Talk:A is for Answers/@comment-109.151.217.124-20140320004003/@comment-16756126-20140320021650

yeah it's easy to criticize but I disagree. it's been 4 seasons and there are way more questions than answers that have been lingering for way too long. finish one idea and move on to the next. we just got answers from season 1 that's pretty absurd and it wasn't even a complete and concrete resolution. PLL gets 22+ episodes to produce quality results and haven't been living up to their potential. there are a lot better written shows on tv and they do more with less because they don't get as many episodes. the best shows have everything mapped out. they have a clear starting point and vision for how it will progress and how it will end and then coherently connect the dots. the writers on this show don't seem to operate on this principle and seem to make things up as the go or proceed without fact checking events from the past. and that's a no no because they  have a strict timeline they established they must follow. this will always become messy and cause issues. first and formost this show is not realisitc at all and requires a huge supsension of disbelief by the audience to even watch this show at face value because most of the shit that happens in Rosewood makes zero sense most notably accepting the protagonist, A, as an omnipresent and omniscent entity with limitless resources who is motivated by a blind obsession and vendetta towards Alison and her friends for an undisclosed reason. it was intriguing at first as the audience got sucked into the mystery of who? and why? but fast forward 4 years later and we are still waiting!!!! and are no closer than we were on day one. the appeal and novelty has faded and they ruined the A element when A morphed from just one person into an entire team and/or hierachy with a revolving door of different characters with different motives. there has definitely been a decline and maybe that's due to turnover or change in the writers' room. Marlene and producers splitting focus between PLL and Ravenswood certainly didn't help. But for the past seasons there have been too many loose ends. new charcters are introduced for no reason and then vanish. or worst they come and go without any apparent reason. Plot lines are never concluded before they intergrate new ones or they seem to be abandoned altogether. Most writers' rooms have huge whiteboards where they map out and keep track of ideas, plots, characters, etc but seems like PLL fails to do that consistently. the main reason people continue to watch is because they are invested