Roswell:
There was a lot packed into this episode, whew. I really liked the way Alex & Forest's date was handled. It really highlighted how debilitating Alex's internalized homophobia is, and how his fear of being out in public is rooted in trauma. He is a confident, capable, powerful man who nearly singlehandedly undermined Jesse Manes' and the Manes family's life work; but all of that accomplishment and self-worth doesn't automatically transfer to all areas of one's life. We can feel confident at work, and simultaneously feel paralyzed by social anxiety.
Now, twice, from Michael and now from Forest, Alex has been told that men he's interested in are not willing to compromise their own self-worth for the furtive pleasures of a secret relationship. Alex has to decide to put in the work, or not, to deal with his shit, if he wants the love life his emo teenage self dreamed of. That's some pretty nuanced character growth for a CW show!
It's interesting to see how deeply Jesse Manes appears to have changed. I don't prefer to think of this as comeuppance -- god knows he made so many people's lives miserable, from his own family to the imprisoned aliens at Caufield, but that is brutal karmic justice, to be so immediately and thoroughly disabled. I don't really *care* about whether or not Jesse can or is interested in repairing his relationship with Alex and Flint and their brothers. But I think that's the direction the show may be going in with him, apart from being a handy exposition resource to move the alien plot along.
Rosa's relapse was very sad. It was always coming, one way or another; Kyle pronouncing her body "free from addiction" upon her revival was the reddest of flags, because addiction isn't merely biological, it is of course deeply psychological. I'm glad she's going to rehab, and I hope it points to positive character development; heaven knows that girl's been through the worst of it all.
I was pretty meh about the whole Cameron thing... I just haven't been invested in her or her storyline, though I like her well enough as a character. I guess the gang's all back together now, wth Cameron's return. I thought Max's choices were interesting, though -- he's clearly struggling so hard with being on restriction, and that Isobel and Michael were able to carry on and grow without him there. For Big Brother Max that's kind of a blow, and his overreaction in white knighting Cameron points to the unresolved psychological shit Max hasn't dealt with from Rosa's revival through his death and now his return.
And we haven't even picked back up on the whole dire alien warning thing! Max's whole "if I am here they will come" deal -- that's a thread that feels entirely too dangly.
Also, I was so excited that Jamie Clayton was the guest star this week -- I loved her in Sense8, and I'm thrilled she's picking up work.