[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I think up until the last few seasons where the writers fully went for it, the show easily could have gone nowhere with them romantically. They're both such dry and closed off people- I don't know where this idea of constant sexual tension comes from. Is it because they are sexy? A sexy man and woman who work together? So much of their interaction is born of intense trust and friendship. The show tells us they love eachother, the fans scream it. But if I were to show the first five seasons or so to a non-fan, someone who has never even heard of the X-Files and said 'Hey, watch this show. The leads are absolutely the best of friends, its really touching'-- I don't think the non-fan would catch wise to this supposed torch they're carrying for one another.

It's the age old bullshit. That any and all affection, any positive regard, or concern, or connection means ROMANCE. You might point at Mulder wearing Scully's necklace after she is abducted. Surely, this means love? But hey. If my best friend, the one person in the world who believed in me [if not what I believed in], if they disappeared? Yeah, I'd be wearing her necklace. Staring wistfully up into the sky and wishing she was back and safe. And it would have zero to do with wanting to bed her, or marry her, or whatever. Scully can sing to Mulder, Mulder can wipe sauce off of her face, they can argue and laugh and call each other late at night and they can both be codependent and utterly transfixed with one another and it doesn't have to mean true love. At least not in that sense.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think their romantic feelings were so overt that it NEEDED a romantic resolution. The fandom wanted them together [the term shipping was born from the X-Files fandom after all] and the show delivered. But this idea that they were dragging out taut and tight UST and unresolved feelings over episode after episode after season after season? Chris Carter said they wouldn't get together, and that's really how the show was written up to a point.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000000 to all of this.

[(Anonymous)]

So much this. I get people who want to ship them because of chemistry, but the "logical proofs" about how they "need" to be romantic are all so bogus. Maybe because romantic love really doesn't rest on logical proofs where if X happens, then romance ensues.