#rnm 2x06

[bisexualalienss]

You're drinkin' everything to ease your mind But when the hell are you gonna ease mine? You're like concrete feet in the summer heat It burns like hell when two souls meet No, you'll never be the man that you always swore But I'll remember you singin' in that '88 Ford

[0ut-of-my-head]

I’m trying to eat clean. Uh, tiene carne seca sin... uh, como se dice, preservativos? Quiere carne a sin preservativos? Si. Lo siento. Uh, no lo entiendo. Él quiere decir conservantes.

[dr-lizortecho]

[lizacstuff]

[dayscrazed]

A continuation of my AU where Michael gets adopted by the Evans’ instead of Max. 

THIS IS A BIG CHAPTER! THIS ONE WAS SO FUN TO WRITE AND VERY DIVERGENT FROM CANON.

Based on RNM 2x06. BUT DON'T WORRY, THIS AU GOES IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.  After Michael wakes up, he has selective amnesia surrounding Liz. Because she fails to help Michael remember her, Liz helps Maria out on a mysterious road trip. When things go sour, the girls call Michael but will he get there in time? Meanwhile, Alex and and Max take Isobel for a night out at Planet 7.

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Alright, alright, I know what you're thinking. A chapter based on 2x06? Didn't we all collectively forget this episode happened? Never fear! Max and Michael being different people has an entirely different outcome.

So first, I extend the scene at the beginning after Michael asks if he knows Liz. Liz just spent so much time getting the man who loved her back to see if she loved him...and he doesn't remember it. Michael says some lines reflective of what canon Michael said to Alex from ep 2x03.

Isobel has the same motivation to celebrate and escape her past and since her brother is in a secure place in his life, she confides in him. This leads Alex and Max to join Isobel in her exploration at Planet 7!!!!!! Malex is gonna party because they deserve it!!!!!

However, there is some serious stuff. Alex comes to terms with his issues about being with a man in public. Kyle gets to confide in his friend Alex about his dad. And Alex is able to talk to his friend about growing up with his sexuality, which in canon happened in Maria's car.

Max encourages his sister to explore her sexuality, reflecting a conversation from canon ep 1x10.

Maria ropes her single friend to join her journey into the desert. This time, that's Liz. Can Liz survive that chest stab?

Teaser: when Michael shows up, something extra special will happen- between him and Liz- that will draw them together ....

[mar-sibilina]

Caravana: Alex: Ah. Joder. No puedo creer que me haya atacado un gemelo diabólico. María: Nadie nos creería si se lo contáramos. Michael: Te va a doler  A: Lo sé. María: Casi te pierdo(mira a Alex). Y a ti. M: Hey! Estoy aquí(le da un beso a M) A: Se esta haciendo tarde debería irme. María: No quiero que te vayas. A: Quiero irme(beso a Alex)No. Debería irme. María: Solo…  Solo quiero que estemos todos a salvo. M: ¿Qué estamos haciendo? María: Esta bien.

Por la mañana: A (por teléfono): De acuerdo. Vale. Gracias, sheriff. M: Dime que Valenti ha arrestado a ese cabrón. A: Cuando la poli llego a la granja todo estaba ardiendo. Travis y Trevor se habían ido. Pero al menos ahora Valenti tiene unos sospechosos. ¿María sigue durmiendo? (Michael asiente)Nunca pensé que haría algo así. M:¿Crees que nos hemos pasado? A: Si me dices que haría un trio con mi mejor amiga y mi primer amor, te diría que es un circulo fatal. M: Lo es. A: No sé.. me he sentido. Me he sentido..  M: Amado. A: Si, bueno nada como que te apuñalen en medio de la nada para unir a la gente. Antes creía que tu y yo acabaríamos juntos. M: Yo también. [Alex se marcha]

[miniastrophysicist]

Day 3 of @alexmanesappreciation:  Songs for Alex (Manes-Guerin)

Hurts 2B Human by P!nk (feat. Khalid)

[winnie-the-monster]

“You know, I used to really think that you and I were going to end up together.”

