#1x04 thirty eight minutes

[sga-mcshep-4ever]

"Well done, Rodney." "We'll see." "We've got a pulse." "Getting stronger." "He's going to be okay."

#mcshep #sga #stargate atlantis #john sheppard #rodney mckay #teyla emmagan #carson beckett #sgt stackhouse #sgt markham #1x04 thirty eight minutes #joe flanigan #david hewlett #rachel luttrell #paul mcgillion #worried rodney #sheppard!whump #relieved rodney #poor bby

[rodneymckays]

Stargate Atlantis | 1x04 Thirty-Eight Minutes

#rodney mckay #john sheppard #mcshep #stargate atlantis #sga #sga 1x04 #stargate #stargateedit #sgaedit #tor gifs #yeah i giffed this before #but im going thru the entire show from the beginning to gif everything that i missed #and i just love it so much #THE HAND

[augustheart]

fuck it stargirl episode ranking. yes! all thirty-nine of them!

3x03 "the blackmail": i don't have a cool justification i'm sorry i just love the crocks and i think the fight scene is fantastic. i don't even care that we can see the stuntpeople's faces it's absolutely delightful to me.

1x08 "shiv part two": ultimate comfort episode for me. what if two autistic people had to go undercover? what if a woman tried to fuck a man under a sink? just a few of the many questions asked by this episode

2x04 "summer school chapter four": crusher and paula should be allowed to do whatever they want. also the scene where dickie gets in an argument with a child in a bookstore is pretty good

1x11 "shining knight": this is the best episode of the show. like full stop. this is the best one. it isn't the highest rated on imdb. it isn't my favorite. but it is 100% the best episode of the series.

3x12 "the last will and testament of sylvester pemberton": i have probably Never gone crazier at an episode of television in my life. getting to the ending is excruciating because the first chunk is a "pat experiences ableism" simulator but oh baby. when the musical sting hits it hits

1x02 "s.t.r.i.p.e.": this episode is nearly perfect. why is there a two minute long one-take sequence in the middle of it? don't ask questions

1x01 "stargirl"/"pilot": this is one of the best cape show pilots of all time. i think doom patrol's is better but it's easily on the flash pilot level, probably higher. tells you everything you need to know: courtney rules. pat has autism. if you celebrate christmas you WILL die of supervillains attacking you. what more can you ask for

2x03 "summer school chapter three": mike should be allowed to do whatever he wants whenever. you can tell how much fun everyone had shooting this so even if luke wilson is Not looking at his mark in the slightest it's still good.

1x10 "brainwave jr": i get why this is the highest ranked episode on imdb but it is funny that it set the tone for james robinson writing episodes where he kills people in a tunnel. the scene at the beginning with barb where she's struggling not to break down is an under-appreciated bit that is so fucking good.

1x03 "icicle": the tonal shift is great. i wish hootie had come back.

1x05 "hourman and doctor mid-nite": ending scene alone puts this here. thank you cameron gellman

1x06 "the justice society": i really like it when crusher throws paula as a weapon at a group of children

2x06 "summer school chapter six": the fight choreography is off the charts. i wish that isaac's actor knew how to act and eclipso didn't run away like that.

2x08 "summer school chapter eight": oh my g-d. oh my g-d. jesus christ. oh my fucking g-d

2x02 "summer school chapter two": dickie's entrance to the show means that despite how unmoved i am by much of this episode i will forever adore it. he is so deeply weird from second one.

3x02 "the suspects": i could watch dickie make fun of anybody for hours at a time

3x07 "infinity inc part one": i could watch dickie make fun of anybody for hours at a time

3x08 "infinity inc part two": i could watch dickie make fun of anybody for hours at a time. also CARCHARO MENTIONED

2x11 "summer school chapter eleven": courtney clapping at cindy and going "AND HOW DID THAT GO FOR YOU?" about controlling eclipso after they both get stuck in the monster dimension is one of the funniest scenes in the show

3x13 "the reckoning": way better finale than other cape shows, which is fortunate for me and unfortunate for those other shows. just a really nice sendoff. i like that they bring it full circle by having kids murder someone in this one, too.

