Finally watched this show

So since ditching cable a few years back i've gradually been making my way through all the shows i wanted to watch but missed the first time around.

I caught parts of Roswell way back when but never really enough to follow it, but it was always one of those shows that would come up from time to time, and i've alralways wwanted to watch from the beginning. I found a good deal for the dvd set and figured why not?

Overall, I found it disappointing. Season 1 was good. It was pretty much what i expected. It flowed well and kept me wanting to keep watching.

To me season 2 just went off the deep end. It was too obvious they were being mandated probably to change things up. I actually would have loved a more scifi focused show but this one just seemed to be all over the place. I didn't find many of the episodes particularly coherent with the world introduced in s1. There attempt to develop a deeper mythology just didn't work the way a show like Buffy did so brilliantly.

So we come to season 3 and once again they decide they'll just flip the whole tone of the show once again. I liked it much better than s2. In fact s3 is more what s2 should have been. But again it was just clear they were never able to decide what kind of show to make so they just kept changing it. If by season 3 of any show a consistent tone hasn't been established it is time to hang it up.

So overall i would say good them bad then Ok was how this show flowed to me. It's a shame because i think it would have been great if they weren't constantly changing it. I'm sure that was mostly to do with studio interference which usually never works out. I can understand why people love it. I might have if i watched it as it airs, but bingewatching this show just makes the struggle to develop a consistent show way too apparent.