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(7/20/01 10:54 am)
Re: Hi guys!
You've probably already seen this, but I found this article from JK at SciFiWire to be encouraging. Some of it is the same as the other article:
9:00am ET, 19-July-01
Changes Come To Roswell
Jason Katims, executive producer of the teen alien series Roswell, told reporters that the show will drop some of the harder science-fiction elements and return more to character stories in its upcoming third season, with major changes coming for everyone. "The stories are getting a little bit out of high school," he said during UPN's fall preview for the Television Critics Association.
Katims added, "Isabel gets into a serious relationship and falls into a precipitous marriage. Max goes on a quest to find his child, and Liz goes along with him, and that quest will take him out of Roswell and onto the road. ... Michael basically wants to build a life for himself and winds up getting a job. ... Maria's character begins to pursue her musical career, and that becomes a real thing." He added, "One of the things I'm really interested in playing, starting with the beginning of the year, is the family drama that is here in the show and that we've never really explored. In the first episode, Max and Liz get arrested. ... And suddenly they're in real trouble, and their parents are called in. ... It's not so funny anymore, and it's not like they can go away for two days and say, 'We went camping,' and everything is OK with them. By the end of the episode, Liz is forbidden by her parents ever to see Max."
In an interview following the press tour, Katims told SCI FI Wire, "I felt where we went kind of astray a little bit [last year] was these four-episode arcs, where there was so much mythology, and so many pieces of storylines out there, that it just got too complicated. I think we're on a much better track here. This is really what I've been wanting to do with the show, bring it back to building the season based on character arcs, and we have a character arc for every character in the show."
As part of that, Katims said the show has hired writer Melinda Metz, author of the popular Roswell High series of books on which the show is based, and her writing partner, Laura Burns. "What I expect them to bring is, they obviously have a long history with these characters, with this world. They have a great imagination, and I don't expect them to bring storylines from those books. What I expect them to bring is their imagination and who they are as writers, and I'm very excited about the possibilities here." Roswell premieres on UPN on Oct. 16.
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Good news or bad? You decide! BTW - I appreciate this site very much & all the great behind the scenes photos you post here. And I ALWAYS appreciate the "on set" spoilers and behind the scenes stories! Keep up the wonderful work!
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(8/14/01 1:57 pm)
Latest Season 3 spoilers
Here are some more spoilers, the latest from aint-it-cool-news.
ROSWELL: All The Gory Season 3 Details!!
I am – Hercules!!
First, some kudos. The Hollywood Reporter revealed a week ago that Adam Rodriguez (“Felicity,”
“Brooklyn South,” “All Souls”) would join the "Roswell" cast as Isabel Evans’ post-Alex love
interest, but talkback regular Cher and her roswellatemysoul.com site had the scoop more than a
week before the Reporter. (And yes, Cher sent us the poop weeks ago, and I sat on it like a fool
because we couldn't quite get it confirmed. Herc stupid!! Good work, Cher.
Behold now this saucerful of “Roswell” scoopage from “reliable sources” who are not Cher. Be
warned: many, many spoilers lie ahead for those of you who know nothing of self-control!
Max Evans and Liz Parker
3.1.0 Liz will hold a Utah convenience store clerk at gunpoint while Max investigates the store’s secret doorway.
Max and Liz subsequently find themselves in a harrowing car chase involving state police, are captured at gunpoint, bite
pavement and and wind up in lockup for armed robbery.
3.1.1 We learn in flashbacks that Max went through Tess’ things following the treacherous blonde alien’s chaotic
departure for the home planet. As he rifles though her belongings, Max finds literature that tells of an artifact that could
allow him to communicate with – or even travel to - the homeworld. Anxious to rescue his son, Max is frustrated as he
scours the Internet for clues to the artifact’s whereabouts. Liz comes to the rescue when she stumbles across a photo
of the artifact in a magazine! (Originally, the artifact was going to be spotted in a magazine photo of Shirley MacLaine’s
house, but producers apparently scrapped this idea.) After Liz and Max gain possession of the artifact, they come to
learn that it’s actually the key to the original UFO that crashed in 1947. They celebrate this realization by making out in
front of Liz’s house - and are caught by Liz’s dad. The series of flashbacks ends near the end of act two with Liz
holding the convience store clerk at gunpoint while Max discovers the 1947 ship behind the store’s secret door.
