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dangermousieOK, you know how I said when I first started watching Roswell that I wanted more angst? Well, be careful what you wish for.
Here is Dangermousie. Here is Dangermousie watching the Finale multi-parter. Here is Dangermousie bawling her eyes out at 2:15 am on her rickety sofa.
Guuuuuh. What with torture (I am a whore for hurt/comfort but that was really pushing my "ouchie" buttons, quite badly), the plot revelations (we learn about M/M/I's powers and background) and the exquisite Max/Liz (and Michael/Maria) angst. Oh God.
This is not going to be in any semblance of order.
Max is having a week from hell. It starts out nicely enough, what with the necking and the googlying with Liz and all that, but it all goes exponentially downhill from there. The whole he is literally drawn to Tess and can't help it and ends up kissing her even though he doesn't want to (and of course Liz sees) is pretty high on the angst-o-meter (and I have issues with taking away someone's free will a la Tess (hi, Grayza's little apprentice!) but that's another matter). But the scene moments before it where he finds Liz and reassures her that he loves only her and that she is his destiny and all he sees is her....guuuuuh. Going on my all time favorite romantic scenes list.
I love Liz. I really really do. She is the quintessential nice girl, but she is strong and, most importantly, she is understanding. She does not give up on Max despite the evidence, but loves him enough to be willing to believe him. And later does everything and risks her life to save him, but that is for later.
Of course, Max goes to Tess's house because he thinks Liz is in danger and when told he might get caught he says he doesn't care, which will lead to awfulness later.
And I love it that Max, the soft-spoken, cautious, studiedly laid-back Max loses it more and more as the eps progress. The whole scene where he thinks Tess is Nacedo and is yelling at her and throwing her to the ground? I have issues because I find hot men hotter when they have that edge. Tess (whose special power seems to be the Space Ho one) keeps insisting Max and Tess are destiny but of course Max sticks to his guns. Good for him. He is very quiet, but I don't think there's any way to convince him once he'd decided something. And then his week from hell gets spectacularly worse when Nacedo shifts into Max and kidnaps Liz to get Pierce on his trail (Btw, love that Liz has some sort of special power now too. When she kisses someone she can see into them). And even though Max knows all about Pierce, and the fact that Pierce wants Max and all that jazz, he doesn't care. He goes after Liz anyway.
And that is of course the problem. Liz is Max's weakness. He will do anything for her, including die, and while Nacedo doesn't realize it at first, the dread FBI alien hunter Pierce does. And Pierce gets his mitts on Max at last, and I love the last frame of the 20th ep: Max in a completely white room, freaking out and crumpling to the ground in despair. Argh.
And then we get to the last two eps of the season which totally tore my heart out and stomped on it and left it in little pieces and made me love every bit.
OK, first off? The torture. I am all about h/c, but the level here was making me horribly uncomfortable (in a good way, the way Farscape torture does). I wanted Pierce dead, now. Maybe it's because it involved a lot of needles and dizziness inducing meds. Or the whole "cut you open while you watch." Or the fact that Max is clearly terrified, and alien or not, he is just a 17 year old kid. He is Max, the sweet quiet guy who wouldn't hurt anyone, and who doesn't know answers to most of what Pierce is asking anyway. And that whole manner Pierce had, which was really close and soothing and "just us buddies, torturer and victim here" was just freaking me out beyond belief (and I love how Max uses Pierce's script when he gets him at the UFO museum. I love both the fact that he doesn't torture Pierce and that he looks like he wants to).
And of course, Pierce did break Max, at least temporarily. That whole thing with the visor where he shows Max the images of all his friends and the last image is of Liz, shot and dead which makes Max just scream is horrible. And of course the whole "you have 10 seconds to decide whether to tell me where communicators are or I'll kill one of your friends. No wait, I'll kill Liz Parker" is just...sharpens knife for Pierce. And of course Max tells him.
And then of course everyone rescues Max, including Sheriff Valenti, who I am beginning to totally love and Max and Liz end up in the car by themselves and the FBI chases them and when they just stand on that bridge and look at each other and kiss and jump...OK, it's not me crying, it's something in my eye.
