To me the episodes that stand out are the episodes that are the most emotional. We do best when we find the human metaphor. [With] that idea of being an alien - we really get to the idea that in a sense teenagers are all aliens.

The episodes that I have really found have worked in that way are the pilot episode, which works really well because that�s really, to me, Romeo and Juliet. It�s really about two people meeting and falling in love, but not being able to be together, and I think it grabs you in that way.

Another episode we did, in the second season, A Roswell Christmas Carol is an episode that I really love and what�s interesting in that episode that there�s not a lot of story. It�s just this very simple emotional story, where Max has to deal with this idea that if he has these powers to heal, what are his responsibilities to the world in using them.