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There's nothing new here, but Starcrossed calls to my Roswell-loving shipper-y heart. The formula is basic Romeo and Juliet. Alien!Boy meets Alien!Girl. Only there's a tiny little District 9 twist thrown in for a teeny bit of color. Our 6 year old Juliet (Em) meets our 6-year old alien Romeo when she finds him hiding in a tool shed in her back yard after the aliens crash land and get shot up by the military (friendly lot that bunch). She feeds him cold spaghetti and teaches him string games until the military burst in and shoot is poor 6-year old self. (I gasped). Years later they meet again as The Powers That Be, seeking to find a way to integrate the aliens after 10 years of segregation, send 6 Alien!Teens to the local HS.
What it comes down to is the CW trying to get a little more mileage out of the angsty YA teen drama.
I suppose that its apropos that the series premiered in February (Black History Month, after all). The Alien!Teens arrival at the HS was all reminiscent of the arrival of the Little Rock 9 back in 1957. Rhetoric is the same, full of venom and hate, us versus them. Purity, specious this time instead of racial -- but for some it's all the same. The "them" this time are pretty, hot alien teens with tattoos on their faces and necks as the only outer sign that they are Atrian. Pretty convenient amongst other things.
Anywho's. It's a standard Romeo and Juliet plot. The students are kind of broken up into Montugues and Capulets (although this time along species lines). There's a Mercutio and a Tybalt, as well as a friendly token black kid who I can totes see becoming our Friar Lawrence. And, like I said, it has Roswell written all over it. *sigh* I loved Roswell. We'll see how long this lasts. At the moment, I'm enamored enough with Matt Lanter (Roman, our Romeo -- see how they did that) that I will sit and stare at his prettiness. However, a whole lot of nothing could go a whole lot of nowhere. There's no other real tension as of yet. Probably to be expected, and like I said in the beginning, there's nothing new in this construction of the Starcrossed lovers tale. Hell! There's not even any suspense about what kind of story this will be ... it's all right there in the title. The aliens are suitably normalized. There isn't anything terribly alien about them yet. I don't hold out much hope that they will become any more alien with time, but you never know.
What it comes down to is the CW trying to get a little more mileage out of the angsty YA teen drama.
I suppose that its apropos that the series premiered in February (Black History Month, after all). The Alien!Teens arrival at the HS was all reminiscent of the arrival of the Little Rock 9 back in 1957. Rhetoric is the same, full of venom and hate, us versus them. Purity, specious this time instead of racial -- but for some it's all the same. The "them" this time are pretty, hot alien teens with tattoos on their faces and necks as the only outer sign that they are Atrian. Pretty convenient amongst other things.
Anywho's. It's a standard Romeo and Juliet plot. The students are kind of broken up into Montugues and Capulets (although this time along species lines). There's a Mercutio and a Tybalt, as well as a friendly token black kid who I can totes see becoming our Friar Lawrence. And, like I said, it has Roswell written all over it. *sigh* I loved Roswell. We'll see how long this lasts. At the moment, I'm enamored enough with Matt Lanter (Roman, our Romeo -- see how they did that) that I will sit and stare at his prettiness. However, a whole lot of nothing could go a whole lot of nowhere. There's no other real tension as of yet. Probably to be expected, and like I said in the beginning, there's nothing new in this construction of the Starcrossed lovers tale. Hell! There's not even any suspense about what kind of story this will be ... it's all right there in the title. The aliens are suitably normalized. There isn't anything terribly alien about them yet. I don't hold out much hope that they will become any more alien with time, but you never know.
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Date: 2014-02-19 10:03 pm (UTC)From:OH REALLLLLY. hmmm.
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Date: 2014-02-21 12:23 am (UTC)From:So, yeah, lots and lots of caveats. Right now, it's popcorn enough that I may have a few more handfuls. Then I'll probably forget to keep watching or intentionally switch it off out of disgust. Only time, I suppose, will tell.