Roswell Conspiracies

POSTED BY: BLACKLILY
UPDATED: Saturday, April 22, 2006 20:22
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BLACKLILY

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 7:52 AM

This animated series was aired in my area a couple of years back, and I was hooked from the first episode. Unfortunately, the blasted network airing the show pulled it out after only a few episodes. Since then, I've searched around for any websites or full episode summaries but have met with no such luck. I'm trying to divert my attention from the missing series by concentrating on other good shows
( Firefly has quickly become one of those post-obsessions. But like Roswell-Conspiracies, it too seems to be jinxed ).
Has anyone watched the series and do they remember any particularly good scenes and memorable quotes?
I'm seriously contemplating starting a website for the series.
Like our beloved Firefly, it too was grossly underappreciated and not valued for the genius behind it. Real talent just doesn't seem to be appreciated anymore...

Behind every cynic lies a disappointed idealist...

CYBERSNARK

Friday, December 30, 2005 1:53 AM

Realization 1: This may take a while.

Like an hour and a half for each half-hour episode (what with the pausing and scribbling notes and rewinding on my mom's crappy-ass VCR). I'm not really complaining though; as a writer, I'm actually finding it really helpful to deconstruct these episodes and see exactly how the acts are laid out.

Anyhew, I'm two episodes in. Hope to get a few more before Christmas vacation is over.

A note on spelling: The closed-captioning renders Sh'lainn's last name as "Blaze," but I invoke artistic license and celtic authenticity to render it as "Blaise" --i.e., the name of Merlin's teacher. The captions also use "Banshee" instead of "Bean Sidhe." I'm keeping that one just 'cause it's easier to type.

Realization 2: If they ever make a live-action version of this, Alan Tudyk must play Fitz. He's the only one who could be wacky enough.

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The Bait, pt. 1, written by Bob Forward and Rick Ungar.

The series opens on a rugged clifftop on a dark and stormy night. Atop the ledge is a Stonehenge-like circle, with an altar in the middle. Tied to the altar is a silver-haired girl (looks about late teens, early 20s, despite the hair). Surrounding her are robed women, their own hair (shades of pink, purple, and green) writhing Medusa-like in the static-filled air (the women are shrieking like generators). An older, imperious-looking woman, with a craggy face and glowing red eyes, looms up with a pair of wicked-looking daggers. With a roar, strange gunships rise over the cliff and open fire. The women scatter (using that one-footed terrain-covering leap that you see in thousands of animé) and hurl blasts of energy from their hands at the attackers. The ships over the circle lower cables, dropping silver-armoured figures, armed with cattle-prod-like staffs. One of them, a tall Native American, reminds his men that "Rinnaker wants the girl alive," but it's too late; a stray shot shoots off one of the manacles holding her down, and she tears the other free. As the women flee, the soldiers corner her against the cliff, but she dives off, vanishing into the darkness.

Cut to an American city, where a trenchcoated figure (who looks like David Boreanaz) is skulking through an alley, a cell phone to his ear. Nick is on the phone to "Cracker," and is chasing a recently escaped con called Thrope. He finds a torn-open styrofoam tray (the kind that you buy meat on), still bloody and swarming with flies --Thrope has a taste for raw meat. The flies direct the bounty hunter's vision upward, toward an apartment window.

Elsewhere, four people (the big Native from before, a blond man, a hispanic woman, and a shadowy guy in a suit) are watching from inside a surveilance truck.

Inside the apartment building, Thrope (a muscular redhead in jeans & T-shirt), is finishing his meal as he watches TV. There's a knock on the door, and he grabs a shotgun. Other side of the door, we see a door-knocker (a rubber ball, hanging by a string, and set swinging) --the hunter's nowhere in sight. Thrope's shot blows the door apart, and Nick swings in through the window. Thrope tumbles, but recovers, and Nick reacts as he sees a translucent outline of a giant wolf-like monster overlaying Thrope.

In the surveilance van, hidden cameras are recording Nick's eyes, and the Native notes that Logan's got "the Vision." The suit says he's seen enough.

Inside, Nick Logan judo-throws Thrope against the wall. Thrope's head goes clear through, scaring the bejeebers out of a scrawny old guy living next door. Thrope suddenly transforms, morphing into the wolf-being Nick saw earlier (understandably, the old guy freaks). Back in Thrope's apartment, Nick recoils (the wolf is easily twice as large as the human, and the human was big to begin with). The wolf pulls free and attacks Nick, taunting him. Nick reacts, grabs a floor lamp, and electrocutes the wolf, noting that he's actually trained for this (he's as surprised as anyone).

Downstairs, Nick walks Thrope (human-form, with a towel around him and still ga

BLACKLILY

Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:11 AM

Cybersnark, you're an absolute angel
Seriously, you've brought a ray of sunshine to my otherwise gloomy day. The episodes are all laid out in gorgeous detail and I really appreciate the whole "Keep your eyes on" angle. It's like pointing out all those near-imperceptible details in the show which we never thought would be significant.But they actually were!!
Thank you sooo much!!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more info soon..
*Begins preparing drafts for website like a butcher sharpening knives*

Peace to you..
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I had too much nog...

