Talk:Oh, What Hard Luck Stories They All Hand Me/@comment-25556607-20150202190210/@comment-25937133-20150202191604

I feel like hte writers need to realize that having one (or more) of the girls be single for a while is not the end of the world. I'd rather see the character be single than in a revolving door of boring and ultimately fruitless relationships.

I think the problem with Emily is that though the writers have given her some great character growth, they haven't given her  a "thing." Like Spencer is the intellectual and has a bunch of shady family issues. Hanna has the fiesty says-dumb-stuff and is doggedly determined/ deals with endless issues brought up by her family and Caleb (the Wilden thing, the Kate thing, Caleb's family thing etc). Aria...as annoying as it is she is the "relationship" girl. Emily really doesn't have any of that. Her family is barely shown, Paige hasn't done squat since season 3, she really has no side characters directly related to her (like Aria has Meredith, Spencer has Jason, etc). The writers sort of painted her into this isolated corner.