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January January 26, 2000 This is a very bad job of summarizing a television show, but it was done after I realized that I had not written this earlier. There is a spotting of a UFO in the sky on some night. The next night begins a father-child camping outing in the area of the woods that the UFO was spotted. As we can all guess, almost everyone ends up on the trip. Liz and Maria go with Liz's Dad. Kyle goes with his dad. Max and Isabel go with their dad. Alex goes with his dad. Michael does not go. It's night time, and Max and Isabel sneak off to find this UFO. Liz and Maria follow them. When search dogs come after everyone (b/c the police force is also searching for the UFO), Liz and Maria sacrifice themselves to allow Isabel and Max to continue their journey. Isabel and Max make it to the UFO crash site (although there is no UFO) and find Michael & River Dog waiting there. Michael thinks that River Dog is the alien father, but River Dog says he is not. The gang find a symbol on the ground, and the symbol is familiar to them. All of a sudden Valenti shows up. Max then uses his magic to conceal the figure, and everyone tells Valenti that the kids got lost. Valenti does not believe them. The end. Sorry this was a half-assed description. Let me include some other tidbits. Alex and Isabel almost go out on a date, but Isabel informs Alex that she could never date a guy b/c of her alienness. Valenti's father spent his whole life in search of aliens, and now Valenti has taken over. Liz and Max are so cute together. NEXT WEEK: A convention at the UFO center brings to light a 1972 incident that led to the retirement of Valenti's father (Kyle's grandfather). January 20, 2000 Who would have thought that it was an entire month since we last saw this show of shows? Too bad that the show returned with just a peep. Max is at home one night with mom when there is a major grease fire. Max pushes mom out of the way and uses his powers to stop the fire. Then he pours water on the fire to cover the fact that he used his power. Mom suspects something, but isn't sure. Sheriff Valenti comes by and tells mom that a grease fire can't be put out with water. Valenti also shares how Max was at the Crashdown the night of Liz Parker's shooting....only after Max helped Liz she was no longer shot. Mom confronts Max, and Max denies that there is anything special about him. Isabel wants to tell mom about their powers, but Max says no. Mom then shows Max a video from when Max was 6, and he healed a bird with a broken wing. Max says that he can't explain these things. Mom says that maybe Max should search for his real parents. Max says no. Mom and Max will be OK, but Isabel still wants to tell mom about their being aliens even though both Max and Michael think adults won't understand. As for Michael, he makes amends with Maria. Maria is mad at Michael for not talking to him since she saved him at the Indian reservation. Michael wins Maria's good graces and then tells her that they cannot be involved because of the whole alien thing. Liz is trying to get over Max so she starts looking for Kyle. Kyle gets hurt at a basketball game, and Liz takes care of him. Kyle says thanks and asks if the two of them can be friends again. Liz says sure. The two hang out now, but Max thinks that something extra is going on. Max tells Liz that it's OK if she's dating Kyle again. Liz says that 1) she is not dating Kyle and that 2) she wouldn't need Max's permission if she was. NEXT WEEK: The gang goes into the woods to search for answers about the aliens' past, but their trip coincides with a manhunt. January 12, 2000 Rerun NEXT WEEK:Max's mom catches him using his alien powers and begins to wonder what's happening. Liz gets closer to Kyle again. January 5, 2000 Rerun. December December 29, 1999 Rerun December 22, 1999 Rerun December 15, 1999 I forgot just how much I missed this show, but boy oh boy do I love it. Apparently, Michael and Maria broke up at the end of the last episode, and they now hate each other... actually, Maria still like Michael, but Michael is pretty scared of commitment. Anyway, Michael discovers a picture Max drew of the Indian cave drawings that we saw a few weeks back. Michael wants to go talk to River Dog, the Indian who introduced Max to the cave drawings. He goes into a sweat session with River Dog and becomes sick afterwards. He is violently sick, and ends up wrapped in what appears to be a spider's web. This illness forces Max to question whether this disease is really just a part of the alien life. He even wonders about the impact this has on Liz, because the two have been hot and heavy since they kissed at the end of the last episode. In the background, Alex talks with Isabel about her being an alien. She explains that as an alien she can "manipulate the molecular structure of things." Alex and Isabel are becoming friends when he accidentally asks her what planet she is from. Fortunately, no one realizes the impact of what he said, but Isabel becomes very angry with Alex. He is ultimately forgiven when he helps out with a sick Michael. Because of this sickness, Max and Liz go to the Mesaliko Reservation to see River Dog. They tell River Dog that Michael is sick so he tells them to bring Michael over. Michael, Max, Liz, Maria, Isabel, and Alex all go to the cave. River Dog explains how the