Just reading your tags and I though CC acts like a man scorned. Maybe Scully is based on someone that rejected him or maaaaybe, he’s been secretly in love with GA and her chemistry with DD bugs the fuck out of him. Because truly, he don’t hold a candle to DD.
Haha, well… I don’t know enough about how the three of them interact to give any kind of judgement on that. But what I will say for CC is that he certainly has a special affection for Scully that he doesn’t necessarily seem to have for Mulder. In some ways I wonder if Carter is akin to CSM. He is the puppet master - he loves the characters but also loves to torture them, and his relationship with Scully is kinda similar to Scully’s relationship with CSM.
CC was set on Mulder and Scully never becoming romantically involved from the very beginning. I think that was based on feeling the show would become more about the characters and their relationships than the cases they were investigating, which is what he expressly didn’t want. Unfortunately for him, it happened anyway.
It took him a long time to let this notion go, and he arguably destroyed the ending of the show because he refused to accept that the X-Files had become about Mulder and Scully rather than the cases they investigated since he pushed forward with season 9 thinking Doggett and Reyes could take over.
Even now, CC doesn’t seem to want to let go of what he wanted the show to be, and embrace what it has become. That’s why people - fans and critics alike - just look utterly bewildered when he keeps saying their love for each other is platonic. That’s not what GA and DD portray on screen, and it never has been.
I don’t think CC understands that it’s actually possible to have that kind of platonic love along side a romantic attachment. The fact Mulder is in love with Scully, and Scully in love with Mulder doesn’t take away from their deep platonic love for one another; it doesn’t take away from the respect and devotion they have to each other - in my opinion, it only strengthens it.
What I don’t get about Carter is why he doesn’t understand that. My only guess is that he’s never had that kind of romantic relationship himself, or he had a platonic relationship with someone that turned romantic and it ended badly, perhaps.
What’s so sad is that CC has a pair of characters who once had the epitome of a romantic human relationship. What Mulder and Scully have is so appealing because it’s what we all would want. To have a partner that is also your best friend as well as your lover. I mean, ffs, Scully says it herself in The Rain King - that the best relationships are the ones rooted in friendship.
What makes me worry for the future of Mulder and Scully is that I feel almost certain the person who I believe pushed for their relationship to turn romantic in the first place is no longer working on the show - Frank Spotnitz.
With CC guiding the ship alone, I am terrified of where we will end up without someone like Frank keeping his anti-MSR tendencies in check. Honestly, I don’t think that line about Scully having no one to have children with would have got through if Frank had been there to slap CC with his own continuity.
I really miss you, Frank.
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