This comes from Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n
Daily Double<\/p>\n
”Dawson’s Creek” versus ”Roswell” — Is everyone seeing double on the WB’s Wednesday nights, or is it just EW Online?<\/strong><\/p>\n
December 8, 1999
\nby Sandra P. Angulo<\/p>\nWe can just picture ”Roswell”’s initial pitch meeting: ”Think ‘Dawson’s Creek’ meets ‘The X-Files”’ Or perhaps: ”Imagine ‘Dawson’s Creek’ crossed with ‘E.T.’ — but with no ugly creatures!” Either way, WB execs bought it, and the rest is Wednesday-night history (kinda). Even so, the similarities between the ratings-grabbing ”Creek” and its freshman follow-up ”Roswell” are so blatantly spooky that we HAD to tell someone.<\/p>\n
DC: Stars six gorgeous teens living in small-town Capeside, Mass.
\nRoswell: Stars six gorgeous teens living in small-town Roswell, N.M.<\/p>\nDC: Follows three locals (Dawson, Pacey, Joey) and three outsiders (Andie, Jack, Jen)
\nRoswell: Follows three locals (Liz, Maria, Alex) and three aliens (Michael, Max, and Isabel)<\/p>\nDC: Features a vampy blond (Michelle Williams) and a doe-eyed brunet (Katie Holmes)
\nRoswell: Features a vampy blond (Katherine Heigl) and a doe-eyed brunet (Shiri Appleby)<\/p>\nDC: Joey visits Dawson by climbing into his window
\nRoswell: Max visits Liz by climbing onto her balcony<\/p>\nDC: Joey and Jack used to work at the Ice House, the local watering hole
\nRoswell: Liz and Maria work at the Crashdown Cafe, the local diner<\/p>\nDC: Brooding heartthrob Dawson rejects Joey’s sexual advances, claiming she’s not ready
\nRoswell: Introspective heartthrob Max rejects Liz’s advances, claiming he’s an alien and she’s not<\/p>\nDC: Pacey is estranged from his blue-uniformed policeman father
\nRoswell: Michael is estranged from his blue-collar-worker foster father<\/p>\nDC: Jason Behr played Chris, who bedded rebellious Jen
\nRoswell: Jason Behr plays Max, who’s trying not to bed rebellious Liz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This comes from Entertainment Weekly. Daily Double ”Dawson’s Creek” versus ”Roswell” — Is everyone seeing double on the WB’s Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[59],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-dawsons-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}