, it's kind of weird and unrealistic. So many gay women and not one gay man?

** Alison was confirmed alive in season 4 and it's also hinted that her mother knew about it and that's why her old room looks like someone is still living there. Since Maya was living in the DiLaurentis house, maybe Ali just wanted to visit her old room and pick up something? Or maybe Maya was helping Alison with faking her death? Also, this thing wasn't directly resolved in the books but the Liars have been seeing blonde girls a lot and it turned out to be the real Ali spying on them so I am guessing that's what happened with this window thing.

* What was up with that magazine detailing Hannah's stay at the psychiatric centre? Was it real or not? Hannah seems to think it is but if such an article WAS published,the hospital would be in so much trouble it's not even funny. However if it's fake(which seems to be implied)where did it come from? Iris specifically mentions that such magazines are contraband and if Iris is responsible how did she get Hannah's medical information or make such a convincing fake magazine? Before someone says a computer,was it ever specified that the paients get computer privilges? Even if they do,they would likely be closely monitered so Iris would have likely been caught. "A" could have made it but wasn't it mentioned that Iris never gets any vistors? Which brings me back to where the magazine even came from in the first place...

*** OP here. You've got a point about the girls themselves and maybe Ali's parents are just that clueless,considering how eaisly Ali manipulates them in Ali's Pretty Little Lies and how easy it was for Courtney pull a twin switch but that still doesn't explain how the crime scene tech's failed to determine that the girl in the grave wasn't Ali. It's specifically mentioned that the body was identified as Ali through Dna but I'm pretty sure that identicle twins don't have the same Dna(they certainly don't have the same fingerprints or footprints). That's a rather extreme mistake to make,espcially in the middle of a murder investigation.

** Well the Liars can be forgiven since A) They hadn't known there was a twin, B) They never knew real Ali that well pre-switch so they probably never got physically close enough to be able to memorize every minute detail of her appearance, C) it had been years since they had seen Ali so any minute details different between their Ali and Real Ali wouldn't have been noticed, D) it had been years and people change so when Real Ali posed as Their Ali any minute differences could be passed off as puberty or body modification. As for her family well... from her behavior in Ali's Pretty Little Lies I don't think Ali's mom was a good mother, beats me on her dad and Jason though.

* Mid season 2 Jenna apparently goes off for her eye surgery but later she returns still blind in both eyes. Then later she does get one eye done and Toby sys that the other eye is going to be done later. Okay so far so good but then there was that business with Jenna pretending that the surgery had failed and after that all of a sudden BOTH eyes can see but Jenna never got surgery on the other eye! I suppose it could be argued that she got the other eye done between seasons 2 and 3 but then how could Jenna drive in the S2 finale if only one eye sees?

* So apparently Toby was the A Team member that Dr.Sullivan met at the diner which may explain how they know each other and how he helped her at the end of S3 but then WHY doesn't she tell the girls that Toby is part of the A team or that there was a whole A team rather than just one teenage girl with mental problems?

* You know how "A" had to pick the lock on Peter Hastings Desk to steal the gun? Well Peter had to unlock the that same desk drawer when he finally discovered that the gun was missing and to do that he would have had to relock the drawer after "A" picked the lock,so why didn't he notice that the gun was gone earlier when he relocked the drawer?

* By the end of the Pilot we know that Ali is *dead* but then why does "A" continue wording the texts as though he/she is Ali? Is espcially confusing in the fashion show episode as in the message on the over head A refers to Ali's dresses as though they belong to "A" herself but just earlier "A" called Ali an evil bitch monster by hijacking the slide show. The hell?

* In season 1 who is the blond girl that Spencer sees in Maya's bedroom window? This happens in the books too but neither version really explains what's going on. This takes place while Maya's family lives in the house and they are black so it can't be Ali,Courtney,or Cece(in the show). Is Spencer just hallucinating or something?

** Huh? Are you refering to the prequel book,Ali's Pretty Little Lies? Yeah in that book Courtney says she tried to strangle Ali rather than drown her as previous books said but there are two possible explanations: 1.Ms.Shepard just forgot what she'd previously written or 2.Ali lied about what happened when she told the others about Courtney. Given that Ali's Pretty Little Lies strongly implies that Courtney was never actually insane and Ali manipulated things to make it seem that way,it's not too far fetched to assume Ali lied.

* How is it that no one is able to tell Alison and Courtney apart? Yeah I know they are identicle twins but even their family,who should know them best,cannot differentiate between the two. They are able to switch places WAY too eaisly,their parents at least should have noticed that something was off. Apparently even DNA doesn't help,since in the first arc the police identify the dead girl as "Ali" but from what I understand (although I could be mistaken)not even identicle twins have the exact same DNA(very similar but not the same)so shouldn't a trained analyst be able to determine that the girl in the grave was NOT Ali,even if they didn't know there was a twin?

* Where in the hell are Toby and Jenna's parents?! I haven't seen season 4 yet so maybe they show up there but shouldn't they have have turned up sooner? Jenna is blinded and later goes through major eye surgery,Toby spends most of season 1 as suspect #1 in Ali's disapearance yet not once do we ever actually see any parents. The closest we get Toby and Jenna mentioning them sometimes and the whole Toby's biological mother comitted suicide thing.

* How is it that no one is able to tell Alison and Courtney apart? Yeah I know they are identicle twins but even their family,who should know them best,cannot differentiate between the two. They are able to switch places WAY to eaisly,their parents at least should have noticed that something was off. Apparently even DNA doesn't help,since in the first arc the police identify the dead girl as "Ali" but from what I understand (although I could be mistaken)not even identicle twins have the exact same DNA(very similar but not the same)so shouldn't a trained analyst be able to determine that the girl in the grave was NOT Ali,even if they didn't know there was a twin?

** Huh? Are you refering to the prequel book,Ali's Pretty Little Lies? Yeah in that book Courtney says she tried to strangle Ali rather than drown her as previous books said but there are two possible explanations: 1.Ms.Shepard just forgot what she'd previously written or 2.Ali lied about what happened when she told the others about Courtney. Given that Ali's Pretty Little Lies strongly implies that Courtney was never actually insane and Ali manipulated things to make it seem that way,it's not too far fetched to assume Ali lied.

* [[spoiler: Courtney]] never tried to drown Alison in the books, where is that idea coming from? I think this Alison apologist has [[spoiler: Courtney and Alison]] mixed up.

* [[spoiler: Courtney]] never tried to drown Alison in the books, where is that idea coming from?