Roswell unwatch - The Balance
Jul. 31st, 2010 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficSo in this episode... sigh... in this episode, Michael crashes a Native American sweat lodge because he wants Answers and it makes him go into a coma because the ritual was so "intense" (it had powder you throw in the fire to make it go WHOOSH and everything!). I just... barely know where to begin here.
Okay, I don't mind the concept of mystical aliensas long as they're called the Protoss, but could we at least make a sop to hard sci-fi in the show about a crashed spaceship? If we're just going to go with a lot of quasi-New Age stuff, why not make them elves or something? You would never see, like, an Alien movie where Ripley kills a Xenomorph by dousing it with holy water. But I guess in the Roswell universe, the Indians have it right. So, is everyone going to convert? C'mon, Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, let's see you guys cause some aliens to undergo involuntary physiological reactions. It's a crowded marketplace out there, you have to compete!
Oh, there's a fig-leaf justification that it was the heat of the sweat lodge that made Michael wig out, but c'mon. In just the last episode, there was a heatwave, and all it did was make him horny. Would he go into a coma if he went to get some cookies out of the oven? Is this like an Aquaman thing where he can spend 59 minutes out of the water, fine, but at 60 minutes he keels over dead?
Oh, and in his coma, Michael also gets a cocoon (Silly String) all over him. What, did he wake up, vomit up cocoon stuff, and then go back to sleep? He had to, because it's all over his clothes. Then at the end, everyone teams up to wake Michael with the Power of Heart. But Michael and Alex don't really know each other, so all they do is exchange a manly handshake. A deeply spiritual handshake. It's high-larious.
Okay, I don't mind the concept of mystical aliens
Oh, there's a fig-leaf justification that it was the heat of the sweat lodge that made Michael wig out, but c'mon. In just the last episode, there was a heatwave, and all it did was make him horny. Would he go into a coma if he went to get some cookies out of the oven? Is this like an Aquaman thing where he can spend 59 minutes out of the water, fine, but at 60 minutes he keels over dead?
Oh, and in his coma, Michael also gets a cocoon (Silly String) all over him. What, did he wake up, vomit up cocoon stuff, and then go back to sleep? He had to, because it's all over his clothes. Then at the end, everyone teams up to wake Michael with the Power of Heart. But Michael and Alex don't really know each other, so all they do is exchange a manly handshake. A deeply spiritual handshake. It's high-larious.