alien he knew from the past (the alien who is now dead) suffered a similar disease as Michael, and the River Dog shows the kids some stones they all must hold. The stones are known as "the balance," because a balance must be restored to Michael. As River Dog hands a stone to Liz, he tells Liz that she can't participate in the ceremony, because her mind is distracted about someone else... Max gives her a suspicious eye. The remaining four kids begin to chant with the stones, and we then enter Michael's mind. He sees a "V" shaped constellation in the stars as well as a head in the sand. It's all very interesting. At one point, Michael is being rescued by younger versions of Max and Isabel (like in the desert when they were all first discovered) when we see Liz enter the circle. In the end, Michael is rescued and comes out of the web. This entire sequence was amazing, and it seemed outside of reality yet surreal and my mind was warped, especially since Michael's recovery tied in with how all three kids were originally discovered (apparently, Michael was too scared to come to a car that picked up Max and Isabel... Michael didn't reunite with them for three years). Anyway, Michael wakes up and takes everyone's stones and places them in the cave drawings and says that the drawings are a map...the stones make the "V" he saw in the sky. Also, Michael now looks at Maria with love in his eyes...maybe he can now recognize the passion they shared. Who knows where this story will go. At the end, Max comes to visit Liz. He says that they can no longer be together...they need to separate to realize what their relationship is. Max says that the break-up has nothing to do with Liz's inability to participate in the recovery of Michael, but I think he realizes that Liz is too close to the alien-thing, and that this is why he wants to create some distance between them. One random scene: Liz and Maria were discussing their relationships with Max and Michael, and they were saying what great kissers the guys were. The question...are the girls experiencing love or a unique alien kiss? QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Human-alien relations are bound to be disastrous. --Isabel NEXT WEEK: Rerun December 8, 1999 Didn't air December 1, 1999 I'm really sorry that this explanation will be half-assed, but I can't help it. There's a heat wave in Roswell, New Mexico, and Michael and Maria are making out like bandits. Kyle has a new girlfriend named Vicky DeLaney. Sheriff Valenti is hitting on Maria's mom, Amy DeLuca. In the meantime, Liz wants to be friends with Alex. She tries and tries but can do nothing. Isabel then hops into Alex's dreams to see what's on his minds. Keep in mind that aliens can read people's dreams. Isabel enters Alex's dreams only to see him fantasizing about dancing with her. Isabel decides to hit on Alex to get him to shut up about confessing the FBI secret about Topolsky to Valenti. Apparently, Valenti is doing an investigation over the disappearance of Miss Topolsky. Alex realizes that Isabel doesn't really like him and so he gives up on her. Anyway, everyone goes to this big party, and the cops come to break it up. Liz and Alex are both arrested, and are locked up next to each other. She pleads for his friendship and eventually tells Alex that he had to donate the blood because Max, Michael, and Isabel are all aliens. Alex doesn't believe this, but will be friends with Liz again. At the very end of the episode, all of the sexual tension that had built up was released...Max and Liz kiss. This really pissed me off. I don't think that they're ready to be in a relationship yet. The chemistry was great and I know that things are going to suck in a few weeks once the relationship become steady. Hmmph! I'm angry. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: N/A NEXT WEEK: Dawson's Creek is airing for two hours November November 24, 1999 A note from last week that I forgot to mention: Valenti confronts Topolsky and tells her that he knows she is a FBI agent. She offers to share info with him, but he turns that offer down. Onto this week's episode which was better than good. It was just amazing...I got goosebumps. So Max and Liz are driving around, and Max swerves so as not to run over a horse. In doing so, his car flips over, and he is knocked unconscious. Max is taken to the hospital, and the doctors take blood from him. If his blood is studied under a microscope, his alien identity will be discovered. So Liz calls up Alex (the dorky, Xander-like best friend of Liz) and asks him for his blood. Alex comes and gives his blood, but then gets upset when Liz won't tell Alex why she took the blood. He guesses that Max was on drugs, and she doesn't deny this. Alex and Liz are now in a fight. But, Michael does take Alex's blood and switches it with Max's. Switch successful, and Max recovers quickly, because he has some regenerative powers. Everyone realizes that they are being followed. When Michael switches the blood, he sees that someone else tried to take Max's blood. Michael and Maria follow this guy later on and break into his hotel room. They find a phone number and discover that the number belongs to Topolsky. In the meantime, Topolsky knows what Alex did. She confronts him and then secretly takes some of his blood (she slips a drug into his soda which gives him a nose bleed and then takes the tissue he used