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#obviously you don't have to go on a multi year break like i did lol even just a couple weeks can make a huge difference
holyshit · 2 years
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#harry fan anon#finally here! hello!#yeah i get that :/ it's rough trying to enjoy your fandom experience only to have outside forces make it unbearable sometimes#especially with this kind of discourse which is so... draining and ugly and often personal feeling for a lot of people#and even when you actively try to avoid the discourse- it is still so pervasive that you end up seeing it anyway#don't be embarrassed at all- this fandom IS draining and it totally makes sense if you need to take a step back#it is unfortunate that it has to be this way since fandom is supposed to be fun and shouldn't be like this but 100% understand needing to#step back for your own sake#because a fandom is never worth your peace of mind and your happiness#i cut out everything related to 1d in 2016 for like 4-5 years because it was making me feel so awful and it was entirely worth it#gave me perspective and helped me find the joy in it again when i came back#obviously you don't have to go on a multi year break like i did lol even just a couple weeks can make a huge difference#it makes you remember what's important and realize the parts of fandom you can live without#my main recommendation for stepping back is to pour that extra energy into another hobby or interest you've been neglecting#or pick up something new#as soon as you have something else to focus on you'll find it easier to detach emotionally#when so much of your mind is wrapped up in one thing without any distractions it is much easier to invest to much of yourself into that one#thing at the detriment of your peace of mind#the little lovely corner of fandom you carved out for yourself will be here when you get back!#and never feel embarrassed for feeling things deeply- it's a lovely quality! just remember to take care of yourself#asks#anonymous
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trashlama · 11 months
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Heeeeeyyyyy.... guess who's ADHD can't let them write for shit?~ This bitch✨~
I suuuuuucck guys I know! I did a poll and everything just so I would have to write some of these! I just couldn't help but get side tracked.... My brain is in the LMK and Spiderverse fandoms!!! Though I will say I basically got this Rise Donnie x Big Mama Assistant req almost done. Almost I say. We'll see if I post it in the next two days and not something else random instead.... I suck lol
Anyways— here's my 3am thoughts from the other night that I'm finish up tonight ironically at 3am again. Soooo bare with me these are basically a bunch of summaries/plots/not fully flushed out possible one shot ideas I might do. Probably could've re-read it a couple more times buuuuttt it's about to be 4 now so....
I hope you guys enjoy!
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Sooooo I was going through the Across the Spiderverse tag(specifically Miguel O'Hara) because you know he's hot. Priorities— Anyways— I kinda had an idea. Brahhzz what if I just took the whole Miguel kidnapping his dead wife/lover's alternate dimensional copy deal that everyone has been throwing around and introduced a new take on this tale?
We all know that the Spiderverse is very open to a wide selection of possibilities and versions of Spiderman and we're all aware that the same thing applies to other characters as well. Soooo who said that Y/n has to be a civilian/or a version of Spiderman for this idea to work?
My fellow peeps I introduce to you Earth 2099 Miguel O'Hara x  Villain/Alchemax worker/Morally Grey scientist Reader!
I can kinda see this playing out in a few ways.
1.)Villain reader investigating the strange phenomenon that occurred a couple months before hacking the multi verse and stirring up trouble. Miguel intervenes and takes what he wants.
For the last year since the bizarre phenomenon in downtown Brooklyn you've been stirring up more trouble than you typical due to collecting the materials needed for your "experiments" to figure out what that phenomenon really was and what the hell was Alchemax —your ex-employers— were up to with your research. With some finessing of the illegal kind you figure out what the corporation was up to. Before being fired you had discovered the existence of the multiverse however before you could investigate any further you were let go. Now that you have your research back you're able to Doc Octo this shit and break into the multiverse. If you could pull this off nothing was stopping ya' from fulfilling yer goal and maybe scoring some fame while you were at it. After some convoluted ass science mumbojumbo. You manage to Doc Octo this shit and break into the dimensional web that held the spider verse. Inside the alternate universe you immediately start messing up shit straight off the back as soon as you fly through the colorful portal. Miguel is quick to pick up on this anomaly and sends some Spiders out to handle the issue. Long story short— they fail. Forcing Miguel's hand to go and correct the anomaly himself. Only to find that it was you. Her. His dead wife/or dead lover. The only problem is that you're obviously not a good guy. Miguel being Miguel will try to rationalize it to himself as he demolishes your equipment/suit that you're not his Y/n, you're a villain, he can't keep you without risking a whole universe just for his selfish desires. However as he stood over your defeated helpless form. He decided. If one anomaly can exist and not destroy existence why can't another? There were ways around this. There had to be. Holding you in his grasp again the hero wasn't sure if he could let you go once again....
