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ROSWELL: What Happens Next!!
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Of a kind. Everything in this post is based on early treatments of the third season’s first few episodes. Much could change by the time the episodes air. But then again, much could remain intact …
Now that Tess’ villainy has been revealed, are Liz and Max back together?
Yes. If all goes according to plan, the first time we see Max and Liz on UPN, they’ll be in Utah, making out in the back of a strange convertible -- and looking strangely like FutureMax and FutureLiz.
What are they doing in Utah?
Plotting the hold up of a Utah convenience store. Before Dido can warble a note, they’ll be pursued by the state police, boxed in on all sides, thrown to the ground and handcuffed at gunpoint.
Then Max uses his powers to escape, right?
Ha! By the beginning of act one, Max and Liz are both in stir, and the angry and confused parents begin arriving.
Good lord! Why are Max and Liz robbing convenience stores?
It’s all part of Max’s plan to get back to his homeworld and rescue his son. It’s all explained in an elaborate series of flashbacks.
How do the elder Parkers and Evanses react?
Badly. They didn’t even know Max and Liz were in Utah. Bad blood begins to develop between the two families almost immediately.
Why?
Philip Evans talks the Parkers out of hiring their own lawyers (“Things will go better if we present a united front”). But after the Parkers reluctantly agree, Liz is denied bail and forced to remain imprisoned. Max makes bail and goes free. And the Parkers feel like they were sold down the river. They begin pressuring Liz to testify against Max.
Does Max break Liz out to continue their life of crime?
Max does offer to break Liz out, but Liz dissuades him; she suggests that they’re already in enough trouble. Instead, the out-on-bail Max discovers something ugly about the convenience store that the U.S. government wants kept quiet, and the Evanses leverage this to get the charges against Max and Liz dropped.
So things go back to normal, like after all those other times the kids found themselves in jail?
No. Once the kids are released, the Parkers forbid Max from ever seeing Liz again. Also, after Max and his dad clash over Max’s inability to tell the full truth about the robbery, Max moves out of the Evans house.
Does Max leave Roswell?
No. Max stays in town but finds surprising new digs.
Does Max start bunking with Michael?
Nope.
Who’s said to be writing the season premiere?
Series creator Jason Katims.
I thought the first episode deals with Isabel having an affair with a lawyer from her dad’s firm!
It does. The junior lawyer, Jesse, gets to Utah even before Max’s parents, and there’s a third-act rendezvous in a hotel room that makes plain to the audience their secret affair. But the Jesse-Isabel saga really takes center stage in 3.3.
Ah. What happens in 3.3?
Nutty Isabel invades Jesse’s dreams -- and come to believe he’s about to propose to her. Iz freaks out, now certain that any man who loves her (like Alex and Grant) is doomed.
Are Rath, Lonnie, Ava, or Nicholas back?
No. At least not in the first three episodes.
What about Brody?
Nope.
Sean?
Nope.
Tess?
Nope.
Alex?
There are plans for ghosts in 3.3, to say nothing of a possible lycanthropy-free homage to “An American Werewolf in London.”
Does Jesse propose to Isabel?
No. But they’re going to be engaged anyway.
Is Jesse possessed by Kivar?
No hints of this are revealed in the first three episodes.
Wait. You skipped 3.2.
The second UPN episode, likely to be scripted by Ron Moore, will center on Michael as he begins moonlighting as a nightwatchman for a shadowy Roswell enterprise called Meta-Chem. Michael will make many friends among the other slacky young nightwatchmen. (There’s at least one big laugh in the 3.2 treatment involving a popular soft drink.)
Do the Parkers lift the ban on the Liz-Max relationship?
No. In fact, at the end of 3.3, Jeff Parker threatens to send Liz to an East Coast boarding school if Max doesn’t stop trying to see her in secret.
Will Jim be reinstated as sheriff?
No.
What’s up with Jim’s boy?
An unhappy Kyle becomes the breadwinner in the Valenti household while Jim decides to follow his bliss and put his old band back together.
Do we know anything beyond the first three episodes?
Nothing is set, but much will likely center on Isabel’s impending nuptuals. We may see misbehavior at Jesse’s bachelor party. Max and Michael may try to talk Iz out of the wedding. Kyle may fall for Isabel as he helps her prepare for the big day. A journalist friend of Jesse’s may stumble upon Isabel’s true nature. At Isabel’s wedding and on her honeymoon, she may encounter a stranger who is possessed by Vilandra’s ex-lover Kivar.
Anything not involving Isabel’s new romance?
Michael may discover a clone of Max at Meta-Chem. Tess may possess Liz. Max may suspect Tess never made it home. Maria, trying to pursue her own music career against her mom’s wishes, may join Michael in a search of Maria’s dad. Jim Valenti may stumble upon his ex-wife while pursuing a career as a private detective. Kyle, with Isabel’s help, may create an extraordinary science project.
Should we take all this with a big ol’ heap of salt?
Doctors continue to advise against excessive sodium intake.
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OMG, I hope these are spoilers come out true. Because I think I will continue to watch the show. After last season's downfall, I was going to stay clear. But know I think I will hang in there and continue to support the show.
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Not that that's a bad thing, mind you, but this is MILES from where I thought we were going at the end of last season! An affair with a lawyer, Liz and Max go Bonnie and Clyde, Micheal...not involved, and Valenti going deadbeat dad? What the heck happened to these people? Those flashbacks will be mighty interesting, assuming this is all legit. Damn that Good NY Tess isn't back, I liked that one! BTW, Herc, why does your image keep covering the Talkbacks? I admit, it forces people to read the talkbacks rather than just browse the headlines, which is nice, but is there a glitch or something? I know it's not just my browser that's displaying it like that.
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on my browser so it may be specific to your settup in some way.
well it looks like they might spice roswell up a bit if the liz and max ideas turn out. I like the concept for the story but last season was pretty blah. the news that they are going to concentrate alot on nuptuals sounds crappy - imho that would just be boring. we have alien teens, government conspiracies oh and we are going to focus on a wedding! i really hope that idea does a quick crash and burn. -
and start all over cause that has to be the most ludicrous story plot I ever heard. They need to go back to the basics and try again cause at this rate, I'm not sure how many people can stand whatever they call that crap.
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Hmmm...I'm not sure what to make of this. I'll just put my faith in Jason Katims as he always turns out good scripts and the show has always been very well-done.
One thing that still confuses me is Isabel. Fist she's miraculously made a year older than the other kids in "Surprise." Then in the last arc she's all of a sudden graduating high school early. Now, she's getting married? -
These plots seem VERY tired and uninspired, especially this wedding thing. I would've never thoght Roswell would stoop to having a wedding for sweeps.
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INTHE UK APART FROM FACTUAL PROGS ROSWELL IS THE ONLY FICTION I WATCH TRUE!CONCEPT ORIGINAL ACTORS WELL CHOSEN ALL BEAUTIFUL AS WELL! DONT KNOCK IT PLEASE!I THINK AMERICAN ACTING/ PRODUCING IS VASTLY SUPERIOR TO ANYONE ELSE.MAY ROSWELL SERIES GO ON FOR ALONG TIME YET! REGARDS, TONY,(U.K.)
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