Sci Fi Wire: Changes Come To ‘Roswell’ (Spoilers)

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From Sci Fi Wire:

Changes Come To Roswell

Jason Katims, executive producer of the teen alien series Roswell, told reporters that the show will drop some of the harder science-fiction elements and return more to character stories in its upcoming third season, with major changes coming for everyone. “The stories are getting a little bit out of high school,” he said during UPN’s fall preview for the Television Critics Association.

Katims added, “Isabel gets into a serious relationship and falls into a precipitous marriage. Max goes on a quest to find his child, and Liz goes along with him, and that quest will take him out of Roswell and onto the road. … Michael basically wants to build a life for himself and winds up getting a job. … Maria’s character begins to pursue her musical career, and that becomes a real thing.” He added, “One of the things I’m really interested in playing, starting with the beginning of the year, is the family drama that is here in the show and that we’ve never really explored. In the first episode, Max and Liz get arrested. … And suddenly they’re in real trouble, and their parents are called in. … It’s not so funny anymore, and it’s not like they can go away for two days and say, ‘We went camping,’ and everything is OK with them. By the end of the episode, Liz is forbidden by her parents ever to see Max.”

In an interview following the press tour, Katims told SCI FI Wire, “I felt where we went kind of astray a little bit [last year] was these four-episode arcs, where there was so much mythology, and so many pieces of storylines out there, that it just got too complicated. I think we’re on a much better track here. This is really what I’ve been wanting to do with the show, bring it back to building the season based on character arcs, and we have a character arc for every character in the show.”

As part of that, Katims said the show has hired writer Melinda Metz, author of the popular Roswell High series of books on which the show is based, and her writing partner, Laura Burns. “What I expect them to bring is, they obviously have a long history with these characters, with this world. They have a great imagination, and I don’t expect them to bring storylines from those books. What I expect them to bring is their imagination and who they are as writers, and I’m very excited about the possibilities here.” Roswell premieres on UPN on Oct. 16.