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[frelling_tralk]

'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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[stargazer60.livejournal.com]

I didn't know how to react to this.

During the show's run I was never one of the 'shippers.' I loved the show for the crazy monsters and conspiracies. I did not care if Mulder & Scully got together romantically, but I loved the closeness of their partnership.

The way their 'romance' was presented on the show was so ambiguous to me. But at the end of this six episode arc in January, I want them to be together in the end (just in some capacity), and not going their separate ways.

I guess I just can't make up my mind!

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I wasn't a shipper in the early years, but at the point of seasons 5/6/7 when the show kept telling me how perfect they would be together, that was when I was ready for them to just get on with it already and pair them off. It got annoying by the time of season 8 when CC still seemed so afraid of resolving the sexual tension and giving us any straight answers on whether they were a couple or not, at some point he should have stopped stagnating their development. I suppose that The X-Files was never really a character-centric show though, and CC's focus was never on character development...

[firebunny.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching X-Files before they got together, but my feeling was that CC was dead set against them as a couple. It wasn't about resolving sexual tension it was more that his vision of the show didn't have a romantic element. The problem with that is that Mulder and Scully's relationship kept deepening and the events of the world were isolating them from others. You have a heterosexual man and woman who trust each other profoundly and have no one else in their lives. It becomes unrealistic that they wouldn't have sex. That's how the human race has survived. If the opportunity arises, generally, we have sex with each other. So, CC finally agreed to what logically had to be happening. It was like he said, "Fine! Fine! They're a couple. They've been sleeping together for awhile now. Are you happy? Will you shut up about it?" But he never showed them getting together.

So, my speculation is he's breaking them up this time around so that he can get them together. Maybe he's come to terms that there is a romantic element to the show. Maybe he realizes that resisting it for so long didn't do the show any favors. And maybe his plan is to give us that coming together moment the original run didn't have.

Anyway, that's just my speculation.

Disclaimer: I am always wrong about everything. I'm always wrong about what I think happened in the past and I'm always wrong about what I speculate will happen in the future. I should just change me screen name to Wrongbunny.

[stargazer60.livejournal.com]

I love this post. I agree with your logic.

I also agree that that is what CC did with M&S. Whether he liked it or not, the characters evolved without his input. And he finally was like "here, they *are* together now shut up!" I didn't mind them being together, I just wasn't one of the fans screaming it from the rooftops to *get* them together already...

Like I said in my other post, I just want them together in some way at the end and not going off into the sunset separately.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I would actually love if that were the case, but yeah with CC I don't know if I can believe it, he seems so against showing any kind of outright romantic or ~epic~ moment between them, even their kisses had to either be in the darkest corridor humanly possible, or filmed from very odd angles. The FtF kiss was probably the closest they ever got to an actual epic kiss, and even that was interrupted by bees :P

Also David and Mitch were talking at a convention recently and David seemed a bit vague about how things end for M/S, so I'm braced for more of the very subtle and understated writing where you're not sure if they actually got back together or not in the end, but we'll have to wait and see I suppose :P CC really does seem extremely uncomfortable with writing any kind of romantic scenes for them though