I feel like fckn crying whenever Rick even shows one fraction of empathy for people outside of his family it’s so beautiful I love this terrible old man
can we talk about how the first part of the season 4 premiere was just basically Beth going ‘ask Morty’s consent before dragging him off’? Because I honestly really really liked that. Shipping aside it was super wholesome? Just like ‘make sure he’s got a say in this’. Bless
My take on the threesome and Alex’s uncomfortableness and sadness at the end of 206 is this:
He seems to have resigned himself to Michael and Maria as a couple, even to the point that he’s encouraging Maria to understand Michael’s reasons for lying and telling her not to give up on Michael. He feels that he’s lost his chance and perhaps feels that he has deserved to lose his chance (based on their conversation by the fire in 204.) He thinks his moment/time with Michael is over. (NOT that is is, of course!! Hopefully…)
So–in the moment in the trailer he’s uncomfortable. Not because he doesn’t want to be there, but because he feels like he can’t have this love or doesn’t deserve this love. He doesn’t want to leave. When he and Maria kiss, he moves into it. Actively. It’s not just her, even though she initiated it.* The trauma they have all just experienced makes the need for physical connection pretty believable.
After he and Maria kiss, they both look at Michael, who seems like he doesn’t quite believe this is happening. This is not the bisexual person in a stereotypical threesome. It’s a man who doesn’t believe he’s worthy of love being invited into a physical act of love by the two people he’s torn between. The care they are all taking for each other is beautiful. But, back to Alex, he “knows” he can’t actually have this. That Michael and Maria are together and Michael isn’t his. And he follows through on that in the morning. Of course Michael’s comment about feeling loved is hard for Alex. Did he feel loved in the moment? Probably, given the short montage we saw. But I can’t imagine the pain of having those moments and all the while knowing you will have to leave and can’t have them again. The look on his face as he walked away read to me as him longing for Michael to call him back, but knowing that he won’t.
So…just my take. Nobody has to agree!
*Just a note from personal experience. This is not actually that weird, nor is it out of character for a gay man. I have a couple of close gay friends (who are definitely not bi or pan) who kiss me like that on occasion. When we are sad or in an intense situation or even just at a crazy party and having fun. We will never have penetrative sex (nor do we want to!) but kissing like that can be an affirmation, a connection. It can be a “we are alive, we made it” act of love, not sex. Which is what I saw in this scene between Alex and Maria.
**Also – I’m completely ignoring the interview that Heather did. I respect her as an actress a ton, but I’m basing my feelings on this scene and this episode on what I saw on screen.
SEASON PREMIERE – With the threat of Jones behind them, in a peaceful Roswell we find Liz (Jeanine Mason) is busy teaching while Max (Nathan Dean) lends an assist to his ex-partner on a string of recent bank robberies. Our couples are happy and thriving but a sudden storm, leaves everyone on edge about what is to come. The series also stars Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Michael Trevino and Amber Midthunder. Lance Anderson directed the episode written by Christopher Hollier (401). Original Airdate 6/6/2022.
i’m salty. alex haters saying he was useless in last night’s episodes??
things alex contributed to the finale:
he build a second lockheart machine in nine hours, which used together was able to switch max back into his own body. you know, one of the two major issues they were having.
with max’s help, he was able to capture and record max and jones’ frequency from the lockheart machine.
he saved kyle by tasering jones (while looking gorgeous doing it).
he provided michael’s dna from the handana needed to perfect the serum so max wouldn’t lose his powers (who knew being a sentimental fool could help so much?)
he gave both max and michael a pep talk.
he was looking good in that sweater, lord have mercy.
i know the writers need to do more showing and less telling but he wasn’t useless, far from it.
SEASON PREMIERE – With the threat of Jones behind them, in a peaceful Roswell we find Liz (Jeanine Mason) is busy teaching while Max (Nathan Dean) lends an assist to his ex-partner on a string of recent bank robberies. Our couples are happy and thriving but a sudden storm, leaves everyone on edge about what is to come. The series also stars Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Michael Trevino and Amber Midthunder. Lance Anderson directed the episode written by Christopher Hollier (401). Original Airdate 6/6/2022.
SEASON PREMIERE – With the threat of Jones behind them, in a peaceful Roswell we find Liz (Jeanine Mason) is busy teaching while Max (Nathan Dean) lends an assist to his ex-partner on a string of recent bank robberies. Our couples are happy and thriving but a sudden storm, leaves everyone on edge about what is to come. The series also stars Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Michael Trevino and Amber Midthunder. Lance Anderson directed the episode written by Christopher Hollier (401). Original Airdate 6/6/2022. Every episode of ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.
When they show Liz’s unfurnished place, there’s an unpacked box labeled “summer clothes” which I’m dying over because 1) eternal winter, but also 2) really looking forward to those outfits in season 4.
With Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason) and Max Evans (Nathan Dean) finally able to best Max’s clone, Mr. Jones, at the end of Season 3, it seems a bit of happiness is finally ahead for them. Little do they know, a new threat is emerging down in Careyes, Mexico when a naked alien is brought to an American scientist (Shiri Appleby) in a nearby cantina. As this mysterious new alien is set on a collision course with our heroes, we’ll discover that Mr. Jones might be gone, but his vile plan for two worlds might just live on.
Meanwhile, our couples contemplate new crossroads and definitions of their relationships. A new mystery that mimics the crash of ’47 in Roswell forces Alex Manes (Tyler Blackburn) and Michael Guerin (Michael Vlamis) to balance personal goals and undercover work; Maria’s (Heather Hemmens) potential cure for her regenerative disease comes with a shocking twist; and Dallas (Quentin Pilar), Isobel (Lily Cowles) and Kyle (Michael Trevino) contemplate new layers of how their families might all be connected.
All these new revelations unfold as our sleepy town of Roswell, New Mexico gets woken up by a daring daylight bank robbery where mysteriously not a single dollar is touched. But what was taken just might shed new light on the crash from ’47 and what Max Evans’ true purpose has been all along.