1x07 "shiv part one": the fight choreography in the courtney/cindy fight is so good. i think it's overlooked because it's a 1v1 fight but that spinning long take is really fantastic imo and i love the setting of the school gym outfitted for the dance.

1x04 "wildcat": yolanda baby :(

2x09 "summer school chapter nine": yet another episode that's a "pat experiences ableism" simulator and it is upsetting to watch but also john wesley shipp is there and it's quite well done all around. points detracted because whatever his name is that plays cameron can't act to save his life and his scene partner (an actual teenager) is absolutely killing it

3x01 "the murder": extremely good episode i love my friends i genuinely smile so big thinking about it

1x12 "stars and s.t.r.i.p.e. part one": i want to fuck crusher so bad for that garage scene and that's why it ranks higher than the s1 finale

1x13 "stars and s.t.r.i.p.e. part two": what if there was a liberalification beam.

3x11 "the haunting": obviously the setup of this episode makes me want to punch walls but artemis' screaming and breakdown at the end puts this a cut above other episodes

2x07 "summer school chapter seven": YOLANDA BABY :(

2x01 "summer school chapter one": i can't stop thinking about that person on reddit who accidentally watched this episode first and was like "why is the show so bad at exposition" not realizing it's because they didn't see season one

1x09 "brainwave": good episode ranked this low because of the evil dinner scene being one of the worst things put to film

2x10 "summer school chapter ten": dickie is really good in this but i'm not a huge fan of this conflict for pat and courtney. however i do enjoy pat getting heated for once

2x12 "summer school chapter twelve": pat torturing matt rules and i like when beth and charles metaphorically type on the same keyboard to hack something faster

3x10 "the killer": fine episode. ranked this low because the last four minutes of it never aired and definitely don't make me listen to classic decemberists song "we both go down together" on repeat

2x13 "summer school chapter thirteen": jakeem rules mike rules rick calling in a buddy to fight for him rules but i don't care about eclipso

3x04 "the evidence": we're getting into episodes i don't really care for. i do like charles though

3x09 "the monsters": i don't care about dctv cameron

3x06 "the betrayal": i don't care about dctv cameron. however pat enjoying lutefisk is good

3x05 "the thief": i don't care about dctv cameron

2x05 "summer school chapter five": It's Just Not A Very Good Episode Guys i don't know what more you want from me

if you read through all of this thanks. several of these are actually tied with each other to be honest so if parts of this seem interchangeable, that's why.

#dctv / #dcutv #stargirl

[whumpofalltime]

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Prospect:

(fyeahvulnerablemen's tag)

"The whump in Prospect is based in relationships - Cee shoots Ezra, but by the middle of the movie their relationship has changed enough for him to trust her to remove his arm. I love both characters, I love the sci-fi element of the spores leading to the wound festering (so often SF tends towards easy healing rather than Interesting Whump)."

SGA: 38 Minutes

Thirty-Eight Minutes:

(resuscitation gifset, tag with gifs)

"Alien parasite! Pain! Far away from definitive medical care! "We have to kill him to save him"! Resuscitation! It's literally a whole episode of whump."

#whump community #whump #stargate #stargate atlantis #prospect #prospect 2018 #pedro pascal

[stargatecaps]

#stargate atlantis #Rodney McKay #david hewlett #sga season 1 #1x04: thirty eight minutes

[stargate365]

[SGA] 1.04: Thirty-Eight Minutes

Gif by StargateDaily

Ooh. Pretty

Why is John not flying? Oh, bc John is In Trouble. John, why?

“Some sort of funky alien bug”

Uh-oh. This is a problem... #stuck

“It’s that or the Stargate shrank.”

Yeah Liz, that’s what I said.

Either explosion... or mountain was not mountain... ship? Yas ship!

Erm. Ship not here is not good news.

Liz doesn’t know about the 38 minute rule?!?!?