2.) You're an inventor/scientist that works at Alchemax/or your another rogue scientist . Either way you're looking to get into the Spider verse. Since the phenomenon from a couple months ago you've been intrigued by the strange occurrence. The news labeled it a "strange weather occurrence" however you knew that wasn't the case. If you're working at Alchemax you've known about the phenomenon since the beginning. If you're an inventor/scientist (with some grey morals) you found out after some research and trespassing. Either way your tinkering pays off thanks to the help of some stolen tech from Alchemax and an interesting glitch from the hacked tech. You eventually have yourself a fully operational universe hopping watch. And where do you end up? Right in the middle of Earth 2099. Miguel is immediately alerted of your presence. An obvious stranger to this Jetson world you find yourself quickly apprehended by a small group of spiders/or Miguel. Either way the red & blue leotard nosferatu as soon as he catches sight of you the dude is all over you. Miguel may be a man who would like to believe he is in control of himself and his rash decisions buuuuttt that's gonna be a nah. Never had the Spiderman ever expected to speak to an alternate version of his dead wife. Especially in person. Every time he's stolen a glance it was from a distance or behind one of his various monitors. He couldn't risk ruining another verse. However somehow regardless of his attempts to keep his desires at bay you've still managed to break past that last thing that was keeping you from him. Now that you're here the thirty year old wasn't sure if he could let you leave him again...
3.) What if instead of breaking into the multi verse. Alchemax employee/Morally Grey scientist Reader! is lured into the multiverse? In your home verse the Miguel who you had married was dead. Struggling with piling debt and depression you choose to bury your problems under research into the weird phenomenon that occurred in downtown Brooklyn a few months before. During this time of trial and error you figure out how to access the multiverse thanks to some misplaced Alchemax files and risky choices. The documents aid in building the device that would aid in your plan to find your ex-husband's alternate universe copy. All the while you were walking right into Miguel's clutches. Cause like you Miguel was having an equally hard time getting over his family's death. Although they are gone the widowed father couldn't help but, search for his loved ones amongst the various worlds that rest at his finger tips. He needed them. He needed you....and you needed him. Although you guys weren't from the same earth you both can replace the pain that was birthed from this tragedy and regain something more. Just be a family.... Hopefully you want to play his game because Miguel couldn't watch from the sidelines any longer.
Alrighty guys that's all for now! Sorry if they're a little all over the place. Regardless I hope you guys liked them and I hope you guys have a good week!
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yuljedoc · 2 years
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Lovers to Friends?
There's this multi million-dollar question why Yijin and Heedo can't remain just friends.
The fandom is divided. Is it really possible?
Aren't they friends to begin with? Was it the pain between them?
Personally...
I think that not only did the break up of Yijin and Heedo was painful, but also her separation with the Taeyang Squad.
But let's find out. Shall we?
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This reminds me of a dark humor response that Heedo is back to square one:
친구 없어
I don't have any friend.
but if I may, let's grammatically correct it:
친구들 없어 = I have no friends.
I gotta put the plural 들 to put salt on the wound. Yeah. 'cause it felt like Heedo not only lost the love of her life, but the friends she made along the way.
I'll try to explain why. Bear with me, please.
In my opinion, I do think Minchae didn't even know who were Heedo's friends back then. It wasn't directly implied, yet as we can see in episode 4, Minchae's grandma, Shin Jaekyung had to introduced their names one by one.
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Hence, the birth of the Dementia Theory.
We assumed Shin Jaekyung have dementia or in it's early stages of Alzheimer's and Minchae was just testing if she can remember her so called father Kim/Baek Yijin. Yeah. No shit.
Also, adding the fact that Minchae doesn't even know who Baek Yijin is, if he really is the father as we have hoped for or just for the sake that her mom and this guy were friends before. Minchae doesn't seem to know his existence.
But kidding aside, it did looked like she was seeing them for the first time or maybe knowing them only through photos. Painful take, apologies for that.
Looking further back, when Minchae first read the diary. She uttered the words:
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But as we watched and analysed it, it didn't seem that Heedo wrote the first sentences in the diary pertaining to Yijin, but to Yurim.
