{"id":1954,"date":"2001-05-28T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2001-05-28T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2008-08-03T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T12:43:30","slug":"canberra-times-tv-the-guide-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/05\/canberra-times-tv-the-guide-roswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Times TV: &#8216;The Guide&#8217;-Roswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Amy for this :)<\/p>\n<p>This Review from \u2018The Guide\u2019 \u2013 The Canberra Times TV magazine: May 28th<br \/>\n2001. It&#8217;s interesting because Warden has mingled &#8220;The End of the World&#8221;<br \/>\nwith &#8220;Harvest&#8221; it would seem and not only that never seen an &#8216;Roswell&#8217;<br \/>\nepisode in his life before\u2026 He also seems to have missed areas of the plot,<br \/>\nand just what is being found out in the episode\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSKIN SHEDDING PROOF OF THE ALIEN PRESENCE\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roswell, WIN, Wednesday, 10:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Is Courtney a &#8220;cheap, manipulative little tramp&#8221; as someone alleges tonight,<br \/>\nor is she, as Mike says, an alien? Is she, it occurred to me, both?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Roswell&#8217; is a kind of &#8216;Dawson&#8217;s Creek&#8217; in which the kind of tedium induced<br \/>\nby &#8216;Dawson&#8217;s Creek&#8217; is relieved a little by having the dreary neighbourhood<br \/>\nyoungsters of &#8216;Roswell&#8217; mixed up with evil aliens who impart a little extra<br \/>\ninterest to their otherwise ordinary lives.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, propelled by his hormones, Mike discovers that Courtney is an alien<br \/>\nby finding, as he lays his hot post-pubescent hands on her, that bits of her<br \/>\nskin come off in his hands. I would have thought this just meant Mike had<br \/>\nsticky palms, but no, skin-shedding turns out to be a tell-tale sign that<br \/>\nsomeone is an alien. Remember this when you embrace a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney seems obsessed with Mike and stalks him and takes secret photos,<br \/>\nbut what Mike&#8217;s jealous girlfriend imagines if Courtney&#8217;s sexual interest in<br \/>\nMike may only be a &#8216;political&#8217; interest with Courtney keen to enlist him to<br \/>\nhelp the aliens take over the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as Mike searches Courtney&#8217;s room for more proof she is an alien,<br \/>\nthe other beautiful young people go off to a sinister hick town, even more<br \/>\nawful than Roswell, to investigate the alien factor there.<\/p>\n<p>Our rating: A cheap, manipulative little show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ian Warden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Amy for this :) This Review from \u2018The Guide\u2019 \u2013 The Canberra Times TV magazine: May 28th 2001.<\/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-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}