Scream For Me
Hanna’s insecurities and current situation continue to plague her when Alison moves into the Marin house while her Dad is out of town. Now forced to live with the one person she is trying to avoid, Hanna retreats further into abusing alcohol and ends up in a sticky situation. Meanwhile, Aria drops the ball on her maid of honor duties when Ella returns to town to plan her wedding and Spencer and Emily pursue a dangerous lead, trying to solve the mystery of the dead girl in Alison’s grave.
I totally get it! I think Wren could be A too.
Yes, his whole behavior is suspicious. On the other hand, I would be disappointed if Toby was A. I guess i want it to be somebody older and more elegant.
THen again, it could make sense that A has been part of the A team... a minion. But it makes more sense A would stay invisible.
wow you really hate Toby haha
Honestly, I only like Toby when he's good to Spence, when he makes her feel reassured, which you are right, is kind of superficial at best since none of them can ever feel safe.
I think there might be something really shady still going on with Toby, he knows a lot more than he is saying, I mean come on, he was working with one the As ! How could he not know anything more ?
Anyway, if this first theory turns out to be wrong, there will be something going on with his mother and the whole mystery around her death at radley, and that will surely break Toby and Spence apart. They've been at it for several seasons now, and I for one believe they both deserve someone else in their lives.
But if that was to happen and Wren were to come back to Spencer's life (even if it is by manipulating Melissa), it would be a lot worse than Spoby keeping at it...
Because I think Wren is one of the A's I'm sure of it. I don't know to what lenght or with whom he was/is working, but I find it really weird that Melissa (who we now know for sure works with Mona at the very least) saw him in London after everything that happened between them and that he delivered news to her about her sister... Pff that's not plausible. AND Toby was there !!!!! I'm so sure they saw each other there... Well I'm rambling, I'm sorry, but there isn't another show on air these days that excites me as much as PLL does !
Okay, this is off topic. But I found this online about Toby published by prozacpark in tumblr, and I had to share:
"The reason that I have *always* been iffy on Toby, and have started despising him in the last season is because Toby is the only one of the boyfriends/girlfriends, who consistently not only EXPECTS Spencer to pick him over the OT4, but he ACTIVELY PUNISHES HER when she fails to respond to him in a way that he thinks is his due.
He did the same with Emily in the brief period where he was pursuing her. After which, Emily literally dropped off of his radar to such a degree that he only remembers her when he needs something from her. He encourages Spencer to abandon Emily to go help him, because Toby is one of those men who only cares about a woman that he’s actively in a relationship with/pursuing. Or his dead mother. He’s literally the personification of all the issues I have with fictional white cishet men all rolled into one incredibly atrocious package.
Like, take a moment to reflect on Toby’s behavior these last few episodes. This last season, this whole fucking SERIES, really. Yeah, he was abused, and harassed, and bullied, and all of those things are horrible. But, hi, I stop feeling bad for you when you expect those issues to take such precedence that you not only ignore others’ suffering/pain, but ACTIVELY work to make it WORSE because you’re just too focused on your own pain that no one else’s matters.
Manpain, Toby has tons of it. Back when I wrote my Manpain meta, I described two forms of Manpain, metanarrative kind, where the narrative values the pain of the white male cishet protagonist over the suffering of others, and the narrative kind, where the said male character values HIS suffering over the others because he genuinely thinks that whatever is happening to him is more important than anything else.
Toby is one of the few who suffers from the second kind (that I have come across, anyway!), and I just can’t stand it.
Remember the time Toby chased Emily down a deserted hallway and into a classroom when she was fucking TERRIFIED because it was JUST SO important for him to FORCE her to see his side of things.
Remember when Spencer asked Toby to go to a dance with Hanna, where yes, they lied to him, but he had every reason to think that Hanna had reasons to be anxious/worried, and he still ABANDONED Hanna at the dance.
Then he is pissed off about that for several episodes in a row, culminating in a scene where he stalks into Spencer’s house, where Hanna tries talking to him, and he just holds up his hand, indicating that she should not start with him (he’s too good to even acknowledge her with words, really), and moves on to fighting with Spencer. During which, he grabs her phone from her hand to keep her from calling Jason, forcing her to listen to him first.
This is not the only incident of Toby doing something physical to make sure someone is listening to him. When Emily is about to confront A, and Spencer is going to meet her, Toby comes in, mad about them keeping secrets, and physically blocks her way out of the door, pushing her inside, and then grabs her arm to turn her around so she would talk to him. When Spencer turns to leave again, he grabs on to her hands and holds on for the entire duration of the rest of the scene, forcing her into a conversation she doesn’t want to have and doesn’t have time for, and she tries pulling them away from him at least twice during this sequence.
Incidentally, this is the exact same way he forces Emily to listen to him during Homecoming, by grabbing her hand/arm forcefully and PHYSICALLY forcing her to stay in that conversation, regardless of how terrified she was.
Because again, Toby’s manpain is the most important thing happening at any given moment, as far as he’s concerned.