Thanks to Ron for sending this in.<\/p>\n
From Cult Times:<\/p>\n
DeLuca of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n
Maria DeLuca fell for bad boy alien Michael shortly after her friend Liz fell for his \u2018brother\u2019, filling her life with chaos, trauma and a side order of hot, sexy alien lurve.
\nWe\u2019re talking Sci-Fi here, speaking specifically of Roswell, so let\u2019s time trip a little bit. The show isn\u2019t yet dead-dead-dead, and not once and for all axed. The Crashdown Caf\u00e9 sets still stand, cameras continue to roll and actress Majandra Delfino, who clearly senses that the end is nigh, chats on the phone for a while during a lunch break. .\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t really think about it,\u201d Delfino says, referring to both the long-held notion that no one could kill Roswell and the fact that the show\u2019s head sat primed on the chopping block even as she spoke. \u201cI really don\u2019t. It\u2019s just my job. If they tell me to come, I\u2019ll come. If they don\u2019t, I don\u2019t. Not much depends on it, so I really don\u2019t think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Delfino applies that same pragmatic mindset to the matter of the show\u2019s many shifts. Roswell started out in the autumn of 1999 as a teen romance, Romeo and Juliet with an alien twist. Critics heaped on the praise and a loyal core audience claimed Roswell as its own.<\/p>\n
But the ratings sagged precipitously, the series \u2013 purportedly at the insistence of its then network The WB \u2013 went whole hog on the action and Sci-Fi aspects. Long arcs gave way to standalone episodes. When none of that worked, executive producer and writer Jason Katims tried to bring the show back to its roots, a tact implemented even more aggressively after Roswell leapt from The WB to UPN for its third season. But it was too little, too late, and Roswell simply couldn\u2019t take advantage of its formidable new lead-in, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. \u201cLike I said, I try not to think about it,\u201d Delfino says of the tone changes. \u201cI kind of just go with the flow. I don\u2019t have enough invested in it \u2013 I don\u2019t think any of us does \u2013 to let it frustrate us. The people it must frustrate are the fans. I\u2019m pleased with this season. I\u2019m always pleased. I just really trust Jason Katims, so I\u2019m pretty much 100% pleased with anything he believes in.\u201d<\/p>\n
So what episodes in Season Three does Delfino like? \u201cIt\u2019s funny; for us, this is our job,\u201d the actress responds. \u201cRarely do we end up seeing the finished product because we\u2019re working that day, or we\u2019ve been doing this so long that we don\u2019t really watch it. And I definitely can speak for all of us. For me, the reason I like an episode is because we had a lot of fun doing it or we had a great location or what we all had personally going on. So I would have to say that the Christmas episode [Samuel Rising] was really hilarious. We were all in these costumes and we were just ragging on each other the whole time for it. We were in Santa Claus and elf costumes on Hallowe\u2019en day, and that was really comical to us. The episode is really sad. It\u2019s about an autistic boy and Max suspects that his son may be trying to contact him through the body of this boy.<\/p>\n
Specifically for me, there\u2019s not that much after that. There are more Max episodes and an Isabel episode [I Married an Alien] where she imagines her life is a 1960s sitcom. Right now we\u2019re doing an episode [Ch-Ch-Changes] where Liz contemplates going to boarding school. She\u2019s changing. She\u2019s sick and thinks she\u2019s dying, so she starts contemplating going to boarding school. I guess I\u2019m pretty heavy in that one.\u201d<\/p>\n
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