The point it did matter is a season that, on one level, defies traditional analysis in the context of the series.
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Duchovny had left as a full time player, two new lead characters had been devised to replace the dynamic initial duo for the last season (before the 2016 revival seasons), and Scully had been reduced to a maternal third wheel.
In truth, by the time The X-Files ventured down this road, the thirst was largely sated. The X-Files gave in to the base instincts of long-running television to partner and couple, to give way to the undeniable chemistry between lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, and remove the ‘UST’ (Unresolved Sexual Tension) from the series’ framework. On a technical basis, the Shippers win the argument. Then you have people like me, square in the middle, who don’t watch the series for the relationship at all but who have no issue whichever way it goes. Equally, on the flip side, a ‘No-Romo’ contingent exists, who reject the advancement of the so-called ‘MSR’ (Mulder Scully Relationship) and prefer to think of the agents as friends and nothing more. The series practically cultivated the term ‘shipper’ at the turn of the 1990s, as ‘X-Philes’ very swiftly in significant numbers began to root for the platonic professional friendship of intrepid FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to blossom into romantic attachment, a development creator Chris Carter and his writing staff avoided up to the penultimate season explicitly. As with most fandoms, The X-Files contains multitudes, not just in terms of storytelling but of audiences.
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