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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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[firefish.livejournal.com]

Yes – I also agree with you. I think that he just doesn't understand how to have them together. I don't understand why he feels that they have to always be a part. Yes they were the poster people for unresolved sexual tension but TV has moved on since then. And they have moved on since then. I find I Want To Believe frustrating in so many ways and one of those ways was the fact that they still had to be so separate. Their separation made sense throughout many seasons of the programme but at that point – in that film – it made much less sense and it just seemed painful and upsetting.

Maybe that seems silly, but I find it upsetting but I really hate to see characters that I'm invested in going through something difficult and painful that doesn't make sense. And the thing I liked least about the last film was what they did to Scully. She was completely broken – and their representation of their relationship was a huge part of that – and I did not want to see that. Can he not give them a difficult life but together. Can there not be strength for them in that they are bonded together when all the world is crushing them? I guess not.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

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