#i love roswell so muchhhhhh

[holographicbutch]

Ok I'm curious...

[lesbianmaxevans]

oh I saw some of your old roswell posts by chance which is why I sent that ask. Same I wish Maria was in on the secret from the start like in the original series I just wasn't into Malex that much I also hated how they ended things between Michael and Maria they could've been great together tbh Maria wasn't used properly in the show I wish we had more of her. I didn't know people shipped her with Max I saw a gif you did talking about then and thought I missed something like when were they together? lmao I would've loved more of their friendship but as a couple yes please I want that too some write that fic. Liz kind of annoyed me throughout the series idk if others were and the way the writers treated Max he deserved better he was actually extremely power and was special then they go just kidding he's nothing special. The whole Max and Liz relationship did take a backseat and you know the self loathing part of himself and being afraid of his powers are barely discussed. Back to the important part of Max and Maria now that you're telling me about it I can't unsee it that would probably be the best relationship on the show you converted me lol

By the way, I don't know if you read the Roswell books but are they good? I wonder if there are any Max and Maria in there if that's where you first fell in love with that ship or not.

maria being the last person to know and a very long time after everyone else...... my villain origin story actually. also the way she found out was horrid. like she finds out by seeing her dead best friend bc her boyfriend and best friend aren't willing to tell her. and how did no one tell her after the gala when she was drugged?!?!?!?! she was in direct danger and still no one told her. unbelievable. I truly hate this writers room so much.

GOD DON'T GET ME STARTED ON 2.13. the way the show had michael dating maria and then was so blatantly pushing m@lex in the final few episodes of s2 is when I really started to dislike the show. (don't ask me why I came back, I was genuinely so close to quitting so many times.) maria's in the hospital after nearly dying and she's sacrificing their rship bc the narrative is giving m@lex the soulmate treatment. and this directly contradicts how s1 ended for her!!!!!!!! s1 she spends the whole time being alex and liz's support system and michael was the only one consistently there for her! she decides to let herself take a chance on this relationship bc she's falling for him and she's constantly sacrificing everything for everyone else and she is choosing herself for once. and then s2 she's back to being self-sacrificing. and then the fucking nora/tripp bullshit to hit you over the head with the m@lex soulmatism. 🤢 god I'm getting so fucking angry all over again I hate s2 so fucking muchhhhhh.

and the thing is michael and maria had good chemistry. I rmbr some of their s4 scenes had me like "damn if it weren't for the dubious consent of their initial rship, I would be on board with this" bc I DID like them in early s1. I was into it up until they had sex when maria was still in the dark. and then the fact that he wasn't the one to tell her about aliens + rosa's coverup was kind of the nail in the coffin for me bc that scene was excrutiating. michael continually trying to touch maria when she repeatedly tells him to not touch her and to leave 🤢 (which imo is even more egregious given michael's background of being abused like........) I can't believe ppl were crying about michael in that scene when maria surely feels violated bc her whole world just fell out from under her. but my rant about how fandom treats michael + isobel vs everyone else is for another day!

anyway! yes, the show never gave maria good material imo. every time they would start to give heather something meaty, it would just disappear. like s1, as I said above, she was pretty much only there to be alex and liz's support and to start teasing her rship w michael + her being part alien bc her abilities. s2 actually kind of lets her start tapping into the alien abilities, but oh no, her powers are killing her. s3 was more of her being self-sacrificing. and then s4 she loses her powers bc the treatment to save her, only to discover new powers in what..... the final 5 episodes or smth? 😑 like....... you do not understand how desperately I want to beat these writer's asses.

there is a bit of maria/max fic 👀 it's mostly smut tho adskjhfkjfdgskjfdg so rip if that's not your thing. maria/max would have been so good, the untapped potential actually makes me feel insane. like esp s3 when they're both dealing w deteriorating health? there's just so much that they could relate to each other on that they wouldn't be able to talk to other people about. and yet I think they have like maybe six scenes together that aren't group scenes in the whole show. 🙄 I deserved a FWB storyline. I saw that 2.08 scene at the wild pony, you can't tell me they don't want to smash.

as for liz...... s1 liz I would have died in battle for her. like I was in the trenches defending her from fandom constantly. s2 retconning her driving force as a scientist from being that she doesn't want anyone to experience the pain she did when she lost rosa (1.07 lab scene) to her chasing after people's approval and wanting recognition....... writers die 5000 times by my blade. it's a core mismatch and makes it borderline impossible for me to reconcile s1 liz with post s1 liz. short version: s1 liz has never done anything wrong ever in her life. idk who post s1 liz is bc that change was straight up character assassination in my eyes. and post s1 liz gets on my nerves a lot too. like how did we go from her in tears at the thought of betraying max's trust when her memories of max are all jumbled bc isobel's mind meddling to her literally using alien dna for experiments w/o his consent when she has accepted and can actually voice that she loves him?!?!?!? like make it make sense!!!!!!!!!!

and god. GOD. don't get me started on the writing for max. the writers so clearly had no idea what to do with him after his "death" and it makes me fucking feral bc the blueprint for what to do after s1 was just sooooooooo fucking obvious to me!!!!!! like s1 he's drowning in self-loathing and that starts to ease a little when he and liz get together bc it's literally the only thing he's ever wanted, but he has his self-sacrificing nature and he's a protector, so of course he sacrifices himself to save rosa. to undo his biggest regret and to attempt to relieve liz's trauma. so you'd think his storyline after this is about him chipping away at the self-loathing (and I think a scene of rosa saying she forgives him would have been pivotal to this but the writers didn't give a fuck about their dynamic apparently bc they have like. 3 scenes together post his resurrection. I hate it here), him learning to embrace his powers (and liz's science background SHOULD have been a help here. just for them to privately understand his heritage better. but again. the writers don't fucking care about that), him becoming more self-assured, etc, etc. and what do the writers do? s2 he's depowered bc he got a weak heart and he's basically just there for exposition dumps. s3 is such a fucking joke for max fans he's literally not even there for half the season. s4 he is depowered AGAIN for half the season and then the narrative treats him as selfish and idiotic for wanting to be able to touch liz without hurting her...... BITING MAIMING KILLING. and as you said he's set up to be so so powerful. noah calls him The Savior. and then in s3 we learn that that's just jones' title that he gave himself. jones, the genocidal egocentric alien, is the one with that title. so it's not even fucking about max. max just has that title bc he's jones' clone. and don't get me started on how fucking nonsensical the writing is for s3. max is jones' clone so he has all of jones' powers. michael and isobel try to fight jones w/o max and barely make it out alive. suddenly w no training or practice, by the end of the season isobel can fight jones with the alien sword and beat him. michael can fight jones with the mind powers and nearly overpower him. meanwhile max does fucking nothing in the final fight. omfg it pisses me off so bad. someone redo this show and do the jones plot competently, it's genuinely devastating how much potential was wasted with it.

and no I haven't read the books! I'm not sure how much of the show would be reflected in them given they are still high school students in the books, so I'm sure a lot was changed to adapt it into the show. I basically just got invested in max and maria bc I'm a polyshipper at heart and maria/liz was so so so real in s1 (why did the writers barely let them interact one on one again after that. god ik I keep complaining about the writers but truly all of them can go to hell!!!!) so I was like "liz has TWO hands" and then s2 fucking up liz's characterization made my brain go really hard for max/maria and I've been stuck there since. lmao.

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