Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-189.176.202.103-20141211044703/@comment-71.178.134.101-20141211120444

The problem is that each of the boyfriends had a few initial points of interest (Toby with a dark "is he good or not?" thing and his relationship to Jenna; Caleb had a bad boy image with some cool computer skills and ties to Jenna; Ezra at least had the appeal of making Ezria relationship taboo). Other than Caleb's increasingly irrelevant computer skills, all of these things are gone. No real relationships to Jenna (or any other shady people), generally no reason to suspect them of anything, they are all fully aware of A and the girls plans, nobody even seems to care that Aria is dating her teacher anymore.

Also there is no more excitement over things like "will they kiss?", "will they become an item?", "will they find out about A as the girls desperately try to hide it?" (which to me at least was half the fun of watching the relationships). Basically they add nothing new or exciting to the show. Ezria, Haleb, and Spoby are clearly supposed to be endgame. Which would be fine with me - except the show takes up so much time with a Spoby love scene or Ezria eating pie for like the 100th time. It gets old. Every time I see "epic romance" in an episode preview synopsis I roll my eyes because it's not really epic when you've done it 100 times already.

If Caleb started using his hacker skills like Mona did he could be way more relevant. Toby at least could become a bit more relevant when tying together his mother with Jessica, Bethany, and the fragile patient. Maybe as cop he can do something? Ezra could actually use some of those spying skills to catch A as well. I guess all this would make it too easy but still.

Honestly I'd rather see more of the parents. At least Peter and Veronica are interesting and clearly are still hiding a bunch of relevant stuff. Same with Melissa. And there are like a million ways to tie Kenneth in with the A mystery.