Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:07 pm
I love polar stories. I was on fanfiction dot net and I had been doing a search for some Roswell/Buffy crossovers and I hit a wrong button that turned out to be the greatest not so wrong button pushing ever!
there in the summary was a little note that said Polar and I was like what? So I clicked on the link very bravely, and then I proceeded to fall down the rabbit hole untold stories in love with that wonderful pairing that was Michael and Liz.
I can't remember the name of the fic (shame on me) but it got me hooked, and I scoured the internet for more. As a matter of fact, looking for Polar stories is what brought me to Roswell Fanatics. That, and Polar led me to Awakened Dreamer, but I will always root for Michael before Zan. Which is hard for me to swallow since I love da Man but c'mon!
Michael and Liz just click. Both of them are very similar in that they will do anything to protect those they care for. They are both very stubborn, yet they are also dissimilar enough that there is friction and you can honestly see them as a couple.
Really, before I knew what the pairings were going to be for the rest of the series, those first few episodes in Season 1 got me thinking that hey, maybe Lizzie girl is going to end up with that Michael kid! I was always pissed that they didn't at least expand on their friendship more in the series (grr....).
I get that Brendan Fehr and Majandra DelFino were attracted to each other off set, but I didn't think they should have written it into the script, y'know? It was like on Dark Angel with Max and Logan. They wrote this whole big starcrossed lovers gunk in the latter half of Season 1 because Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly were engaged. Then they totally ruined that real life relationship and the onscreen relationship with the horror that was the second and final season (whose only redeeming quality was Jensen Ackles returning as Alec X5-494).
Why do writers do things like that? I mean, occassionally (though no example pops into mind) it does add flair to the show, but c'mon! I think that Liz and Michael had just as much chemistry as Brendan and Majandra.
don't get me wrong, if I have to like canon, I'll chose Candy and Loyalist any day, but I think there was just this spark of something between those the characters of Michael and Liz. We see it in the pilot when she doesn't back down from Michael in the alley, we see it in the next few episodes where she goes to warn Michael that Topolsky is going after him, and who can forget that major Polar moment in Missing where he returns Liz's journal to him? Or better yet, after he comes to work at the Crashdown, how about all those little moments? There was something there, but it was drowned by Maria's shrieking dominance and Max's soulful stalkerisms.
Can I say I was cheering the screen when Rath kissed Liz. I couldn't help thinking, Damn, I wish that was Michael! There was no way that that kiss could have been that charged if there hadn't been chemistry between the actors in question. No way.
I love Polar and I love reading Polar but I have a difficult time writing Polar for some odd reason. I can do drabbles, but a full scale fic I've been having problems with. But I fully support the polar-ism.
Long Live Polar!
there in the summary was a little note that said Polar and I was like what? So I clicked on the link very bravely, and then I proceeded to fall down the rabbit hole untold stories in love with that wonderful pairing that was Michael and Liz.
I can't remember the name of the fic (shame on me) but it got me hooked, and I scoured the internet for more. As a matter of fact, looking for Polar stories is what brought me to Roswell Fanatics. That, and Polar led me to Awakened Dreamer, but I will always root for Michael before Zan. Which is hard for me to swallow since I love da Man but c'mon!
Michael and Liz just click. Both of them are very similar in that they will do anything to protect those they care for. They are both very stubborn, yet they are also dissimilar enough that there is friction and you can honestly see them as a couple.
Really, before I knew what the pairings were going to be for the rest of the series, those first few episodes in Season 1 got me thinking that hey, maybe Lizzie girl is going to end up with that Michael kid! I was always pissed that they didn't at least expand on their friendship more in the series (grr....).
I get that Brendan Fehr and Majandra DelFino were attracted to each other off set, but I didn't think they should have written it into the script, y'know? It was like on Dark Angel with Max and Logan. They wrote this whole big starcrossed lovers gunk in the latter half of Season 1 because Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly were engaged. Then they totally ruined that real life relationship and the onscreen relationship with the horror that was the second and final season (whose only redeeming quality was Jensen Ackles returning as Alec X5-494).
Why do writers do things like that? I mean, occassionally (though no example pops into mind) it does add flair to the show, but c'mon! I think that Liz and Michael had just as much chemistry as Brendan and Majandra.
don't get me wrong, if I have to like canon, I'll chose Candy and Loyalist any day, but I think there was just this spark of something between those the characters of Michael and Liz. We see it in the pilot when she doesn't back down from Michael in the alley, we see it in the next few episodes where she goes to warn Michael that Topolsky is going after him, and who can forget that major Polar moment in Missing where he returns Liz's journal to him? Or better yet, after he comes to work at the Crashdown, how about all those little moments? There was something there, but it was drowned by Maria's shrieking dominance and Max's soulful stalkerisms.
Can I say I was cheering the screen when Rath kissed Liz. I couldn't help thinking, Damn, I wish that was Michael! There was no way that that kiss could have been that charged if there hadn't been chemistry between the actors in question. No way.
I love Polar and I love reading Polar but I have a difficult time writing Polar for some odd reason. I can do drabbles, but a full scale fic I've been having problems with. But I fully support the polar-ism.
Long Live Polar!