“The Czech who’s name I can never remember?” “Zelenka?”

Ugh. Funky alien bug is fugly.

Johns expression at wondering why the puddle is IN the jumper.

“You mean my day just got worse?”

Hehe... my brain is bad. “Don’t talk to me about screwed” John says to Rodney.

Wow, love how John is being bossy and helping keep Rodney in a good mental space. John is a good person, thankyou for calming him down.

I know there are people who will fight me, but I’m like 99% sure Rodney is on some level autistic - and I get to say this bc I am, so shove off.

*speaking Czech*

Zelenka is my new fave. After John and Rodney.

“What can I do to help?” “Stop talking please... *swears in czech*”

I don’t like this bug... not one bit.

So like... I know Kavanagh is worries, but he’s still being Very Rude

Weir doesn’t have time for fatalistic thinking.

Erm... Kavanagh, please don’t piss off Liz rn. She is BUSY trying to save lives.

Yes, I think Liz would.

N e v e r a g a i n

Liz does not have time for yo bullshit.

*excites shouting in czech*

Rodney doesn’t joke when it comes to food.

Salt water? That’s it’s weakness? Holy shit that hurts just to look at!

What’s happening is that it’s a miracle Rodney didn’t hit the wrong button by accident and kill us all.

“Don’t do that again please...”

The puddle is under the door... not good.

What do you mean we’re gonna stop his heart???

Did it work? Did we kill him?? ;w;

I hate this fucking bug!!!

Love how Ford kills it with prejudice!!

Rodney why are you so eager to die saving people?

“I think I did it?”

Why not moving? Lack of momentum?

Ooh! Vent atmo! Like a fire extinguisher!

Ford shoving Rodney into the puddle is brave!

His jacket is moving!! Hope the bug gets spaced!!

Success!!! Now we just need John to BREATHE DAMMIT

Yas!! Go team!!

“We should let you rest.” “No, you should bring me food.”

#day 172 #sga #stargate #stargate atlantis #stargate 365+1 #sga 1x04 #1x04 #thirty-eight minutes #sga: thirty-eight minutes #gif: stargatedaily

[jumpingpuddlespodcast]

On this week's Jumping Puddles, the team watches 1x04, Thirty-Eight Minutes. We discuss the chaotic and bugtraumatic consequences that follow off-world travel, John Sheppard's Turtleneck Trauma, Elizabeth Weir governor of Atlantis and collectively dream about marooning Kavanagh on a deserted island. All discussed in just under 38 minutes!

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#stargate atlantis #sga #stargate #podcast #scifi podcast

[itwoodbeprefect]

rewatched sga 1x04 thirty-eight minutes! thoughts under the cut!

this is an episode i already rewatched very recently, when i was wildly hopping back and forth through the show (but mostly in seasons 2-5), but i’ll watch it again now for context.

love the start of this episode, which is so in the middle of the action i always have a second of “wait, did i skip something?”

teyla correctly guesses that the bug that’s on john’s neck is related to the wraith! SHE is the one that makes the connection because SHE is the one that knows the most about this universe! THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT when i say that the expedition needs the athosians, oof.

also though, it’s both really great to see that teyla is (especially here, early on) so often the one with very important key insights that (help to) solve the expedition’s problem of the week, and honestly a little sad, because the earth humans just. don’t seem to learn from that to respect the athosians a little more, maybe, mayhaps. they respect teyla, yes, but (and i’m getting ahead of myself a little here because i’m expanding on bits of this after i’ve also already watched the next episode, which deals with the earth vs. athosian clash a lot) they kind of... only seem to take from all of her extremely valuable contributions that she as an individual can be an asset to them, instead of viewing it in a broader context. (but yeah, definitely getting ahead of myself here.)

