I haven't seen the new Roswell but I did watch several seasons of the original series. And one thing your post brings up for me is whether or not there's a blueprint model for romances, because they strike me as very different things than hero's journeys (which admittedly, a lot of stories tend to fit).
Also, generally speaking, a movie or book will fit that model better because they are more likely to be about one thing. A TV show may be primarily about one thing, and in fact they usually are because there's a pressure from the time of the first show pitch to make what it's "about" really clear. So it's both a marketing thing and a development thing.
But especially as a show goes on, while the main thing is still there it often becomes a variety of things (especially with a variety of characters). So with Roswell it was clearly marketed as a romance from the start but also a scifi show with a whole aliens storyline.
It's interesting what you suggest about an antihero model being merged into a romance model too. I mean, the romance genre in general tends to have a number of tropes and genres that split them off into different things, but I'd love to see a discussion of how it tends to have more things blend together than hero's journeys (which are often coming of age stories of some kind).
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Date: 2023-03-23 02:52 pm (UTC)Also, generally speaking, a movie or book will fit that model better because they are more likely to be about one thing. A TV show may be primarily about one thing, and in fact they usually are because there's a pressure from the time of the first show pitch to make what it's "about" really clear. So it's both a marketing thing and a development thing.
But especially as a show goes on, while the main thing is still there it often becomes a variety of things (especially with a variety of characters). So with Roswell it was clearly marketed as a romance from the start but also a scifi show with a whole aliens storyline.
It's interesting what you suggest about an antihero model being merged into a romance model too. I mean, the romance genre in general tends to have a number of tropes and genres that split them off into different things, but I'd love to see a discussion of how it tends to have more things blend together than hero's journeys (which are often coming of age stories of some kind).