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'The X-Files' Boss Chris Carter Explains Mulder and Scully Split

I think his reasoning is off considering that M/S were barely together on the show, they drew out the Will They/Wont They too much in the end IMO, instead of just resolving things in season 6 after the movie. I don't know how CC can argue that it didn't work as well to resolve the sexual tension and have them as a couple when M/S were never an ongoing romantic couple on the series? They didn't kiss as an official couple until the season 8 finale, then Mulder was obviously missing from season 9 until the finale, so basically they were an on-screen item only in 822 and 922? Even IWTW saw Mulder and Scully off in separate plotlines with lots of tension between them and not working together the way that they used too, so really CC has never even tried with writing them as a completely happy and settled romantic couple, so that he can then point to that not working out so well

Lol at how mad everyone is getting in the comments though, it's not something that I'm THAT worked-up about honestly (although that's because I have faith that things will be resolved in the finale, I will be mad if they're not a couple together again when they conclude it :P ), but it is annoying that CC still seems stuck on that very 90's mindset of we must never resolve the sexual tension. It's like CC is incapable of writing an established relationship and still having drama, so he has to reset everything and break them up. It just feels like these six episodes should have CC ready to try something new and just let Mulder and Scully be a settled couple together at this stage in their life's, rather than keeping it stuck at sexual tension between them yet again

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Yeah, ITA with you. I will be livid if they're not together in the end, and I think it's bullcrap to not write them as a couple working together solving mysteries, because that never happened on the damn show! But I knew this was coming, so I'm staying optimistic that they're together in the end.

Edited 2015-09-16 23:10 (UTC)

Exactly, no one's expecting them to make an ongoing thing of M/S being a couple and turn it into a romantic Soap Opera, we talk about how nice a sex scene would be lol, but nobody would be tuning in expecting that! It would just be nice (and something different!) to have them quietly together as a functional couple in the background of the cases, but god forbid we don't have the old are they or aren't they together tension dragged back into it again, which just feels really cheap and lazy at this point in their life's