miniseries
which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel
in 2002 and won an Emmy Award
for Outstanding Miniseries. Filmed in Vancouver
, British Columbia
, Canada, it was written by Leslie Bohem
, and directed by Breck Eisner
, Félix Enríquez Alcalá
, John Fawcett
, Tobe Hooper
, Jeremy Paul Kagan, Michael Katleman
, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Bryan Spicer
, Jeff Woolnough and Thomas J. Wright. The executive producers were Leslie Bohem
and Steven Spielberg
.
The show takes place from 1947 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families; the Crawfords who seek to cover-up the Roswell crash and the existence of Aliens, the Keys who are subject to frequent experimentations by the Aliens, and the Clarkes who sheltered one of the surviving Aliens from the crash.
When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask.
I didn't ask for any of this. I want to be a little girl. I just want to be a little girl.
Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking questions.
My grandfather used to tell my mom that kids should never have to worry about anything more serious than baseball. Everything you need to know is there. It has success and failure, moments when you come together and moments where you stand alone. And it has an ending. Not a clock, like in other sports, but an ending. And that, my grandfather said to my mom, is as close as a kid should have to come to that sort of thing.
People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make, is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. We have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all.
People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told, we rebel against the world our parents worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing of is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think that's why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all.
Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does that make us less responsible for the things we do? Or is the responsibility built in too? After you hit the ball, do you stand and wait to see if it goes out, or do you start running and let nature take its course?
The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say goodbye.