More random Roswell thoughts
Aug. 23rd, 2005 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieWell, I am on a rewatch of Roswell (yes, I need a life. No, I don't plan on getting one) and it's actually a lot of fun watching earlier eps once you know how everything happens.
I have to give the show props for continuity. When I watch a Season 1 Max, Liz, Michael or Maria, I can see the seeds of S3 characters, and not go (as happened by the end with Buffy), "how did they get from point A to point B?"
It's not just character continuity either. I love that as early as first half of Season 1, they established that Max would rather leave the house than tell his parents the truth about himself. He offered as much to his mother. Of course, this being something of less magnitude than armed robbery and this being his mother (who does seem to be shown a lot more "I love my children I don't care" than his father), she doesn't take him up on the offer. But props to them for doing this. (Also found interesting that Michael sees adults as "the enemy," which given his foster father, is understandable. He does change his mind later on with Valenti, which is good).
Also, I am wondering what did Liz and Maria's parents think when their daughters dissapeared right after graduation. Did Max's parents talk to them? Or did they freak and call the police, or what? Am curious...
I was also thinking that minus the FBI and the severe issues, Max is actually a type of person I would be attracted to in real life: serious, introverted, very competent and with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. Which actually makes him a pretty unusual main character for a show. Introverts usually aren't "It" as far as shows go :)
And last but not least. I am too progmatic. I am rewatching and going: "Liz, I know he saved your life and he is gorgeous, madly in love with you, and sweet. But the FBI wants him for dissection and his alien enemies want him dead. Maybe you are better off finding a safer bf, even if he won't be a soulmate." But then I turn into a mushy mess :)
Maria seems to spend more time in the hair salon than any person I know. But I love the Romulan hairstyle.
Also, the actors who play Liz and Max have psychotic levels of chemistry, which is the main reason the thing works...Woo-hoo!
I have to give the show props for continuity. When I watch a Season 1 Max, Liz, Michael or Maria, I can see the seeds of S3 characters, and not go (as happened by the end with Buffy), "how did they get from point A to point B?"
It's not just character continuity either. I love that as early as first half of Season 1, they established that Max would rather leave the house than tell his parents the truth about himself. He offered as much to his mother. Of course, this being something of less magnitude than armed robbery and this being his mother (who does seem to be shown a lot more "I love my children I don't care" than his father), she doesn't take him up on the offer. But props to them for doing this. (Also found interesting that Michael sees adults as "the enemy," which given his foster father, is understandable. He does change his mind later on with Valenti, which is good).
Also, I am wondering what did Liz and Maria's parents think when their daughters dissapeared right after graduation. Did Max's parents talk to them? Or did they freak and call the police, or what? Am curious...
I was also thinking that minus the FBI and the severe issues, Max is actually a type of person I would be attracted to in real life: serious, introverted, very competent and with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. Which actually makes him a pretty unusual main character for a show. Introverts usually aren't "It" as far as shows go :)
And last but not least. I am too progmatic. I am rewatching and going: "Liz, I know he saved your life and he is gorgeous, madly in love with you, and sweet. But the FBI wants him for dissection and his alien enemies want him dead. Maybe you are better off finding a safer bf, even if he won't be a soulmate." But then I turn into a mushy mess :)
Maria seems to spend more time in the hair salon than any person I know. But I love the Romulan hairstyle.
Also, the actors who play Liz and Max have psychotic levels of chemistry, which is the main reason the thing works...Woo-hoo!
