#logan max

Pilot

The shared dream sequence in Blah Blah Woof Woof

Rising

The Kidz are Aiight

Meow

Max saving Logan’s life:

In their shared dream

and then in reality while they were having said dream:

Here Max tries to help Logan up by holding his hand, but he pushes her away because he’s ashamed:

Another time he falls, and Max helps:

Totally using Logan giving Max comms, as an excuse to hold hands:

When they’re reunited after Max’s death:

And so the tragedy of the Virus (where Max can’t touch Logan without him dying) begins:

When they have a temporary cure for the Virus:

Max is actually checking Logan’s watch here, and I think it’s cute how comfortable they are with each other to do that:

...And then Logan touches Max without thinking, and chaos strikes.

Logan saving Max’s life:

Some bonuses.

Max untying Logan’s hands after she saves him from Broncks:

Max giving Logan a blood transfusion. I initially thought they were holding hands here, but they aren’t:

Max and Logan sitting on the Space Needle together. I though that they were holding hands here, but they’re not. Oh well.

And then these two times in season two, where Logan gets too close to Max and she freaks out for his safety:

Edit: I just remembered that “Hello, Goodbye” happens after “Harbor Lights”, but I’m not changing this now.

Also... the Virus was such a stupid plot. Why did this show ever do that? Ugh. Actually... I know why the writers did this, but it was a horrible idea (and partly got the show cancelled, I think). But at least it gave us the sad and sweet scene where Max and Logan hold hands through the glass, and the epic moment where Logan saves Max despite all odds. Still wasn’t worth it, though.

Edit: One more bonus, even though they’re really not holding hands here.

Logan - How did you-

You just... you see their full relationship: how they meet, become acquaintances/allies, and then friends and confidants, and then best friends and eventually in love. And it’s just so well-done and believable. You get why they fall in love and why they’re good together. 

And the writers wrote them as perfect Foils/”You Complete Me as My Opposite”  characters to each other. But they also have so much in common, too, that you don’t think the differences they had would ever be enough to drive them apart. Like, they have enough similarities to hang onto, too.

And their whole rough journey to becoming a couple... at least in season one, it was so adult, raw, and real. They’re both so broken for different reasons (and maybe a few that are the same), and are somewhat jaded and don’t really believe in romantic love... They both also have their own insecurities, and all these reasons in their heads that they shouldn’t be together and even try it, but they are in love, and eventually they have to figure that out.

Also, that relationship they were in... Where they were both essentially in a relationship with each other, without the physical--and both of them knew it, for the most part it--but could never admit it for the longest time, and were so scared to breech this fake world and lie they’d made for themselves... holy crap, was that interesting.

And they broke gender norms, too.

And it was a disabled guy with a super hero girl.

I just love this ship so much.

Edit: And here’s something else I also liked about them, that I don’t think I’ve ever once talked about: I enjoyed how the girl was the dark one and the guy the light one (morality-wise), as usually it’s the other way in stories. Or if it was done this way in the past, the girl was often times vilified... but not Max. She’s the hero of this story, even if she is the darker and more cynical one. And I love it.

I love this parallel for many reasons. One, because I adore how it actually shows how well Max knows Logan--one of the reason I love this ship so much. They know each other inside and out--and for once we’re getting stuff about Logan’s family (that Max is aware of his feelings on), as we got a ton on Max’s family in DA... but I feel the show could have done more with Logan’s.

And Logan’s so in love (and so is Max. She just feels guilty in scene two, and is mad that he stood her up in the first scene... and that Logan is acting all weird and distant, and hasn’t told her the real reason for not going with her to the ball game). In both cases, he’s sold favorite paintings of his for Max. In season one, he was losing his ability to walk again, and at this point--even though he won’t admit this is why for a while--he’s in love with her, and afraid she’ll never love him back as a cripple (someone has severe PTSD), and that’s why he wants to stay walking... so Logan’s spent a ton of money that he got from the painting to try and fight against the process, and it doesn’t work out like he wanted it to. But they get through it. In season two, the scientists at Manticore (where Max was created) have made it so the two can’t touch. Max has a deadly virus in her DNA that is targeted just at Logan’s DNA, because they were hoping she’d kill him for them (he was exposing them) with a touch. And Max goes so crazy with her worry this season, that she stops even wanting to risk being in the same car with Logan and stuff. So Logan is paying a doctor to try and cure it (and Max pays for half of it, because she also wants to be free of the Virus). But of course, that also doesn’t happen for them and the Virus stays all season. Ugh. But in the last image, you can tell Max is thinking she isn’t worth Logan selling family memories away for her... So you have Max’s self-doubt there, and Logan’s in the season one moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxE_nCDRexw&feature=youtu.be

@kae-leah

A Max and Logan beta that I had to make, because my babies deserve the world and so much more. (Sadly, some of these clips have glitches and there's nothing I can do about it:() 

 Hopefully I'll be able to finish this someday--and I want to finish this--but if not, here's the first half. Making this was actually murder for me, since my laptop with Sony Vegas is literally being held together with duct tape... I can't download YouTube videos anymore, so had to make do with the episodes of DA I already had on my computer from there and for scenes I wanted and didn't have... I recorded them from my DVDs with my phone, and then sent them to myself through Google Drive (and now I'm running out of room on my Google Drive). This video just also refused to render. Yeah...

 I also wanted dialogue in here, but the Dark Angel voice clips were too quiet no matter what I did, so subtitles it was. 

Max in the one clip is saying how Logan only thinks and talks about his Eyes Only mission, by the way, that he thankfully gets over (like in a clip in here I wanted to use to show some of their cute season two moments, that they did have).