Roswell, New Mexico 1x12 Thoughts
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+ Liz is honestly way too good of a person. Her putting her own conflicted wants aside - to not be the one responsible for someone's death - in order to let Isobel get the closure she needed was such a deeply kind thing to do. I really loved that Isobel/Liz conversation. Isobel meanly lashing out and Liz letting it roll off her, Liz making it about what Isobel needed, and being honest with Isobel about what's helped her deal with Rosa's death was all great.
+ "I've never actually seen Star Trek." - Kyle. Hee. Loved Alex's dumbfounded "oh my god". The one spot of humour in this episode.
+ Michael inadvertently causing the deaths of his mother and all the other alien captives in his attempt to free them was far too cruel. They could have at least made it be Flint setting it off to cover everything up once he realised their father hadn't sent Alex. Hasn't Michael suffered enough pain and guilt and loss in his life? This bothered me so much. :(
+ Michael's growing desperation to rescue the unknown woman who he was so certain he knew and the short connection they made (which was beautiful and melancholy and so full of "could have been") ending in the reveal that she was his mother was heartbreaking. And really wonderfully acted by Michael Vlamis.
+ I did end up feeling bad for Noah. We get nothing to indicate he was a bad guy pre-crash and the combination of listening to aliens murder your people while you're helpless and then spending decades alone and aware [basically being in a coma and aware] is genuinely horrifying. In fact the latter is one of my greatest fears so that makes me more sympathetic then I might otherwise have been. I find the fact that he apparently lost it after that rather unsurprising.
+ All three of the pod squad's reactions to Noah were so perfectly them - Isobel wants to forget and stick her head in the sand, Max is angry and lashing out and being in charge, and Michael just wants answers.
+ The aliens getting stronger by killing/sucking up human life force is really unexpected. Is that surge in power such a strong rush that it can become addicting? Is that the only way they can get stronger? Are there two different types of aliens, some who feed on life like this and others who don't? It's just a really weird direction to take this considering the comparison between the aliens and refugees/immigrants.
+ Seriously, Michael you couldn't try talking first? Seriously, Max you pulled a gun on Michael? WTF, you two?! Jesus, where's Isobel, those two idiots clearly can't be trusted alone together.
+ So it looks like the show might actually go somewhere with Max's violence and aggression and rage issues, and just all the ways that he's kind of the worst? I mean I really, really hope so.
+ So Liz feels Noah's emotions - his pain and fear - and Max's reaction is to hurt Noah, to try and make him afraid and to let him die???? I feel like that's a pretty good reason to save Noah in itself.
+ It was a little weird to see Kyle switch from his appalled reaction upon discovering the aliens and saying his father deserved to die to trying to rationalise it when they got back to Roswell. Nothing changed after the facility blew up, no new knowledge was gained. I guess it was simply time. His initial reaction, his horror at what was done to the aliens, was true but after sitting with it for a few hours he found himself trying make it less horrifying for himself? To make the aliens 'deserve it'? I'm worried about where this is going.
+ I'm disappointed in what the show has done with Cam. Her going to such extremes for Max because she's in love with him annoys me. On the other hand, I want her to survive and I've felt this growing fear that she'd be killed so her getting out of town is probably for the best.
+ I did like Max trying to take that death from Liz.
+ Did Noah cause Isobel's blackouts or did he take advantage of them to live through her? If the latter what's been causing the blackouts?
+ I was hoping for something... more about Rosa. Some better reason for what happened in that cave maybe. Or about Isobel in relation to Rosa. Alas.
+ Why the hell would the prison facility be so lightly guarded? Why was there basically no security? Why wasn't the guard suspicious of Kyle suddenly being there? Why... literally everything. Everything about it was sloppy and made no sense.
+ Liz is honestly way too good of a person. Her putting her own conflicted wants aside - to not be the one responsible for someone's death - in order to let Isobel get the closure she needed was such a deeply kind thing to do. I really loved that Isobel/Liz conversation. Isobel meanly lashing out and Liz letting it roll off her, Liz making it about what Isobel needed, and being honest with Isobel about what's helped her deal with Rosa's death was all great.
+ "I've never actually seen Star Trek." - Kyle. Hee. Loved Alex's dumbfounded "oh my god". The one spot of humour in this episode.
+ Michael inadvertently causing the deaths of his mother and all the other alien captives in his attempt to free them was far too cruel. They could have at least made it be Flint setting it off to cover everything up once he realised their father hadn't sent Alex. Hasn't Michael suffered enough pain and guilt and loss in his life? This bothered me so much. :(
+ Michael's growing desperation to rescue the unknown woman who he was so certain he knew and the short connection they made (which was beautiful and melancholy and so full of "could have been") ending in the reveal that she was his mother was heartbreaking. And really wonderfully acted by Michael Vlamis.
+ I did end up feeling bad for Noah. We get nothing to indicate he was a bad guy pre-crash and the combination of listening to aliens murder your people while you're helpless and then spending decades alone and aware [basically being in a coma and aware] is genuinely horrifying. In fact the latter is one of my greatest fears so that makes me more sympathetic then I might otherwise have been. I find the fact that he apparently lost it after that rather unsurprising.
+ All three of the pod squad's reactions to Noah were so perfectly them - Isobel wants to forget and stick her head in the sand, Max is angry and lashing out and being in charge, and Michael just wants answers.
+ The aliens getting stronger by killing/sucking up human life force is really unexpected. Is that surge in power such a strong rush that it can become addicting? Is that the only way they can get stronger? Are there two different types of aliens, some who feed on life like this and others who don't? It's just a really weird direction to take this considering the comparison between the aliens and refugees/immigrants.
+ Seriously, Michael you couldn't try talking first? Seriously, Max you pulled a gun on Michael? WTF, you two?! Jesus, where's Isobel, those two idiots clearly can't be trusted alone together.
+ So it looks like the show might actually go somewhere with Max's violence and aggression and rage issues, and just all the ways that he's kind of the worst? I mean I really, really hope so.
+ So Liz feels Noah's emotions - his pain and fear - and Max's reaction is to hurt Noah, to try and make him afraid and to let him die???? I feel like that's a pretty good reason to save Noah in itself.
+ It was a little weird to see Kyle switch from his appalled reaction upon discovering the aliens and saying his father deserved to die to trying to rationalise it when they got back to Roswell. Nothing changed after the facility blew up, no new knowledge was gained. I guess it was simply time. His initial reaction, his horror at what was done to the aliens, was true but after sitting with it for a few hours he found himself trying make it less horrifying for himself? To make the aliens 'deserve it'? I'm worried about where this is going.
+ I'm disappointed in what the show has done with Cam. Her going to such extremes for Max because she's in love with him annoys me. On the other hand, I want her to survive and I've felt this growing fear that she'd be killed so her getting out of town is probably for the best.
+ I did like Max trying to take that death from Liz.
+ Did Noah cause Isobel's blackouts or did he take advantage of them to live through her? If the latter what's been causing the blackouts?
+ I was hoping for something... more about Rosa. Some better reason for what happened in that cave maybe. Or about Isobel in relation to Rosa. Alas.
+ Why the hell would the prison facility be so lightly guarded? Why was there basically no security? Why wasn't the guard suspicious of Kyle suddenly being there? Why... literally everything. Everything about it was sloppy and made no sense.