“I used too.”

(Two years later)

[lovecolibri]

.

[bisexualalienss]

KYLE VALENTI

Roswell, New Mexico | 2.06

[mazzystar24]

Warnings: 2x06 mention, anti Maria

Alsooooo I wanna add to my earlier points

I have been rewatching rnm and oml the amount of shit that the writers thought was just fine to have her say and act

I saw someone I think it was @signoraviolettavalery mention how they wrote her as the absolute worst and then branded it her “saving herself”

I think this is soooo accurate cos they basically make a halfassed attempt at making her this like “badasss feminist” (then don’t show a single ounce of feminism in how she behaves) but then have her say the most heinous things

Like can we just gender swap the characters for a hot minute or even role swap them because bear with me

Imagine Michael talking about how ashamed he is to have had sex with Maria because of her reputation in roswell

Imagine Michael “jokingly” threaten Maria if she were to tell anyone they slept together

Imagine him slut shaming Lindsey

Imagine him calling Maria a Brittany or whatever the female equivalent of a chad is and basically continuously implying that she’s a slut

Imagine Maria is his lesbian best friend’s ex who his best friend had admitted to having hopeful feelings toward

Imagine when Isobel finds out that Maria and him slept together he starts going ugh don’t even say it and shit like that

Imagine he starts talking to this lesbian about how he had a crush on her and then starts listing off men she pretended to enjoy being with when his lesbian best friend talks about not having been with anyone

Imagine he waits until maria is bashed over the head and likely concussed not to mention highly emotional and until this lesbian friend has been literally stabbed and traumatised to then initiate a threesome to “test” Maria

This is the “badass feminist” y’all are trying to tell me? Nah as a feminist I don’t accept her

I think some people really use that “girlboss” thing to just excuse how fucked up all the stuff she did was but when you gender swap it it sounds plain sinister and you can’t deny it

This isn’t even all of it this is top of my head stuff

[dr-lizortecho]

you got Michael and Maria and Alex in love- yes! the three of them

“It’s a very interesting dynamic, but I think it was beautifully written. It’s actually such a sweet and intimate moment that, once I approached it from that emotional co-dependency that they have, after almost being killed together, it was much easier to understand her approach to the situation. And by the time that we were on set filming it, it felt like the most natural thing for my character to do, at the time.”

[lesbianmaxevans]

so..... I’ve been trying not to say anything bc this fandom rlly seems to hate when ppl criticize the writing but the finale is monday and my expectations are underground. so uh. rnm negativity ig.

so, these past few episodes have made it abundantly clear to me that these writers wish max and liz weren’t the leads of the show. and before anyone tries to argue that it’s always been an ensemble show, that’s blatantly not true. jeanine and nathan have been billed as 1 and 2 since day 1. in season 1, liz is literally the cause of every single plot point, whether thru her directly setting something in motion, or other characters reacting to her. like I’m not exaggerating, literally everything that happens can be traced back to her digging into rosa’s death. she is the center of the show, and as such, given her romance with max is a very important part of her life, max should be the next most important character. at the start, this show claimed that the very heart of the story was their romance. and for season 1, that’s true. but as soon as we hit season 2, it wasn’t.

now, I think it can still be argued that liz and max remain the leads, because excluding the second half of season 2 where liz was practically shoved out of the main story line, liz and max as characters have remained at the center of this story, if only bc of jones’ interest in the two of them as max is his clone and liz is the only scientist who has the knowledge to accomplish what he wants. but their romance has very obviously taken a backseat post season 1. we had 2x06 where they basically spent the whole episode together, but then the writers worked overtime to reduce the amount of screentime they shared for the rest of season 2. like hello there was an episode where max went to the reservation to learn more about his family history and they chose to have liz stay behind in roswell??? they gave liz that horridly executed ICE storyline instead of her being by her boyfriend’s side while he learned more about his heritage???? and then they’re basically in conflict for the remaining time of the season????