I love it that Liz does end up taking care of him, because Max is still pretty hurt. And of course when she kisses him and sees everything that's happened to him and just can't bear it. *hugs poor star-crossed lovers* And she feels that it's all her fault and wishes she could go back in time and stop Max from healing her because it was then his life ended, and he just looks at her and says that it was when his life began, and the only thing that kept him alive through all the torture was the thought of Liz, her eyes and her skin, and wanting to see her again. And that whether he will die in 50 years or tomorrow, there is nothing for him but Liz. That sobbing you hear? Just something stuck in my throat, people.
And even at the end, at the cave with Nacedo, Max refuses to budge about Liz when Nacedo says she doesn't belong. Of course, at the very end of the ep, when the 4 aliens get the communicators to work and get the message from Max & Isabel's mother and it turns out they are reborn leaders of their planet and Tess is Max's bride. Oh My God. Has the creator of this show been hanging out with Joss Whedon? Because...you know...And then Liz realizes she never belonged and she starts walking off and Max can't believe it and says that she is everything to him but she kisses him goodbye and leaves and he runs after her but Michael holds him back and he just stares as she runs away crying...OK, I confess, I am weeping like a baby.
I love Liz. I know I said it earlier, but I really do. She goes to Sheriff Valenti. If it wasn't for her, the rescue plan would have failed and Max would have been very tortured to death. And she is warm and loving and sweet and she believes in Max and in her heart. Which is so refreshing. And she hurts so badly. The scene where she is completely falling apart because Max has been taken (and goes and hugs Michael in part I think because he needs comfort and because he offers it)...sniffle. Tess (whose sweeter than sugar attitude and superiority complex annoys the heck out of me) might think that Maria/Liz/Alex are only a liability but she is proven wrong. And the girl has got to have issues, considering she spent half a day with a serial killer who took on Max's shape but she just deals and deals and deals. Max really is lucky.
Interesting note about Max's healing power btw, it seems to really drain him (but then of course he was pretty weak at the time anyway).
OK, now on to the other angst-o-rama of the show. Michael and Maria. It starts rather cute, from the matter of fact way he just folds her close when she is freaking out about the alien hunter, to the way he kisses her on the forehead when she apologizes for her outburst, to the fact that even though he has no interest in datey stuff, he wants to do it right and actually asks Max for advice because he just wants to make Maria happy. And of course the double date with Max and Liz goes disastrously wrong. I LOLed when Max gave Liz a prettily wrapped bubblebath scent and Michael gave Maria a brown paper bagged generic shampoo and conditioner. Bless his heart, he's trying.
And of course, he tries to tell her how he feels and protect her when he goes to meet with Topolski and she insists on coming with him and trying to protect him and once again, awwwww.
Of course, then we get the bizarre Michael/Isabel dreams which feel rather incestuous and make me want to wipe the slime off my skin (the wrongness being equalled only by Tess/Max dream smoochage) and Isabel's freak out about being pregnant from dreaming. Ewww. And Maria overhearing and Michael and Maria having a fight but of course when Michael goes to save Max, it doesn't matter any more. I love when Liz says "bring him back to me" and Maria comes up to him and says "come back to me" and they just look at each other and you know that I don't think Michael ever mattered to anyone outside of Isabel and Max before and it's really getting to him and they just stare...
And of course, when they are all hiding, and Isabel and Michael say they will have to run but the non-aliens should go back to their lives, and Maria is the first one to say she is coming with them, as she walks straight up to Michael and just stands by him.
So far, so good, right? Wrong. Michael discovers what his power is. And it is death and destruction. It is freaking him out, which is probably not helped by the fact that he can't really control it and that he is probably thinking he is like Nacedo. When he tells Max that "you heal people and I hurt them. You are the good one and I am the bad one" my heart just breaks.
And then he tells Maria he can't be with her because he doesn't want anything to happen to her, because just look at his powers and she tells him she doesn't care and why are they different from Max and Liz and he tells her it's because he loves her too much and walks away. Guuuuh. He told her he loved her for the very first time, and then walked away. Guuuuuh.
