{"id":577,"date":"2000-05-15T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2000-05-15T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=577"},"modified":"2008-07-09T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T19:39:19","slug":"calgary-sun-surprise-roswell-finale-minor-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/05\/calgary-sun-surprise-roswell-finale-minor-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Sun-Surprise Roswell finale – Minor Spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprise Roswell finale<\/strong>
\nBy TYLER McLEOD — Calgary Sun<\/p>\n

The rookie sci-fi drama Roswell has been flinging surprises, information and clues at the audience for weeks leading up to the season finale at 8 p.m. tonight.<\/p>\n

Yet with every answer comes another question.<\/p>\n

“Now the whole thing has just gotten a lot more confusing,” says William Sadler, who stars as the town’s top cop, Sheriff Valenti. “As I became more certain there were aliens, I became more certain they’re not evil. They’re not all the things I used to think.”<\/p>\n

Since the fall debut of Roswell, Valenti has been trying to force into the open the high school aliens played by Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr.<\/p>\n

Tonight, Valenti finally witnesses Michael (Fehr) using his unearthly powers. What Valenti will make of the experience remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Earlier this season, the sheriff seemed hell-bent on sending the extraterrestrials off to an FBI autopsy lab or sentencing them to summer school or whatever it is one does to teenage aliens.<\/p>\n

“When the season started, I was just the sheriff in dark sunglasses chasing these sweet young aliens.<\/p>\n

“It wouldn’t have been interesting if every week I was standing there going, ‘Curses! I missed them again!’ That would have gotten old real fast,” Sadler says. “Now I have a teenage son I don’t communicate with, I have an elderly father who I was reunited with, I have a girlfriend. These people in my life have little by little been pushing me into the good-guy category.<\/p>\n

“It was something I always hoped would happen. It’s a nice arc.”<\/p>\n

The future of Roswell is to be determined this week as networks announce their fall lineups.<\/p>\n

Sadler isn’t likely sweating having to turn his badge in should WB decide Roswell’s loyal audience simply isn’t big enough to continue the series.<\/p>\n

He can always return to his diversified film career, which has included everything from The Green Mile and Die Hard 2 to The Shawshank Redemption.<\/p>\n

Roswell has attracted a very different demographic to Sadler’s film work. The young, hip cast has many fans who probably don’t even know there was a Die Hard before Die Hard: With a Vengeance.<\/p>\n

To say nothing of the teens surrounding the 50-year-old New Yorker on set every day.<\/p>\n

“I smack them around. They come around to me and say, ‘Mr. Sadler, I need career guidance…’ ” Sadler jokes of working with the young actors. “I was actually very lucky, I think. We have a very talented group of kids.<\/p>\n

“What they lack in experience, most of them have more than made up for in raw talent. They surprise me all the time.”<\/p>\n

And surprises are what Roswell’s all about. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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