Max Evans: my favorite alien
Aug. 17th, 2005 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOK, now my Max and Liz posts. I am so totally happy with the way their story turned out, you have no idea :)
I'll start with Max.
It's rather interesting, but I think this season you do discover a dark side to Max, and undesirable qualities. He is obsessive, we knew it from before. Maybe that's why he keeps himself under such control. Because otherwise, combine obsessiveness with good planning skills and ruthlessness in achieving his goals, who knows what would happen.
Of course, usually his obsessiveness is focused on Liz and on protecting his "family" so I don't think I ever paid much attention to it. But in the earlier part of this season it's focused on finding his son, and he will do anything, including armed robbery. The "low point" of this was his trip to LA, where he used the fact that Kal couldn't resist a direct order and disregarded his human side, his feelings, even his love for Liz, he was so carried away (if that was indeed more Zan-like than we've ever seen Max before, I can see why past life Zan and Tess got along so well). Luckily, he snapped out of it, and was so horrified by it (because Max is, always, a decent person at bottom) that he never went down that road again (I love his driving all night to see Liz and apologize and her hug him and it's just perfect). The thing is, he can be calm and collected when dealing with a threat to anyone, including his son, but when it’s Liz (in “Ch-ch-changes”) I love the fact that he COMPLETELY flips out and is freaking out like crazy.
And he feels very isolated as well. When he tells Liz that she is his family, it's not just a romantic sentiment. After all, his own family kicked him out of the house and his father is conducting an investigation on him (I love his horror when he discovers it. He really feels like a freak). Liz is the only person offering unconditional love and acceptance, which is what families do.
Of course, what leaves me rather sad is the price he paid in this quest for his son. I feel horrible for him in the opening narration of the last ep, because while Liz is going to college etc etc (yes, I know it ultimately doesn't turn out this way), Max has nothing to do and nowhere to go. He was just as good a student as Liz, but no college for him (I wonder why? If his parents took him back, aren't they interested in giving him an education). He wants to come with Liz to Northwestern (which is just too sexy and adorable for words and they don't want to be parted and I see a lovely AU forming in my brain), but it seems a pity that the bright, studious Max Evans will never go to college.
Not only that, he has to give his son away. And if he really does continue to hold "it's not safe, they are after us" mentality afterwards (which he will, because the FBI *is* after them), does it mean he and Liz can never have kids? That would be horrible.
My favorite Max moment the whole season, startlingly, doesn't involve Liz. It's during the Xmas episode, when he tries to contact his son through an autistic boy. He realizes he's been barking up the wrong tree, but still he quietly climbs through the boy's window and tries to cure him, realign his brain. He spends all his energy and it doesn't work, and he is devastated, so he asks Isabel to help him to make the family better, to dreamwalk. And that works. There is nothing in it for him and it's not what the family would want but it's the best he can do and he does it. I love Max because he really is such a good human being (and I love the fact that the ep ends up with Liz and him on the skating ring and she helps him because good human being or not, he is a lousy skater, and they are blissfully happy for a moment).
Also, Max looks HOT with the stubble :D
Posts on Liz and Max/Liz coming up :)
I'll start with Max.
It's rather interesting, but I think this season you do discover a dark side to Max, and undesirable qualities. He is obsessive, we knew it from before. Maybe that's why he keeps himself under such control. Because otherwise, combine obsessiveness with good planning skills and ruthlessness in achieving his goals, who knows what would happen.
Of course, usually his obsessiveness is focused on Liz and on protecting his "family" so I don't think I ever paid much attention to it. But in the earlier part of this season it's focused on finding his son, and he will do anything, including armed robbery. The "low point" of this was his trip to LA, where he used the fact that Kal couldn't resist a direct order and disregarded his human side, his feelings, even his love for Liz, he was so carried away (if that was indeed more Zan-like than we've ever seen Max before, I can see why past life Zan and Tess got along so well). Luckily, he snapped out of it, and was so horrified by it (because Max is, always, a decent person at bottom) that he never went down that road again (I love his driving all night to see Liz and apologize and her hug him and it's just perfect). The thing is, he can be calm and collected when dealing with a threat to anyone, including his son, but when it’s Liz (in “Ch-ch-changes”) I love the fact that he COMPLETELY flips out and is freaking out like crazy.
And he feels very isolated as well. When he tells Liz that she is his family, it's not just a romantic sentiment. After all, his own family kicked him out of the house and his father is conducting an investigation on him (I love his horror when he discovers it. He really feels like a freak). Liz is the only person offering unconditional love and acceptance, which is what families do.
Of course, what leaves me rather sad is the price he paid in this quest for his son. I feel horrible for him in the opening narration of the last ep, because while Liz is going to college etc etc (yes, I know it ultimately doesn't turn out this way), Max has nothing to do and nowhere to go. He was just as good a student as Liz, but no college for him (I wonder why? If his parents took him back, aren't they interested in giving him an education). He wants to come with Liz to Northwestern (which is just too sexy and adorable for words and they don't want to be parted and I see a lovely AU forming in my brain), but it seems a pity that the bright, studious Max Evans will never go to college.
Not only that, he has to give his son away. And if he really does continue to hold "it's not safe, they are after us" mentality afterwards (which he will, because the FBI *is* after them), does it mean he and Liz can never have kids? That would be horrible.
My favorite Max moment the whole season, startlingly, doesn't involve Liz. It's during the Xmas episode, when he tries to contact his son through an autistic boy. He realizes he's been barking up the wrong tree, but still he quietly climbs through the boy's window and tries to cure him, realign his brain. He spends all his energy and it doesn't work, and he is devastated, so he asks Isabel to help him to make the family better, to dreamwalk. And that works. There is nothing in it for him and it's not what the family would want but it's the best he can do and he does it. I love Max because he really is such a good human being (and I love the fact that the ep ends up with Liz and him on the skating ring and she helps him because good human being or not, he is a lousy skater, and they are blissfully happy for a moment).
Also, Max looks HOT with the stubble :D
Posts on Liz and Max/Liz coming up :)