Basically, my heart is in about 11 different pieces now and I feel like rewatching and crying and crying some more.
Here is Dangermousie. Here is Dangermousie watching the Finale multi-parter. Here is Dangermousie bawling her eyes out at 2:15 am on her rickety sofa.
Guuuuuh. What with torture (I am a whore for hurt/comfort but that was really pushing my "ouchie" buttons, quite badly), the plot revelations (we learn about M/M/I's powers and background) and the exquisite Max/Liz (and Michael/Maria) angst. Oh God.
This is not going to be in any semblance of order.
Max is having a week from hell. It starts out nicely enough, what with the necking and the googlying with Liz and all that, but it all goes exponentially downhill from there. The whole he is literally drawn to Tess and can't help it and ends up kissing her even though he doesn't want to (and of course Liz sees) is pretty high on the angst-o-meter (and I have issues with taking away someone's free will a la Tess (hi, Grayza's little apprentice!) but that's another matter). But the scene moments before it where he finds Liz and reassures her that he loves only her and that she is his destiny and all he sees is her....guuuuuh. Going on my all time favorite romantic scenes list.
I love Liz. I really really do. She is the quintessential nice girl, but she is strong and, most importantly, she is understanding. She does not give up on Max despite the evidence, but loves him enough to be willing to believe him. And later does everything and risks her life to save him, but that is for later.
Of course, Max goes to Tess's house because he thinks Liz is in danger and when told he might get caught he says he doesn't care, which will lead to awfulness later.
And I love it that Max, the soft-spoken, cautious, studiedly laid-back Max loses it more and more as the eps progress. The whole scene where he thinks Tess is Nacedo and is yelling at her and throwing her to the ground? I have issues because I find hot men hotter when they have that edge. Tess (whose special power seems to be the Space Ho one) keeps insisting Max and Tess are destiny but of course Max sticks to his guns. Good for him. He is very quiet, but I don't think there's any way to convince him once he'd decided something. And then his week from hell gets spectacularly worse when Nacedo shifts into Max and kidnaps Liz to get Pierce on his trail (Btw, love that Liz has some sort of special power now too. When she kisses someone she can see into them). And even though Max knows all about Pierce, and the fact that Pierce wants Max and all that jazz, he doesn't care. He goes after Liz anyway.
And that is of course the problem. Liz is Max's weakness. He will do anything for her, including die, and while Nacedo doesn't realize it at first, the dread FBI alien hunter Pierce does. And Pierce gets his mitts on Max at last, and I love the last frame of the 20th ep: Max in a completely white room, freaking out and crumpling to the ground in despair. Argh.
And then we get to the last two eps of the season which totally tore my heart out and stomped on it and left it in little pieces and made me love every bit.
OK, first off? The torture. I am all about h/c, but the level here was making me horribly uncomfortable (in a good way, the way Farscape torture does). I wanted Pierce dead, now. Maybe it's because it involved a lot of needles and dizziness inducing meds. Or the whole "cut you open while you watch." Or the fact that Max is clearly terrified, and alien or not, he is just a 17 year old kid. He is Max, the sweet quiet guy who wouldn't hurt anyone, and who doesn't know answers to most of what Pierce is asking anyway. And that whole manner Pierce had, which was really close and soothing and "just us buddies, torturer and victim here" was just freaking me out beyond belief (and I love how Max uses Pierce's script when he gets him at the UFO museum. I love both the fact that he doesn't torture Pierce and that he looks like he wants to).
And of course, Pierce did break Max, at least temporarily. That whole thing with the visor where he shows Max the images of all his friends and the last image is of Liz, shot and dead which makes Max just scream is horrible. And of course the whole "you have 10 seconds to decide whether to tell me where communicators are or I'll kill one of your friends. No wait, I'll kill Liz Parker" is just...sharpens knife for Pierce. And of course Max tells him.
And then of course everyone rescues Max, including Sheriff Valenti, who I am beginning to totally love and Max and Liz end up in the car by themselves and the FBI chases them and when they just stand on that bridge and look at each other and kiss and jump...OK, it's not me crying, it's something in my eye.