For me, it is canon that her first love could be these 3:
1. Fencing
2. Yurim
3. Yijin
I am so sure that what Heedo meant and obviously it was Yurim.
So, why the hell does Minchae doesn't know that they became best friends? Like, how?
Two plausible explanation:
Heedo did not tell it to Minchae and Minchae has not even met Yurim.
And to expound the disconnection of Heedo and the Taeyang squad, remember how she suddenly forgot the beach trip? :
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I mean, how the hell can someone fails to recall being carried like this?
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I'd probably tattooed this on my mind for the rest of my life. I'd write poems and songs about this. lol
Well, to tell you the truth. I am torn. 50/50.
Some even thought that she was just feigning ignorance infront of her daughter, but biologically and psychologically speaking, I must say a 40 year old Na Heedo forgetting this iconic memory is valid.
I'm not gonna talk about Heedo having the crazy Selective Amnesia Theory. Naur. Or the funny pun where Yijin's forehead flick was so strong she forgot the trip etc.
Hear me out on this first. I'll explain.
Let's focus biologically and theoretically. As someone who works in healthcare, I've seen people and even studied that it's quite possible that you wont remember everything in your past. One simple reason? Old age.
Neurons deteriorate.
I know that sounded like she's already disintegrating mentally. She's not even that old yet. Even Jaekyung remembered their names and it wasn't even shown in the drama that she met Heedo's friends. I know. It's crazy.
But somehow it's true. There are even 3 theories why we forget: physiological, neurochemical, and psychological.
And Psychologically there are 5. For Heedo's case, I think it has got to be Decay Theory. It fits.
Decay theory states that if we don’t access memories, they will fade over time. 
So, why does she doesn't access it?
Maybe Heedo doesn't go about revisiting her memories. Is it?
But why?
Going back again in episode 4, where Heedo said these:
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What is this? Very conclusive, right?
It might mean something...
And that something means there must be a painful meaning behind why she had to forget.
There was this another theory again back then that a very traumatic event happened to one of the gang. Like, Yijin, Yurim, or even Seungwan dying.
Yijin dying from overwork or accident. (Here comes the 9/11 & Red Luggage Theory)
Yurim taking her own life because of recurring suicide attempt.
And Seungwan will die because of her bleak outlook in life.
We were certified clowns. It made the whole fandom a carnival.
These things didn't even came true.
(Well, thank God about that. The ending was traumatising enough. )
So, what exactly happened?
This happened:
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The breakup scene that caused a discourse. Some were satisfied, but majority was in uproar. Chaos was ensued. We were all depressed. I got panic attacks.
The other camp were saying that this is a beautiful closure and the other camp were all enraged that this was the end of all things they had.
So, was it that beautiful?
For me, it was painstakingly beautiful. The setting was indeed beautiful. It was Spring and what does this season even means? Blossoming? New fucking beginning? Of what, Baby? Beginning of a heartbreak? Sorry. I'm starting to cuss. I want to break something and sue this network. It doesn't make sense. It made sense, but it felt like it doesn't.
Back to regular programming.
For that very reason, I can say that Heedo forgetting the beach trip is logical because this is a viable explanation.
But the question is, what about what the Taeyang Squad? Is she still in contact with them?
We can assume that the answer is No for the year 2021.
There are three possible reasons:
1. Just Because. Some might disagree on this, but as we age we don't really have time to always be in constant communication to our friends. This is especially significant to the people we are friends with when we were younger. Though, this doesn't apply to everyone, but I can attest that this happens. It happened to me. The last time I saw my friends was at a funeral. Yup.
Also, we can also strengthen this claim from this scene:
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Seungwan mentioned how they only get to see each other when someone passes away.
2. Pandemic. We know the writer wants this drama to be as realistic as possible to even include this in the present timeline, but I'd like to argue that even though there's still a panini going on, there's this thing called Internet and social media.
3. The Break Up and the Connection of Their Friendships To Each Other. Okay. It was already given how Yijin and Heedo's bond will fall apart, but what about the others?
As we can remember from 2009 funeral scene, Yijin brought his brother, Baek Yihyun and from there, a relationship kind of formed with Seungwan or should I say: rekindled.
And the fact that Seungwan and Jiwoong were diaper friends, I don't think they stopped communicating to each other either.
So basically, if what we can assume from the present time, Seungwan could be Yijin's sister-in-law now and considering the fact that Jiwoong's wife is Yurim, only Heedo was left.