3.1.2 The Evanses and the Parkers arrive in Utah and are suspicious of each other immediately; each thinks the
others’ kid led theirs into this life of crime. Evidence is found linking Max and Liz to the robbery, and they are tossed
into separate cells. Max’s lawyer dad, Philip, confronts Max, but Max is slow to offer details. Liz’s dad, Jeff, tells Philip
he’s considering getting separate counsel for Liz. Philip talks Jeff out of this: the more we present a united front, he
advises, the better our chances. But the judge decides that since Liz had the gun, she has to stay in stir while Max is let
out on bail.
3.1.3 Jeff Parker is plenty mad about Max getting a better deal than Liz, and urges Liz to testify against him. Liz
refuses. Max breaks into jail and offers to break Liz out. Liz demurs, suggesting that they’re already in enough trouble.
Instead, Liz urges Max to do what they came to Utah to do. Max returns to the convenience store, reopens the secret
door, and finds the 1947 ship is now gone. A hand falls on Max’s shoulder: it’s his dad, who wants to know what all this
is about.
3.1.4 Max’s cover story is lame, and his dad knows it. But Philip Evans notices some strange powder in the corner
of the secret room. Max asks to have it analyzed and they discover it’s highly toxic. While waiting to bring this new
evidence to the judge, Max and Philip are confronted by an FBI guy who want them to keep quiet about what they
know. Philip uses what they’ve learned to get the charges against Max and Liz dropped. With Liz out of jail, the
Parkers forbid her from ever seeing Max again. Unwilling to reveal more about what happened, Max moves out of his
parents’ house. Calling up to Liz’s rooftop, he is met instead by her father. Max and Liz’s dad share silent stares, and
Max leaves.
3.2.1 Max finds new digs, but angers his new landlord when he uses his alien powers destructively.
3.2.2 Max begins showing up unexpectly and stealing kisses from Liz when she least expects them.
3.2.3 Sneaking up on Liz, Max tells her to meet him somewhere at 3:30 a.m., but won’t say why.
3.2.4 Max uses a hang-glider, a passing train, and a “tractor-beam”-like superpower to entertain Liz. But after Max
returns Liz to her house, he discovers her dad waiting for him. The old man offers a stern ultimatum: either Max stops
seeing Liz, or young Ms. Parker will be shipped off to an East Coast boarding school.
3.3.1 Max meets Liz in the Crashdown kitchen and admits her father threatened to send her away if he keeps
seeing her. Liz laughs it off, and even suggests she might move out the way Max did – and they can even live together.
3.3.2 After a midnight rendezvous with Max, Liz returns to her room to overhear her parents
arguing vociferously about her being sent to boarding school. The next day, a teacher discovers
the Max and Liz conversing at school and threatens to tell Liz’s dad.
3.3.3 Having heard from the teacher that Max has been chatting Liz up in school hallways, Liz’s dad angrily throws
Max out of the Crashdown.
3.3.4 Liz learns from her mother that Liz’s father, Jeff, is reacting so badly to Max because of secrets from Jeff’s
past. A dangerous youth, Jeff saw his risk-taking lead to the death of his first, true love -- who was also the best friend
of Liz’s mom. Both of Liz’s parents now fear that they will lose their daughter to the same kind of tragedy that claimed
their young friend decades before. The last time we see Max, he sees Liz obediantly helping her parents at the
Crashdown, and he walks off alone into the night.
