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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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[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

But I don't think they'll be together at the end of the six episodes. I think it'll be *implied*, or maybe we'll at least get a long look & a kiss or something,

I think you're absolutely right there sadly, CC is never going to give us a sex scene, or even a passionate make-out, he's just too rigid about how he personally sees the show and the characters. I'm wondering now with his talk of how they would have broken them up in a third movie, if he blames the failure of IWTB on M/S being an item in that? Which would be ridiculous when IMO half the reason it flopped was actually because viewers were disappointed at things being so cold between Mulder and Scully, viewers actually wanted a nostalgia fest with the two of them working together again, they could have promoted the hell out of a M/S sex scene, or even a movie filmed epic kiss with the two of them passionately embracing and running towards one another. Instead of them being separated for the most of the film, and ending it on an extremely coy and awkwardly filmed kiss. So even in that film it was all about where they were as a couple and if they would reconcile, CC has never produced even an hours worth of them as a happy romantic couple, so it's a bit rich to now say that he wants to bring the tension back and split them up.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Yep, yep. Just picture me nodding to everything you've written here, because I totally agree with all of it. CC has a fucking complex about them not fucking, and he has all sorts of wrong-headed notions about what drove down the quality of the show & him out of the fans' favor in the first place. Now he's bringing along that baggage with him into the new project. I can't say I'm surprised, though I am a little disappointed.