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Grandma Claudia had a stroke. Liz asked Max to help her. When Max told Liz that he couldn’t just heal people and that he wasn’t God, he meant that he didn’t have the capacity to heal every person in the world and keep them from never dying. He couldn’t change the fact that people age, grow old and die. As he said, he wasn’t God.
When Max healed Clayton, who was old and infirm, all the energy Max used to heal Clayton depleted his own body to such an extent that his own body died, decayed and turned to dust.
The aliens had powers to do things in ways that humans can’t do things. In real life and in the story of Roswell, things have limits and limitations.
Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess were able to revive Nasedo, using the healing stones, after Nasedo had been shot and appeared to be dead. After Whitaker fatally injured Nasedo, they weren’t able to revive him. Max couldn’t save Nasedo, using his own healing powers. The group couldn’t bring Nasedo back to life, using the healing stones. Too much of Nasedo’s body was internally damaged. He couldn’t be brought back to life.
Likewise, Max knew that he couldn’t extend Grandma Claudia’s life indefinitely, with his healing powers. He understood that people die, when they are old. Max attempted to revive Grandma Claudia, so that Liz could say goodbye to her. But Max wasn’t able to bring Liz’s Grandmother to consciousness. Too much of Grandma’s Claudia’s brain had been destroyed by the second stroke. The living part of Grandma Claudia could no longer communicate with people. Grandma Claudia’s spirit though, was able to stand outside her unconscious body and speak to Liz and be seen by Liz and Max.
Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess had healing powers. Max, Michael, and Tess were shown to individually heal people. Michael and Tess healed minor injuries. Max had greater healing powers. But Max couldn’t heal every person. He couldn’t bring Alex back to life. Alex was too far dead for Max to revive, just like Nasedo was too fatally injured for Max to revive.
Michael healed River Dog’s ankle. Michael felt connected to River Dog, because River Dog had helped him and had helped the others to heal Michael. Michael was emotionally in tune with his desire to help heal River Dog’s ankle.
Later, Michael wasn’t able to heal his own black eye injury that Hank had inflicted on him. Michael was afraid to use his powers, because he was afraid of what he might do to Hank. Michael knew that he lacked control of his powers, in contrast to Max and Isabel, who were raised in a loving, caring, protective family, and who had good control of their own powers. Although Michael had been able to heal River Dog’s ankle, Michael couldn’t heal his own eye, even though he wanted to. Michael was emotionally conflicted about his injury, because Hank’s abuse had escalated to leaving a mark on him. Michael needed to let people know that he needed help in handling Hank. So, unconsciously, Michael needed people to see that Hank had abused him. Michael needed help. Not being able to heal his eye was a way for people to see that he needed help.
When Hank threatened Max and Isabel with the gun, Michael had more trouble using his powers to try to stop Hank. He smashed a chair at first. Eventually, he succeeded in using his powers to get the gun away from Hank.
When Michael was upset that Maria was taking an interest in Billy, Michael’s powers involuntarily exploded the eggs and the sugar containers.
Roswell shows that whatever talents and powers and abilities people have, sometimes those powers don't work. In Roswell, like in real life, there are reasons why people sometimes can do certain things and sometimes can’t. Roswell shows that sometimes, people don’t have control over some things.
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