dangermousie | Roswell: so nice I'd watch it twice

My Roswell obsession continues, as I spent the evening watching 5 episodes more. Guuuuh. So freaking good. The mixture of angst and romance and cute boys who angst and romance is really doing its fell work on me. As soon as I finish this season, 2 and 3 (yes I know all about the different direction) here I come! Cut for Liz/Max, Michael/Maria and general gushiness.

Liz/Max just continue to sweep me off my feet. I think I am adding it to my all time OTP list. So angsty and mushy and romantic and perfect. Loved that he sees her in slo mo and can't stop looking at her with his heart in his eyes in the UFO convention episode. Loved when he was drunk because she was on a set-up date and "bonded" with Kyle and finally was able to let go of his crazy self-control and express what he really felt, drawing a heart on her balcony with their initials and then him and Liz being in my fave scene in the show so far when they are out on the street and he can finally tell her how he feels because he is drunk and has no inhibitions any more and you can just see how madly and blindly in love he is. He makes the streetlight do a dappled shadow because that is how he feels about her, he makes the car alarm go off because that is how he feels without her, and he keeps meeting all her arguments with just such lovely and loving stuff and then when she says it could never be normal, he starts to walk away and as he goes touches all the meters one by one and they burst into fireworks and he turns around and smiles with that smile that makes me want to pounce him and says "Normal is overrated." Guuuh. Everything he's kept bottled inside comes spilling out and oh boy... And of course later, when he kissed her on stage and then sobered up and the mask went back on and he is so devastated. He is trying to protect her and do the right thing and it's killing him and I love him.

But of course they can't stay away from each other and I love the scene a few episodes later when he does enter her kitchen and can't help himself and next thing you know they are on the table and he is kissing her face, and her neck, and the strawberries are everywhere, and I am going whoa. And when he is kissing her hand under the table (in class, no less) and she pretty much almost orgasms? Wooo, alien loving! And the skipping two periods to neck and making so much noise they get caught? Heee. Boy, can I sympathize. :D He's loved her for ages (and she knows he saw her for ages and loved her), so to finally be able to express it? Guuuh again.

Of course, the scene where he tells her in the girls locker room that he saw inside her and saw her shower fantasy and then tells her he saw how she feels when she sees him and the shock that anyone would feel that way about him. Perfect (I know something horrible is coming next episode. It must).

And then they are in Michael's place and she takes off his shirt (at which point my thought process derails as all I am thinking is: whoa, built! I need to find me an alien) and they almost make love then and there (and then have the the encore during the night in the desert). My inner romantic was totally happy. He is so considerate and concerned about her but it's a good thing they got interrupted, unless they want a little alien bundle of joy. I doubt they have protection because they are both virgins and I doubt she is on the pill.

I love the end when they walk and joke and he tells her he hopes what her destiny would be and jokes about Kyle, and it's great to see Max, who is normally so reserved and stoic and responsible so relaxed and actually happy. I realized I never really saw him happy before. Of course, some really catastrophic thing must be coming. And by angst rules, it's gotta be huge.

I love Max most when he is off-balance and doesn't have his guard up, see above or when the crazy guy wants to kill him because he thinks he is the alien who killed his wife and Max just doesn't get it at first and then freaks out and blows up at the sheriff. Hot.

Maria? Continue to love her and her solution to boy problems (aqua bra, entering Liz into contest, LOL).

I also loved that Michael would say he has no desire to make any impression on Maria's Mom but goes and helps her out anyway with the wrestling thing and of course denies he did it for any altruistic reason.

I did get to the Michael=abused ep and I did feel bad for him. No wonder he thinks there is really nothing useful for him in Roswell and wants to find a real father, and grabs at straws (like the Native American man). He can be quite destructive with his powers, and can't control them, as the scene with Hank showed and I think that really scares him (and I find it lovely that he won't use them to protect himself but he will do so to protect Isabel). He can't heal well at all, though. I love love love LOVE the scene where he has nowhere to go and it's raining and he stands outside Maria's window with this desperate, falling apart look on his face and she says "no, not letting you in" and the next thing you see she is drying him off and he is crying, silently, so she just hugs him and doesn't ask any questions and just makes him go to sleep and they fall asleep all entangled and awwww... Actually I think Michael/Maria is another ship I'll add to my all time list of OTPs. And he won't tell the sheriff where he's been next morning (when his foster dad dissapears) protecting her honor. Double awwww. Because he can't express himself well, and he is scared and bitter and messed up, but underneath it all he is intense and vulnerable and cares deeply.

And of course when they kiss in the closet later to see if it would get Maria the same visions Liz was having and she "fakes" it and then they blow up and tell each other the mutual visions were fake (hers of stars and his being able to see into her head), and she later comes to apologize and he tells her that he really did see inside her and proves it and then he just draws her near into his arm and kisses her on the forehead and it's just perfect (I also love Maria telling him prior to coming in that she needs him not to be cold and mean or tell her he will be in advance, and not as a judgmental thing but as a statement of fact. This girl is very open and forthright). And of course he surprises her with being so tender (which I why I love the character. He keeps on surprising you).

Plus, his snarky sense of humor amuses the heck out of me (e.g. his telling Max to think of mud if he gets too fixated on Liz, or the "go for it, have sex, you know you want to" spiel he gives Max. Heee.)

Favorite quote?
Radio DJ making Liz pick between her arranged date, Max and Kyle:

"Would it be ___ who we've picked for you? Or Kyle, your ex boyfriend? Or Max, who kidnapped you and vandalized your home?"

Basically, love all around!