One of the original concepts of the show limited it to a high school setting which was not a great idea in that the dew was off the rose of having yet another High School show.

That's why the title was changed from Roswell High to Roswell. As the actors and the kids get older we didn�t want to pretend that they were still sixteen when they�re not. It became clear that the themes that were working for the audience were not ones that could be talked about easily by the locker or in the dressing room at the gym or in the cafeteria of a High School.

They were in fact philosophical and ethical and moral issues that needed to go outside the [scenario]. Not that High School kids couldn�t handle these concepts, but the locales needed to be more private, more secretive, more surreptitious and the High School element was not as important as it was in the novel.