Pretty Little Liars Finale Talk

I’ve been a huge fan of the ABC Family t.v. show Pretty Little Liars for quite a long time now, and this past week was the season two finale.  So, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, this post may not make a whole lot of sense to you, but I will say this – go watch the show!  It’s great and highly addicting.  And to those who are familiar with the show, what did you think of the finale??? SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!

Ezra going public was something that I was not expecting at all.  I did think that he would show up briefly despite everything that had gone on with Aria’s parents.  As much as I loved this moment, being the big Aria/Ezra fan that I am, I couldn’t help but wonder, shouldn’t he have been arrested for kissing a minor?  It just seems strange to me that he was run out of town by Byron’s threats of going to the police but a public scene like that doesn’t faze him.

Finally after weeks of waiting for the ‘Big A Reveal,’ we find that Mona is A.  Because I’ve been reading the books slowly (I read one every once in awhile in between other books), I wasn’t surprised to find out Mona was A because she is the first A to be revealed as A in the books.  I was, however, surprised to find that she survives the fall and then the twist regarding the personality disorder.  Was anyone else not surprised that Mona was A?  Who was surprised? 

Another highlight of the episode for me was when Spencer discovers A’s lair.  I was definitely not expecting to see the room where A does their dirty work in the finale at all, so I was extremely glad that we were able to see it, and it ended up being really cool to see it, despite it being a creepy setting.  I really appreciate the fact that now we have a clear visual for what we’ve been seeing tiny snippets of at the end of each episode since the pilot.

And the conclusion of the episode: the discovery of Maya’s body and Emily’s breakdown.  I don’t know that this was necessarily intentional since the show is not over, but I almost felt like the show came full circle in the finale.  The discovery of Maya’s body was setup almost exactly like it was when the girls looked on at the discovery of Alison’s body in the pilot.  Content wise, I personally never liked Maya as a character, so I wasn’t all that upset when she turned up dead, but Emily’s reaction is what got to me emotionally.  It definitely says something about Shay Mitchell’s acting ability that she was able to make me care even though I never have before.

So for all of you who watched the finale, what did you think??? Leave me a comment and let me know!