Left alone? Left behind? Or she basically left the gang and turned everything into memories? 🙃
Well, that's how I see it.
On top of that, Baek Yijin and Na Heedo's relationship back then or should I say, still?
They are so much in love. Their affection to each other is so strong. I'm using "is" because there's absolutely no way that their love for each other was gone.
Heedo named her Atelier 2521, rainbow chairs, Yijin things in her old room, red car, her reaction to Jaekyung when she mentioned meeting Yijin recently, not talking about her past memories to her child, talked about it was easy to break off engagement than divorce at the funeral, supposed husband is nowhere to be seen and heard, going to the tunnel after getting her diary back, sentimentally re-imagining a supposed closure from what happened at the tunnel?
What is this sorcery?!
This further strengthened my claim that Heedo didn't moved on until she got her diary back or maybe she really didn't.
Okay. You might argue about the diary, so let's talk about.
I can't post here without breaking down. I can' revisit that scene 'cause it still breaks my heart.
But almost at the end, Heedo came back to the tunnel right after reading the response from Yijin.
Heedo wrote:
온마음을 다해 사랑했어
I have loved you with all my heart.
She used: 했어, which is a past tense. That was heartbreaking and alarming.
But, I'd just like to contest and we can collectively agree on this, I know 'cause I feel it, that she did not meant that her love for Yijin ended up right after they broke up or when she wrote that.
You know why?
Because why did she freaking ran to him to say goodbye? Wasn't that love? Did she just did that for the sake of herself? No. It's obviously because she said some hurtful words to Yijin. She meant those hurtful words, but she didn't said those things to hurt him. You know what I mean.
But what about Yijin?
Yijin didn't wrote loved, but thank you. It just meant he still loves her that time or maybe still. He had to let her go because that's what she wants. He only wants her happiness.
(Insert the romantic monologue from episode 12 with 알콩달콩/Sweetie Pie)
Also, I'm already writing another entry about the concept of moving on: 2521 edition
And I know this might sound a stretch, but remember the last freaking scene of Yijin trying to access his account? Yeah? The prime cause of my panic attacks.
She was the security question. But what's the big deal? If that's the present timeline meaning 2021, and Yijin was trying to access the account of more than 15 years. If we were to subtract 2021 to 15 means it was probably in 2006 that he made her the answer to the freaking security question: Who's your first love?
And how old is Minchae in 2021? 15, right?
This is so depressing.
Okay. If I were to really conclude now my ramblings, I am always gonna be reminded of a saying that goes...
"If two past lovers can remain friends, they are either still in love, or never were."
I cannot speak for everyone who have had lovers and first loves in the past, but this is what I believe about them and what also happened to me.
And that might be the answer why they can't be lovers to friends.
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what made you like Bakugo so much? for me, when i started the series I felt extremely sorry for Izuku (still kinda do?) and it looked to me like Hori overdid the bully part, especially in first season. the suicide suggestion hit me the hardest and whenever I read fiction that somewhat follows cannon, it hits me hard each time Bakugo says this roof dive line, yuck. i still wonder how it happened that i actually started to genuinely like his character, sometimes i wonder if im a bad person o.o
hmm so i really do resonate with this because i did not like bakugou at all at the beginning of the series. note that i didn't start watching until after S1 was already finished, so i kinda binged it like most of us do
i used to be bullied as a kid as well, so at the time i resonated with midoriya dealing with childhood isolation, lack of friends, dealing with cruel words at the hands of others, though it wasn't quite to bakugou's assholeish level. because yeah, he absolutely was a terrible kid back in middle school and throughout the first half of his year at UA
(note on this: i want to recognize that i do think bakugou has an abusive and neglectful home life. i've shared my thoughts on mitsuki before, but if you read my Before You Follow, you'll see that i think she's verbally and physically abusive towards him, he has gifted child syndrome, has an inferiority complex, anxiety, and probably a few other things. but also note that even though a lot of these issues show up in his character and personality, none of it is an excuse to bully midoriya or say what he did at the time)
i think midoriya's ability to forgive is part of his downfall as a character and why i honestly don't like him much anymore. obviously, at the beginning, he was terrified of bakugou and very nervous around him for valid reasons. but as time progressed and character development happened, just like all might said, they have more of a proper rivalry going on now because they each have what the other lacks
i dont think you or anyone else is a bad person for liking bakugou, so long as you recognize that what he did and who he was as a 14/15 year old kid was incredibly cruel and beyond inappropriate. if you gloss over these things and who he was, then you miss the entirety of his developmental arc which is like, HALF the plot of the manga because its massive. we can enjoy characters who have proper growth and see the potential for them to be great, multi-faceted characters so long as we recognize the harm they've done (note this doesn't apply to endeavor i still hate him ;)
