Roswell - Seasons 1-3
by Allan Kroeker, Allison Liddi-Brown, Arvin Brown, Bill L. Norton, Bruce Seth Green
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Actor: Brendan Fehr, Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Majandra Delfino, Shiri ApplebyDirector: Allan Kroeker, Allison Liddi-Brown, Arvin Brown, Bill L. Norton, Bruce Seth Green
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Studio: United Paramount Network (UPN)
DVD Reviews of Roswell - Seasons 1-3
DVD Review: If you discover some one is a space alien...
Summary: 4 Stars
If you discover some one is a space alien...
ROSWELL
WARNING Contains spoilers
-- just get the series ,( I saw it streaming, its a keeper for the DVD, those I do not have so I cannot comment on the DVD's themselves)
-- if you seen it or do not care read on----
Its useful to read the Wikipedia and other articles about a series to understand the drama behind the drama: The music that was dropped from the original airing; from the get - go this series faced cancellation ie if it weren't for a package deal with another well known show obtained by a network, the third season never would have happened. I can only theorize the glut of somewhat similar type shows at the time must have caused teenage angst series fatigue among the target audience. There was a show about a creek, another that took place in a rocky mountain town and certainly Buffy.
But surprisingly, there still is a cult following years later and for anyone, the Roswell series is definitely worth a look. For one thing, the show has feelings and complex relationships, so women should like it, and just enough action adventure to keep men interested. The science fiction overtones are there but not overbearing. The show cleans up nicely through its three seasons- a start to finish of the story, a complete saga. Many canceled shows are unable to accomplish this, leaving the book half unread, but here there are very few dangling threads.
Another, it seemed to bring up some interesting ideas and situations I still think about. The sheriff's dad once a man of vigor and strength now aged and infirm, had oatmeal on his clean shirt and as the result of a fit or something. And earlier, he could not eat his pears without assistance. The constant rocky relationship that Alien Michael and Human Maria had was a never ending source of amusement--ie Michael gets caught by Maria over something and he sits down and says to her seemly sour puss "Let me have it," resigned to his fate and the storm he expects to come.
The alien side of things are definitely emotive and heartfelt yet disquieting and psychopathic. Note to self, if someone is discovered to be a space alien FEIGN IGNORANCE , --some of those aliens will turn you into dust if deemed too snoopy nosed and the government, if they feel you know too much, will roll your body into a ditch.
The last season has a new character introduced to the cast , Jesse, secret love interest of Isabel . He is not an original character in the book the series is derived from but an addition (as if the series followed the books closely anyway). It took me awhile to warm up to him and he may have been an intentionally ironic addition-Hispanic, his people having a at least a stereotypical history current and past of being illegal aliens, in love with a space alien probably as illegal as anything could ever be. Isabel suddenly marries him. Unlike her brothers, who tell their sweethearts they are from another planet, Isabel keeps it a secret from her husband who then begins to get a clue when he randomly gets tossed into unmarked vans by guys in suites and sunglasses and is endlessly interrogated about his wife(an exaggeration, but you get the idea).
There are several ways to end a series, among which are to kill everyone or at least half the main cast and blow everything else up, but to the show creators' credit, neither really occurs. One of the cast is killed off, but this one was absent most of the 3rd season and was one of the psychopathic aliens so it was not entirely unexpected nor heartbreaking. The rest drive off into the sunset in a beat up van leaving some puzzled parents behind. The Human Husband splits away from the Alien Wife after not a whole lot of convincing to pursue his dream job. Yes, sex with an alien woman is surprisingly good and transcendentally hallucinogenic, but few things can surpass $350,000 a year in Boston. I imagine if he is really in love, he will keep track of her and use some of his premium salary to buy the fugitives a better van with air conditioning.
5 stars, but I take away one for a somewhat confusing plot arc. The relationship with Max and Liz drives the series and since this is not dark fiction, it is expected they have some sort of satisfying happy resolution. One episode has future Max self saying to Liz girlfriend she must breakup with past Max self else the planet, galaxy and universe will be overrun by enemy aliens and everyone they know dies horribly. This is expectantly defeated later on when Liz seems to forget about this and lures Max back BUT without a reasonable explanation of why it is safe to do so.
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