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Learn How ROSWELL Ends!!

Published at:  Feb 23, 2002 11:38:34 PM CST

SPOILER ALERT !!

I am – Hercules!!

Kudos to Coax regular Cher and her valient roswellatemysoul.com site, which provided the Herc with details on “Roswell” 3.17 and 3.18, which Cher believes to comprise “Roswell’s” two-hour season (and perhaps series) finale.

MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Here’s what we’ve learned:

* 3.17 is titled (at least provisionally) “Four Aliens and a Baby.”

* 3.18 is titled (at least provisionally) “Graduation.” (Did you know? “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s” two-hour third-season finale was titled “Graduation Day.”)

3.16

* Isabel is caught on videotape using her superpowers in this episode. That tape will soon fall into the hands of the Air Force.

* A military man named Major Carlson will be introduced in 3.16 and will reappear in 3.17.


3.17

* The episode takes place only a few days after Max’s turning to dust.

* Despite turning to dust, Max lives on. (If one peeks at this week’s TV Guide listing, it becomes fairly obvious how Maxwell manages to resurrect himself.)

* In the teaser, Air Force personnel have acquired and taken to an airplane hanger a downed alien spacecraft – containing Max’s infant son. It also contains someone who moves – and kills – at superhuman speed.

* Tess, the mother of Max’s space-child, is back for the first time this season. After examining surveillance footage depicting Tess leaving the hanger, the Air Force decides (rather understandably) that Tess is responsible for the deaths of all nine witnesses to the carnage.

* The military police are soon looking for Tess, and carry surveillance photos of the bad blonde alien. They cover their search by pretending to look for terrorists.

* At one point, Liz considers revealing Tess’s hiding place to the authorities.

* Max, Michael, Tess and space-child will endeavor to breach a military roadblock. Tess uses her familiar Jedi mindwarp to confuse the weak-minded military police. She is less than wholly successful when space-baby begins to squawl.

* Snapple continues to overtake Tobasco as the series’ dominant third-season culinary motif.

* Things are still strained between Jesse and Iz. (Jesse finally learns of his bride’s troubling alien heritage this week, in 3.14.)

* Max and Iz’s parents will have learned their kids are aliens by the third act of 3.17.

3.18

* Tess and child seem to be gone again by this point.

* Maria learns from fortune teller Madame Vivian and she and Michael will be separated forever. When she tells Michael, he cries fakery.

* Tess’ reappearance will apparently do little to inhibit the romanace shared by Max and Liz, who spend at least part of this episode tonguing each other unreservedly.

* Harvard Schmarvard! Liz seems to be planning to go to college in Chicago (Northwestern?) next autumn. Max seems cool with the idea, suggesting he might follow her there.

* Kyle approaches his boss at the garage about becoming a partner and maybe expanding the business. Toby, the boss, just laughs him off. Jim Valenti accidentally overhears.

* The USAF, having seen what Iz can do, considers abducting her.

* Deciding that Iz may not be the only alien, the military orders that she be watched 24/7.

* Liz exhibits a new superpower not unfamiliar to either Johnny Smith or Cordelia Chase.

* Finally, some sad and funny and kind-of-brilliant third-act Crashdown dialogue that’s in the script but may or may not be heard in the episode:


  • CUSTOMER: Do you recommend the Smallville salad?
  • LIZ: It would be hard for me to do that actually.
  • CUSTOMER: Hm. Alright, I guess I’ll just stay with the Roswell burrito.
  • LIZ: Smart move. This is actually the last night for the Roswell. New menus tomorrow and it didn’t make the cut.
  • CUSTOMER: What?! I’ve been eating the Roswell burrito for the past three years. It’s a classic.
  • LIZ: Hey, I just work here. I don’t decide what’s on the menu.


Wah! ”Roswell” 3.14 airs Tuesday. The show will then disappear from the UPN schedule until late spring, at which point we’ll get the final four episodes of season three.

I am – Hercules!!










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    Readers Talkback

  • Feb 23, 2002 11:58:02 PM CST

    I'll miss it

    by muckfire

    It may not have the most polished writers on TV, but the overall premise and characters made Roswell a show I never missed. If only the rest of the country felt the same as me.

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  • Feb 24, 2002 1:57:13 AM CST

    I CANT TAKE THIS!!! IT'S TOO MUCH

    by roswell-boy

    I'm sorry everyone but i just can't take this. They can't end this show, i wont be able to get on with my life. I mean getting to know these characters and feeling apart of them is just to powerful to say goodbye to.
    I JUST WANT TO SAY TO UPN....PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT ANOTHER SEASON, Even if it's half a season i dont care but they are just rushing the series too fast. They dont even give it a full season and that hurts me. They have five episodes to go and they cant just wrap up all the loose ends in these episodes.
    I have this big butterfly in my stomach just knowing that it is very likely it will end soon and i dont want it to. Just reading the final is making me nervous. It cant end, PLEASE ALL THE OTHER NETWORKS OUT THERE, PICK UP THIS SHOW AND ME AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE WILL WORSHIP YOU FOREVER!!!
    I just cant watch it end. It's too much.

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  • Feb 24, 2002 2:13:30 AM CST

    they should do the Alf ending

    by twig

    Have a bunch of army guys surrounding Max, Michael and Isabel, ordering them to surrender. Then end the show right there and never resolve anything. Anyway, I can't rip on UPN. The show just didn't succeed, even with a great lead in. Why people would rather watch Smallville is beyond me. I thought this season they really got that balance of sci-fi and drama to work. I don't know what I shall do without my weekly does of Shiri.

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  • Feb 24, 2002 2:51:30 AM CST

    eh

    by zitoman

    fuck roswell

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  • Feb 24, 2002 10:26:58 AM CST

    They made a movie of how Alf escapes

    by holidill

    A few years after the series ended, they made a made for tv film that explained how Alf escapes. I don't remember it though.

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  • Feb 24, 2002 1:06:28 PM CST

    Roswell

    by kort villikon

    The show needs another season. I LOVE this show....

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  • Feb 24, 2002 1:57:14 PM CST

    Really BIG Spoiler

    by bongjuice

    Alf is the real BIG BAD in this season Buffy. He steals and eats Miss Kitty Fantastico.

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  • Feb 24, 2002 11:24:56 PM CST

    I saw the ALF TV movie!

    by tall_boy

    I don't remember much, it was years ago. But what I DO remember was Martin Sheen who hated ALF for some reason (I think his mother was abudcted by aliens). ALF was kept captive on an army base with wacky army people watching him and keeping up with his antics. But after some trouble with General Marty Sheen, it turns out that ALF ends up RUNNING the base. No mention of what happened to the family ALF stayed with. I'm assuming the Alien Task Force killed them and burried them in the desert when they grabbed ALF in the series finale. No witness, baby. . .

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  • Feb 25, 2002 2:04:51 AM CST

    oh that's right

    by twig

    I remember that there was a movie. I don't remember it, but I DO recall Martin Sheen being in it. I also recall the Alf Christmas special, which was really depressing as I remember.

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