ZELENKA. ZELUMPKA

kavan-ugh

this episode has a very cool format!! the jumping back and forth!! the bits of information we’re fed through people starting to give long explanations and then being cut off, making us puzzle it all together a little!!

throughout the entire ordeal rodney keeps being distracted by what is happening with john and that’s good on every level. just makes sense, because they’re in a tiny space, and it’s also potentially shippy, and it’s also just a sign that rodney most certainly does care - though at the same time also one of how early on this all still is, because i do feel rodney ends up getting better at working through a crisis. (though it’s also like. very often john who keeps rodney focused, so in that context it makes sense rodney keeps getting distracted if john is, uh, otherwise occupied. with, like, dying.)

teyla is wearing earth gear in this episode and i think that’s the first time we see that? but she does seem to have her own shirt under the jacket, which, idk, feels interesting. she’s putting on this uniform over her pegasus identity.

the elizabeth vs. halling bits where she denies his request for last rites for teyla (that’s not just coming from him, but from a group of athosians), even though the radio is totally free so they could have talked to teyla without obstructing the earth efforts at that moment... are always so uncomfortable to me. elizabeth says she doesn't want to make the people on the ship think they will die because earth people value life and will keep trying to save everyone, etc etc, and that’s fine but it’s. such a sad way for this all to go down. i love elizabeth most of the time but these bits are most definitely not my favorites - like, she’s in love with the ancients but she doesn’t have enough respect for the living pegasus culture to find a way to make this work for everyone. i never fully know if i think this is an interesting flaw in her character or if i just want to blame it on the writers, who have a certain perspective that elizabeth is now an unfortunate mouthpiece for.

(and getting ahead of myself again here, but then later after the rescue efforts paid off there’s THAT NOD she gives halling across the room and that’s just fdjkfd nahhhh. you did not earn that nod. you don’t have some cool understanding now, you were just disrespectful to him and his culture and his religion and this, now, feels a hair’s breadth from gloating over how your perspective was right all along, even though this outcome!!! does not mean!!! that it couldn’t have ended differently!!! and i do think elizabeth means well and is not trying to be a dick, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t. i have extremely mixed feelings about all of this.)

for a lighter thought, markham and stackhouse’s biggest roles in sga are the episode that they spend being dematerialized and i think that’s very iconic of them.

at one point john is talking to carson and is like “i need to move to help rodney with the mechanical problem!” and that’s so very john of him. he’s actively at death’s door and still doing his level best to be a control freak about a different life-threatening problem.

i PROMISE i’m not trying to rag on elizabeth (i do like her!!! when she’s not in this episode), but this quote, when she’s making a point to kavanaugh: “we are cut off from earth, which makes atlantis almost like a colony, doesn't it? (...) well i'm governor of that colony.” it’s just laden with so, so, so much oof.

anyway, this episode has a lot of team!!! gate team one!!! team cooperation!!! at some point ford is updating atlantis on the status in the jumper and he’s like “doctor mckay- [pointed pause in which he looks at rodney] doctor mckay is still hopeful he can come up with a solution” and then rodney GETS BACK TO WORK and that’s good, i like a lot of things about that and what it says about how these characters and this team works.

john comes up with the solution to his own near death experience, which is also very john of him. bonus points for the plan being one in which john dies. sets a trend for a surprising amount of the rest of the show, even though he doesn’t usually actually end up dead for a little bit when those plans are carried out, like he does here.

grodin, gosh, he’s so present in these early episodes, and it makes me sad that he’s one of those characters that just end up fading away eventually.

TEYLA’S RAINBOW WRAP AROUND SHIRT at johns bedside is !!!!!!! so good, omfg.

john, telling everyone what he was supposedly going to say when he was about to die: “take care of each other.” rodney, a little smug: “and indeed we did.” fdjkfd these lonely men are still adjusting to having a family, but sometimes they are very :D about it and that’s very cute.

