I've been trying to convince her to watch Revenge because it is oh so good. Our other mutual friend Meg advised me to watch it, mainly because one of our favorite characters from our once favorite, now unknown show Roswell (aka that show that Katherine Heigl was on before Grey's Anatomy) had a leading role. That dude would be Nick Wecshler. Oh how much we loved his Roswell character Kyle Valenti. The sherrif's son, he was on the football AND basketball team, at first he was loathed and then he was love, especially after embracing Buddhism. By the time that series was over (long overdue after a really crappy 3rd season), he was one of the few characters I still liked, and I'd been wondering what had happened to him. Now I know...he moved to the Hamptons and got a job as a bartender. Let me back up...
Roswell was a show that began in 1999 on the WB. Some would consider the time that Roswell was on the air my "glory days" and actually, maybe they were. My friend Regina and I were basically obsessed with it, watching it every week, pretending we were the characters and dressing/acting like them daily, and watching the recorded episodes over and over each week (note that all of my recorded videos of Roswell are presently in my garage, I hope they never get stolen). We grew a bond with these characters and when the show ended I think we cried for days. That being said...the show was about four aliens (Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess) and their human friends that knew their secret (Liz, Maria, Alex, Kyle and the Sherrif, Kyle's dad). As the show came to an end, the aliens and their human counterparts (minus Tess and Alex because they were dead and the Sherrif because well, he needed to be the Sherrif) took off on a journey far away from New Mexico with no explanation as to what they were going to do for work, what kind of health care plan they received and if they bought a Subaru or a Toyota. So Regina and I and also my friend Star thought of the next logical step...we figured it out for them.
Clearly Isabel Evans (Katherine Heigl) went to medical school, changed her name and became Dr. Isobel Stevens (too much of a coincidence in that name). She moved to Seattle and eventually got cancer and then left.
Other resident alien Tess Harding (Emilie de Ravin) was resurrected from the dead and sent off to Austrailia where she re-learned her native tongue and got pregnant with a child only to crash on a freaky remote island and I think eventually die...again (I cannot confirm this).
Alex Whitman (Colin Hanks) was also resurrected into a born again psycho-Christian who now kills people in Florida. He is being stalked by the one, the only, Dexter Morgan. Eep!
That is really as far as it got, but now we know where Kyle Valenti ended up! He grew some facial hear, moved to the Hamptons and was adopted by a nice bar owner and acquired a dorky little brother. He also learned to sail. It is interesting catching up with him week to week, though I'm sad he did not contiue following the teachings of Buddha.
Now, that being said, I've been trying to convince Star that she should watch this show. Apparently she did not know that Kyle Valenti was on this show so I did my best to enlighten her.
Me: Have you ever watched Revenge?
Star: No, the actress on it has bugged me ever since Everwood.
Me: Oh she was on Everwood. BUT KYLE VALENTI IS IN IT.
Star: Kyle is in it? Please tell me he is not a parent.
Me: No, he is a badass bartender with shaggy hair and a slight scruff. He did well for himself.
And then when we recapped: No Revenge. But Kyle! Does Kyle have babies? No he has scruff. Rowr.
Aaaaaaand scene.
This is not the first time a conversation like this has happened and I am sure there will be many more. I had too much fun writing this.
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