I will also call it “The Lost Week.” whew (I searched for any other “Roswell” thread and couldn’t find any.)
For reasons too absurd to delve into here, I found myself on a self-imposed “Roswell” marathon. I got through all 61 episodes in about a week, including a particularly Roswell-saturated weekend.
I guess I’d heard of people doing “24” marathons, but since I’ve always followed “24” as it goes along, I decided to do it with another series. And “Roswell” seemed to flow along pretty carefully from episode to episode. So I started watching and watching and watching, every night, until I was done. And now I’m done. Oh my gosh. I think this is my first and last TV series marathon! :eek:
I started watching the show with almost no preconcieved notions of what it was about. I only had the vaguest idea of who was who and what the show was about. I did my best to avoid spoilers, knew none of the history of the show (WB to UPN, etc.).
Just looking at the line-up of the cast, I thought I’d pretty much nailed how some of the characters would pan out. My first big impression was that the Sherrif guy (Valenti) would end up being some sour semi-villian who would always be one step behind our heroes, and would always be muttering, “Those darn kids!”
I also could not figure out how Kyle, Liz’s original boyfriend, fit into the equation. I did allow myself to look at the IMDb page and saw that the actor was in all three seasons. I simply could not figure out how he’d stay in the picture. He looked like a complete third wheel to me at first.
I had Isabel completely pegged wrong. I thought she’d remain cool and haughty and aloof and always kind of bitchy.
That Alex guy—well, he was going to be the token funny nerdy kid. Never really a big part of the show, but there for comic relief.
Maybe it was the “mainlining” of the show, where I never gave myself time to ruminate on one episode before loading up the next episode, but I simply did not expect some of the character developments at all. So, I definitely enjoyed the suprises in the characters. (Probably why I kept watching and watching . . . ) The Sherrif turned out to be a pretty cool guy and one of my favorites. Same with Kyle, who was hilarious and often got the best lines. And Alex, such a sweetie, ended up (sort of) with Isabel. Never saw that coming. I saw him having a crush on her, sure, but I never saw her reciprocating.
I’m sure all these reflections and ruminations are absolutely nothing new to the old-timer Roswell fan, but this is all new to me and my brain’s soaked up the whole damn show in about a week!
Near the end, I thought I’d crack. There were moments where I thought that I could not take that Max fellow for another second. He never smiles. He’s a very handsome fellow, but I don’t want to see that actor in anything else for a while. In one episode Max grinned, and his face was rendered absolutely unrecognizable to me. I got pretty close to actively disliking him near the end of the series. (But I don’t dislike him. Not quite. But it was touch-and-go for a while there.)
I liked Maria more and more. I think she, Valenti and Kyle (and Alex) were my favorite characters. I liked 'em all, but especially those.
Some of season three jumped the shark big time. Other episodes sucked but for the most part, I enjoyed the show. So hokey and angsty. Apparently just what I was looking for. I enjoyed the multiple references to Snapple in season three.
Another thing that was interesting about watching the entire series in a week instead of over the expanse of three years is that I saw how everyone changed so much more quickly. Hairstyles—oh my word, the hair. I hated Michael’s hair for most of the series. Maria’s hair got on my nerves as well. And why did they give Max that goofy Howdy-Doody haircut? They changed it for a few episodes (when he went to LA) and he looked so much better. But oh no—right back to Howdy-Doody. And let’s not get into makeup.
And please—let’s not start in with the plot holes! I didn’t think too hard about some of them and didn’t take any of that too seriously, but still . . . sometimes it was hard to not notice the lack of logic in the storylines.
Well, I had to spew all that out. I can’t believe I watched that whole damned show in such a short period of time. Any other Roswell fans want to share some insights?
Also, has anyone else here done a “marathon” of any particular show (like 24) and if you did, do you believe that saturating yourself with the show over a short period of time altered the way you absorbed the show, or how much you enjoyed it?
I must say, it was kind of fun to do a “marathon” of a show like this, just once, but I think that’s all I’ve got in me. My brain is fried.