#one-dimensional

They fucked up every character in Uglydolls.

It’s not even funny.

Usually I look at bad writing and take it as motivation to improve my own.And the writing is usually not too bad, just laughably bad.

But this movie? Whoop de doo.

I feel like Ox was the only character they tried to add depth to. Ox was an original character in the original toy line of Uglydolls (didn’t seem to display many of the traits as the original but whatever), so he had a bit of backstory to go along with him. He had motivations, relationships, and and objective to fulfill most of the time. The others did not get the same treatment.

Moxy is a, or even the, main fucking character. And she felt so one-dimensional, so horribly reliant on her singing and voice actor, that I couldn’t even stand it. I still can’t stand it.

And don’t get me started on the Perfect Dolls.

These background bitches would follow anybody who takes charge of a chaotic situation. Even after Lou explains that he never gets to feel the kind of love that the rest of the dolls will get eventually because he is a prototype, nobody, not even the sickeningly-kind and open-minded Moxy gives a fuck. They all just suggest to rip his fucking organs out. And while people were yelling and crying out to kill Lou, Moxy was thinking. She was contemplating what to do, as if she were taking these suggestions into account. It makes no sense! Had it not been for Nolan, he probably would have been fucking murdered. 

In a kid’s movie.

They have time for violent threats, but no time to write decent character flaws and motivations? Get bent.

I actually got upset at that moment; Lou was clearly masking his unhappiness and loneliness with violence and anger. And nobody cared. That was most likely the reason he is an asshole in the first place. He felt looked up to, not for his personality, but for his looks and nothing else. He sent Ox out as a last-ditch effort to save a friend from the Big World, maybe because he didn’t want Ox to be rejected (and possibly an ounce of jealousy that Ox had the ability to go there as well), and then felt completely alone. He put on a rouse of shit-talking bitch boy, to feel in control of these people and show them “Hey, here’s how it feels to be degraded and alone all the time. Fuck you.”

(Also I just found out that when he said he was a prototype someone said that he wasn’t a real doll because of that. Hm)

I understand that may not be the intention of the writers, since it is a kid’s movie, but I always try to give characters more development. It’s kind of an instinctive thing I do. However I think that they could’ve added at least some depth, some development or something that makes them more human, even though they are dolls.

Long Haul: the one-dimensional Decepticon, with a sunny disposition with life.

How to stop being a one-dimensional character in your own life!

You are not a one-dimensional character! Have you ever felt like people only take the time to know one part of who you are? Or that some people will take one incident that happened in the past and define you by it. If you have felt like this before know that you are not alone.

The importance of building a healthy relationship with yourself!

So many of us are generalized by a handful of things…

Lineality is a one-dimensional game. Like, literally. It’s just a line.

It’s a joke game, but it’s interesting to play it in context with Line Wobbler, another one-dimensional game that’s been showcased at gaming events for the past few years. Compared to Line Wobbler, Lineality has no progression or variation or really anything, but it does almost accidentally come up with the idea of using sound effects to explain what’s happening on-screen.

Lineality (read on The Obscuritory)

The whole thing is pretty ridiculous, and the game recognizes that. One of the game’s options makes the 1D line spin around in three dimensions. There’s also “depth mode,” in which you view the line head-on as a single pixel. It’s completely unplayable this way.