Beka. Side blog dedicated to Roswell New Mexico. It's mostly Malex and Tyler Blackburn love. But you'll find a little of everything including me rambling and screaming in the tags.
Yesss that Hanna Caleb kiss and scene gives me chillsssss I think they’re chemistry is insane although I think Alex and Michaels chemistry is insane so honestly maybe it’s the actor that just kills it every time 👏🏼
I think the actor just knows how to have chemsitry with anyone he’s in screen with. I do think Caleb and Spencer HAVE chemistry I just dont like them together like Hannah and Caleb and I also think he has a really good energy with Mona — not in a romantic way but they are hilarious together.
So the actor just knows what he’s doing.
But that kiss is so good, and it’s also so interesting with what it opens up. Hannah has been pining and battling with telling him the truth all season and the show was so careful about portraying that, Spencer had just said “I love you,” and then Hannah gets kidnapped and Caleb goes FERAL, making Spencer super insecure and jealous but she can’t be because it’s her best friend whose KIDNAPPED you know???
What are your thoughts on people saying Tyler isn't going to be on Roswell anymore since he hasn't been in Santa Fe for over a month? It's making me sad.
Tyler’s already filmed this season, and it’s also possible that he’s been in Santa Fe without us realizing (planes exist after all, maybe his filming schedule allows him to travel home more often this time, and since he barely ever posts when he’s in Santa Fe, we only get posts from when he's in LA?).
If he’s actually been absent from Santa Fe this whole time, it could just mean that Alex won’t be in 2-3 consecutive episodes in S4 (if his contract continues to be 10 eps/season, he’ll have to miss 3 eps anyway), and with them filming things out of order and us guessing the “wrong” S3 episodes Alex’d be missing more than once, I’m not overly worried at this point.
After yet another season with little to no progress for Alex, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if Tyler’d be entertaining the thought of leaving tho, or would at least want to reduce the number of episodes he has to be in, since the writers clearly don’t know what to do with Alex. 😑
In S2, Alex wasn't allowed to move on bc he had to 'wait' for Michael (while simultaneously encouraging Michael’s relationship with someone else and reassuring Michael and the audience that he was perfectly fine with everything 🙃) to be ready.
Since Michael wasn’t allowed to make much progress in S2, Alex was benched for another season in S3 and had to wait until Michael got some speed!progress and was finally deemed “ready” to be with Alex.
Instead of using the amazing and multi-layered character Alex is for a satisfying storyline with Deep Sky, he spent most of S3 looking at the Lockhart Machine with pinched eyebrows or poking at it with a screwdriver. Apart from that he was banned from most group scenes, gave pep-talks (usually to Michael), and was Michael’s “love interest".
Don’t get me wrong, I love what little Malex content we got this season (after keeping them apart for more than half a season >:| ), but in S3 all the character development was reserved for Michael, and Alex didn’t get much development (apart from leaving the Air Force) bc - “unfortunately” - he’s been ready to be with Michael since the end of S1. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He didn’t get much of a storyline this season either, bc ultimately Deep Sky was more plot device and location than an organization worth poking at or dismantling, and apart from spending time with the Lockhart Machine for several episodes without actually doing much with it, Alex had no other job or purpose at Deep Sky. They didn’t even keep Eduardo around often enough for Alex and him to develop a more meaningful relationship (like Eduardo becoming the kind of positive father figure Alex never had).
And in the S3 double-finale (roughly accumulating to ~84 minutes), often set at his place of work, Jones' sword had more screentime than Alex Manes. That’s certainly A Choice™, but was also on brand for a character that once again barely interacted with the rest of the core 8 (apart from Michael) all season.
Ngl, I don’t know if I‘d want to continue spending 6-8 months far away from home/family/friends/my dog for stories like that if I were Tyler, especially when my mental health seemingly takes a nose-dive each time bc of it. 😟
Again, I’m not panicking, I’m not saying anything will happen, but I’ll be honest, I’m mentally preparing for the possibility of something changing, just in case.
not to be nitpicky but michael & alex's romance is clearly still treated differently than the other straight pairings and given less material like. i'm sick i'm tired
