The CW Star-Crossed-- A Quiet Cry For Social Change

Tomorrow night on The CW many fans of the Star Crossed will seated before
their television screens for episode two, “These Violent Delights Have Violent
Ends“, of the series. We will watch because we all want to see how this modern day
Romano and Juliet romance is going to develop between Emery (Aimee Teegarden),
a human sixteen-year girl, and Roman (Matt Lanter), a teenaged alien, who just lost
his father. However, before this happens, I wanted post this review of the pilot
that air last week. 

We were all well verse in Roman's and the other Atrians'
arrival on Earth and of the violent reception the humans greeted them with when
he and Emery were kids. Nevertheless, the story really starts ten years later
when busloads of Atrian students are escorted to the Emery’s high school. The deal
between the leaders of the Atrians and the government is to integrate the Atrians
in to human society.  

I believe that without intending to that the armed escorting
of the Atrians teenagers to high school indirectly recalls the historical escorting
of the first black students by federal troops to an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, back is the late fifties. As I have stated this correlation to
this historical is probably unintentional by the creator of Star Crossed, yet, in all
truth, it cannot be denied.

Something else I also saw is the series, and again it is
probably unintentional, is the similarities to the acclaimed Broadway musical, West Side Story, among the rumbling relationship between the humans teens and Atrian teens
-- without all the singing and dancing but just as much dramatic tension.  

Do these plot points make for a poorly created story? I do
not think so as I believe we should reflect on how we greet and treat those
different from us. Besides, being a story about near impossible love, coming t
age,  and the daily task of trying to fit
in with a people who fear you and object to your very existences, Star Crossed will probably unintentionally make us of
think about who we are as a people and our relationship with others.

The CW Star-Crossed-- A Quiet Cry For Social Change

Tomorrow night on The CW many fans of the Star Crossed will seated before their television screens for episode two, “These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends“, of the series. We will watch because we all want to see how this modern day Romano and Juliet romance is going to develop between Emery (Aimee Teegarden), a human sixteen-year girl, and Roman (Matt Lanter), a teenaged alien, who just lost his father. However, before this happens, I wanted post this review of the pilot that air last week. 

We were all well verse in Roman's and the other Atrians' arrival on Earth and of the violent reception the humans greeted them with when he and Emery were kids. Nevertheless, the story really starts ten years later when busloads of Atrian students are escorted to the Emery’s high school. The deal between the leaders of the Atrians and the government is to integrate the Atrians in to human society.  

I believe that without intending to that the armed escorting of the Atrians teenagers to high school indirectly recalls the historical escorting of the first black students by federal troops to an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, back is the late fifties. As I have stated this correlation to this historical is probably unintentional by the creator of Star Crossed, yet, in all truth, it cannot be denied.

Something else I also saw is the series, and again it is probably unintentional, is the similarities to the acclaimed Broadway musical, West Side Story, among the rumbling relationship between the humans teens and Atrian teens -- without all the singing and dancing but just as much dramatic tension.  

Do these plot points make for a poorly created story? I do not think so as I believe we should reflect on how we greet and treat those different from us. Besides, being a story about near impossible love, coming t age,  and the daily task of trying to fit in with a people who fear you and object to your very existences, Star Crossed will probably unintentionally make us of think about who we are as a people and our relationship with others.