gonna be honest. if we’re talking simon cowell. one of the funniest things a 1d member has done in relation to him is when liam randomly showed up at the brits that one year after the band went on hiatus and snatched that award away from him and leaned into the mic like “one direction forever bye” and left the venue.
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Hey.
How are you?
Just wanted to tell you, dear @rad10active-ketchup , that I agree with you. This is in reference to an argument that we had a couple of months ago about this post you've made:
I kept thinking about Doll's death and just how sudden it was.
At the time, I was trying to cope with the best coping mechanism possible: accepting her death through the lenses of competent writing. The problem was, you brought up some valid points that challenged said coping mechanism with the possibility of a lack of care by the writers for what they were doing, so I responded with this analysis:
That's a lie
Now, I assume you don't really care about the whole thing anymore and are probably just thinking that I'm a total creep for writing this, and if that's the case, then I'll delete or rewrite this post immediately for providing you with uneasiness.
The thing that I'm trying to say though is... you were right.
I have an indecisive shifting view of Doll's death and how it was executed. At times, I was totally in agreement with this aspect of the story, and other times I was cursing Liam Vickers to all hell and back.
But now that the dust of episode 7 has settled, I can't help but think that Doll was just wasted potential in the end. This is going to age horribly if she were to come back in any way, shape or form, but as of right now her existence in the story feels like a cool plot device for action scenes and character development.
I admittedly wouldn't have thought much of Murder Drones if she didn't exist in the show, her personal conflict with the team just felt way more interesting and grounded than the eldritch, universal, still not as developed threat of Cyn and The Absolute Solver. I like N and can't imagine the show working without him, but his sister was still a very late part of his character development that needed to be addressed after the proper development and pacing, not being broadcast from minute one as "the big thing".
Problem is, I grew too attached to Doll throughout this time, and I feel like I finally learned why: She shares with me so many traits that I haven't seen represented anywhere else in fiction and it led me to identify myself with her to the point that when she died, it felt like part of me died too and she was merely the premonition of my future failure to overcome my flaws.
I was always on board with Doll dying; I just watched the first two seasons of Wakfu and learned how to write a tragic antagonist properly, believe it or not, I actually thought that V was going to be the one to kill her in the end since it looked like the most fitting end to her arc; but I digress now.
It just feels like Bradford Buzzard 2.0 for me: I spent so much time getting invested in a character that the writers never really cared about beyond the action spectacle.
That's a bloody shame, but I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.
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liam on the seedy underbelly of the popular music industry
i read the article a while ago and remembered his takes to have been more compassionate than they seem now. but still, he acknowledges the problem and that men can also be victims in these situations, which is something that gets swept under the rug more often than not.
i wonder what he meant by ‘everyone taking care of their shit’…
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Saturday, 10 June 2017/part II
At Capital FM Summertime Ball 2017, Liam performs Strip That Down and in the backstage, he has a little surprise for Charlie Puth
credits: Liam & Zayn News' Twitter
Also in the backstage Liam runs in to Zedd
credits: Liam's Instagram Stories
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