Hey!
I, too, wanted to watch this show since it was presented as a possible pilot last year. And although I knew my expectations were too high -I wanted another Roswell, darn it!- I did my best to watch it objectively. I liked it well enough, and unless they do something seriously idiotic, I'll keep watching the entire series.
Now, it might be the
Roswellian in me, but my gosh, do they have similarities all over the place! Maybe Roswell just played with too many
tropes and so they are here again. Plus, most of the time it just makes me smile or roll my eyes. As I said, I like the show, but sometimes I wonder if a Roswellian is writing these dialogues
Nevertheless, in my eyes, Roswell always had it better.
Liz: I never got to thank you... for saving my life.
Max: Thank you
Roman: Thank you... for saving my life.
Emery: I was 6, I didn't know what I was doing.
On episode two, Grey is talking about Roman, "What? I can be dark and mysterious, too!"
Me: "No, neither of you can be Max!"
On their defense, they didn't add "and from an exotic location"
Some other archetypes:
Max - Roman, with the whole "you're the leader" thing.
Liz - Emery, sans the diary.
Maria - Julia, sans the cynicism (will she get powers now, though?)
Alex - Luka
Michael - Drake
Kyle - Erick, except I do want to kick Erick in every single scene ¬¬ Kyle was a stalker, and his friends were idiots, but at least he was never a mean kid at this scale.
Isabel - Now, she doesn't really get an equal character. She was divided into Roman's sister, who lacks Isabel-ness all around, and the Queen B, whom I don't really like.
Then there's the healing, the "we can't be together" [and everyone reminds us of that], the "we can't pretend what we do isn't being watched", the alien friends befriending the human friends. They are mixing and matching characters in different ways, and of course, the whole premise is different. I just wish they would stop saying "it has nothing to do with Roswell" because, clearly, it does
And their fandom is calling itself "Stargazers"
All in all, give it a two episode chance. At least the second one gives us a wider range of plots and subplots. And Roswellisms every other ten minutes
