#cool ship

I completely lost this world, but at least I have one screenshot of the build I made in it

(in creative of course I don’t have that much patience)

I gotta say, I fell in love with the lines of the XL-15 Spaceship. There's a lot of different toy adaptations of it out there, including Lego sets and nine and a half inch die cast models, but right now I settled for the Hot Wheels release of it.

In the movie and the toys, it's got a grey and lavender color scheme, which is ok I guess, but to me, the angles on this just screamed "stealth fighter" at me, so I took to photoshop to see how it'd look as a black repaint.

This is an outline of some of my favorite scenes involving the Lumax ship. Some background on my feelings toward the ship; I think it is a good ship. I wasn’t a fan of how they wrote Lucas’ initial interactions with Max (the whole “watching her through binoculars” with his friends), but they also did that with Jonathan and Nancy in season 1 (which one was worse is up to you to decide). I guess the writers are keen on using that trope for their characters, or maybe that’s what the kids did back then (still not a good thing to be doing though). Despite that, I do feel that Lucas and Mac had a great rapport following the rest of season 2. Do I feel that they could’ve used more interactions in season 3, yeah, but I feel that Lucas wasn’t a part of that season’s focus, and their relationship did feel typical of middle school tweens. In season 4, they took it up a notch, having Lucas truly care for Max’s well being and only being able to reach so much, and Max slowly realizing that it’s okay to let in the people who care about. It gave me some strong season 2 Lumax vibes. 

So, now that the lengthy context is out of the way, let’s dive into some of my favorite Lumax moments. 

Moment 1. Lucas waving at Max and Max giving him the cold shoulder. This really sets up the fact that a drift has occurred between the two. This wasn’t a silly little break up where Max was tired of whatever antics Lucas was doing that week and Lucas managed to get right and smooth things over with her. This was a serious breakup. Lucas still cared for her, but she was putting distance between her and him (and the world). At this point, we had no clue what was going on, and only had watch more to piece things together. 

Moment 2. Lucas knowing Max’s favorite song and the Vecna attack flashbacks. This part of Vecna’s attack really showed us two things: Lucas really knew Max and cared for her more than we may given him credit for, and for Max, all of those moments with Lucas really meant something to her. Would I dare to call it love...only if the cast members, writers, and characters themselves would. But you cannot deny the bond these two share (yes, I’m aware that El, Dustin, and Mike were apart of those flashbacks too which I greatly enjoyed, but this is a Lumax fav scene review).

Moment 3. The laugh in the Creel House. So, this scene was also a major favorite. Just because of Sadie Sink’s nonverbal acting. When Lucas makes Max laugh, and he tells her he missed that, you can see through Sadie’s acting that something is going through Max’s head, something that to me looked like longing and wanting express some kind of feeling she has towards Lucas. I’ve seen some that said it looked like they should’ve kissed there (which they may or may not have been serious), but I don’t necessarily think she would’ve done so. But she definitely wanted to do or say something. 

Moment 4: The walk (and talk) in the woods. While searching for Eddie, Lucas and Max are paired up again and they are talking. Here is a Caleb McLaughlin shine as I feel that he delivered perfectly how many have felt when we try to understand what was going with a friend or family member who’s going through rough time, only to be rebuffed and then deciding to give them space and let them come to you, then when you do see what’s going on, you feel such guilt over being so blind that you want them to know that you’re aware of their pain and are truly here for them. They way Lucas tells Max “I see you” and the look she gives back is just so good acting and emotional wise. To top it off, the fact that Max still genuinely shows concern for Lucas at the start of the conversation is just another way of showing how much she truly cares for Lucas, even if she doesn’t exactly admit it out loud. Plus, I really loved Robin’s reaction to their conversation. She really is one of the greats. 

Ondine is the only person on the swim team faster than Kim. He loves her for it, because his type is jocks who can obliterate him in a race (and nerds who can do multiplication circles around him).

Max met Ondine at a swim meet. He noticed that she was faster than Kim and opened up a conversation with her about it. They became instant friends that day.

Ondine is a jock first and foremost, but what she really wants to do with her life is go into STEM. She finds Markov, in particular, fascinating. 

Behold, the 2020 incarnation of the famed vessel of the 00 Cyborgs, The Dolphin! 

And boy is she a beauty! 

This model has variable sweep wings for supersonic flight, a bomb bay that can fire rocket torpedoes or depth charges, control modules for all 9 cyborgs to operate the ship, and some kind of special module for little Ivan/001 to use in tandem with his psychic powers. It also has a sickbay with state of the art equipment and holographic computer interfaces.