Thanks SO MUCH to Michael for sending this in. I apologize for the delay in posting it.<\/p>\n
He wrote:<\/p>\n
I scanned the following from the October 2000 issue of Sci-Fi Magazine
\nwhich is published by the Sci-Fi Channel. Of interest is that on page 87
\nof the magazine there is an ad from a company whose web site is :
\nwww.uniquecollectibles.com which is
\noffering various autographed pictures of Roswell stars for fees of $35 for
\nFehr and Heigl, $45 for Behr and Appleby and $150 for the cast (Behr, Fehr,
\nApplelby, Hegl and Delfino). I wanted to leave it to your discretion
\nwhether it should be posted since although they claim there is a certificate
\nwith \u201clifetime guarantee of authenticity \u201c included, I obviously can\u2019t vouch
\nfor their honesty.<\/p>\n
Tabasco sauce seems like an odd token of affection, but apparently, it
\nworked: The fan-driven campaign, which involved sending bottles of the
\nRoswell aliens\u2019 favorite food to WB execs, helped spur the show\u2019s renewal.
\nWe may never know just how much of an influence the various mail-in
\ncampaigns really were on the powers-that-be, but it\u2019s clear that they made a
\ndifference.
\n\u201cThey led us to believe that it went down to the wire,\u201d remarks
\nexecutive producer Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek First Contact). \u201cI personally
\nfeel that we were in a pretty good position. The last six shows of our
\nseason were so strong, and it was such a new direction [for the series].\u201d
\nHaving spent more than a decade experiencing the Star Trek fan
\nphenomenon up-close-and-personal, the Enterprise\u2019s former second-in-command
\nwasn\u2019t surprised by the outpouring of fan support when the future looked
\nquestionable. \u201cI thought that was great,\u201d says Frakes of the clever Tabasco
\nsauce campaign. \u201cI was thrilled that [that degree of fan loyalty] happened
\nfor Roswell; that was kind of a treat.\u201d In contrast, Frakes noted, those on
\nthe cast and crew who were not accustomed to such reactions \u201cwere amazed by
\nit.\u201d
\nThis grassroots support will only gain more followers as the
\nseries gains more viewers. \u201cI think people will catch up with [the show]\nthis summer who haven\u2019t seen it\u2014there is great word of mouth\u2014and I think it
\nwill do much better on Monday than it ever did on Wednesday.\u201d Frakes
\nmaintains.
\nWhen we last saw local Roswell high-schooler Liz (Shiri Appleby)
\nand aliens Max (Jason Behr), his sister Isabel (Katherine Heigl), and
\nMichael (Brendan Fehr), the group had opened up a Pandora\u2019s box regarding
\ntheir past. But where the series ended, its first season wasn\u2019t particularly
\npart of any larger vision, admits Frakes. “It evolved, in all honesty, into
\na show much more about the mythology of the aliens than about the angst
\nabout teen romance. It\u2019s really become, in a lot of ways, as [creator] Jason
\nKatims likes to refer to him, \u2018not unlike Michael Corleone.\u2019 He tries to get
\nout, but he\u2019s always brought back. He is the leader, he is the number one
\nalien; it\u2019s a great character for that.\u201d
\nIn first season\u2019s final episode, Frakes says, \u201cwe certainly let
\nthem know that our aliens are not the only aliens out there, which is also
\nan appeal, and fuel for a lot of the season next year.\u201d
\nThe growing mythology of the series is what prompted Frakes to
\nencourage Katims to bring fellow Star Trek alum Ron Moore on staff as a
\nco-executive producer of Roswell. \u201cRon Moore was the leader in creating the
\nKlingon mythology that became such a big part of [Next-Generation] and Deep
\nSpace Nine.\u201d
\nOf the show hitting its stride in the second season, Frakes
\nnotes that \u201cthere\u2019s a nice history of second seasons kicking in. Hill Street
\nBlues certainly comes to mind, [as does] The X-Files, and I certainly think
\nthat Roswell is going to follow in that lexicon of television.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks SO MUCH to Michael for sending this in. I apologize for the delay in posting it. He wrote: I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}