In that same period as the Rosswell incident, Sally Clarke (Catherine Dent), a lonely woman, living near Roswell, has an encounter with a survivor (Eric Close) of the crashed alien spacecraft. He comes for protection. He looks as a man, she nurtures him and at one point they get intimate and she gets pregnant. Their encounter sets in motion a lineage of extra ordinary humans, as her descendants become the main objectives to the aliens' long-term plans for humanity.

Three families:

The story basically revolves around three families, and spans four generations:

• The Keys Family: represents the ordinary family, the ones that are repeatedly being taken by aliens and experimented on.
• The Crawford Family: represents the government who wants to understand, keep it secret from the general public and want their hands on these alien descendants to weaponize them however they can. They only think in terms of war with these aliens and the power they hope to get from that.
• The Clarke Family: they serve as a bridge between the humans and these visitors from another world. They carry that secret that grows more important and impactful with each generation.

Over the decades the lives of these three families become increasingly intertwined, which results in a birth of a very special child who will reveal the true purpose behind the aliens' centuries-long involvement with Earth.

On an image below in the blog you can find the three families, spanning multiple generations.

Overall thoughts:

Although Taken features many things a SCI-FI fan tunes in for, things like UFO’s, Roswell, conspiracies, alien abductions, psychic abilities and what not, at its core, Taken is a family drama. It is also not a typical alien invasion series, yes, the aliens have an interest in the humans, but they were not planning to take over the earth. These aliens were mainly curious and it turned out, they needed the help of the people of earth. Yes, they were centuries further than us humans, but along the way they lost things like emotions: love, hate, joy, cry, laughter etc. They wanted to learn from us and they had no concept of how invasive these abductions were.

It shows a government / military who usually assumes evil intent from these aliens, so instead of finding out what their purpose is for visiting, they much rather try to hurt them or even destroy them. It also shows that one extraordinary event can have lasting effects, through generations, just see what began after Sally got pregnant from John, the alien.

For me the ending was a bit disappointing, because you want to see this family have a chance together but Ally (Dakota Fanning) sees no other option than to go with these aliens because she will never be safe. First thing I thought was: ask if your parents can come with or in case you are the parents, I would at least ask if it would possible to come with! The answer could be “NO”, but at least ask if you can stay with your daughter. Whether or not it’s possible, as a parent, the first thing on your mind would be to go with your child! So, yes, I enjoyed these 10 episodes, 10 TV movies, but I kind of wished the final scene would have turned out differently, but maybe that is because I am becoming a softie!

Final Word:

Beforehand I was in doubt if I would write a blogpost for this, because I didn’t really know how to tackle this. I decided to try it and yes, I had some help from the internet for some extra support (AI), hopefully you can appreciate it. As I said, it was a longtime ago since I watched it, I enjoyed it again, looked at it differently than 23 years ago I reckon. I’ve said it a few times already in other blogs, as you get older, your viewpoint will change in certain areas, which makes any rewatch interesting again!