I love it that Liz does end up taking care of him, because Max is still pretty hurt. And of course when she kisses him and sees everything that's happened to him and just can't bear it. *hugs poor star-crossed lovers* And she feels that it's all her fault and wishes she could go back in time and stop Max from healing her because it was then his life ended, and he just looks at her and says that it was when his life began, and the only thing that kept him alive through all the torture was the thought of Liz, her eyes and her skin, and wanting to see her again. And that whether he will die in 50 years or tomorrow, there is nothing for him but Liz. That sobbing you hear? Just something stuck in my throat, people.
And even at the end, at the cave with Nacedo, Max refuses to budge about Liz when Nacedo says she doesn't belong. Of course, at the very end of the ep, when the 4 aliens get the communicators to work and get the message from Max & Isabel's mother and it turns out they are reborn leaders of their planet and Tess is Max's bride. Oh My God. Has the creator of this show been hanging out with Joss Whedon? Because...you know...And then Liz realizes she never belonged and she starts walking off and Max can't believe it and says that she is everything to him but she kisses him goodbye and leaves and he runs after her but Michael holds him back and he just stares as she runs away crying...OK, I confess, I am weeping like a baby.
I love Liz. I know I said it earlier, but I really do. She goes to Sheriff Valenti. If it wasn't for her, the rescue plan would have failed and Max would have been very tortured to death. And she is warm and loving and sweet and she believes in Max and in her heart. Which is so refreshing. And she hurts so badly. The scene where she is completely falling apart because Max has been taken (and goes and hugs Michael in part I think because he needs comfort and because he offers it)...sniffle. Tess (whose sweeter than sugar attitude and superiority complex annoys the heck out of me) might think that Maria/Liz/Alex are only a liability but she is proven wrong. And the girl has got to have issues, considering she spent half a day with a serial killer who took on Max's shape but she just deals and deals and deals. Max really is lucky.
Interesting note about Max's healing power btw, it seems to really drain him (but then of course he was pretty weak at the time anyway).
OK, now on to the other angst-o-rama of the show. Michael and Maria. It starts rather cute, from the matter of fact way he just folds her close when she is freaking out about the alien hunter, to the way he kisses her on the forehead when she apologizes for her outburst, to the fact that even though he has no interest in datey stuff, he wants to do it right and actually asks Max for advice because he just wants to make Maria happy. And of course the double date with Max and Liz goes disastrously wrong. I LOLed when Max gave Liz a prettily wrapped bubblebath scent and Michael gave Maria a brown paper bagged generic shampoo and conditioner. Bless his heart, he's trying.
And of course, he tries to tell her how he feels and protect her when he goes to meet with Topolski and she insists on coming with him and trying to protect him and once again, awwwww.
Of course, then we get the bizarre Michael/Isabel dreams which feel rather incestuous and make me want to wipe the slime off my skin (the wrongness being equalled only by Tess/Max dream smoochage) and Isabel's freak out about being pregnant from dreaming. Ewww. And Maria overhearing and Michael and Maria having a fight but of course when Michael goes to save Max, it doesn't matter any more. I love when Liz says "bring him back to me" and Maria comes up to him and says "come back to me" and they just look at each other and you know that I don't think Michael ever mattered to anyone outside of Isabel and Max before and it's really getting to him and they just stare...
And of course, when they are all hiding, and Isabel and Michael say they will have to run but the non-aliens should go back to their lives, and Maria is the first one to say she is coming with them, as she walks straight up to Michael and just stands by him.
So far, so good, right? Wrong. Michael discovers what his power is. And it is death and destruction. It is freaking him out, which is probably not helped by the fact that he can't really control it and that he is probably thinking he is like Nacedo. When he tells Max that "you heal people and I hurt them. You are the good one and I am the bad one" my heart just breaks.
And then he tells Maria he can't be with her because he doesn't want anything to happen to her, because just look at his powers and she tells him she doesn't care and why are they different from Max and Liz and he tells her it's because he loves her too much and walks away. Guuuuh. He told her he loved her for the very first time, and then walked away. Guuuuuh.
Basically, my heart is in about 11 different pieces now and I feel like rewatching and crying and crying some more.
