{"id":2566,"date":"2002-05-10T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2002-05-10T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2008-08-20T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:12:01","slug":"roswell-blasts-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/05\/roswell-blasts-off\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Roswell&#8217; Blasts Off for the Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Paul and John for sending this in.<\/p>\n<p>From: Zap2it.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Roswell&#8217; Blasts Off for the Last Time-Spoiler Alert<br \/>\nFirst and foremost, &#8220;Roswell&#8221; has always been a love story.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside aliens in human form, evil FBI agents, evil Air Force personnel, befuddled parents (only Buffy&#8217;s mom was denser than these folks), vicious foes in borrowed skins and even all that blither-blather about everybody feeling alienated in high school, the beating heart of &#8220;Roswell&#8221; is the beating hearts of its teen lovers, especially the doe-eyed duo of alien Max (Jason Behr) and perky Liz (Shiri Appleby).<\/p>\n<p>\/>So when contemplating the big finale, which airs May 14 on UPN, writer\/producers Jason Katims and Ronald D. Moore decided to feel the love &#8212; big time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there&#8217;s plenty of danger in the closer &#8212; with secrets popping out and the government hot on the trail of the teen aliens &#8212; but who cares? The important questions are:<\/p>\n<p># Does Max propose to Liz? (Oh, yes, but as for the answer, you&#8217;ll have to tune in.)<\/p>\n<p># Does Maria (Majandra Delfino) hear the &#8220;l&#8221; -word from her beloved &#8220;space boy&#8221; Michael (Brendan Fehr)? (Yep, but then he rides away.)<\/p>\n<p># Does Jesse (Adam Rodriguez) reconcile with his alien bride Isabel? (More or less, kinda sorta, but there&#8217;s lots of hugging.)<\/p>\n<p># And, does ex-sheriff-turned-country-music-wannabe Valenti (William Sadler) finally get a job, for heaven&#8217;s sake? (Fear not, bills will be paid.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you thought slayer Buffy&#8217;s pals were the Scooby Gang, wait&#8217;ll you catch the van in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring a return to Liz&#8217;s voice-over narration (missed that when it went away), &#8220;Graduation&#8221; is a big, warm, green alien fuzzy with an ending that could spark a whole new series of teen novels, like the ones the show is based on.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is assured, nothing is resolved completely, but a good time is had by all and the ending brims with hope. Not a bad way to close a show that beat the odds to even survive for three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, &#8220;Roswell.&#8221; See you this fall in reruns on Sci Fi.<\/p>\n<p>The series finale of &#8220;Roswell&#8221; airs at 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 14. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Paul and John for sending this in. From: Zap2it.com &#8216;Roswell&#8217; Blasts Off for the Last Time-Spoiler Alert First<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}