and season 3 was such a joke for echo like, yeah, I got some of my favorite echo scenes, but how the hell were we at 3x09 before they had any real movement? how the hell do the two lead characters only share scenes in 6 of 13 episodes (8 if you want to be generous and count their 30 seconds at the end of 3x02 and the dream sequence in 3x04)???? I haven’t gone back and looked at the screentime, so maybe I’m wrong but I’m willing to bet liz spent just as much time, if not more, with jones than she did with max. liz and max literally shared like 10 minutes prior to 3x09 and half of that was just max in a panic bc liz was dying as an effect of that handprint dumping his heart failure onto her. if you genuinely think what echo got in season 3 was more than scraps, idk what to tell you.

and now we’re here at season 4, which just feels like the biggest fucking slap in the face. the writers on some level know that liz and max’s relationship is supposed to be the focus of the show because the goddamn season 4 promo was literally all about them. we started the season with max attempting to propose THREE times and liz asking him to wait but promising she’ll say yes the next time he does. how the fuck do you start a season like this and not have a thru line of liz conquering the fears that made her hesitate and accepting the proposal (or better yet, being the one to propose) by the end of the season??? like that’s literally just writing 101. especially when the writers have relentlessly had the two of them discuss this engagement. like how do you have max trying to propose repeatedly in 4x01, have their future engagement or a wedding be brought up almost every episode from 4x02-4x08, and then have liz spend the entirety of 4x09 in her dreamscape where she had to confront why she was hesitant to accept the proposal and they are still not engaged by 4x12????? and honestly I don’t think it’s likely that echo’s getting engaged in the finale. I hope I’m wrong, but given how the writers have been dangling this in front our faces all fucking season and how they were oh so confident about a damn season 5 order, I don’t think it’s happening. it’s just insanity, bc from a writing standpoint it makes no fucking sense. unless you don’t care that much about the couple and you think toying with fans is fun.

and worse than the writers toying with us re this proposal is the fact that they introduced a conflict that was just a retread of echo’s horrid season 2b storyline that I don’t think a single viewer liked???? like point for point it was the same fucking plot, except this time with no resolution???? bc liz refusing to respect max’s bodily autonomy has been completely swept under the rug by the writers in favor of blaming the mist for making liz be cruel... as if their conflict didn’t start in 4x07 and liz’s addiction to the mist didn’t start until 4x10.

and like regardless of whether you ship malex or not, you should see how fucked up it is that they get an engagement so easily, when echo still hasn’t managed to reach that step when they are the lead characters????? when michael and alex had never previously discussed the idea of marriage????? when we started season 4 with michael being scared to move in with alex??????? versus liz and max having been living together for six months??????? regardless of whether you ship kybel or not, you should see how fucked up it is that liz is crying and telling max that she’s terrified she’ll never see him again if he and isobel go through the portal, and that moment basically only happens to be a springboard for making kybel official??? bc this scene that should be an emotional goodbye for echo derails into liz reacting to the two of them instead??? when, again, max and liz are the leads????

and this is before I’ve even discussed the disrespect to liz and max as characters! post season 1, they’ve reduced liz to her being a scientist and she spends at least half of her screentime in a lab, either alone or with some side character who only matters for the current season. and these writers keep insisting on her shoddy ethics! like clearly her apology last season meant nothing since these writers decided to pull the same shit again! and this characterization of her prioritizing the science over everything else, of her pursuing science due to her desire for approval/validation is completely at odds with her reasoning in season 1, which was that she wanted to prevent anyone from experiencing the pain she felt when she lost rosa. like the writers completely erased that reasoning and switched it to being all about her ego and chasing accolades.

and max? he spends 5 episodes in the pod in season 2 and then he’s given absolutely nothing to do but reacting to exposition dumps the rest of the season. season 3 he thinks he’s dying and trying to help everyone else make peace with that, then he’s back in the pod for 3.5 episodes, then he’s fucking sidelined for the jones fight, as if that makes any goddamn sense bc the set up of the season was that max was the only one who could possibly fight jones. and then season 4 they just start to scratch the surface with max manifesting these new powers after jones’ death to immediately take his powers away for half the season.

