Reflections: Roswell is not a very good show...

For the past several weeks (okay, 2 and a half), I have been diligently watching episodes of the 90s teen sci-fi-drama Roswell every night before I fall asleep. I did this following a 5-seasons-of-buffy marathon... and comparatively, the show is basically crap.

HOWEVER, it does have its merits in being a nearly perfect splice of the concepts and characters from X-Files and Dawson's Creek.... with the narrative pace of All My Children (aka: none). I compliment the show's creators on their profound efficiency in taking two clearly successful recipes, and merging them, while saving money on writers by taking the plot of what would (in a normal show) be one episode and dragging it out over nearly 22 hours of screen time.

For all my bashing it, I have a disturbing need to watch it. And I say NEED: I feel like a crack-addict if I sleepover somewhere else or are too tired to watch it--actually, i turn it on anyways, and just have to wake up to the mega-annoying titlescreen music playing on loop at 5:09 AM and turn it off. BUT, then I wake up in the morning feeling unfulfilled... what have I become!?!?!? I am pathetic.

I actually got the idea from Jenna, who cured insomnia with endless episodes of "i've already seen it three-times-over" sex and the city before bed... but it doesn't seem to be having the same effects on me...

On the bright side-- an opportunity to indulge my pathetic new Trekkie-ness: FanExpo Canada is August 28th - 29th. At best, it could be a chance to get James Marsters' autograph, at worst, it would be a sweaty conference hall filled with societal rejects dressed as fully-illuminated characters from TRON. I don't think I'll go, since I'd be going by myself, and I think that would be.. well, "The Ulitmate Loser" doesn't really cover it.

On the dark side (not of the Force, don't go there... wow, I already did. Too many FanExpo thoughts inspired by "at worst...", what can I say? No, I don't have a working pod-racer. Yes, I do occasionally photoshop my face into pictures of sci-fi/fantasy tv shows circa actor-from-reno-911 in the movie 17 Again. Guilty.)-- Brendan Fehr (Michael from Roswell) seems to think that making his initials into a "logo" for his website is cool (at left. See: Not cool)... and his "Rant & Rage" section of his personal website devotes 1/3 of its text to praising Our Heavenly Father... usually "ranting" involves a little less "praying to jesus". However, interestingly, the photo gallery includes a section called "Personal Photos" which are actually just pics that he like, took with his digital camera while on vacation. Seeing a celebrity (okay, a D-list celebrity even... whatever) in amateur, monkey-arm, sweaty, vacation pics is very... surreal. Like it shouldn't happen. Perez Hilton bursts celebrity bubbles, but this all-too-real glimpse at a celebrity's actual life (like he ACTUALLY went on there himself, and uploaded those from his camera--like his WEDDING PHOTOS even!!) is very disturbing to me. Celebrities are not supposed to HAVE sweaty vacation photos. I guess that comes in the definition of 'celebrity', I doubt you'd see Nicole Kidman on her laptop uploading her wedding pictures onto the web and "ranting" about Jesus in a blog entry... but who knows? Social Media is changing everrrrryyyythhhinnnngggggg....

Did you know that in 2011, the owner of facebook has plans to invent an app that, once you click on "wall-to-wall" it actually transports you back in time to when you clicked "post" after typing on their wall? True story.