Michael Guerin and Maria DeLuca
3.1.1 Michael is first glimpsed this season in the office of a guidance counselor, trying to negotiate his own
graduation after three years of screwing off. Just as the counselor begins laying out what Michael will have to do,
Michael is interrupted by an emergency page: it’s Isabel, who wants to tell him that Max and Liz have been arrested in
Utah. When Michael accompanies Isabel to Utah, a jailed Max dispatches Michael to find the “key” Max had to ditch
while the cops were chasing him.
3.1.2 As Michael searches for Max’s “key” in Utah, he must simultaneously negotiate via cell phone with a Roswell
biology teacher in hopes of joining a class he needs to graduate. As he finds Max’s “key” Michael is confronted by a
shady character with a message for Max: “Stop looking. The person I work for will do anything” to stop Max. Then he
fires several bullets that narrowly miss Michael’s skull and takes off.
3.1.3 Michael relays the warning, gives Max the “key,” and tells Max he’s on his own. Thanks to Maria, Michael
now feels more tied to Earth than to the homeworld.
3.1.4 Once Max is cleared, Michael catches a ride back to Roswell with an earthman.
3.2.0 Back in Roswell, Michael is having financial difficulties. After his water is cut off and Maria has to pick up a
dinner check, Michael decides to get a second job as a nightwatchman at the new Meta-Chem plant.
3.2.1 Though Meta-Chem looks like a grim corporate hellhole at first, Michael soon learns that Meta-Chem is
actually an after-hours party central, thanks to his poker-playing, professinal-wrestling-crazy fellow watchmen. But the
party comes to an abupt end when some soft drinks are discovered missing, and the head of security sacks all of his
underlings, including Michael.
3.2.2 As Maria rolls her eyes in disbelief, Michael decides to get his job back. His plan is to use his superpowers to
sneak the soft drinks he stole back into the plant. But while he’s there, his discovers Kurt, the guy who fired him, is
stealing a lot more than Snapple from Meta-Chem.
3.2.3 Michael reassembles his fellow ex-nightwatchmen, thinking they can get their jobs back if they can catch the
head of security stealing. Michael’s theory is they were really fired because they weren’t screwing off enough --
making it too hard for their old boss, Kurt, to rip off the company. But as the former Meta-Chem employees engineer a
“Mission: Impossible”-like sting, their former boss unexpectedly arrives at the plant in the company of Roswell’s finest.
3.2.4 Michael confronts his former boss, Karl, with a videotape he says depicts the head of security stealing. But
Karl pulls a gun on Michael and reveals there’s too much money at stake to allow Michael to live. It turns out Karl is
traffiking in Meta-Chem “genetic material.” Michael, of course is able to turn the tables: Karl is defeated and the boys
get their nightwatchmen jobs back. (Rumor has it this “genetic material” might eventually turn out to belong to
Michael’s best friend – but we learn nothing of this in 3.2)
3.3.1 At the Crashdown, Maria is happy that Michael has dedicated himself to building a life for them on Earth, but
pissed that Michael is spending so much time with his new nightwatchmen pals, The Mooks. When she reminds him of
their date on Friday, Michael stammers out a confirmation.
3.3.2 Michael, trying to get a little sleep between his schoolwork and his two jobs, is interrupted by: Isabel, angsty
about her relationship with her new boyfriend: Max, angsty about his relationship with Liz; and Maria, angsty about her
relationship with the exhausted Michael. The Evanses clear out, and Michael assures Maria he’s totally there for her.
Then he starts snoring. A pissed Maria storms out.
3.3.3 Maria can’t believe that her big Friday-night date with Michael is taking place in a bowling alley diner.
3.3.4 Maria discovers that Michael has chosen this restaurant for a very specific reason that has nothing to do with
Maria’s happiness.
