LOOK AT HIS FACE
and people called Nicola Murray smug??? he's basically "slimy, conniving earthworm" but a man stumbling his way up the ladder of British politics by 'accidentally' falling onto people with a knife I his hand. In this essay I will...
really though, I actually hate him, but also he's SO interesting. I want to put him in a jar and shine a very bright light into it to see whether he thrives or curls up into a ball and cries.
and it's probably some weird third option because it's him, and he exists in order to prolong his own existence. that's either very human or very not
BUT I MEAN FLICKING BETWEEN MALCOLM AND OLLIE'S EXPIRING, MANIPULATIVE, HOMOEROTIC/PARASITIC, FUCKED UP RELATIONSHIP AND DAN AND OLLIE'S DEVELOPING, MANIPULATIVE, SELF-HATRED INDUCING, FUCKED UP RELATIONSHIP IN THE LAST EP IS INSANE!!!
like the two of them go from playing squash together weekly (and they so dated, you can't prove me wrong, so I'm obviously right) to what I can only assume is a couple years with no meaningful contact, to Ollie manipulating Dan into the position of party leader, and then immediately to Ollie caving to Dan's every whim.
like, yeah, ofc Ollie wanted Malcolm's job, and for that he needed Malcolm gone, but I seriously doubt he wanted him gone during the change of leadership, before he'd even got a foothold as a party spin doctor. there's a whole room of people in charge of the party's press and image and you're going to tell me he was prepared to bet on them just stepping out of the way??? he's an idiot, but he isn't stupid. he might think he's manipulating Dan but all it takes is a two minute conversation and he's putting his own career on the line to stab Malcolm in the back when the man is ALREADY FINISHED.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ABOUT THE SCENE WITH THE TWO OF THEM AT LEWISHAM POLICE STATION. like Dan realises everything there is going smoothly and this isn't going to work and immediately turns on Ollie, who then just apologises, desperately tries to prove himself useful by offering advice on HOW TO STAND (seriously Ollie???), and then diffuses the situation by betraying MALCOLM BLOODY TUCKER. like come on.
Ollie's job is not safe. Dan would stab him in the back in a heartbeat, and they both know it because Ollie just watched Dan throw Malcolm - THE MAN WHO GOT HIM INTO POWER AND HANDLED ANY OPPOSITION FOR HIM- over. and for what??? to make sure nothing taints his image? or because that's a level of power he doesn't want to compete with?
Ollie is not safe because even Malcolm was not safe, and whilst Ollie might have become Malcolm, he's not nearly as good at it (yet). even Dan and Ollie's post s4 semi-casual, deeply secret relationship (they resume their S1 shit, but with way more mutual self hatred, deep distrust, ambition, and genuine disgust for each other, trust me) won't save him because Dan has out Ollied Ollie.
he is, in fact, even more of a slimy, self-serving piece of shit, and they've climbed the political ladder together, so now one of them has to push the other off with a knife in their back.
Obviously.
@rattuswrennus courtesy of your overindulgence of my yapping as usual x
ty for feeding Brian, he couldn't be this unhinged without you