to clean up his nose bleed...she compares this blood to that of Max's hospital sample). Alex admits that Max was on drugs. Topolsky is surprised that Alex says this...she was expecting the alien truth. In the meantime, Alex is pissed as hell at Liz, but she apologizes and says that because they are best friends, he has to put this secret behind her. Next thing, Alex goes to Topolsky to confess the truth about Max. At this point, Liz knocks on Topolsky's door and asks to speak with her. The two girls go outside, and Liz calls Alex a liar. In the office Alex hacks into Topolsky's computer. When Liz and Topolsky return, he has discovered that Topolsky is an FBI agent. She says that even though her identity has been discovered, she is not leaving. Liz and Alex then talk...Alex tells Liz to either tell him the truth about Max or that he will no longer be her friend. Liz says that she can't tell the secret. Alex walks out of Liz's life. NEXT WEEK: A heat wave hits Roswell and couples start copulating (not really, I just like the alliteration) Michael & Maria, Isabel & Alex...will Liz & Max follow suit? November 17, 1999 "Roswell" is a show that has shined all season long. Tonight, it shined a little less brightly. When we left this show, the gang of five were in Atherton's geodesic dome in a secret room. Sheriff Valenti had followed them into the dome, and he is knocked unconsciously Topolsky. As we return to the episode, we realize that the kids don't know who was upstairs and don't know who fell to the floor. They search the underground room and escape just as Topolsky enters the secret room. The kids do manage to escape with some good evidence. An important note here. Valenti woke up and saw that Topolsky was the one who knocked him unconscious. Anyway, the gang returns home and prepare for the next day of school. They will check out the info they stole that afternoon, but before Max and Isabel go to school, Isabel shows Max this symbol that she recognizes from her youth. She wears that symbol to school (the symbol is on a necklace). Anyway, that day at school. Topolsky is talking on the phone...we discover that she is an FBI agent. Her boss is mad that the kids are getting this info. She has some agents break into the house and steal all the info, but Isabel still has the necklace. While the police are investigating, one of them, a Native American, recognizes the necklace as a symbol. Liz takes the symbol and goes with Max to a local Indian reservation and discovers that an alien once lived amongst the Indians and that this alien was very friendly with Atherton. Then one day in November of 1959, the alien killed Atherton and disappeared. The Native American from 1999 then shows Max and Liz a cave drawing that the alien drew. Max thinks the drawing is familiar but can't translate it. In the meantime, Maria and Michael are hanging out, waiting for Max and Liz. Michael kisses Maria but says that he did it only to ease her. Who knows where their relationship is going. REVELATION OF THE EPISODE: Maria asks: "What's with the tobasco sauce." Isabel responds: "Sweet and spicy...we all like things extremely sweet with things extremely spicy." NEXT WEEK: Max gets in a car crash and is taken to the hospital. Will his blood reveal his identity. November 10, 1999 Surprisingly little happened on this episode even though it was terrific, and I totally love this show. Why is it that two of my favorite shows have to be on opposite each other? So Michael breaks into the UFO Museum to find out where the dome that he saw in his dream and in a book is. The dome is in Marathon, Texas about three hours away. He tells Max and Isabel about the dome, but only Michael is determined to go to the dome immediately. By the way, while at the museum, Michael is caught and arrested for breaking and entering. Max comes down to the sheriff's office to get Michael released. Keep in mind that Max works at the museum. Also, we find out that Sheriff Valenti knows the information that Michael stole. Anyway, a classroom assignment pairs up Isabel with Liz, Max with Kyle, and Maria with Michael to perform biographies of each other. The biographies are the homework assignment and have to be made by asking specific questions that everyone in the class receives. We learn later on that Miss Topolsky (the guidance counselor and government agent) gave the teacher these questions and told the teacher who to pair with who. Well everyone is trying to do the assignments except Maria can't find Michael. Finally, she finds him but he refuses to do the assignment until he realizes that Maria has a car. He then hijacks the car with Maria in it, and the two are headed out to find the dome. Maria gets nervous so she uses her cell phone to secretly tell Liz where she and Michael are going. Liz tells Isabel and then Isabel, Liz, and Max go to find Maria and Michael and also the dome. As they're leaving for the dome, Max realizes that someone is following him. Kyle, who was with Max just before Max left, gets suspicious. He calls Liz's home and learns that Liz isn't home. Kyle then tells his Dad that Liz, Maria, Max, and Isabel are all missing. Kyle then goes out to find them...he knows that they're headed to Marathon because he overheard Isabel tell Max. Valenti then goes to find them all also. Anyway, while on the road Max notices that he is still being followed so he slashes the