The descriptions of the characters in The CW's Roswell just sound so different from Katim's version that I can't even associate them as part of the same thing.
Happy for Michael Trevino being cast as Kyle (I loved him in the early years of The Vampire Diaries) but as for Michael and Maria, the canon already exists ~
^ You cannot replace this kind of chemistry and characterization. He became a half of a whole when he got to know Maria.