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Valenti: Where is she from? Maria, where are they from? Where did they come from?
Maria: A very nice family. And like you said sheriff, we wouldn't want to destroy any other families in this town, would we?
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Roswell was a show that aired for three years and was saved by fans from cancellation twice after being moved around networks was detrimental to its ratings. Even though it was based on the book series Roswell High, it ended up being its own separate entity from the books because of storylines and the way the characters were handled.
The show originally centered around the love story of Liz Parker, a teenager born in Roswell, New Mexico, who was shot in an argument at the diner she worked and Max Evans, the half alien who had been in love with her since he'd met her when they were children. As time went on, however, the show moved focus from just the romance of the two central characters to the lives of everyone that were now being pulled together because Max had risked his life and secrets to save Liz. This is important because Max isn't the only alien-hybrid in town -- his sister, Isabel, and his best friend, Michael, are aliens, too. Coming in with Liz are her two best friends, Maria and Alex.
As the show moved on, the story became about the desire that the aliens (or as they were dubbed by wacky best friend, Maria, "The Pod Squad") had to find out who they were and where they had come from. They certainly hadn't counted on or planned on falling in love with humans along the way.
There were definite story arcs throughout each season -- although some of them fell by the wayside or were overshadowed by the more intense storylines. For three years the group of six friends dealt with trying to keep their secrets from the police, then the FBI. They fought evil aliens, found out that the Pod Squad were royalty, death with death and betrayal and still tried to handle the more mundane world of schools and jobs like most teenagers.
The series ended when five of the original friends plus one more, Kyle, fled Roswell to escape FBI agents that wanted to kill them.
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