BLACKLILY

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 1:31 PM

Quote:
Realization 2: If they ever make a live-action version of this, Alan Tudyk must play Fitz. He's the only one who could be wacky enough.

Who will get to play all the other characters?

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" Kagome- "I'm going to be over at Jinenji's farm, so don't you even think about attacking there okay? If you hurt me, you'll all have to die, 'cause Inuyasha here will have to avenge me."
~Inuyasha- "I will!? Since when!?"
~Kagome- "You'de better avenge me! What am I supposed to do if you don't!?"
~Inuyasha- "Fine, I'll avenge you already." "

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:18 PM

Logan: David Boreanaz ('cause his hair goes straight up )

Sh'lainn: Unknown. Need someone petite and graceful (easy) who can do a convincing Irish accent (not so much).

Fitz: Alan Tudyk

Nema: No preferrences. Need someone nondescript with a range of accents (primarily hispanic, but Nema can drop it at will).

Rinnaker: Maybe Peter Coyote, though his voice tends to be a bit higher than Rinnaker's usual growl (more of an "executive" than a "black ops" leader). Mark Harmon could probably do the voice, but he looks far too young (Rinnaker is supposed to look emanciated and unhealthy --held together by pure force of will). Is William B. Davis still working these days? (He's a bit heavier than Rinnaker, but the voice is right, and the X-Files factor would be a neat in-joke.)

Trueblood: No preferences. Tall, broad-shouldered, craggy-faced Native American --has that career-military look.

Conspiracy nut: No preferences. Older (or just unhealthy), somewhat frail-looking, squinty-eyed and paranoid.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

BLACKLILY

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 8:46 AM

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Logan: David Boreanaz ('cause his hair goes straight up )

Sh'lainn: Unknown. Need someone petite and graceful (easy) who can do a convincing Irish accent (not so much).

Fitz: Alan Tudyk

Nema: No preferrences. Need someone nondescript with a range of accents (primarily hispanic, but Nema can drop it at will).

Rinnaker: Maybe Peter Coyote, though his voice tends to be a bit higher than Rinnaker's usual growl (more of an "executive" than a "black ops" leader). Mark Harmon could probably do the voice, but he looks far too young (Rinnaker is supposed to look emanciated and unhealthy --held together by pure force of will). Is William B. Davis still working these days? (He's a bit heavier than Rinnaker, but the voice is right, and the X-Files factor would be a neat in-joke.)

LOL!! William B. Davis IS General Rinaker!!
It's another conspiracy within the conspiracy!!
MWAHAHAHA!!

I suppose anyone with the right slender build and big green eyes could play Sh'lainn, but she'd have to have a (faintly) fairy-ish aura to her. (When I first saw Sh'lainn I thought she was one of the Fates from Gargoyles and it made me go "What the...?"). You're right about the Irish accent, though. It's convincing, but not so much. When I first heard her speak I couldn't decide whether she was Irish, Scottish, English or even American.
She has a nice voice though...

Same thing for Nema. She drops her accent on and off at will.Personally, she never sounded truly Hispanic to me.At first she sounded like she had a Brooklyn accent for some inexplicable reason. Then Arab. Then Latin. Then ordinary American. Then Brooklyn again.
I was so confused by the end of it..

David Boreanz has always reminded me of Logan, particularly in the first few Buffy episodes before he started looking so old and puffy and haggard..
His voice is a bit different, though. Kind of softer and thinner. Logan's always sounded like Batman (The WB one) for some bizarre reason. Dont ask why...

And Alan Tudyk = Fitz.
He's the only one whose wackiness could match Fitz's own wild (and often bizarre) imagination.
There's one quote from the show that I vaguely remember...
FITZ: " I clipped little pictures out of National Geographics.. "
ME (Confused): Say what..?

*Chuckles to self..*

I wonder who'll play Ti-Yet the Snowman...

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INUYASHA: I hope Kagome comes back soon...
So I can HIT her!!

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:32 PM

I'm assuming Ti-Yet (and the lycanthropes and vampires) would be CGI; no reason they couldn't use VAs from the show.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

BLACKLILY

Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I'm assuming Ti-Yet (and the lycanthropes and vampires) would be CGI; no reason they couldn't use VAs from the show.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

CGI on the Banshees would look cool, would'nt it though?

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"How's business?"
" None of YOUR'S"

BLACKLILY

Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:57 AM

Haven't checked in for a while now.(Real life got in the way... ). Any updates yet?
*Keeps fingers crossed*

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I'm not evil. I'm just... misunderstood.

BROKENCRAYON

Friday, January 20, 2006 5:30 PM

Awesome. You guys have like a whole synopses thingy goin' on! I remember this show (They aired it on Y-Tv a couple of years back. Don't really remember much of it, but I sure did like what I can remember.) That Banshee was fing hot- 'specially her accent. The storyline was also very different from the usual cartoons you have on the tube these days. Very mature plot. Great characters. Even better villians.

Ah...
This brings back some real nice memories...

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Ah crap....

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