#stargatezing #sga #* #stargate atlantis #love the episode hate the politics #though in a way it's like. a good primer for what follows

[loeswrites]

Thirty-Eight Minutes - 1x04 Stargate Atlantis

#stargate atlantis #sga #stargateatlantisedit #joe flanigan #sgaedit #* #graphics #mine

[stargatevp]

Stargate: Atlantis 1x04 Thirty Eight Minutes

When: Sunday Dec. 15. at 9pm (CET) | 8pm (GMT) | 3pm (EST) ( check your local time here )

Where: Right here (message blog-mods for password)

Hosted by: @angelblaze​

Promo by: Mod 1989nihil

#Stargate Atlantis #Mod 1989Nihil #promo gallery

[aceofwhump]

What do you suggest watching first to get into the Stargate universe??

Ohh that’s a tough question for me lol! My gut instinct is to say start at the beginning and watch the 1994 film. It’s really important to watch the original film in order to really understand the stargate universe because everything started there and the shows make references to the movie verse all the time. After the movie comes Stargate SG-1 and then Stargate Atlantis starts during season 8 of SG-1 and then Stargate Universe (which I must confess I never got into at all) starts after both of those. 

But that’s a lot and the film won’t really give you a feel of how the Stargate tv show is so another way of getting into the show is by watching some of the best episodes first and seeing if you like it. I suggest the following episodes to watch as a glimpse of the feel of Stargate (and yes I’m suggesting a lot of the whumpy ones because that’s what I do lol). Also note that I’m incredibly biased towards Daniel Jackson episodes. I love him. I can’t help it. Anyway, these are my favorite episodes and ones I think might make good introduction episodes. 

Followers who also love Stargate: Please feel free to chime in here with your favorite episodes to introduce people to stargate!

SG-1:

1x01 and 1x02 Children of the Gods

1x07 Cold Lazarus

1x13 Fire and Water

1x18 Solitudes

2x04 The Gamekeeper

2x05 Need

2x15 The Fifth Race

2x21 1969

3x04 Legacy

3x10 Forever in a Day

4x06 Window of Opportunity

4x08 The First Ones

5x12 Wormhole X-Treme!

8x12 Prometheus Unbound

9x01 and 9x02 Avalon

10x03 The Pegasus Project

Atlantis:

1x01 and 1x02 Rising

1x04 Thirty Eight Minutes

1x10 The Storm and 1x11 the Eye

2x03 Runner

2x04 Duet

2x14 Grace Under Pressure

3x04 Sateda

3x07 Common Ground

3x14 Tao of Rodney

4x16 Trio

5x01 Search and Rescue

5x06 The Shrine

#theladyoffangorn #mod replies #stargate #stargate sg1 #stargate atlantis #ask #recs #tv recs #some are more whumpy than others

[sga-mcshep-4ever]

"Nothing?" "Nothing! Let's get him through!" "Got him?" "Yes." "This is Lieutenant Ford. The creature's successfully been removed from Major Sheppard, but we were unable to revive him. Both he and Teyla are now on the other side of the event horizon."

#sga #stargate atlantis #john sheppard #rodney mckay #teyla emmagan #aiden ford #1x04 thirty eight minutes #joe flanigan #david hewlett #rachel luttrell #rainbow sun francks #paul mcgillion #whumptober

[rodneymckays]

TV TROPES - Stargate Atlantis | 1x04 Thirty-Eight Minutes

#radek zelenka #john sheppard #rodney mckay #carson beckett #stargate atlantis #sga 1x04 #sga #stargate #stargateedit #sgaedit #sgatvtropes #scifiedit #scifigifs #tor gifs

[maxortecho]

Confessions - 1x01

For today’s Echo appreciation, I thought I’d use the theme of confessions and kick off a meta series following Liz’s S1 journey towards Max. 

Liz has been closed off and emotionally drifting for the past 10 years. She doesn’t connect. Once she hits Roswell though, she’s met with a shock to the system in the shape of Max Evans. Max emotionally blindsides Liz throughout S1. She likes to see herself as a rational person separate from her emotions, but she struggles to rationalise Max. Bit by bit, Liz finds herself becoming tethered to a connection and to her feelings again. Ultimately, Liz’s S1 romantic arc builds to her confessing these feelings to herself, to Max, and to Rosa. 

So let’s start with episode 1!