Isabel Evans and Jesse Ramirez
3.1.1 As “Roswell’s” third season launches, we’re likely to see Jesse Ramirez, Isabel’s new love interest, before we
see Isabel. Jesse, a brilliant young Harvard-trained attorney at Philip Evans’ law firm, is in Utah before anyone else to
deal with Max and Liz’s predicament. When Iz arrives, the audience will notice furtive glances between Iz and and the
young lawyer.
3.1.3 Iz enters Jesse’s hotel room. “Thank you so much for this meeting, Mr. Ramirez.” The two then fall to the bed
and begin making out. (Hey, they’re carrying on a secret affair!!) Jesse doesn’t understand why Iz treats him like shit
when his boss – her father – is around. Also, he wonders why Iz is so quick to defend her brother’s bizarre behavior. Iz,
who is tall and in possession of massive breasts, poo-poos his concerns.
3.3.0 Jesse and Isabel continue seeing each other in secret. Jesse wants to take the relationship public, but Iz
maintains reluctance. When Jesse seems to linger momentarily at a jewelry store, Iz is inspired to dreamwalk into
Jesse’s unconscious. In his dream, Jesse proposes to Iz. She wakes, startled, and the ghost of Alex Whitman can be
glimpsed in the corner of Iz’s bedroom: “This should be interesting.”
3.3.1 In the Crashdown, Iz quizzes Liz and Maria, Cosmo-style, on matters of true love, then storms out. Liz and
Maria suffer confusion! Alex reminds Iz she hardly knows Jesse. Iz spots Jesse in a jewelry store, haggling over a
diamond ring. Iz, reeling, is visited now by another dead ex-boyfriend, Grant. Grant, hideously mangled by his last alien
encounter, helps Iz face the awful truth: any man who truly cares for her is doomed as doomed can be!!
3.3.2 Iz breaks up with Jesse but won’t tell him why. Iz’s dad, sensing Jesse’s depression, invites him to dinner at
the Casa Del Evans, but Jesse understandably declines. But before the end of act two, Jesse will reconsider and arrive
at Iz’s doorstep, presumably to fight for her.
3.3.3 At the family dinner, Iz confirms her resolve to end things with Jesse, and she manages to do so without
alerting the elder Evanses to their secret, stalled relationship. Jesse beats a hasty exit -- but before the evening is over,
Iz will learn from her dad that there’s more to Jesse than a pretty face: he’s back in town to deal with some painful
family business, revealing some unexpected strength of character. This, of course, causes Iz to love him even more. She
visits him at his family’s ranch, and they agree to a dinner to discuss things. While waiting to be seated, she discovers
Jesse is packing a ring!
3.3.4 In the ladies’ room, Iz confronts Alex’s ghost, explains why she’s convinced Jesse is “the one,” and Alex gives
his blessing. But when Iz returns to Jesse’s table, Jesse tells her her wants to break up with her immediately. Jesse also
reveals the ring he is carrying is his mother’s; he was having it appraised. Jesse never intended to propose to Iz, and the
episode ends without him issuing any kind of proposal whatsoever!
Jim and Kyle Valenti
3.2.1 The Valentis take center stage in a comic Freaky Fridayish 3.2 B-plot. With Jim no longer overseeing Roswell
law enforcement, he whiles away his days sleeping and surfing the Internet. Kyle, meanwhile, has taken on the role of
breadwinner, not quite making ends meet by working at a local body shop. (With Tess gone, they’re even reduced to
taking on a strange new boarder.)
3.2.2 Concerned about the ongoing threat of insolvency, a weary Kyle takes to circling help-wanted ads for his
slacker dad, but Jim keeps diffusing Kyle’s entreaties with evasions and jokes.
3.2.3 Kyle finally snaps and tells the old man to get off his hinder and start bringing in some cash. The former sheriff
is a bit taken aback by his son’s anger, but assures him he’s got a plan. Kyle is gratified to hear this, and Jim is soon
glimpsed mysteriously recruiting shady-looking men for some unknown purpose.
