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This is my second favorite episode of the show if you can believe that, it's also one of my favorite season finales in general, most at times tend to disappoint despite a really good build up, but this is one of the one's that are good because it pays in full, it give us not just a surprising twist but what we've all been looking forward to for a long while.
There not much to it, what really makes this episode for me is the characters sharing their last moments on Earth with people they love. It makes sense, if you were about to move away from home or someplace that was a residence for a while, why wouldn't you because you never know if you'll ever see them again or even never. With each of the characters it's all bittersweet.
For Isabel it's with Alex, Isabel is the one that has taken the loss of Alex the hardest as he was the one human, she was closest to and even though she saw him as a friend you can see her feelings for him could possibly of became more, which makes it all the more sad. It was sweet seeing both her and the spirit of him, or at least an imaginary version of him come to talk with her. I really love some of the things Alex says which I feel are true with anyone that has endured loss, even though you can't see them their never really gone because their always live in your thoughts and feelings. Really like the dance both had, in a way it was not just the dance both never had but also the last dance for her on Earth.
Then there is the time with Max and Liz. I'll admit it felt good seeing both together again working the case, it just felt so right which I'll admit was the one bad thing about the season, it was the same problem with season 2 of "The Flash" just as it was with Barry and Iris both characters were separated too long. Though I can't complain too much because that was part of the point as it makes us want both characters to come together because we know they belong. Yeah both character did hook up with other people with Liz it was Sean (I character I honestly don't give two craps about much as I didn't give a crap about Eddie in "The Flash) and for Max it's Tess (a character I fraking hate), but despite their time with them there is just no connection they just couldn't get those same feeling both Liz and Max have for each other.
There is one sad moment once Liz and Max find out the girl in the dorm is a decoy, after the bad news Max lays down on her which I'll admit was heartsinking. Liz then just lets it all out, I'll admit her anger in that scene is the same as how I and a lot of other people have felt toward Max and his actions in the past few episodes which were reckless and stupid, which isn't him. But what really makes this moment is when Liz reveals she saved herself for him and you just see the look on Max's face which is of sadness; that reveal just shows the extent of Liz's love for Max and how she fought long and hard like hell to keep herself committed, Max feels shame because he didn't fight equally hard, he let himself give into his own lust and desperation that didn't equal love. It's sad because his first time should have been with Liz, that should be their child, part of their future has been lost.
But really like that moment when both have one final conversation right in front of the Crashdown café, the place they first met and connected. Liz then asks a question about if he loves Tess and Max answers "Not like I love you" I thought that was a beautiful quote because it shows what both have is sacred and can never be broken. At that moment you know both belong together and are right for each other, I know that there was that message in the season one finale given by his Alien mother about Tess being Max's arranged wife, but that message was hundreds of years ago she didn't know the future. Also, despite Max being a king and everything that has happened in his past life on the other planet, that was all in the past. He is now in the present and has had a life on Earth for the longest time, so he's not that guy anymore. In the last moment but Max and Liz exchange a final kiss which was beautiful and then as she walks away, we just see Max cry. Just seeing that I thought, then don't go Max, even though going with Tess seems like the right thing, it's not.
The other and I feel the very best was Michael and Maria. There isn't much to say about it, but it was just sweet seeing Michael for the first time let Maria get the flashes to see him. This cemented the relationship between the two, showing that Maria is the one, really like that one cinematography shot when we see an image of her and the universe and there is some sort of bang and light, it was beautiful you know exactly how he feels about her what she is to him.
The revolving theme is about home and what it really is. Really liked how in one moment when Max is talking to Isabel whom is just crying, he says to her, "You are my home." And to me that is what home truly is, it's not a place it's the people, and to me Earth truly is their home because Max and Michael have Liz and Maria, there are their home. Which is why I felt what they were about to do is a mistake.
Before I get into it, I'll just say this, I never did like Tess, I never had a good feeling about her and this reveal justified that feeling correct. And I was right when it gets down to the final minutes, we suddenly get a rude awakening, as it all unfolds in M Night Shyamalan style who killed Alex and it was Tess.
I wouldn't say it's much of a surprise as there was a little foreshadowing Tess's treason in that episode "The End of the World" as future Max explained some of the past on Tess's turn coat. But when you watch more of the season again from this perspective, we know now it was always there, like in an episode or two Tess seducing Max, you can see now that it was really manipulation twisting Max's mind to her whims.
This reveal shows what kind of a person she really is, a user she used Alex till she couldn't any more, Kyle, and all three she was about to sell out for her own gains. But also, she doesn't really love Max only what he once represented and what he was able to give her. So we see it was never the four it was always three, and Liz is his true love, "It was never you Tess and it never will be."
Really like how the final minutes play out as it looks the three are in grave danger of flying straight into a trap as once again Tess is twisting the betrayal screws. We see a surprising moment when Michael decides to stay. It was touching because Michael throughout the show always wanted to leave Earth because he had no home, that wasn't until he found one named Maria. It was his love for her, likewise with her that saved all three, though same can be said for Liz and Max's love also.
The three have a home because they have love, Tess has no home because she has none, which is why she is now adrift in the darkness of space.
Home is closer than you think.
Rating: 4 stars
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