tires of the guy who is pursuing him (he probably uses his alien powers to do this). Finally, Max, Isabel, and Liz catch up with Maria and Michael who had to stop at a hotel when Maria's car broke down. Then comes Kyle. Kyle gets kicked out, but the remaining five go on to the dome. They enter the dome and find a secret passage to a hidden room. They enter the room and just begin exploring when they hear footsteps. Sheriff Valenti is in the dome. Then they hear someone getting hit, and they see Valenti fall to the floor. Who hit Valenti? Miss Topolsky! To be continued next week... QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: You're kidnapping me. No wait, you're abducting me. --Maria to Michael when Michael, an alien, takes Maria's car ON CRIMINALIZING HOMEWORK: This is like cruel and unusual homework. Aren't there rules in the Geneva Convention against this? --Isabel BEST DESCRIPTION OF A HOTEL ROOM EVER: It's like the porno version of Aladdin. --Maria MICHAEL's FAVORITE TV SHOW: The View. It keeps me in touch with my feminine side. (We later learn that it's really "Win Ben Stein's Money") NEXT WEEK: Will Topolsky find the kids and the secret room? Will they escape? Will Maria and Michael become an item? November 3, 1999 This show seems to be proof that a show can use clichés and be cheesy without detracting from the show's quality. This episode had interweaving storylines so bear with me. First, we meet a new character. His name is Alex and he is the official Xander of this show only I really don't like this kid. He's unable to spew verbiage in a good and enjoyable way so I hope that this kid is axed soon, but he is right now a main character. He is Liz and Maria's friend and nothing big happens to him this week. So the big story this week involves Liz. One day she realizes that her diary is missing and freaks because info about Max and his alien friends is in this journal. Liz goes to the UFO Museum where Max works to tell him about the missing journal. Just as she's arriving we see Max borrowing some books from the Museum's library about aliens. Anyway, Liz tells Max. In the meantime we learn the suspects: Alex and Kyle. Alex is insulted by this charge and Kyle, when indirectly confronted, acts ignorantly about the journal. Max gets an image that Kyle was in Liz's room so the two go to Kyle's to find the journal. They sneak in and find nothing, but Max does see a picture of Kyle and Liz which proves that Kyle still likes Liz. Max admits to being in Liz's room, but only to return a CD. In the meantime, Michael has a dream about the vision that he had when he stole they key from Valenti's office. Michael starts to draw this object. It is a semicircle at first, but as Michael develops this figure in art class it becomes this weird object. The art teacher is so proud of Michael's work that he displays the painting of the object in public...will this risk exposure? In the end, we learn that this object is known as a geodesic dome and is an architectural, postmodern design. We learn this from the art teacher. Anyway, Max now tells Isabel and Michael about the missing journal. That night, Michael shows up at the dinner and confronts Liz. As it turns out, Michael stole the journal so that he could tell if Liz was a true friend or an enemy. Michael decided that Liz was a friend by what she wrote in the journal. Michael returns the journal and the two of them will keep this a secret between them only. Liz goes to tell Max about finding her diary. She doesn't tell him who returned it. Max then asks to read the journal so he can understand the danger of the journal being discovered. But then Max realizes that "if I read what you wrote in your journal, I see how you really see me." Nonetheless, we see Max reading a book the next day in the outdoor cafeteria of the school. Alas, it is the book that Max borrowed from the museum. Isabel takes a brief look through the book and sees a picture of the author standing behind a geodesic dome. WOW!! That was the end, but there is one more important note from this episode. The new guidance counselor, Ms. Topolsky, is really a government (FBI?) agent, and she knows tat Liz's journal contains info about alien life forms. CLOSEST ADMISSION TO LOVING MAX BY LIZ: What I wrote in my journal didn't really have anything to do with science. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: The bigger the world gets, the bigger your problems get, too. --Liz ADDENDUM TO THE QUOTE: And now in this big world, even the biggest problems are solved. --Liz NEXT WEEK: The search for the geodesic dome in Max's book. October October 27, 1999 I'm totally in love with this show. It's so great. At the very beginning of the episode, we see Max get beaten up by some of Kyle's friends, but not Kyle (Max is the alien and Kyle is the guy that Liz is sort of dating). Max tells Michael about this and so Michael melts the lock on Kyle's locker, but that pettiness ends there. Earlier in the episode, Liz's grandma shows up. Liz goes out with Kyle to pick up a video that Liz can watch with her grandma, but when Liz returns home she sees that Grandma is in a hospital. Liz and her family along with Kyle follow Grandma to the hospital where they discover that Grams has had a stroke. Liz calls Max for comfort and she tells him not to come, but he comes anyway. He arrives and sees Kyle and then leaves, but while Max