| To My Fan Fiction Readers as well as Other Avid Roswell Fans: Upon hearing about the recent Roswell cancellation, I felt compelled to share my thoughts and feelings about the recent action taken by UPN. Roswell was a wonderful show. It took a person in like an obsession and that is what happened to me. I began watching Roswell back in 1999 - Season One when the show was still on the WB. They had re-aired the Pilot in December of that year and five minutes into the show, I knew this show was different than all other WB shows I had previously seen. And I was correct. Roswell was more than just a bunch of new actors with pretty faces and a crappy story line that may be lost in the next season. Roswell had everything in a show that a person could ask for. It had love, conflict, different people (personalities), and science fiction. The on-screen chemistry of Jason Behr and Shiri Appleby (Max Evans and Liz Parker) could be felt through my televison screen. It had the perfect combination of science fiction and a love story. You thought that, like most shows, the guy would get the girl and they'd live happily ever after. But by the time you thought Max and Liz would be together forever (probably in the episode Heat Wave after their very first kiss), the writers threw you a curve. And that curve was in the episode, The Balance when Max told Liz that they needed "to take a step back". And when they finally got back together like all Dreamers wanted them to be, Tess showed up! Alex and Isabel and Michael and Maria all had their love affairs and problems (always problems!) yet they always ended up together. Through other people and not dating each other - they always seemed to end up supporting each other and proving their love for one another even if they didn't realize it (yet sometimes they did try too hard to instill things on their signifigant other . . . . Maria). By the end of the season, Roswell was in signifigant danger to be cancelled by the WB. That's when Roswellians alike banded together to save Roswell in the Roswell is Hot! Campaign. We bombarded the WB office with Tabasco bottles and letters. There aren't fans anywhere else that can get things done like the Roswell fans can! It was then that the writers threw the episode Destiny at us, leaving us with a cliffhanger that made you beg for more. Liz running off as Michael tells Max to let her go. And the final sentence spoken by Tess, "What happens now Max?" Roswell fans would campaign all summer and wait day after day after day to see if our efforts would turn out to be worth it all and indeed they were! We saved the day and the show! Season Two. We met the Skins (good and bad) and Nasedo died. It looked as if Max and Liz weren't going to be together because Max and Tess were together even though you could see all the love and concern Liz had for Max when he came running through the Crashdown doors saying that Nasedo was dead. So much happened during this season. The aliens saved the world by destroying the Skins - TWICE! A Max from the future came to visit Liz and told her about their future. How they were married in Las Vegas by Elvis (we all remember the wonderful, "Congratulations, kids" -Future Max to Liz) and about how everyone of their friends came and they danced and danced. Future Max gave Liz a lot of information that she found useful in a later episode. We found out that the Royal Four have twins, The Dupes - Zan, Ava, Rath, and Vilandra (Lonnie). Zan was killed by Rath and Lonnie before any of them found each other. The remaining three dupes travelled from New York City to Roswell, New Mexico just to seek out the new king (Max). But they had an underlying plan - to get the Granolith and return home and kill Max and have Kivar take over the throne and all that bad stuff. But Max remembered advice Liz had given him (who had gotten the information from Future Max) about the Granolith and he ended up keeping the Granolith for the *real* Royal Four. Rath tried to kill Max but Ava, who stayed behind in Roswell, helped save Max by having Isabel and Liz connect and send a message to Max. Again, Max and Liz ended up together (remember the little alien thing he did when he returned to Roswell?). Enter the Prom! Oh the joyous Prom. Max and Tess kissing just when Dreamers thought they were going to be together again (I think most of us figured out by now that everytime we thought one thing, the writers would do something that would *always* keep up guessing and coming back for more!) and Michael showing up in the gorgeous all black suit to surprise Maria - even though he still couldn't dance. And Isabel finally kissing Alex (I can still hear the Stargazers cheering) at the Prom - and they finally ended up happy with each other. It was then that the writers threw Roswell fans another curve. Alex was killed in "car accident". That gave the show a completely new turn. Liz became almost a completely different person, livid on the idea that Alex was killed by an alien and she was going to prove it. Maria became depressed and clung to Michael for support. Isabel became livid about going to college (and I still think that she was just using that as a way to get out of Roswell and away from all the pain of Alex dying) and Max tried to stop her. Max, himself, became a different person. He was torn between loving Liz and hating her for thinking Alex was killed by an alien. After Max and Tess had slept together, they found out that Tess was pregnant and her baby was dying because of the atmosphere. But in the end, the secientist was right - Alex had been killed by Tess and Max sent her packing the Granolith back to Antar. But the night before all this happened, Michael and Maria had slept together and Max and Liz got back together, sort of. After the rocks exploded and the Granolith was sent into the heavens, Max and Liz were together again. It was then that Roswell was going to be cancelled by the WB for good. Roswell fan rallied together again to save the show once more. This time we sent Tabasco bottles to UPN and we saved the show once more. It was after Roswell moved to UPN that the WB came out with what I like to call "The Roswell-Remake", more formally known as Smallville. Smallville, if you compare pictures of Roswell and Smallville, they are very similiar in people postioning and clothing. But I'm not going to say anything else about Smallville because I don't want any hate mail and this is about Roswell. I know ya'll think that all I've done is give a summary of the past two seasons and I sort of have. Season Three has yet to finish but Jason Katims has promised us the best series finale (so to speak). With Roswell ending this season for good, I want to say how wonderful the show was. Besides the above summaries of the first two seasons, Roswell writers have always kept us guessing and has always had our favorite couples end up together (Alex and Isabel being the exception - they were together in the end). Yeah, Roswell has had its crappy episodes but what show doesn't? Season Three has been the best season by far. There has been comedy, sadness, love, and, you guessed it, science fiction all perfectly blended together. As I said earlier, Roswell is more than just show with a pretty face. For some, it was a lifestyle. And I mean that for more than just the actors and directors and filmers of the show. For me, Roswell was a part of my life - a big part. It taught me so many things - what it's like to have friends you can trust and most of all, it taught me what love is and how it felt to be loved by someone and to love something so much that it hurt. Sometimes, I felt like Roswell was a part of me - like the characters are real people. They went through the same life situations as I have (and we all have) yet with an alien twist. Life throws curves at us, the same way the writers of Roswell did. Just when you thought something about someone on Roswell, the writers proved you wrong. The only thing they kept the same was the fact that Max and Liz would always end up together. Roswell has brought out a lot of things for a lot of people, whether it was emotions or physical things. For me, it brought out a lot of personal things for me. Roswell helped me discover the writer within me along with the fan artist within me (as the people on the Fan Art Board of Fan Forum know :-) ). But for a long time, I could never cry. I always held it inside me. But Roswell could make me cry like a baby in no time. I remember when at the end of End of the World, that was the first time a TV Show had ever made me cry! And from that time on, I cried whenever I bloody well felt like it! Roswell had the capability to bring out things in me that I didn't even know I had. Go To Page Two |