The Crashdown

The first episode opens with Liz spitting fire at an unknown cop for pulling her over at an ICE checkpoint. Except, well—turns out it’s Max Evans. Her anger subsides, her voice softens, and she’s suddenly remembering him smiling at her in high school. The thing is, Max is still the cop who pulled her over. Liz is shocked to see him, sure, but I think it’s her automatic association of goodness and safety with her memory of Max that has her combativeness and suspicion evaporating on the spot.

Then Sheriff Valenti comes over. Liz’s walls immediately go back up.

Liz: “Are you going to breathalyze me, or?”

Later, at the diner, Max causes the same shocked and breathless reaction.

I still find it cute that Liz spends a good thirty seconds speechless and staring at Max wide-eyed while he’s talking to her. She seems more stunned than she was the first time--he was in full uniform and a strange context there; here, he’s lost the hat and the jacket, and he’s in familiar territory at the diner and her family home. 

Max is only dropping in to let Liz know her left front running light is broken, and then he promptly turns to leave in the middle of her staring. Liz flounders and mirrors his spin, walking in the other direction--

(to where, honey? the window? lmao)

--before making a split-second decision to dive headfirst into that familiarity sparking between them.

Liz: “You want a milkshake?”

Liz doesn’t get time to rationalise in these initial moments. She stays in that vulnerable space during their diner discussion, tries drawing Max there with her (”You wanted to be a writer. So why did you join the force?”). Max references Rosa’s death and Liz visibly closes herself off. This is the first time she does so in reaction to Max--which is fitting, considering what happens next.

In the OG Roswell, Liz actually gets shot in the stomach. But Liz gets shot in the heart in RNM. I definitely think RNM upped the drama and the symbolism here. Max and his family’s betrayal has lead to Liz dying by the heart. It’s time for him to start fixing his mistakes or Liz is gone forever. Eight minutes into the series, Max literally and symbolically restarts Liz’s heart.

Big Sisters

After Liz is shot and Max tells her it didn’t happen, Liz decides she’s going to confront him. But directly before she does, Liz visits Rosa’s roadside grave. Liz doesn’t have a memory here that is specifically about Rosa. Instead, she has a memory where she talks to Rosa about Max. When I first watched this, I found it a strange choice for introducing Rosa. But!

I now view this Liz/Rosa conversation as representing Liz’s conflicting perspectives about Max. Flashback Liz is all heart and driven by emotions: “Maybe I don’t want to miss Max Evans”. 

Flashback Rosa is arguing to think with her head and not her emotions, and pushing the ‘cage around your heart’ narrative that Liz adopts after Rosa’s death: “He’s already in the rearview mirror, trust me”.

Liz’s memory at Rosa’s roadside grave feels like she’s seeking out her big sister’s advice. What’s interesting is that Liz already knows Max is lying to her and she has suspicions he’s hiding something bigger—and yet an emotional plea is her first plan of action. The rational, scientific plan (what we are consistently told is characteristic of Liz) is her back-up plan when it comes to Max. 

So Liz finds Max and gives him a milkshake. She reveals some personal information in an attempt to appeal to his goodness and sense of right. She can trust Max to tell her the truth. All he needs is a push. A secret for a secret, right?

Liz: “Can you keep a secret? My mother is mentally ill. My sister Rosa too. I was always afraid I’d end up like them. Hallucinating. You know I thought I was shot?”

Except Max doesn’t meet her halfway. He denies she was shot. Max changes his mind when Liz becomes more upset, but he gets interrupted by Michael exploding a car’s windows. Liz leaves the conversation without answers. She takes Max’s straw instead.

Even though Liz has fallen onto her rational plan, how does she follow up the Max interaction? With another big sister. She seeks out Maria and The Wild Pony. The next step of Liz’s rational plan should be checking out Max’s DNA. But Liz doesn’t do that yet. Instead, Liz actually follows the next step of her emotional plan failing: girl’s gotta eat her proverbial bucket of ice cream before she can move on. Liz tells Maria that she thought she felt a spark with Max, but now she just feels like an idiot after getting the cold shoulder from him. 

