{"id":5578,"date":"2009-10-06T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:40:12","slug":"open-your-heart-and-%e2%80%9croswell%e2%80%9d-will-put-a-spell-on-you-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2009\/10\/open-your-heart-and-%e2%80%9croswell%e2%80%9d-will-put-a-spell-on-you-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Open your heart and \u201cRoswell\u201d will put a spell on you, too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crashdown.com\/photos\/albums\/season1\/100-pilot\/normal_pilot-587.jpg\" class=\"picright\" \/><em>&#8220;Open your heart and \u201cRoswell\u201d will put a spell on you, too.&#8221;<\/em> says Mike Duff in the article &#8220;WB\u2019s \u2018Roswell\u2019 is a Fine Romance&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The article was published on October 6, 1999 and he wrote that it would be a mistake to hide from &#8220;Roswell&#8221;. <\/p>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;] On the surface, there\u2019s no denying that \u201cRoswell\u201d might seem absolutely ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>Get this: Besides the standard-issue WB cast of ultra-attractive young people with perfect teeth and dreamy complexions, the whole crazy story revolves around a trio of teenage space aliens.<\/p>\n<p>And not just any galaxy-hopping adolescents either.<\/p>\n<p>These teens are descendants of the beings who were on board the crash of an alien spacecraft that, according to tabloid legend, crashed in the New Mexico desert near the town of Roswell in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Done snickering yet? Now get ready for a smart interstellar twist on Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoswell\u201d is the captivating handiwork of executive producers Jason Katims (\u201dRelativity,\u201d \u201cMy So-Called Life\u201d) and David Nutter (\u201dThe X-Files\u201d). With wit and intelligence, they transform what might have been little more than high concept hokum into a clever, evocative mix of sci-fi, suspense and raging teenybopera hormones.<\/p>\n<p>A cosmic bond is quickly forged when Max Evans (Jason Behr, \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d) uses his otherworldly powers to save the life of Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) after she\u2019s accidentally shot in the terrific opening scenes.<\/p>\n<p>So begins a star-crossed odyssey between our sensitive Romeo from another planet and his Earthling Juliet.<\/p>\n[&#8230;] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article in our archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/1999\/12\/wbs-roswell-is-a-fine-romance\/\">WB\u2019s \u2018Roswell\u2019 is a Fine Romance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Open your heart and \u201cRoswell\u201d will put a spell on you, too.&#8221; says Mike Duff in the article &#8220;WB\u2019s \u2018Roswell\u2019<\/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":[1742,749],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-10th-anniversary","tag-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","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=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}