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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 it just feels like such a 90's idea at this point, audiences will absolutely still care about your main couple if you know how to write it well. And geez it's not like the show is a soap opera drama when they need to make the relationship the main focus and source of drama, they could very easily just give us great cases each week, and keep M/S as a happy couple in the background. I have more sympathy for teen dramas when it comes to them needing to break their couples up and find new sources of storylines, but with a show like The X-Files It's not like they need to keep introducing personal drama to keep the show going, their personal lives were very rarely dealt with when the show was having its most successful run