#but it's really hard to do THAT without totally throwing m*ria under the bus which the show won't do

[lovecolibri]

Everyone keeps trying to talk about how Michael saying "I love you" isn't the same as saying "I'm IN love with you" (which I made a whole post about ages ago that the semantics don't matter because they were already dating so the "IN love" is implied) but like, it's just BAD WRITING. There isn't a deeper meaning like he was saying he loved her as a friend but wasn't IN love, it wasn't proof that she was more important to him than Alex (what show are these people WATCHING?!), it was just bad writing. It was c*rina trying to contrive a "love triangle" with characters that didn't fit the framework for a love triangle to work. Alex and Michael are utterly in love and Tyler and Vlamis show that in every scene together and every micro-expression. No amount of stuffing words into Michael or Alex's mouths was gonna change that but damn did c*rina sure try! I’m kinda hoping we just get a blanket “I was really messed up last year and said a lot of stuff I didn’t mean” from Michael in season 3 which would help close the book on season 2 without having to fully delve in, or specifically call out his relationship with m*ria as a mistake because I don’t think the show will want to do that since she’s a secondary main and isn’t leaving like a guest star would.