Roswell: TV Series

Ok, so why in the hell am I writing a post about a show that went off the air over 4 years ago?! Because I feel like it, that's why!

For whatever reason, I avoided and or missed the show when it was on the air. I think I may have avoided it because I was tired of the whole alien conspiracy thing from the X-Files. I stopped watching that show about a season or two after its production moved to Los Angeles to accommodate the star of that show David Duchovny. I think many will agree that that show went down in quality after moving to L.A. Thanks a lot David! Never mind the consideration of your other cast and crew members! I digress.

I caught a couple episodes of the last season of Roswell when it was still on the air by chance when I was in NY. Where I was staying at NY had very few station choices and it was during that time in the winter when everything was a repeat. I liked what I had seen, but unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the show ended and aside from those few episodes I saw in NY, I never got a chance to see it again.

I bought the season one DVD of the show a good while back. For some reason I put off watching it until recently. Being that this is the summer and most everything is a repeat I decided to FINALLY watch it.

Well, I was hooked! I quickly ordered the final two season on DVD and couldn't wait to watch them. I had developed a bit of a routine. I would watch an episode or two at dinner time (hey, I'm a bachelor living alone! Cut me some slack!) and then an episode or two right before I would fall asleep. It was one of those things that I looked forward to every evening.

And then it happened. That moment that I knew would happen but was hoping somehow it wouldn't. Yes, that's right. I watched the final episode. It happened a week ago today.

So why is it that it has me sad? Am I truly that pathetic??? Ok, don't answer that one! The show ended over four years ago, but for me it ended a week ago. And whenever I think about it, it makes me a little sad. I feel as though I lost a friend that I will never see again.

I really did enjoy the show and the characters' stories. It's not the best show ever, but it was a show that I could easily identify with. I guess I sympathize with the solitude and isolationism of those hybrid aliens and their cohorts. Watching the on-again, off-again relationship of Michael and Maria was fun and then the romantic side of me couldn't help but pray and hope that Max and Liz would eventually work things out and be together as they were destined to be.

The hopeful side of me is wishing a TV movie could be made so as to update the fans on the characters, however, the realistic side of me knows that after four years and absolutely no talks or rumors of such a thing happening that that will probably never be. If you haven't seen the show, I'd definitely recommend checking it out on DVD.

I have to say that one of the many great things about DVD is that TV shows that had short lives on TV or not long enough of a run to be syndicated can continue to live and be entertaining on the DVD format.