anyway, i didn't like him as a character in the beginning and i latched onto Kirishima instead because he was such a beacon of sunshine and very likable. this blog started out as a kirishima-only blog lol and he was mainly who i was concerned writing for. then, i read more of the manga, saw the sports festival arc, and appreciated bakugou more as a character because i saw him as a flawed and neglected kid who didn't have the right guidance growing up, so he lashed out in the only way he knew how: violence
we've seen bakugou cry multiple times in the story and break down in incredibly vulnerable ways, and that humanized him for me. and his crying is always just... angry, when he's at his peak of "i dont know what else to do and my frustrations have boiled over". when he cries in the schoolyard in S1, when he's on the verge of an anxiety attack when he realizes he's lost to midoriya during that 2 vs 2 battle, when he's scared when Dabi captures him (the emotion of that still gets to me), when he screams about his own weakness in deku vs bakugou 2... and how he continually loses and fails despite having a strong quirk. the story isn't nice to him, and i honestly loved to see this really in-depth look at a character who is far more than an angry tsundere trope that a lot of people boil him down to
anyway, you're not a bad person and i'm not either. he's one of the most interesting and well rounded characters in the series imo and even if i care less and less for the story and fandom, i still want to see how things will be wrapped up for him in the end
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malexfan10 · 5 years
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Malex thoughts
I was watching some old episodes of Dawson's Creek and it made me want to get some thoughts out. I watched a lot of TV shows growing up. For me, the couples I liked were either ones I casually rooted for or on the rare occasion, a couple took me by such surprise that I became extremely emotionally invested. Malex is the latter.
I've been a fan of Captain Swan (OUAT), Stydia (Teen Wolf), Kurt & Blaine (Glee), Buffy & Angel and lots more. The rare pairings I've been completely lost on, I can name on one hand. Pacey & Joey (my first OTP), Chandler & Monica and Malex. I'd say Destiel on Supernatural too but with them, everything is subtext. I don't think the writers will have the guts to go there, not even with the show ending.
With PJ, I love how they started as antagonists, became really great friends, and then fell in love. For me, PJ vs DJ was incomparable. DJ brought out the worst in each other (my opinion) while PJ showed each other what love was supposed to be. The only thing I hated about DC was the constant back & forth between the two pairings. It lasted until the final moment when you realized PJ was endgame (one of my fears for Malex). I hated that but I was a kid so it didn't bother me as much as it would now.
I loved Chandler & Monica because they started out as friends who fell in love, got married and had all the moments in between before adopting a set of twins. I loved their story because it showed their entire journey. True, the show was a comedy but their story didn't end in season 5 when they started dating. Their story just began.
It's hard understanding writers who feel that only the journey matters. Of course it does. The journey is important. It's what makes you root for a couple but the destination and what happens after is important too. It makes you continue rooting for them, seeing all that angst and pain amounting to something substantial in the end.
So as much as I loved PJ, the fact that they kept us guessing until the last 5 minutes before we realized who she chose was too much. The long, drawn out, multi-season, will they/won't they storytelling style is one I'll never be a fan of.
Which leads me to Malex.
They were two broken boys, both brought up under horrible circumstances, who found the missing piece of themselves in each other. When Alex gave Michael a warm and safe place to stay, it was probably the first act of true kindness Michael had ever experienced and it was made by a boy whose pain and suffering mirrored his own. How incredibly heartbreaking but beautiful is that? That initial bond, that "cosmic" connection stood the test of time. Separated for 10 years and it felt like no time had passed at all.
That first moment in the pilot episode outside his Airstream, you could feel the tension. I remember reading interpretations of that scene. People thought Malex were cold and angry with one another "probably over a girl". Are you kidding me? That tension could only be romantic. But that first kiss at the reunion was when I hopped on the Malex Forever train. One stop only. Endgame.
They set them up so amazingly in the first three episodes. The angst was there but you could also feel the deep love between them. They weren't shown as two guys who had a fling back in high school and then crossed paths again 10 years later, said what the hell and hooked up again. No, they were shown as soulmates. Their level of connection even scared and confused them but they both knew it existed. Their love was pure and true and rare.
