#roswell new mexico
Me explaining a tv show to someone like it’s real life
Because it is ✨ real life✨
I unabashedly loved the threesome scene between Michael, Alex, and Maria.
If that’s not going to be your cup of tea today, you might want to scroll right on past.
To start, I love it for how much joy it brought everyone in my life.
As I re-watched this scene…this is exactly what I saw. Thank you for expressing it so well. The scene also fits with some of my personal experiences, and it just made so sense in light of what they all had just gone through and the need for safety and connection they must have been feeling.
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.
Okay so here’s my two cents on episode 6 of Roswell, New Mexico as a real and honest to goodness homosexual gay man. The threesome didn’t bother me nearly as much as it’s bothering everyone else. I’m going to start from the beginning of the episode and work my way through to tell you why.
These are a lot of thoughts that I’ve been having. Thank you for your perspective, @musicfandomguy.
Question from moderator at Cast for Good panel, April 21,2020:
If you were in the writer’s room, what’s the one thing you would want to happen on Roswell?
Tyler Blackburn’s answer:
“…I do want Alex and Michael to be together. Like I feel like that would be…that would be ideal. To have them actually work it out and have a really nice gay relationship on TV. For it to be not so complicated…that they could actually express their love for each after working through their issues… It would be a good way to bring things full circle.”
Same, Tyler. Same. ❤️
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The subtlety of Tyler’s acting. That look of pained remembrance. God, this ship sails itself.
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TBT June 2020 and this part of Tyler’s Pride IG live with Jeanine for Malex Monday.
Tyler: “I really didn’t know what to expect. He [Vlamis] is a straight man. And my understanding of straight men is, they bully queer boys and men. So, it was like— I wasn’t sure how it was going to work, and he’s been so generous, so open and willing to ask questions go there with me.”
Vlamisreposted a screenshot of the IG live to his stories and wrote: “Tyler Blackburn, I love you. Any straight man who bullies a queer man is not a man. Thank you for always trusting and teaching me.”
(Tyler then reposted Vlam’s story and added“Are you trying to make me fall in love with you!? Haha”)
28 Days / 4 Weeks untile RNM S3\0/
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not roswell new mexico being cancelled before season 4 even starts.. erm okay well let’s get this michael/alex happy endgame
“I will miss staring into Michael’s eyes as we navigate the complex relationship that is Malex”
I don’t wanna say good bye to them forever August 29th
I knew it was coming but I’m not any less devastated.
All I’m saying is if we don’t get a Malex “I love you” this season from BOTH of them, I’m calling my injury attorney and suing Roswell NMs writers for pain and suffering
Pillow Lips
June 6th. 59 days!
They return to me!
The location
HE’S SO BEAUTIFUL WTAF