like these writers have proven time and time again that they care more about their shitty, nonsensical, and (frankly) boring plot than they do actually digging into these characters. which is not how one should approach writing a tv show! how the fuck is anyone supposed to care about these characters and invest in the show when you only shallowly explore them??? how are you gonna repeatedly state that liz is the lead and then torpedo her character like this in service of focusing on other characters who are not the lead?????????? how are you gonna end season 1 giving the audience the info that max is “the savior” just to twist it into a title jones gave himself, so it’s not about max at all???? like genuinely there is no explanation for this derailment other than the writers are more interested in literally anything else. and it’s just sad how much potential was wasted.

[angrycowboy]

I can build your heart a home

[mar-sibilina]

Bunker: Isobel: Cuando estuve en su cabeza estaba en su coche, todo estaba deformado y era como si el mundo se hubiera roto. Como si se aferrara a un recuerdo tuyo para sentirse mejor en sus últimos momentos. Liz: Cada vez que pensamos en un recuerdo, lo alteramos. Los suyos están hechos jirones. Quizá podamos remendarlos con esto(inyección suero)  Michael: Pero llevas metiéndole antídoto a tu rata de laboratorio 3 días. Iz tardo poco en recordar sus lagunas mentales.  Max: Chicos. ¿Podríais no hablar de mi como si no estuviera aquí. No se para que es esto pero no funciona. Y me agobia que una extraña conozca nuestros secretos. No te ofendas. Liz: Mi hermana explota bombillas en casa cada vez que siente algo. Me centraré en eso, ¿vale? I: Liz. Lo siento L: Me vale con que este vivo y feliz.

Mercadillo: Alex(a un perro): ¡Hola! Agg ¿Cómo te llamas? Forest: Es Buffy. Gracias por cogerla. A: Ya. ¿Eres una cazavampiros? F: Lleva todo el día muy rara. María: Es la lluvia de meteoros dicen que afecta a los animales.. Y a los humanos. F: Pues menos mal que esta noche no salgo. Roswell ya es raro de por si. A: ¿Os conocéis? M: Si Forest y yo realizamos una fiesta mañana en Pony. F: Pásate los artistas beben gratis. A: No soy artista. Así que.. F: Pues te invito a una de mis copas. A: Ehh  F: Perdona. Me habré equivocado. Me devuelves a mi cazavampiros. A: Si. Perdona. Perdóname. F: Tranquilo. Nos vemos. A: Oye.. yo tenia un lagarto en el insti que se llamaba Willow. No te has equivocado.[ ... van en coche a una granja en busca de pistas de Mimi] 

Campo trigo: María: Michael. Michael ¿estas bien? Travis esta KO. Hay que ir por Alex. Michael: Vamos a mi camioneta (Alex sale casa)¡Alex! María: Alex ¿estas bien? Alex: Ese hijo de puta me ha apuñalado ¿Dónde esta? M: Detrás de ti. María: Espera, Michael. Ese no es… (sale un hombre igual y le dispara) Trevor:¿Estáis todos bien? Perdonad a mi hermano gemelo. Lo ha pasado mal. A: El combate no te convierte en un asesino. T: No estuvo en combate. Sino en el R+I+D. Si un grupo paramilitar te pregunta si quieres participar en un estudio, sal corriendo. Vino hace unas semanas. Me encerró ahí detrás. Por suerte aparecisteis vosotros. Y he podido escapar. M: No tiene buen aspecto. T: Si. Bien. Marchaos de aquí. Venga, vamos fuera. María: Perdóneme por hacerle esto ahora ¿pero recuerda as esta mujer? Le vendió unas botas turquesa. T: Priscila. María: No se llama Mimi. T: No la vaca. Yo no se las vendí, debió ser mi hermano. Chicos ya que os piráis ¿podríais pedir una ambulancia?[...]

[miniastrophysicist]

Show: Roswell, New Mexico 

Song: E.T. by Katy Perry 

Relationships: Focuses on Echo, Malex, and Kybel, but includes nearly all pairings from the show. If they kiss an alien they are in here.