The person playing Liz is SUCH A BAD ACTRESS

You know she used to bother me too, but as the show goes on and the conundrums start piling up you just get used to her. By the time I got into the second season I thought she was appropriate.

Just wait until you start watching the episodes with Tess, now she's Irritating- but the kind of character she plays, that's also appropriate.

I completely and utterly agree! They BOTH bug me to death! But I just accepted them as annoying and paid attention really only to the others! I LOVE Michael and Maria!

Kevin (who went on to "Alias") implied that she couldn't walk and talk at the same time. She got the role because she was a cute girl.... which the show needed.

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I actually liked some of her acting choices. Particularly her facial expressions. Like the stolen glances. Looking at the corner of her eyes. She did a lot of subtle stuff that I thought was great. Emilie De Ravin on the other hand was pretty wooden. Same thing with Brendan Fehr. That guy had a default 'acting' setting: frustrated. Although it might have just been because of the material he was given. Michael was always so whiny and emo. It was Majandra though that stole the show.

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I don't think she's bad at all. She plays the character perfectly.









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I think all the actors played their parts very well. I think you may be confusing the actors with your dislike for the characters those actors were portraying. I found Liz and Max's relationship a bit overbearing at times, and downright annoying at other times (mainly due to overly manufactured drama by the writers), but I still think the actors delivered great performances.

Or if you're a younger person and are used to today's WB/UPN teen OVER-acting, then yeah, I can understand you thinking Jason's and Shiri's subtle acting back in the late 90s not good in your eyes. I however (and I'd think many of Roswell's fans), would agree that their acting back then was much more realistic than the acting in any current teen dramas on network tv right now.

Maria is who bugs me. But it's not necessarily the acting. I'm watching it for the first time in 2015 and I just can't believe how unflattering her hair and General style are. I lived through that time, that hair was never cute. Butt more importantly, I hate the writing for her character. The third episode about her potentially freaking out and telling the sheriff about them was just stupid. I mean, it was painful to watch but that wasn't the actress' fault.

I find Liz irritating in S1 but she comes into her own in later episodes. During the whole Alex storyline she's the only likeable character of the bunch, and Shiri got to show different acting chops because Liz grew a backbone and had some plot action separate from (and at odds with) Max. Before that all she got to do was play the cute vanilla girlfriend writing Disney love songs in her lame journal.
I liked her episodes at boarding school too, especially where she gets drunk, she's pretty funny in that scene, and her final scenes with Tess in S3 were actually some of the most poignant in the whole series, IMHO. Liz's passiveness also gave stronger characters like Maria and Isabel plenty of room to do their kooky/bitchy/melodramatic thing.
It takes a special kind of actress to play sweet and innocent convincingly without appearing like a flat one-dimensional Mary-Sue. Once Liz matures a bit and is more world-weary, tough and resilient, Shiri pulls it off. I always enjoy it when Liz shows a rare moment of snark or arguing back, like when she tells Max to wake up to the fact that he's controlling, or shoots an equally snide remark back at Tess when Tess is trying to talk down to her. It gives her character depth.




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Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.