Thanks to Emily_A for sending these in :)<\/p>\n
I was just going through the news archive to show the columnists that write
\nfor the Daily News that we appreciate their support of our show and found
\nsome articles that are older but are very pro-Roswell. I’ve included
\nthe links and the best one is the last one..<\/p>\n
Since most teenagers feel like they’re from outer space anyway, the plot of
\nWB’s “Roswell” may strike a universal chord in more ways than one: it’s
\nabout a trio of normal-looking high-schoolers who can trace their lineage to
\na flying saucer.
\nLike “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” another WB series that mixes youth culture
\nand the paranormal, “Roswell” sounds like a joke, an instant toss-away. Like
\n“Buffy,” it’s anything but.
\n“Roswell” opens with an attractive young high-school girl, played by Shiri
\nAppleby, writing in her private journal.
\n“I’m Liz Parker,” she writes, “and five days ago I died. After that, things
\ngot really weird.”
\nHer death – by gunshot, a random act of violence – was circumvented by Max
\nEvans (Jason Behr), a fellow classmate who came to her aid immediately and
\nmiraculously, and surreptitiously, cured her. Max turns out to be one of
\nthree teens at Roswell High with an otherworldly origin – and Liz now knows
\ntheir secret.
\nShe also knows she’s attracted to Max, which doesn’t make things any less
\ncomplicated. It’s like an interstellar “Romeo and Juliet,” but, one hopes,
\nwith a happier ending.
\n“Roswell” works so nicely because it has such a strong sense of place and
\nperspective. Each character has a purpose that makes sense, and reactions
\nthat fit – even under the silly-sounding circumstances.
\nMax and his two alien friends (Katherine Heigl, whose Isabel is a tough-girl
\ncharmer, and Brendan Fehr, whose Michael is a rebel with a real cause) don’t
\nknow their past or their purpose, but are determined to learn both. One
\nthing they do know: They are not alone.
\nLiz vows to keep Max’ secret even from her very best friend Maria (Majandra
\nDelfino, eccentric and fiery – a young Molly Ringwald), which makes for a
\nlot of tension between the two.
\nMeanwhile, circling and sniffing around them all is the local law and the
\nFBI, who have reason to suspect that all is not as it seems in Roswell, N.M.
\nRoswell, of course, is the small town near a reported flying saucer crash in
\n1947. “Roswell” takes it a little lighter than “X-Files,” at least by
\nimagining a community so image-conscious that local burger joints have UFO
\nthemes and the big tourist draw is an annual Crash Festival – complete with
\nclever special effects, eye-popping costumes (arguably the sexiest on TV in
\nyears), even a guest appearance by an actual “Star Trek: The Next
\nGeneration” cast member. It’s tacky, and yet that backdrop is used to
\nadvance the story and underscore the drama.
\nNext week’s second episode continues to propel the narrative and reveal more
\nabout the characters, in a way that suggests that this series, like “Buffy,”
\n“Angel” and “Charmed,” will prove to be a delightful, successful and
\nsupernatural addition to the WB roster.
\n<<...>>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2000-05-15\/New_York_Now\/Television\/a-66691.asp
\nBy the time tonight’s season finale of “Roswell” is over (the WB at 9), the
\nteen protagonists of the show express amazement to have gotten as far as
\nthey have. Still, they have lots of uncertainty about their future –
\nalthough it’s likely that the series has survived its own brush with
\ncancellation.
\nThis first-year drama, a sort of “Dawson’s Creek” with a sci-fi spin on
\n“Romeo and Juliet,” began quietly but impressively last fall with an
\nintroductory episode that established Max (Jason Behr) as a love-struck teen
\nand Liz (Shiri Appleby) as the object of his initially unspoken affection.
\nAs in “Romeo and Juliet,” these young lovers were robbed of their future by
\nsudden death – in this case, a robbery that claimed Liz as a fatal gunshot
\nvictim. Where “Roswell” parts from any Shakespearean inspiration is in
\nmaking its Romeo an extraterrestrial alien in human clothing.
\nMax has the paranormal ability to heal, and, to revive Liz from the dead,
\ndoes just that.
\nThat one very unusual act of love, however, unleashed a domino effect of
\ndangerous consequences.
\nLocal authorities, especially the local sheriff (William Sadler), began to
\nask questions; soon, so did the FBI and other government organizations. Max
\ncame under intense scrutiny from those looking for Earthbound aliens – and
\nso did Max’ similarly unusual friends, played by Katherine Hiegl and Brendan
\nFehr.
\nLiz, alive again and in love with Max, soon shares his secret – and shares
\nit with her own best friend (Majandra Delfino), who becomes part of the
\ngroup trying to help the alien teens learn about their origins while
\navoiding the increasingly large posse out to expose and capture them.
\nIn recent episodes of “Roswell,” the chief adversary of the teen aliens has
\nbeen identified as Agent Pierce, a threatening man with paranormal abilities
\nof his own (think Lt. Girard from “The Fugitive,” except he can
\nshape-shift). Other faces have joined the cast as well, including beautiful
\nEmilie De Ravin as Tess, a fellow alien teen who finds Max – and instantly
\nthrows herself between Max and Liz.
\nTonight’s season finale packs all that exposition, and tons of action, into
\none very dense hour of drama. By the time it’s over, the allegiances, the
\npasts and the futures of the alien teens all seem irrevocably changed.
\nThe teens have one showdown with the sheriff, and another with Pierce; they
\nalso, in a climax that steers the narrative in an entirely different
\ndirection, discover not only their origins, but their expected fate.
\nThe cliff-hanger ending gives the alien teens of “Roswell” a past and a
\nfuture, which is quite a present. It also, at the last moment, introduces a
\nnew set of villains and an unexpected moment of heartbreak.
\nFans who have made the series the subject of an emotional campaign for
\nstaying around next year should take heart. Their show has earned a fall
\nrenewal on its merits, as well as their support.
\nhttp:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2000-04-06\/New_York_Now\/Television\/a-62403.asp
\nhttp:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/1999-10-11\/New_York_Now\/Television\/a-43381.asp
\nhttp:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/1999-10-27\/New_York_Now\/Television\/a-45194.asp
\nNothing else on TV will deter me from watching Game 4 of the New York
\nYankees-Atlanta Braves showdown – but for the record, lots of other networks
\nare trying hard to attract viewers with fresh or interesting alternatives.
\n…..SERIES
\n9:00 p.m. (WB) “Roswell.” If I were to watch one show tonight instead of the
\nWorld Series, this moody, quirky series would be it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Emily_A for sending these in :) I was just going through the news archive to show the columnists<\/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":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","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=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}