frelling_tralk

Yep, I think that's why most of the fandom is mistrustful, because they dragged out actually writing M/S as a couple for so long that this just feels like an easy out from having to actually put the work in to write them as a couple and try something new. It's such crap for CC to act like they spend a lot of time on writing M/S with no tension and that just didn't work, they barely dedicated any time to them just being a functional romantic couple together, it was always about keeping us guessing right up to the end of season 8. And season 9 hardly counts when DD was missing for all of that season outside of the finale, and even then they certainly had a lot of other complications to deal with in The Truth

And I know exactly what you mean, there was a very tired and depressing feel about what they did with the characters in IWTB, and I don't think it's something that anyone had been going to the cinema hoping to see. But I wouldn't be surprised if CC interpreted it as FTF being the bigger success because there was tension and the bee near kiss in that one, while Mulder and Scully were settled down together in IWTB and so that was just boring for the audience, even though again that's a far cry from the moments that they did give us in that movie. Okay there was the adorable bed scene, but otherwise everything about their relationship was subdued and raising the question if they were even still together, and even their final hug and kiss wasn't exactly something that the film tried to make particularly cinematic