Roswell is set in the New Mexico town made famous by the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in July of1947. Several witnesses claim to have made contact with the ship's debris, stating that the materialwould not burn or scratch, and it would return to its normal state after being crumpled. And othersrecount tales of alien bodies lying dormant in the wreckage. All of this, naturally, has been refutedtime and again by the US military. They still say the craft was nothing more than a weather balloon.But producers David Nutter and Jason Katims are spinning a new angle on the story in Roswell. Theyreveal that not only did aliens dive bomb into the American west 50 years ago, but their descendantsare living among us under the guise of human personas.
One of the exciting things about the premise of the show is that the three alien characters in the showdon't know about their history. It's exciting as they discover their backstory, the audience is discovering it.
Although it would be easy to define Roswell as a science fiction program, Katims and Nutter have optedto steer away from the sci-fi aspects and focus more on the quest for identity and acceptance. The storieswill be told from the point of view of the human residents of Roswell, but will also call upon theunique voice of the aliens. It is they who must struggle to conceal their otherworldly identitieswhile discovering what it means to be human.
