#echo reaction

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Ah yes, beautiful beautiful Echo. I feel sorry for the other ships cuz this one is top notch!

Oh boy, that was quite the Echo episode, wasn’t it? (Let’s ignore the terrifying, disturbing non-Echo scenes that shall not be named)

After such a drought, we finally drink! I never dreamed we’d get so much tonight. 

We got flirting and awkwardness and Max’s subpar Spanish skillz. Liz was unsure, shy, excited, and Max was confident and charming, all things that we missed out on the first time around. 

We got a first date. They never got a real first date, but here we have Max’s amnesia giving them a do over. Your OTP could never.  

We got Isobel and Michael helping Max getting ready for his date. Family. Sigh.

We got HORSEBACK RIDING!  I REPEAT MAX AND LIZ WENT HORSEBACK RIDING. The romance. I ache. 

We got romantic campfire telling of deepest, darkest secrets. Liz opening up to him in a way she never had before, and Max being so raw and emotional, I wanted to set myself on fire.   

We got more sentimental Max in the form of him keeping the bullet. It’s a bullet, something that almost killed Liz, why is that romantic? I don’t know… BUT IT IS.

We got an amazing milkshake story. It was alarming when Max didn’t like mint, but then the reason was so freaking breathtakingly beautiful… maybe one of my favorite details ever of his adolescent Liz crush. He drank those mint milkshakes for years just because she remembered his mistaken order.  

We got a beautiful, tearful reunion. Swoon. Right there under the Crashdown sign. Just tattoo the look on Liz’s face when she realizes Max remembers her, on my back, thanks. 

We got Max explaining why he did what he did. That damn do-gooder just wanted to fix what had gone wrong in her life, in their lives, like an otherwordly, alien-god boyfriend should.  

We got sexy kisses. Hungry kisses. Sweet kisses. All the kisses!

We got I LOVE YOU. Liz finally has her opportunity to tell the man she’s in love with, the man she brought back from the dead just so she could have one minute to tell him she loved him, that she’s in love with him and forgot.  And it was perfect.  

And we got Max being able to shake off the Liz amnesia and that in turn (probably) shaking lose some of his other pre-crash memories. Buckle up. 

DAMN IT WAS GOOD.  

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If Max showed up in California, do you think Liz would take him back? Does the time he spent away affect her decision or would she want him no matter what?

These two are destined, they love each other. They will get back together. The only thing in question is the where, when, and how.

As to your question, Liz needs perspective in order to reconcile her own actions, not Max’s. Things would have been very different if Max had made any overture or effort after their fight, never mind a grand romantic gesture. Liz was sitting there hoping, waiting for him, he didn’t show up. She would have found a way to forgive him then, she wanted to forgive him.

Which I think is just more evidence that he wanted her to leave. That is VERY unMax like, so to me it just throws more fuel on the speculation fire that Max’s heart is failing (or something equally catastrophic health wise) and Max is hellbent on protecting Liz from watching him die again.

If Max had just lost his temper and had torched the lab in a fit of anger, and in the heat of the moment, because he was upset about the science and Diego finding out about the lab, by the next day, let alone by the time Liz left town, it would have sunk in what he’d done and in doing so he’d lost the woman he’d loved every single day during the last twenty years. If his motivation was just anger, then at the very least he would have sought out a conversation.

Nope, I’m convinced he didn’t go to her because the entire point was to get her to leave to protect her from the one thing she told him over and over she couldn’t go through again.

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Does Max really need his temperature checked? I thought aliens don't get sick?

Two potential answers:

Yes. Yes he needs his temperature checked because the only evidence we have that aliens don’t get sick is that these three aliens have never gotten sick. However, up until now none of them had died, hung out in a pod for months and then had a heart transplant with a heart that wasn’t quite ready yet.  I assume with any transplant the number one concern is rejection or infection, and fever is probably the number one symptom of both maladies, so LIz is being prudent in checking. 

No. No, he does not need his temperature checked, but Liz likes to play doctor with him. In their bed. 

Take your pick. 

[lizacstuff]

Will we see Max's love handprint on Liz this season?

I hope so! Love that for them. However, right now I don’t think she’d allow it because of the strain it would place on his heart to make that connection. So we might have to wait awhile before we see Liz with our favorite alien love hickey again, lmao. 

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I hope the new normal for Liz at the end of season 2/beginning of season 3 is her moving in with Max because they need to make up for this long Echo wait and probably even longer reunion. I don't know, maybe I'm just having cabin-fever.

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I thought it was precious that everyone but Max and Liz has called them the love of each other's lives. Someone from the POD squad told Max when he had amnesia and now kyle. lol so everyone is on the same page noe

I know! Love it. Especially love it coming from Kyle. He gets it. 

Do we think it was Michael or Isobel that told Max, though?  One might think Isobel since she told Liz she was going to talk to him.  But I like to think Isobel was trying to explain his connection to Liz and Michael just blurted out that she’s the love of his life. 

Also I am loving the easy Liz / Isobel friendship.  Isobel just hanging at the diner as Liz cleans up, marrying the ketchups. Delightful. 

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I think the difference between Max and Liz is that Max 100% believes in Liz's science, he thinks she's fixed him right up. Liz, knows her work is not complete and therefore does not trust that he's 100%. It just seems that Max believes Liz to a fault while Liz is doubtful.

This is a good point!  I think that’s probably true. In Max’s mind, he has full faith in her, while Liz knows he’s not there yet.  We’ll have to see how it plays out!

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Isobel seemed to have that face of "omg I did not work my ass off for months to defeat my brother and Liz Ortecho steps in and stops Max just by being present and saying his name." Haha Isobel is going to have to come to terms that Liz is Max's person and vice versa. Liz is always the correct answer.

There’s enough room in Max’s life for both of them, but, yes, Isobel, at some point, is going to have to face facts that Liz is going to have a different impact on Max than she can have.  

Perhaps she gets the message because the episode description for 2x06 includes this little bit:  

“Isobel’s (Lily Cowles) night out leads her into the arms of someone unexpected.”

So I ass-u-me Max vs Isobel happens near the beginning of the next episode, Liz comes in, is “dealt a devastating blow” in the form of Max not remembering her, and then apparently Isobel heads out for a night on the town? So something must happen that convinces her to leave Max in Liz’s care? Perhaps, as you mention, he’s tamed when Liz is around, so Isobel head out. We can hope!