Half a Moon: 14 Days of Celebrating Women

A little late, but this post is all about Liz from Roswell New Mexico! First, icons I made this past year:




Thanks to scintilla10 for the prompt: science! I love that the show is very consistent about Liz's science passion. Liz has the drive to continually make scientific discoveries and push her knowledge forward, and this ambition sometimes gets her into trouble when she uses alien DNA without permission. Her passion for scientific discovery is often at odds with her passion for Max Evans, and sometimes she does choose the science - by avoiding his questions, or by deliberately hiding what she's up to. This is because of what the science symbolizes for Liz.

Science as a discipline is supposed to be methodical, reliable, and rational. She can dive into an experiment, feel completely in her element, and forget all about her personal life. She can always learn something new, even when experiments go wrong or she calculates something incorrectly. Her time is never wasted because her work is always going to be important. Science is also a means of escape for her. She worked her whole life to get good grades and get into a great school and master's program - so that she could land a meaningful research project (and be gainfully employed outside of Roswell). Science gave her a future she might not have had otherwise. People disappoint Liz, but the science never does. That's why it's so hard for her to put her work down - it's a big part of who she is.