May 07, 2001\tPosted by Mandy
\nThanks to LBrown2293 for this :)<\/p>\n
HERC Reviews a New ROSWELL!!
\nI am \u2013 Hercules!<\/p>\nRoswell 2.20 FAQ<\/strong>
\nWhen do we learn if, after this season, \u201cRoswell\u201d is really gone for good?
\nAll the nets, including UPN, Fox and the WB, announce their fall schedules in a little more than a week.<\/p>\nWho\u2019s responsible for Monday\u2019s episode?<\/strong>
\nTeleplay is credited to “Deep Space Nine”\/”Voyager” vet Lisa Klink.
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\nThe big news?<\/strong>
\nBy episode\u2019s end, the gang comes into possession of the decrypted message Alex\/Ray was working on.<\/p>\nMICHAEL (handing the translation to Max): It\u2019s everything we\u2019ve been looking for. It\u2019s a translation to The Book. You know, The Book.<\/p>\n
ISABEL: You\u2019re kidding.<\/p>\n
MICHAEL: Not even a little.<\/p>\n
ISABEL: Well, what does it say?<\/p>\n
MAX (looking through the translation): It\u2019s the way home. We can go home.<\/p>\n
Do they leave the planet next week?<\/strong><\/p>\n
No. Now that the series\u2019 momentum has reached a fever pitch, they\u2019re going to air 2.16 for the first time. It\u2019s an episode that takes place before Alex and Isabel got back together, before Alex died, and before Max unfastened Tess\u2019s bra. The season (and perhaps series) finale airs in two weeks.<\/p>\n
Does Maria do the recap before a chalkboard?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Yes, for the fifth episode in a row. (She doesn\u2019t even bother to uncross her legs from last week\u2019s recap.) She describes the Max-Tess thing as \u201cjust one kiss. A moment of weakness. I doubt if it went any further than that.\u201d Then we cut to Max and Tess nakedly entwined on the floor of the observatory. Before the teaser ends, Tess is already clutching her belly like an expectant mother.<\/p>\n
What did that \u201cRoswell Spoilerama\u201d say about this episode back in March?<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u201dTess begins craving salt instead of tobasco, and reveals to Max that she believes she\u2019s carrying Max\u2019s baby!! Max tells Michael about Tess\u2019 condition during one-on-one basketball, and Max confesses that alien sex is as good as Rath said: his first time with Tess produced an hourlong orgasm! Max tells Michael he doesn\u2019t know what to tell Liz.<\/p>\n
Liz, meanwhile, learns that Alex, while possessed, was working to decode alien messages at Las Cruces University (when everyone believed him to be in Sweden). Maria and Liz head to Las Cruces to investigate what Alex\u2019s body was up to. While in Alex\u2019s dorm they find out that Alex went by the name \u201cRay,\u201d didn\u2019t talk to anyone, worked 20 hours a day at the computer center, and ate only Thai food. Liz and Maria notice that a closet door was painted over. They rub off some paint and discover that the words “Leanna is not Leanna” are written all over it.<\/p>\n
Kyle, now perhaps part-alien because Max resurrected him at the end of season one, finally gets a superpower; Isabel helps him develop his ability to dreamwalk. Kyle chooses to enter the dreams of a nudie model, but Isabel ends the session as it grows increasingly steamy. Isabel also discovers a new power: she can make ice and snow. She and Kyle end up bonding on ice skates.<\/p>\n
Max has a panic attack as he\u2019s taking out the garbage. Max and Tess return to the pod chamber to retrieve a clue-packed book introduced during season one. Max and Tess bring it back to Casa Valenti and try to decipher it. Tess identifies a recurring symbol they suspect refers to their son!<\/p>\n
A worried Michael comes to Las Cruces to collect Liz and Maria, but soon realizes Alex\/Ray was trying to decode the Royal Four\u2019s alien book. The episode ends in a desperate quest to find Jen\/Leanna (the girl seen in Alex\u2019s photos of \u201cSweden\u201d), who has Alex\/Ray\u2019s decoded-book file, but can only access it with the binary code on Liz\u2019s Thai-food receipt. Maria, Liz and Michael find Jen\/Leanna\u2019s dorm room. While Maria distracts Jen\u2019s roomies, Michael steals Jen’s mail and they find an interesting envelope…<\/p>\n
What did the Spoilerama source get right?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Just about everything.<\/p>\n
What did the source get wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n
A few details. Tess doesn\u2019t develop a craving for salt. Isabel does create snow, but does not go skating with Kyle. No closet door with scrawlings of \u201cLeanna is not Leanna\u201d is discovered. Max and Tess do not speculate about one of The Book\u2019s symbols referring to a Max-Tess child.<\/p>\n
What did the source leave out?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lots. The biggest thing is Max uses his powers to do an alien \u201csonogram\u201d on Tess\u2019s alien baby. When he pulls his hand away, we can see a glowy fetus handprint pressed back against Tess\u2019s belly. It\u2019s a boy! A creepy boy!<\/p>\n
A creepy alien boy?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Likely another hybrid, as a second Max \u201csonogram\u201d seems to indicate: \u201cHe\u2019s sick!\u201d gasps Max. \u201cIt\u2019s the atmosphere! This planet is poisoning him! Our son is dying.\u201d (This news precipitates Max\u2019s panic attack by the garbage bins.)<\/p>\n
Is Isabel still pissed at Max?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Highly! With a little help from Kyle, she gets back at \u201clittle brother\u201d this week by using her alien superpowers to \u201cout\u201d their alien nature.<\/p>\n
How?<\/strong><\/p>\n
She makes Max\u2019s yearbook headshot look like a bug-eyed extraterrestrial, and makes his feet stick to the linoleum during a fire drill. But after Isabel witnesses Max\u2019s panic attack and learns of her nephew\u2019s illness, she decides to take pity on \u2013 and reconcile with \u2013 Max.<\/p>\n
Nelly Furtado really guest stars?<\/strong><\/p>\n
She does a number on the Las Cruces campus during Liz & Maria\u2019s visit there. (It was supposed to be Dido, but there were scheduling conflicts!)<\/p>\n
What\u2019s in the \u201cinteresting envelope?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
A rent bill for a property outside Las Cruces. When Liz, Maria and Michael investigate it, they have to dodge an alien-looking booby-trap, but then find Alex\/Ray\u2019s big translation.<\/p>\n
Are Kyle and Isabel becoming a couple?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s kinda maybe seems that way, but one suspects the producers changed their minds when they realized how enormous Isabel looks when she\u2019s standing next to the Buddha-quoting jock.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s good?<\/strong><\/p>\n
The fetal handprint scene. Kyle\u2019s line to the dreaming Jodi Ann when she asks \u201cWho are you?\u201d The way Liz never takes her eye off Maria when Michael asks to talk to Maria privately. Maria\u2019s hilariously efficient interrogation style.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s not so good?<\/strong><\/p>\n
The final act had a highly perfunctory \u201ctime\u2019s up; let\u2019s wrap this up\u201d feel to it. Finding the decoded version of The Book might seem just a tad too easy.<\/p>\n
Herc\u2019s rating for \u201cRoswell\u201d 2.20?
\n***1\/2<\/p>\nThe Hercules T. Strong Rating System:<\/p>\n
**** better than most motion pictures
\n*** actually worth your valuable time
\n** as horrible as most stuff on TV
\n* makes you quietly pray for bulletins<\/p>\nCan it be babies??<\/strong><\/p>\n
I am \u2013 Hercules!! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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