Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25132765-20141006190103/@comment-190.187.20.63-20141007180142

Regarding if you hate Toby or not and his "mommy issues" haven´t you think that may be the reason he´s still alive has something to do with Radley, Mrs. DiLaurentis and the idea that maybe BY push his mom off the roof and Mrs. D and Wilden cover it for a reason. Why lie, BY was sick, mentally speaking, so it wasn´t really really a crime. I think that the reason he keeps bringing his mom up is because they need to have the idea fresh in veiwers minds that something fishy happen that night that relates all of these people and we will eventually know what. I have nothing against any of the couples sometimes they do bother me but you have to remeber that the liars are "teenagres" and some 18 year old´s life revolve around their boyfirends and their personal issues (popularity, college, leaving their houses, etc), so may be the reason why we have so many couple moments is because that´s what keep the liars from completely loosing it! If you go back in the episodes you can see that everytime something significant happen to the boy/girl friends the liars kind of lost it. Emily after Maya death, Spencer when she dump Toby and she thought he was dead, Aria when she found out about Ezra, Hanna when Caleb came back out off all the girls she is the one who dealt with the Caleb situation better.

So I think the writers do most of the things for a reason eventhough they take a long time to prove their point, I do realize that some storylines are and attemp to revamp the show and add pointless characters. But some carachters came to the show without knowing they wouldnt be able to stay. Samara for example, the actress who plays her Claire Holtz, was on vampire diaries as a guest star right after she left PLL and probably didn´t have time to do both shows seeing how TDV films on ¿Atlanta? so may be they introduce a charcater to see how the audience reacts to them and if they don´t really like it they just get rid off them or they give them a mayor story line, remeber how Caleb start before being main cast. Also maybe some characters have a "mission" on the show and once the play their part they just move on, like Dean the sober coach, or the creepy guy with the masks.