"Since
the pilot, Max has sort of come out of his shell a little more than he was
ever able to. He's experienced a little more of what life has to
offer. His relationship with Liz has progressed some and not without
consequence. And I think also that the three aliens, Max, Isabel and
Michael, have come closer and closer to finding out the truth about their
past.
"Michael sort of
drags everyone along with him on this visionquest and Max tries to be the
calm one but I think somewhere inside him he wants to know too. But
his life, along with Isabel's life, in Roswell is a little more sane than
Michael's. So you have three different levels of desire to find out
this truth; Isabel wants to find out because she wants to know where she's
from but she still likes her life in Roswell, she loves her parents, she
likes school; Max is torn because he has Liz and then he has this truth
out there that they're getting closer and closer to, so there's three
different levels of want and desire to find out where they're really
from."
"I think it's a
unique blend of both the fantasy and the metaphor and the humour and the
drama involved with the show. I think that we can't have too much of
one thing. It's not a comedy and it's not an incredibly serious
drama where everything's always down. We try to add different
flavours of things. In one week you'll have something that's more
suspense-driven, and we kinda find out more about our past and the history
and the truth to their origins, and then in some shows you'll have more
emotional character-driven stories."
"We had a wonderful
experience in the pilot. Jason [Katims] is incredibly
talented. He's got this brilliant mind that's always constantly
working. You can see him when he's moving on the set, and he's just
kind of bouncing around looking and constantly thinking. And the
characters are so rich and the ideas and the possibilities are infinite,
with the backdrop of being an alternate reality if you will, of the
existence of aliens. That backdrop, coupled with his knack for
relationships and then also with David Nutter's eye, it's just...it's been
one great experience.
"I think that for me
to sit here and tell you that we're the only intelligent lifeforms in this
galaxy would be very arrogant of me."
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