by Christi Alley

Created on: September 06, 2008

I have always loved a good love story. Drama is what catches me when I flip on the tube and scroll through the guide menu on my satellite. I remember being at home, flipping through the channels thinking 'as usual nothing good is on'. But then, there was Roswell. I'd heard of it, never watched it. When it had come out I was 'too old for high school drama' or so I thought. Few years later, I turned it on, randomly and was hooked. Luckily for me, I'd caught the first episode.

It's an average day in Roswell, or as average as a day can be when your whole city is based around an Alien theme. From the 'Crashdown Cafe' where Liz (Shiri Appleby) and her best friend Maria (Majandra Delfino) work for Liz's dad who owns the place. It's a quaint restaurant. Space themed menu, space murals on the walls, alien shaped straws. You name it, it's there. It all starts because of some random fight between two guys, one of which has a pistol that he accidentally pulls the trigger on. Liz is hit.

Enter heart throb Max (Jason Behr). He's cute, that whole misunderstood innocent quiet kind of guy. He rushes over, for some unknown reason and saves the life of Liz Parker, average teenage waitress. From there the drama escalates. We find out that Max is not alone is his awesome alien powers. His 'sister' Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and their best friend Michael (Brenden Fehr) are also aliens. They are the aliens that crashed back in 1947.

But how can they be of high school age? Well they didn't wake up immediately from the crash, they were a hibernation like chamber and when the time was right they were released into the vast Roswell desert. Separated Max and Isabel were picked up together by the Evans family, and Michael was placed in a foster home of a alcoholic and abusive father. There they were raised and they reunited at school and became a clique of friends, the three never separating and always living in the same homes.

The secret is out now though! Liz Parker is not the kind of girl to just let someone save her life with some sort of powers and not understand it. She's very scientific and logical in mind, which brings a very down to earth quality about a sci fi fantasy. Naive as she is, she goes searching for answers through the entire show, not afraid of the dark secrets or the answers that she might find. Instead she seems to thrive on the knowledge, and throw herself completely into the life of the aliens.

Michael the shows resident bad boy, and Isabel the drama queen and pretty girl

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