Why didn't Kyle developed abilities?

maybe because Max healed them later so it's too soon for them or maybe only Liz got changed because he made the reversed connection with her. She's the only one that he healed and got flashes from him. Liz asked Kyle if he got them too and he said that he didn't (The end of the world)
there's a lot of speculation about it but it seemed that the writers wanted to imply that Liz was somehow a "different" example compared to the other people that he saved.
For example we know that the aliens can get flashes from people and objects and they can share those flashes with the humans if they want (Michael for example controlled them so Maria didn't get flashes from him unless, like in Departure, he decided to make her see things)
Liz didn't see only Max's soul. She got memories about the crash and saw the royal seal of antar/v constellation when Max himself didn't know these things, he didn't remember them and he couldn't voluntarily give her those images. Their connection was effortless and spontaneous.


I was right about one thing: To get you into my life, to be around you, to love you.

Didn't it take a while before humans healed by Max would develop special powers? It took months before Liz developed them. The way Kyle talked in the last episode, he expected to develop them eventually. That was one reason he gave for joining the other five as they hit the road at the end of the series.

As for Kyle's father, I don't remember him ever being healed by any special contact with Max.

Liz was healed about 9 months (a school year) before Kyle was. If everyone were to show the development of powers, Kyle wouldn't show it until several months after Liz did.

Even though I like the idea of Kyle developing powers later on after the show ended (since I like the idea of him and Isabel getting together), I like the idea that Liz had a special connection with Max and that's why she changed. Otherwise, you'd have to believe that the children in healed in season two also developed powers and just what would that mean for them, you know?

I'm not arguing. I'm just explaining why I'm right.

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Otherwise, you'd have to believe that the children in healed in season two also developed powers and just what would that mean for them, you know?

Wow .... this thread was a major spoiler for those of us who've just started watching. My bad for coming to this board too soon. :(

My theories on this as a late fan is that when Max could not love Tess as he was supposed to, that connection to complete the set of four fell to Liz. For the the alien group to be strong for the future, they completed their connection with Max and Liz. My thoughts only of course.

It's heavily suggested that Kyle will develop abilities once more time has passed. He had a whole year to catch up with Liz, and by the time S3 ended, it hadn't yet been a year since Liz first got the green crackly thing. Also for all we know, maybe the changes don't happen in males, or maybe they take longer.

As for Kyle's dad, I always assumed it was because he was only injured, not at the point of death, when he got shot. Max has healed numerous smaller injuries for the gang and it never brought on any changes. That would then make sense for the sick children too: they were all gravely ill but none of them were at the point of death like Liz and Kyle were (else they would've been in intensive care or on the operating table).

Liz repeatedly says that Max 'brought [her] back from the dead', and Kyle agrees that Max did that for him, too. But then Max says he 'can't heal the dead' when he tries to heal Alex. So you must have to be on the very brink of death, but not past it, for the healing to impart the changes. Both Liz and Kyle got shot low in the chest very close to their hearts and almost lost consciousness instantly (suggesting a heavy blood loss). Sheriff Valenti got shot in the shoulder.

Then of course there's the other theory, that older humans react differently/at different rates to younger adolescent humans. That's hinted at in the episode where the Skins come to Roswell and set up the time phase thing to make everyone disappear. Sheriff Valenti is the only one to suffer physical effects prior to his phase out, he gets pains in his arm and feels dizzy, enough to go and tell Kyle he loves him before his vanishes. All the kids just disappear without those effects. Jim also disappears a long time before Kyle does, even though they entered the time shift zone at the same time together.



The mirror... it's broken.
Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.