THEORIES OF SYMBOLS, COLORS, AND NUMBERS
The Roswell Television Show has provided us with a rich pallette of symbols (both alien alphabets and subliminal), special lighting and digitized color effects, and an almost rhythmic use of numbers and numerology. Some symbols are overt (like the Cave Painting), and the teens desperately try to unlock their meanings. Others are there primarily for the viewer (like the scene in the rain when Tess seduces Max and the only portion of the neon "Shoe Service" sign visible behind his head reads: "hoe vice."
Symbols Palomino's theory responded to by Nemo...
Colors ...that color is chosen intentionally...
Numbers See the 3 + 1 in the tree-like pattern to the left...
Archetypes ...Elliott suggested a parallel between Max and Moses...
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