{"id":5576,"date":"2009-10-05T04:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:42:17","slug":"roswell-only-sounds-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2009\/10\/roswell-only-sounds-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Roswell&#8221; only sounds stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, the Deseret News Archives published an article about the new The WB show &#8220;Roswell&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashdown.com\/show\/books.php?melindametz\">Melinda Metz<\/a> herself told the Crashdown.com staff about text.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the first reviews of the show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;WB\u2019s new \u2018Roswell\u2019 only sounds stupid&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s actually a very promising new show about teens, Tuesday, October 5, 1999<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoswell\u201d is another one of those really stupid-sounding ideas for a TV show that, oddly enough, works. And works extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is, well, sort of awful sounding. Three teenagers living in Roswell, N.M., turn out to be survivors of an alien spacecraft that crashed there some years earlier. They don\u2019t know who they are or where they came from, and they\u2019ve got to keep their identities as extra-terrestrials secret or risk being locked up as part of some sort of government experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds pretty stupid \u2014 just like the idea of having a teenage girl battle the forces of evil in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u201d And, like \u201cBuffy,\u201d this new show features some of television\u2019s most realistic teenagers, albeit in a considerably less than realistic setting.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s pilot episode (8 p.m., Ch. 30) starts out with a bang. Literally. Liz (Shiri Appleby), a high school student and part-time waitress, is accidentally shot during a holdup. She\u2019s in bad shape until Max (Jason Behr), a boy in her class, comes over and uses his alien powers to miraculously heal her. Of course, he\u2019s putting himself and his fellow aliens \u2014 his sister, Isabel (Katherine Heigl), and best friend, Michael (Brendan Fehr) \u2014 at considerable risk of discovery.<\/p>\n[&#8230;]<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it in full in our archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/1999\/12\/wbs-roswell-only-sounds-stupid\/\">WB\u2019s new \u2018Roswell\u2019 only sounds stupid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, the Deseret News Archives published an article about the new The WB show &#8220;Roswell&#8221;. Melinda Metz herself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[35],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-melinda-metz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}