3.2.4 Kyle reacts with horror when he learns of his father’s new job.
Re: Latest Season 3 spoilers
3.3.4 Liz learns from her mother that Liz’s father, Jeff, is reacting so badly to Max because of secrets from Jeff’s
past. A dangerous youth, Jeff saw his risk-taking lead to the death of his first, true love -- who was also the best friend
of Liz’s mom. Both of Liz’s parents now fear that they will lose their daughter to the same kind of tragedy that claimed
their young friend decades before. The last time we see Max, he sees Liz obediantly helping her parents at the
Crashdown, and he walks off alone into the night.
HMMM... Could Jeff's first love have been prego with a baby girl at the time of her death but the baby lived and her best friend and Jeff decided to get married and raise the child????
Decades could be about... 20 years.. or 17??? Thats close to Decades!!!! That would just be to easy to figure out though...
THE ICEMAN IS OUT FOR THE SEASON... AND INTO NEXT!
Re: Latest Season 3 spoilers
Hey all - been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long!!! I've been depressed about the whole UPN thing. Can't get it in my area. Might have to get a dish just to see Roswell. SUCKS. Anywho, Just popped in to say hi to all my old board pals and to see what I'm (probably) going to be missing in S3. Looks good...enjoy, y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until I return, may peace be with you all,
Emilie Fan (Still)
Brian Berek
91 Wisteria Dr.
Fredonia, NY 14063
emiliefan@yahoo.com
Las Vegas Crew Member
Posts: 1073
(8/21/01 2:09 pm)
Re: Latest Season 3 spoilers
Brian: YOU ARE ALIVE!!!! We thought maybe you hitched a ride with Tess to Antar. Glad to know you are still on Earth. You really should get a dish. We have one and I love it!
Re: Latest Season 3 spoilers
BRIAN... OH MY GOD.. Wait a min.. your not Brian... YOUUUUU... YOUUUUUUUR a shapeshifter...your only here to look like Brian... with that beard and those gray hairs... We know what you did to him... You even changed your picture to make us believe..... Well I know I SHALL NOT BELIEVE!!!!
Ok I couldn't help that one.. Good to see you Brian.. I have missed you around here.. and don't worry.. We will figure out something.. I am sure that something can be worked out... I can't go a whole season without YOUR comments...
Take care everyone.. and YES even our long lost buddy... Brian!!
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Las Vegas Crew Member California Branch
Posts: 390
(8/24/01 7:43 am)
Re: Speculation and Spoilers for Season 3
Here's a picture of the new character, Jesse, leaving his law office with Mr. Evans (Max' and Isabel's father) and a client. My apologies for the quality of the picture. My camera has no zoom capability and the picture was taken from across the street. I believe it's from episode 3, the name of which I've already forgotten. Jesse is wearing the blue suit, the client a tan suit, and Mr. Evans a dark suit.
Las Vegas Crew Member California Branch
Posts: 392
(8/24/01 4:01 pm)
Re: Speculation and Spoilers for Season 3
Here is another picture from the same scene, with the three principals (Jesse, Mr. Evans, and the client) a little further down the sidewalk. It's from the rear and still across the street, but the lighting is a little better.
I just found some new spoilers over on aint-it-cool-news.com.
Does “Enterprise” cross over with … “Roswell”??
It does!
In “Roswell’s” fourth UPN episode, authored by Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner and titled “Secrets and Lies,” teen alien Max Evans will find himself in Hollywood, investigating the death of a guy we’ll see shooting at Michael in the Oct. 9 UPN premiere.
This suspicious demise will lead Max to probe the Paramount Pictures archives (!) in search of proof connecting the present-day murder to one from the past at the hands of the same alien. This proof, insists Max's true love Liz, can be found in the dailies of a Paramount science fiction feature titled “They Are Among Us.”
How does Max get on the Paramount lot? A talent agent he meets at the dead man’s funeral puts Max up for an “Enterprise” audition. Who is Max auditioning with? “Enterprise” star Scott Bakula. Who is directing the “Enterprise” episode? “Star Trek” vet and “Roswell” executive producer Jonathan Frakes. (Behind the scenes, Frakes is also directing this episode of “Roswell.”)