With all their history and with so many odds already stacked against them, the writers deciding to throw in a triangle just because they could and doing it in such a rushed and messy way really made me scratch my head.
Carina said she loved the triangle on DC. I honestly think she was the only one. That show was incredibly divided, DJ vs PJ. But as much as I hated the constant back and forth, I'll give the DC writers some credit. Joey's feelings for both were fully touched on. I saw her romantic feelings for Pacey more profound and her feelings for Dawson as true friendship (just my opinion), but both sides were shown in depth.
The problem with Roswell? Where did those feelings come from between M&M? They shared a moment when Maria cried and I took that as the start of a wonderful friendship. I was obviously wrong. They hooked up in the desert. OK I hated it but they were two single people and Maria didn't know about Alex so I accepted. All of a sudden, the feelings were real and Maria was conflicted because of how strong her feelings were. Michael chose to be with Maria because he needed something fresh and new and according to the wonderful Vlamis, someone he also had strong feelings for (still hate that last interview LOL).
I understand where Michael was coming from a little better, as much as I hate it and hate how he went about it by leaving Alex just waiting. He'd been through so much trauma and Max and Isobel kept telling him to stop looking to the past (which, really Max? If someone told you that about Liz, would you listen?? But he died so he gets a pass). But as far as Maria's feelings are concerned, I feel like I missed something.
Between episodes 9 and 10, did the M&M feelings bloom overnight from flirty banter to crush to "OMG this is love"? Was their moment in the desert that mind-blowing that the weirdness of episode 11 happened? I don't get it.
The one thing going against M&M is that Malex is overwhelmingly loved and has been embraced by fans and critics alike.
One critic said it best when they reviewed the finale (Vulture).
"I was intrigued by the possibility of Michael/Maria at first, but the love triangle has been so rushed — with so little time spent on Maria’s developing feelings for Michael — that it’s ended up just making her look terrible. We know from Maria’s conversation with Liz that she hasn’t even spoken to Alex about the situation because she feels too guilty, and so having her accept Michael with open arms is such an odd note. Sure, she doesn’t know Alex is waiting for Michael right at the same moment, but she does know that he’s been in love with Michael for a decade."
And therein lies the problem. A lifelong friendship ruined over a guy (unless Carina makes Alex give his blessing next season which would really make me scream) to push forward a pairing that had little development and makes Maria look bad. One side of the triangle is Michael's soulmate and the other side is the friend with sudden feelings. Not the best character development which is sad because we know how awesome Maria can be and as mad as I am with her, her character that I enjoyed until episode 10 and the actress deserve better. But instead of being original, the writers chose the path always taken. They chose to use her as the odd end of a triangle where, unless they want everyone to hate the show, she will likely be the one forced out so Malex can eventually reunite and for what? Drama?
Season 1 started out really strong and it still had a lot of strong moments in the latter episodes (end scene of episode 9 between Malex, Liz & Jenna being kickass in episode 11, all of episode 12 - my fave of the season, Kyle's confrontation with Jesse etc).
But honestly, I feel like the inclusion of this triangle (amongst other reveals like Noah as the 4th alien) somewhat brought the story down. The writing for M&M felt OOC and was messily done.
Only in recent years have LGBT pairings started becoming more mainstream, given better development and importance in the overall story. With Malex, they have the potential of making Michael and Alex one of the greatest love stories on TV. As much as I love the show, I'm not saying Roswell is on the same level as Breaking Bad or The Sopranos etc. But from all the pairings on the show, Malex is the most profound and has the potential to go down as one of the best on TV. To overcome everything they've been through and still choose each other and their love would be the ultimate happy ending because unlike most male/female pairings that go through mostly regular angst, being two males in a small town, Malex have a whole other level of obstacles to face. That doesn't even include their personal history, the fact that Michael is an alien or that Alex's father is the cause of so much pain between them. Or the fact that Alex is a disabled war veteran. I mean, there is so much amazing points to their story. They are the OTP of OTPs.
But so far, it feels like the triangle is the only major roadblock the writers want to concentrate on and that's the biggest mistake of all.
Season 2 hasn't aired yet. We don't know how little (🤞) or how long (😢) M&M will last. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes and hope that Twitter Carina is not the same as Season 2 showrunner Carina.
But for me, Malex will always be each other's endgame. That's what I saw in the first 3 episodes. That's what I saw in the flashbacks. That's what I saw in Caulfield. Try and convince me differently, show. You'll fail.
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