{"id":28,"date":"1999-12-18T11:36:48","date_gmt":"1999-12-18T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-06-28T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:38:08","slug":"early-roswell-review-in-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/1999\/12\/early-roswell-review-in-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Roswell review in People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">People Online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PICKS AND PANS TUBE: ROSWELL<\/p>\n<p>October 18, 1999<br \/>\nby Terry Kelleher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, I&#8217;m still confused,&#8221; human high-schooler Liz (Shiri Appleby) says to alien classmate Max (Jason Behr) in episode two of this drama series. &#8220;If you really crash-landed in 1947, are you really 16 or are you like 52 in a 16-year-old&#8217;s body?&#8221; Max, an ostensible earthling who confided his extraterrestrial origin to Liz in the Oct. 6 pilot, replies with some nonsense about emerging from an incubation pod in Roswell, N.Mex., in 1989. But here&#8217;s all the explanation anyone needs: Teen shows are the rage this season; it&#8217;s handy to combine elements of The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer;and hey, logic is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Though it seems a product of calculation more than inspiration, Roswellhas appeal. There&#8217;s a sweetness to the two-different-worlds romance of Liz and Max, and you&#8217;ll appreciate the plight of Michael (Brendan Fehr), a less friendly teen alien stuck in a trailer park with a nasty human foster father. But Liz&#8217;s voice-over diary entries are dispensable, and Majandra Delfino provides too little comic relief as Maria, her self-described &#8220;wacky friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bottom Line: Contrived but intriguing <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this in People Online: PICKS AND PANS TUBE: ROSWELL October 18, 1999 by Terry Kelleher &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;m still<\/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":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}