The Divine Lover (Roswell, Ep. 1: Pilot)
Me Lord? can'st thou mispend One word, misplace one look on me? Call'st me thy Love, thy Friend? Can this poor soul the object be Of these love-glances, those life-kindling eyes? What? I the Centre of thy arms embraces? Of all thy labour I the prize? Love never mocks, Truth never lies. O how I quake: Hope fear, fear hope displaces: I would, but cannot hope: such wondrous love amazes. -- Phineas Fletcher, "The Divine Lover" I saw me as he saw me, and the amazing thing was, in his eyes I was beautiful. The 1999 version of Roswell , at least in the early going, is careful to avoid wholly endorsing the idea that Max Evans actually revives Liz Parker from a fatal gunshot wound. Though she opens the series by casually observing that "five days ago, I died," it's certainly not indicated in the healing scene itself, where she's just conscious enough to meet his gaze during the process. He dissolves the bull...