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Anyone else think Ashley Benson and Lucy Hale


should have been replaced?

They are both talented actors but not up to par with Troian, Sasha, and Janel. Shay obviously should never be an actor in the first place. They should have killed Keegan off and made Toby just as bad as I heard he was in the books.

This show is not exactly excellent TV but it is so dramatic in comparison to other teen dramas that it needs better performing actors to pull it off the way the other shows like Gossip Girl for example do not. So, I kept watching other shows and seeing what actors could be amazing on this show. I study teen dramas in general to help with my research on making them better. Anyways, 90210 has horrible actors with the exception of two: Jessica Lowndes and Jessica Stroup. The latter would have been perfect as Aria since she plays a similar character on 90210. Jessica Lowndes is so dramatic and theatrical. She is far too good for 90210 and would have been much better as some kind of villain or A, or even the Mona character while Mona could either play Emily or Jessica could play Emily while Janel stays Mona. (Jessica Lowndes already did a lesbian story line on 90210).

Ashley and Lucy are talented but they would have looked much better on a show that does elevates them like Gossip Girl or 90210 probably would.

I would say Leighton Meester's excellence should be on Pretty Little Liars. Not only is she Oscar worthy on Gossip Girl but she did the chick flick/horror movie The Roomate that was god awful but critics thought she was the one thing in that movie that was actually really excellent. However, she was one of the very few good things about Gossip Girl and there is no one that could play Blair Waldorf better. Gossip Girl did end in 2012, so they could have brought her on as well after. She would have been excellent at whatever Pretty Little Liars casting director would give her.

Anyways, what does everyone think?

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No I think Ashley and Lucy are perfect in their roles and I cannot imagine them being recast. I agree the quality in performances has gone down but the main cast is what makes this show so great.

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I think so too but because of the massive fan base that this show has, there is always debate about who is the better actor and it seems like the writers buy into that, which makes Lucy and Ashley have less compelling story lines for their characters because of it.

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I don't think Ashley has had less compelling stories. Bulimia, getting caught shoplifting, her mom robbing an old lady, her best friend being A, Caleb spying on her for Jenna, Ashley getting arrested for Wilden's murder all because she tried to bury a gun, getting kidnapped AGAIN and tortured by AD, running over Elliot, all of those are pretty heavy.

In Lucy's case I think they just got so much love for Ezria in the first 2 seasons that it went to their heads and they just let it run wild from there. Lucy was shafted because of crazy twitter shippers.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

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Replaced? No way.

Lucy's Hale is what made people want to watch this show, even if she isn't the strongest actor. Also, I find Ashley Benson to be the best actor on the show. I would rather see Troian or Janel replaced, even though I like both.

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