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''Star-Crossed'' (formerly known as ''Oxygen'') is a series that airs on the Creator/TheCW starting February 2014 about a group of aliens that are sent to a suburban high school. Although the series has a similar premise to ''Roswell'', it's based on a Spanish format.

It has been cancelled and will not be renewed for a second season.

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''Star-Crossed'' (formerly known as ''Oxygen'') is a series that airs aired on the Creator/TheCW starting February from February-May 2014 about a group of aliens that are sent to a suburban high school. Although the series has a similar premise to ''Roswell'', it's based on a Spanish format.

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format. Unlike ''Roswell'', however, [[ShortRunner it didn't get renewed for a second season.
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** Or Romeo and Juliet meets The Little Rock Nine.
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* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: "Passion Lends Them Power" takes place during Mardi Gras, although the series itself isn't set in New Orleans.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Grayson is the eternal iwap blocker, according to Roman.
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* {{Expy}}: Taylor is basically [[TheVampireDiaries Caroline Forbes]]
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted - the series is both set and filmed in Louisiana.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Louise Lombard has some trouble hiding her English speaking tones as Saroya.
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* MoralDissonance: [[spoiler:Emery is joining Grayson's New Red Hawks, for reasons as yet unspecified.]]

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* MoralDissonance: [[spoiler:Emery is joining Grayson's New Red Hawks, for reasons as yet unspecified.unspecified; the plot angle was dropped and barely referred to again, but could have been explored in more detail had the series lasted another season.]]
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* AlienInvasion: The Atrians arrived on Earth ten years before the start of the series. However, it's not yet clear whether they arrived at Earth to invade or escape from a dying planet.

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* AlienInvasion: The Atrians arrived on Earth ten years before the start of the series. However, it's not yet clear whether they arrived at Earth to invade or escape from a dying planet. [[spoiler:As of the series finale it's hinted that there are at least three factions within the Atrian ship that crash-landed, one of which is aware of the hidden agenda of using the ship as an advance scout ship for an invasion fleet and which evolves into the Trags. The other two are the moderates headed by Nox, who simply wanted to find an uninhabited planet, and some would-be hijackers led by Castor, who don't care where they land as long as they can get off the ship and establish their own Atrian community.]]
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** The Series Finale. [[spoiler:Many humans are at the very least unconscious, if not dead, and the Suvek has signalled a large Atrian invasion fleet.]]
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It has been cancelled and will not be renewed for a second season.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: All aliens have different birthmarks, breath through their skin, have two hearts, age much quicker, and have healing abilities. The birthmarks become bioluminescent when exposed to water, even after the visible signs have been removed.

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* BizarreAlienBiology: All aliens Atrians have different birthmarks, breath through their skin, have two hearts, age much quicker, and have healing abilities. The birthmarks become bioluminescent when exposed to water, even after the visible signs have been removed.
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* MoralDissonance: [[spoiler:Emery is joining Grayson's New Red Hawks, for reasons as yet unspecified.]]
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* AlienInvasion: The Atrians arrived on Earth ten years before the start of the series. Though it's implied that either they were here to invade or escape from a dying planet.

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* AlienInvasion: The Atrians arrived on Earth ten years before the start of the series. Though However, it's implied that either not yet clear whether they were here arrived at Earth to invade or escape from a dying planet.
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* StarfishLanguage: The alphabet of the Atrian language, Sondiv. Interestingly, it superficially resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet Deseret Alphabet]].

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* StarfishLanguage: The alphabet of the Atrian language, Sondiv. Interestingly, in written form it superficially resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet Deseret Alphabet]].
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode after the pilot is named after a line from ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[Series/{{Roswell}} Roswell]].
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* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Taylor, despite [[BiTheWay experimenting before]], is not attracted to Sophia.]]
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** It seems to be going this way with Lukas and Sophia, [[spoiler: however she only thinks of him as a friend as she is attracted to LovableAlphaBitch Taylor.]]
* JerkAss: Grayson becomes one after Emery starts going out with Roman.

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** It seems seemed to be going this way with Lukas and Sophia, [[spoiler: however she only thinks of him as a friend as she is attracted to LovableAlphaBitch Taylor.]]
* JerkAss: Grayson becomes one after Emery starts going out with Roman. [[spoiler: Though it may have more to do with Emery getting his mother arrested for planning a terrorist attack.]]
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* JerkAss: Grayson becomes one after Emery starts going out with Roman.
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* FantasticSlurs: "Tatties".

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* FantasticSlurs: "Tatties". "Tatties" for Atrians, and "unmarked insects" for humans.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Emery between Grayson (Betty) and Roman (Veronica) and Taylor between [[spoiler: Sophia]] (Betty) and Drake (Veronica)
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* SadisticChoice: Offered to [[spoiler:Julia by the EvilutionaryBiologist Miss Benton.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Episode 8, "An Old Accustom'd Feast", ends with Roman and Emery [[spoiler:talking about a ''mirzan'', a kind of flight recorder that logs the experiences and memories of a pilot. She reveals that Castor shot one of the pilots.]]

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** Episode 9, "Some Consequences Yet Hanging In The Stars", [[spoiler:has Castor discrediting Roman by revealing his relationship with Emery and slanting the revelation to make it appear that Roman is not qualified to be the next Iksen.
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** The main plot seems to be about the romantic relationship between an alien boy and a Human girl.

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** The main plot seems to be about the romantic relationship between an alien boy and a Human girl. girl, namely Roman and Emery.
** There's a bit of a B-plot romance [[spoiler:evolving between Drake and Taylor.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 8, "An Old Accustom'd Feast", ends with Roman and Emery [[spoiler:talking about a ''mirzan'', a kind of flight recorder that logs the experiences and memories of a pilot. She reveals that Castor shot one of the pilots.]]
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* JerkAss: Drake.

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* JerkAss: Drake.JerkAssWithAHeartOfGold: Drake starts out as a plain JerkAss, but gets his heart of gold as he learns that not all humans think of him as just an unwelcome "tattie".
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:"The Crate" appears to be a place where Atrians are given absurdly long sentences for relatively arbitrary reasons. Drake's mom has been locked up for eight years, as one example.]]

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:"The Crate" appears DisproportionateRetribution / TheGulag: "The Crate", containing cells with heat lamps to keep Atrians docile and weak, [[spoiler:appears to be a place where for Atrians who are given absurdly long sentences for relatively what may be arbitrary reasons.reasons, ranging from possession of a cellular phone all the way to high explosives. Drake's mom has been locked up for eight years, as one example.]]
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* TheQuisling: Emery is regarded as the "race traitor bitch" among the town's racist population for giving a speech for equal rights for the aliens.

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* TheQuisling: Emery is regarded as the "race traitor bitch" among the town's racist population for giving a speech for equal rights for the aliens. [[spoiler:Castor may or may not be this for the Atrians, as it's implied that he caused the Atrian ship to crash-land on Earth.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Roman and Emery.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Roman and Emery. [[spoiler:They end up kissing and going out by the eighth episode.]]

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