was there he and Liz had a brief exchange which demonstrated their love for each other as well as the difficulty of their situation. It was a sweet moment. Anyway, as the episode goes on, we learn that Grams will likely die. Liz then asks Max for some help to maybe bring Grams back to life. Max says he's not G-d and can't do that. He only saved Liz because it wasn't her time. Anyway, Liz is at Grams' bedside when Max shows up and says that it's too late for him to save Grams, but he may bring her out of her coma for a little. Max touches Grams and only sees white in Grams' mind and says he can't do anything and then all of a sudden Grams is beside her own bed (she's there as a spirit) and Liz and Grams spend some sweet moments together. And then Grams dies. Later on, Kyle is talking with his friends when he learns that they beat up Max. It turns out that Kyle had nothing to do with the attack except saying that Max was getting too close to Liz. Kyle then goes to Liz to apologize for his friend's actions, and he finds out that Max hadn't told Liz that Kyle's friends beat him up. Then Liz breaks up with Kyle, not because Kyle ordered the hit, but because Kyle hand out with guys like that. Finally, Max and Liz had this great scene where we could feel the love between them. Also this week we learned that Isabel feels sympathy towards Liz when she covers Liz's shift so that Liz can be at the hospital. Isabel also encourages Max to be with Liz. I love this show!! QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Image means everything. You know that. We base our lives on that. --one of Isabel's flaky friends October 20, 1999 It was a pretty good episode, but I've come to realize that outside of the Max-Liz chemistry, the show isn't as good as I may have originally thought. This week, Maria is driving along when she sees Isabel. She gives Isabel a ride and the two have so much friction between them that Maria gets in an accident with Valenti's car (Valenti being the cop). No one is hurt, but Valenti realizes that Maria is helping Isabel cover up something (that has nothing to do with the accident). Valenti calls Maria to his office and everyone gets scared that Maria is going to share the secret. Isabel goes so far as to invade Maria's dream, apparently that's one of her powers. We think that Maria is about to tell Valenti about Isabel and Max being aliens but she decides not to. Also of note in this episode, Max goes to the UFO museum for the first time where he becomes enthralled by all that it has to offer. Max takes a job working for the museum...he hopes to gain access to his boss's files on all UFO activity. Max is looking for one of his relatives or something that may tell him how to get home. October 13, 1999 I like this show. It's much cooler and more fun and, oddly, more realistic than Dawson's Creek. I'm going to sum up the series premier as well as this week, just so that you totally understand this fun, hip, new show. This 16 year-old girl Liz works at a Roswell, New Mexico diner wit her friend Maria. One day, Liz gets shot at the diner. This guy from high school, Max, comes by, places his hand her, and heals her. He then smashes a bottle of ketchup on her and tells her to use this ketchup as a cover story. Liz does, but the sheriff doesn't believe her. The sheriff's name is Valenti. He also finds out that Liz has this hand print on her stomach, a hand print which was also on a murder victim from like 1949. Liz confronts Max and Max tells Liz that he, his sister (Isabel), and their friend (Michael) are all aliens who landed with the Roswell crash. They existed in pods until 1989 when they came out and were six year olds who looked like humans. The three have special powers like healing powers (by the way, the handprint is only temporary) and mind reading powers (Max and Liz have now probed each other's souls). By the way, Valenti suspects that Max is an alien or something weird, That's the premise of the show. This week, Michael decides that he wants to see this picture of the murder victim. He sneaks in to the sheriff's office, but the FBI has cleared all of the sheriff's files (as it turns out Valenti sent Liz's dress to the FBI for blood analysis and although the FBI denies it, the dress did show both blood and ketchup). Michael does, however, find a key that gives him this weird reaction...he must have psychic powers. In the background of this episode, Liz suspects a new substitute teacher of being more than meets the eye when the sub asks a few too many questions when Michael doesn't show up for class. The sub is seen carrying files with student info around and then she goes to Michael's house. As it turns out, the sub is a new guidance counselor and she tells Liz that Michael may be in serious trouble (we don't know why...maybe for not being in school?). Also there is some sexual tension between Max and Liz which is broken up by this jock named Kyle that Liz hooked up with over the summer. We're not sure where this love thing will go, but Liz likes Max, not Kyle. Also, for some reason, Isabel really doesn't like Liz and Maria...I have no idea if it's jealousy or what. This is basically how the show is going. It's fun. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE:How do we even know that these Czechoslovakians came with their passports? --Maria, on the legitimacy of her and Liz's new alien friends.