For which “Enterprise” role is Max auditioning? An alien. Specifically “Korgan of the Bantoo,” who suspects Capt. Archer has invaded his sector of space to steal dilithium crystals. The audition doesn’t go particularly well: Frakes tells Max he’s not very convincing playing an extraterrestrial. The pitiless irony!
Some other tidbits:
* Ferrini, the thug who shoots at Michael in the premiere, dies in the 3.4 teaser. He’s on Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills with a young hooker. While the hooker wanders off for a smoke, the street is suddenly bathed in blinding light. A shadowy figure is glimpsed running down the street. The hooker, Bunny, quickly returns to find nothing left of her date but a charred husk. The detectives find the number of Michael’s license plate in the glove compartment.
* Max meets Ferrini’s talent agent, Jules Walters, while attending Ferrini’s funeral. Ferrini, it turns out, wasn’t only a thug – he played them on in the movies and on TV. And now that Jules is down a client, he sees Max as leading man material. “I’m not an actor,” Max points out. “And Ben Affleck is?” counters Jules.
* While Jules schmoozes, Max rifles through the agent’s palm pilot and learns Ferrini’s address. He finds a videotape of Ferrini rehearsing for his “role” in Utah.
* Max encounters Bunny at Ferrini’s house, and she leads him to where the spot on Mulholland where Ferrini was incinerated. Bunny tells of a tall man who ran off and seemed to disappear afterwards. When Max asks Bunny about who cast Ferrini for his job in Utah, she replies, “He wouldn’t tell me. Said it was a secret. When he got back, he started acting really funny – kept saying he knew something. Something big. Something that was going to make him a rich man.”
* Meanwhile, back in New Mexico, Jesse and Isabel are keeping their whirlwind engagement a secret -- and Iz’s dad begins to wonder if the reason his handsome new underling hasn’t hooked up with some of the local talent is sexual orientation.
* Also back in New Mexico, Liz and Kyle are teamed by a teacher to act as video journalists for a class assignment. They use this circumstance as an excuse to investigate the alien murder from the past. One witness, a seventysomething hair and makeup artist named Bess Covendall, remembers an actress who was “hit by lightning on a clear day.” The doomed actress was, at the time, torn between her leading man and a lowly member of the crew. Kyle’s cranky grandad thought the crew member was an alien.
* We get to meet Kyle’s cranky granddad, who even sees aliens when aliens are not about.
Re: Speculation and Spoilers for Season 3
Hey Brian, If you get you "tv" from Buffalo then you all get UPN.. its channel 68. That seems to be the closest "big" city by you that you would get channels from....
THE ICEMAN IS OUT FOR THE SEASON... AND INTO NEXT!
Re: More info on Secrets and Lies, ep 4
Hi Everyone!
Just found some more spoiler info on this episode on scifi.com.
John Billingsley, who will play the alien Dr. Phlox in UPN's upcoming Enterprise series, will make a cameo appearance in a crossover episode of the teen-alien series Roswell, which moves to the Smackdown network this fall, Zap2It.com reported. Billingsley will play himself in the episode, in which Roswell star Jason Behr as the alien Max will audition for a role--as an alien--on an episode of the new Star Trek series, the site reported.
Billingsley will not be wearing his Phlox makeup or costume, Roswell executive producer Ronald D. Moore told the site. "No. The scene isn't set up that way," Moore said. "It's a casting scene, and he's the guy that's reading with Max, as himself."
The Roswell episode, "Secrets and Lies," will be directed by former Trek star and director Jonathan Frakes, who is also an executive producer of Roswell. Frakes will also have a cameo appearance as himself in the episode, Zap2It reported. "Secrets and Lies" is the season's fourth episode and is set to air Oct. 30.
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