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Reggie · 05-14-2006, 12:21 PM

Welcome, miss3cris! I see you joined FanForum in May 2006. Are you new to Roswell & FanForum, a returning user, or was your account wiped out somehow? (Just curious.

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I think they expected (this drawn from the surprise from the other aliens they encountered) the R4 to remember Antar. Therefore, while they might've physically been children, they would've internally been adults. So, the argument that they wouldn't want to spoil the kids seems too far a stretch.

Well, remember that there are two R4's, and one set of them does indeed remember Antar. They also exhibit the sort of amoral self-centeredness that one would expect of spoiled children, grown up. The ones that do not remember got the "Mom-o-gram", which she made to tell the kids that they'd lived before. She obviously understood that these would not remember! And these kids, from NM, are the ones who are better raised, and more responsible as people.

It seems to me that "Queen Mom" split her bets. On one hand, we have an R4 who are effectively the old aliens in new bodies. If they turned out well, great; they could win back their throne. If they were failures in this life, as before, then there is another R4. These would not remember Antar (at least at first), and be raised by humans, not royalty. This more-human set could have more wisdom and maturity, and thus be better able eventually to recover and rule. Which of these is the "official" R4? I say both, and let the better group succede.

Why should we believe that Kal and Nasedo aren't the protectors from 1947? (...) but it seems much too convoluted a storyline to say that there were these protectors in 1947; but these two who say they are them, really aren't them, but we're never going to show you or tell you what happened to the 1947 protectors.

I'd just prefer to take Kal and Nasedo's word for it and believe that they, as xmag suggested, somehow lost interest in their jobs.

Well, under most circumstances I honor the application of Occam's Razor. But given that this is Roswell...

I've said before that I don't consider most of S3 as being true Roswell, but rather a cruel imitation of it. Therefore, I take Kal and everything associated with him with a grain of salt. In S1 we saw two different shapeshifters: "Tic-tac", who was benevolant but clandestine, who melted from one form to another and took a tic-tac afterwards; and Mr. Harding, who was cold and distant but direct, and "flashed" from one form to another without taking a tic-tac afterwards. Kal didn't shapeshift, so he could not be either of these; he's a third shapeshifter!

Tic-tac acted to protect the "Podsters" from the Special Unit, once they had been compromised by the impostor Guidance Councilor (whose name I forget just now). Remember he guided the Sherrif and kids away from contact with the Special Unit. He also kept an eye on Max & Liz as they slept, out in the desert, and "neutralized" Michael's adopted father Hank after Michael revealed his powers and Hank proved to be a threat. It seems to me that he was doing his job, keeping an eye on the non-remembering R4 from a discreet distance.

Mr. Harding had a different job, but he was still doing it as well. He was raising Tess seperately from the others. Since she could mindwarp, she wasn't really safe to let loose on an unknowing human family. Also, she had to be raised seperately because children raised together form a "family" bond even when they are not related. Note that the Isabel / Michael pairing was too close to incest, and the same thing would have happened in a Max / Tess pairing, even though they were supposed to be husband & wife again. So, Max got the human family upbringing; and Tess was raised by an alien... an alien who was always with her, not watching the other three in Roswell. (So Mr. Harding could not have been Tic-tac.)

I don't believe for a minute the idea that Mr. H programmed Tess to betray the R4 to K'var. He killed them once, there is every reason (including Nikolas's comments) to believe he would do it again. But we can cover that later; and I still need to deal with "Cadmium X'.