Liz finds that switching off her emotional reaction towards Max--and transitioning into a rational scientist about him--isn’t coming easily to her for some reason. Strange. That usually works. I don’t think this is an influence of the psychic bond either; Liz has the same problem in the beginning of 1x03. She’s there to gather data about Max but has to visibly shake off her emotional reaction and the pull towards him. 

By the time the handprint turns up and Liz checks his DNA, Liz is ready to confront Max again. Except Max has already decided he’s ready to share his secret. Like their first scene at the ICE checkpoint, all of Liz’s fire evaporates on the spot.

The Desert

This whole episode, Liz has been trying to get some vulnerability and honesty out of Max. And boy does she get it. Max flays himself open in the desert for Liz—his identity, his feelings, his memories—and the amount he’s giving her blows Liz and her reservations away. HER FACE JOURNEY, Y’ALL.

Liz: “Max... Why me?”

Max: “Do you remember the first time we met?”

Liz: “I feel like I’ve just always known you.”

I ache at this line. This idea of Max embedded in Liz’s history and a piece of her identity. Max associated with familiarity and home, despite him literally being an extra-terrestrial figure. She isn’t bothered nor put off him by him being an alien. He’s still just Max Evans to her. (And, okay, for Max who simply wants to be the guy from Roswell, who feels scared of being extraordinary, I find this really sweet.) Max can show her his memories and how he feels about her (why her), but he’ll have to touch her.

Liz: “Okay. Do um… do whatever you want.”

Which is essentially the point of this meta where I descend into incoherent yelling. Liz will say in 1x04 that she keeps a cage around her heart. But here, Liz doesn’t even hesitate to give him full access to it. Max made himself vulnerable for her, so she’s comfortable fully reciprocating. Liz entered Roswell wary and closed off, but a few days later she’s 100% on board for weird, unknown, psychic alien bonding with Max. Damn. Over and over, we are shown that Max Evans is an exception to Liz’s rules.

Max refuses to kiss Liz after, thinking he’s interacting with a Liz mirroring his own feelings back at him. Liz doesn’t seem to agree. Instead of arguing the point though, she leaves it at “Fine. I’ll kiss you [when the handprint fades].”  (His delightfully scandalised reaction? Chef kiss!) She can prove him wrong later, if he won’t believe her right now. I do think Liz reflects Max here in some kind of feelings loop--but at the same time, she knows she’s also experiencing this purely, as her own source of feelings.  

While I’m here, if Max believes Liz is reflecting his feelings, then what does Max believe he’s feeling because of Liz? Does he consider that possibility? Is he feeling any doubt or fear? And if he is, is that Liz or him?

The Reunion

Hmm, reunion indeed.

Liz says she can’t connect. But she does.

Liz says she doesn’t dance in Roswell anymore. But she does. And she drags Max along with her.

Oh, I’m sensing a theme for Liz here.  

#roswell new mexico #echo3days2019 #liz x max #liz ortecho #max evans #meta #confessions #echo #s1 #1x01 #ep: pilot

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(gifset, gifset, gifset)

"Matt beaten and bloody in a dumpster! Matt falling on his face! Matt wincing and groaning! Matt having been stabbed! Matt gasping and saying, "I can't breathe!" Matt getting a needle thoracostomy! All outside of the hospital!" ~ @whumpdoyoumean

"The entire episode is iconic. The whump just keeps GOING. Matt falling over? Claire being a fed up but very competent caretaker? "I can't go to the hospital"? Matt being SO visibly beaten down and acted so well? It's incredible."

SGA: 38 Minutes

Thirty-Eight Minutes:

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"Alien parasite! Pain! Far away from definitive medical care! "We have to kill him to save him"! Resuscitation! It's literally a whole episode of whump."

#quarterfinals

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#stargate atlantis #john sheppard #joe flanigan #sga season 1 #1x04: thirty eight minutes