Okay, first off, I just want to get this little bit out of my system: What the hell kind of crappy ending was that? It was as if they just wanted to run the show into the ground so that there was absolutely no way they could bring it back again. All throughout season 3, I just couldn't care about the characters because they had changed so much. And, to be fair, that poor ending didn't do anything to rectify that feeling.
Was it really necessary to ruin Roswell for the dedicated fans that fell in love with the charismatic characters that the writers painstakingly created through season one and two? It seems like the writers, directors, producers even the actors lost their interest in the show and wanted to end it as soon as possible; while ruining it for the fans.
Now that they have found Max's son, life for the Roswellians returns to the norm of season one and two. These children are still school pupils but it seems like that was forgotten in all the alien mess. Even season two had drifted from the high school show that Roswell started out as and took a darker turn but at least then the storylines were believable enough that we didn't really mind that particular blip on the radar.
So what, you ask, makes Graduation a faux pas? Well, there isn't really one particular thing more of a slow building climax from the very beginning of the season that finally graduated into Graduation.
While most pupils idea of a dramatic graduation is the school rebel mooning the head teacher, the Roswell fantasy is, of course, a little different from that. Not only have the FBI swarmed the school hall, but the shyest boy in all the school Max Evans, alien king extraordinaire - takes a step onto the podium and uses his carefully concealed alien powers to black out the hall and allow his alien compadres to escape. Ah, a king to the end, eh?
Michael choosing not to graduate and leave on his own is of no great surprise. What is, however, is the evolution of Liz's powers woaw! The girl can see into the future. Isn't it a little strange that none of the pod-squad was able to and yet the power she gained was something that none of them had? Handy.
For months, all Maria has wanted is to be free of the pod squad, and yet when she is given the chance, she doesn't leave and becomes a hypocritical mess of tears and anger that she is being left out of the goings on of the alien abyss. Uh helloooooo, that's what you wanted when you buggered off to NY to live your alien-free life!
Even Max's romantic proposal could not, in my opinion, pull this show out of the gutter for me. The writers thought they were giving the viewers what they wanted, but there is still too much stuff in the past between Max and Liz that would equate to them never getting married. What about the option of children? Was that ever addressed? I don't think so.
At least they took Kyle away so they could watch over his powers.
And, it would seem, that the whole three series have been Mr Parker reading Liz's journal and I know it wouldn't be a show without other people's perspectives, but have the writer's forgotten that Liz stopped writing in her journal for a while throughout season two? Hmm.
And would Liz be allowed to tell Mr Parker about the Alien Abyss? How could the pod squad be sure that he wouldn't reveal their true identities?
But then, I suppose, Liz probably had a premonition that he wouldn't.
I wasn't impressed with this ending as there were many storylines left wide open and too much of "Here this is what you wanted all along, enjoy" from the writer's regarding the romantic couples (Liz and Max, Michael and Maria), characters (Valenti, Michael).
Poor show.
Song Ash Shining Light
Look Max as he says asks Liz to marry him
Line "I want to be with you Liz forever we'll take those twelve days and we'll live twelve lifetimes" - Max
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As their high school graduation approaches, the gang must come to terms with their expectations for the future, while joining together to thwart the FBI when they discover that several members of the group are under surveillance. Meanwhile, Liz begins exhibiting even more alien-like powers, that cause her to see visions of their future - including their deaths. Roswell's final episode.''moreless
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Jason Behr
'Max' Maxwell Evans
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Shiri Appleby
'Liz' Elizabeth Parker Evans
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Katherine Heigl
Isabel Amanda Evans Ramirez
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ADD TRIVIA- TRIVIA: Featured music in this episode - -Somehow, Someday by Ryan Adams -Call Me Again by Evan Olson -Here We Go Again by Riddlin Kids -L-O-V-E by Irving -Deep Love by Mandalay -Falling In by Amilia K Spicer -Breathe In by Frou Frou -My Sundown by Jimmy Eat World -Victory Parade by The Belles -Shining Light by Ash Edit
- In this episode Liz's alien powers develop more, she now gets premonitions, so she can see the future. Edit
- TRIVIA: Max and Liz finally get married in this episode and Liz's father also discovers the truth about the alien-hybrids, as does her mother, and Maria's mom. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- Max: I won't make this decision for everyone. I'm givin' up the throne. I'm not a king. (to Michael) And you're not my second-in-command. (to Isabel) And you're not a princess. We're just fighting for our lives. Isabel: Well, then we need to start planning on how to fight back. Michael: I got a better idea. Why don't we get outta Dodge before they land on us? We leave. Kyle: And where do we go? Michael: Anywhere but here. I mean, let's face it. They know who we are. It's over. We leave Roswell. We leave fast and we leave as quietly as we can. Edit
- Liz: I can't tell you much more than that. It wouldn't be safe. For you or for us. I can tell you that we're far away and that we're all trying to avoid the law and do good in the world. Oh, and I guess I should tell you that Max and I did eventually tie the knot. Give my love to Mom. Let her read this journal too. Then, give it to Maria's mom, and after that, take it and burn it out in the desert by the ruins of the pod chamber, where my husband was born. So that's the end. Our life in Roswell. What a long, strange trip it's been. Will we ever go back? I don't know. Even I can't see everything in the future. All I know is that I'm Liz Parker... and I'm happy. Edit
- Max: Hi, I'm Max Evans. I thought I'd take this opportunity to say a few things on behalf of myself and the graduating class. Some of us are here tonight to walk across this stage and get our hard-earned diplomas and toss our caps in the air. But there's another group here tonight, a group of people who are here for another reason altogether. They're here to say goodbye. Goodbye to their high school lives. Goodbye to family and friends. You see, this group has been though a lot. And tonight is the night they've decided to call it quits. It's been a long, hard road for them. They have a lot of wounds. They've lost people. People that were close to them. They've had each other to cling to. But tonight that's all coming to an end. I'm a member of that group of...outsiders. I always knew I was different. And for a long, long time, all I wanted was to be another face in the crowd. But in the end...it wasn't possible. I guess it never was. So from now on, I'll just concentrate on being who I really am. Some of you might not like that. Some of you might even find that frightening. But that's not my problem anymore. I have to be who I really am and let fate take care of the rest. So thank you, Roswell. Thank you for letting me live among you. Thank you for giving me a family. Thank you for giving me a home. Edit
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Max: I learnt this one from Superman.
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Max: I learnt this one from Superman.
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