#maxxliz

... where’s my cluster, and proof that the “Roswell New Mexico” finale was edited to shit as far as Malex and Echo are concerned only after Carina had word of the renewal?

Don’t think about how Michael seemed excited for Isobel to know about them, that he was actually just like his siblings after all, and he was definitely disappointed when Alex shot that notion down. Don’t think about how Alex shot it down because he was protecting Michael from his father. Don’t think about how Alex “accidentally” equated them “breaking up” when they were never really together to the world ending. Don’t think about how Michael looks completely defeated by how much he finds himself at Alex’s mercy. Don’t think about how Alex finds the courage to declare that he and Michael loved each other with out really knowing each other, even though he’s just done the math that Michael very recently had sex with his best friend simply by seeing that her necklace was in one of his boots, and Michael seems beyond done with Alex running hot and cold with him. Don’t think about how Michael angrily said “Cosmic” because he’s exhausted from trying to find casual replacements for Alex (fight me on this, go on, I dare you) when he could just do what the galaxies want him to do: be with Alex. Think about how they’re finally going to talk.

Don’t think about how Noah is already protecting Isobel’s secret despite not yet being able to talk to her about it due to her being in a stasis pod to keep her alive. Think about how he’s going to go from ‘Can I trust that my alien wife has not used her powers to manipulate me?’ to saying “Can’t believe I’ve literally been probed by an alien” in the middle of making out with her in the span of 3 actual seconds.

Don’t think about how Kyle, Jenna, and Maria have been used (and used Liz, Max, and Michael) for sex with out getting truly hurt. Don’t instead think about the potential of a Kyle/Jenna/Maria power throuple.

Or do. Think about all of it. I do and it keeps a smile on my face.

Let’s call them the Three Cs.

Changes - Many of us have already rightfully pointed out that these are different (older, thus, actually having hindsight on these formative teenage relationships that they are now looking back, and expanding, on with deep-seeded feelings and maturity, more representationally inclusive, ie. queer, more realistically effected by real-world Earthly pathos in general outside of the alien stuff, and, excluding the constant triangle of Max, Liz, and Kyle - with even their dynamic being detoxified by having enough time past since they were in an actual relationship to have modern-day Liz/Kyle just be them using each other for casual sex - all having completely switched around teenage, or current, romantic entanglements) characters than those in the source materials.

Conviction - Carina and basically the entire cast (screw that, no, it is the entire nine-person main cast in network-issued promotions, as well as other forums, obviously) have said that the show has no intention of “playing it safe” and somehow reversing course back to being closely based on the source materials.

Conditioning - Adly MacKenzie, Vlamis, and Blackburn have all said that Michael and Alex’s romance is going to be a long, epic, and rollercoaster-esque journey of true love that’s everlasting. These descriptors are words that they have used. They’ve said this from the start and have only reinforced, and added weight to, this promise upon being met with a fantastically enthusiastic reaction from viewers about the pairing. Carina’s nullifying comment (1) in response to Michael not being with Maria is not likely indicative of this version of Candy (hMichael/Maria) having a comparable echelon to either Malex or the previous incarnations of Candy. Because of the pro-Malex conditioning, it’s highly more likely that Michael and Maria hooking up will continue to work as a catalyst for pushing Alex and Michael to be honest about their relationship with themselves and others, or just be a casual thing, as an homage to the source materials and part of what Carina describes as Michael fully exploring his sexuality. Michael fully exploring his sexuality has been an other major part of the conditioning that we’ve received from Carina, but, until recently, Michael canonically thought that his love for, and attraction to, Alex is just “a glitch in his sexuality”. This means that there will be other men who will come in to Michael’s sex life and bring to fruition this full exploration of his canonical bisexuality if the show is given a long enough run. It is my arguably easily deductible belief that all of his non-Alex sexual exploits will work as the mounting evidence that Alex is the endgame for Michael by contrast and that the main reason why Carina says that she can’t promise a happy ending for them is because, as a first-time showrunner, she’s covering for a possible premature cancellation (she also had no clue how big of a following Malex would have, or the immediacy of it, she having said that, I believe, before the show started airing, and she’s also clearly looking out for Vlamis “moving on to bigger things” before the end in my opinion, this being notion that she put out last year, and, also in my opinion, I don’t see that happening, because he’s absolutely in love with this show and being a part of the Malex storyline). In addition to the conditioning that goes out, there’s the conditioning that goes in, and the entire first season had wrapped before it had begun to air. T.P.T.B. have now received the message that the vast majority of fans are shipping Malex in a huge way, so, if course-changing needed to occur for Malex to be endgame (and I’m not saying that it did, because, as I will remind you, the network being on-board with this ship is, according to Carina herself, why she agreed to do the show, so her not being able to make promises has a higher probability of being said coverage), it’s more likely to occur now.