The Future?

[Nekobaghira]

How do you think Carey will handle the relationship, are you concerned about issue #207?  What do you think will happen?  What do you hope will happen?

Neko

[Canemacar]

The cover to 204 gives a clue about the short-term.

I have faith in Carey's abilities as a writer, but I do feel a bit skitish about a storyline like this where there is so much room to seriously mess up.

[WHAGENT]

I would like to see this storyline pan out after the "complex" arc into forming a relationship between gambit and rogue that is strictly based on need. for instance, say rogue and her group have fallen into a trap and need help in "gray" areas of the mission that, morally, an x-man wouldn't do. enter gambit. He steals some stuff, maybe "accidentally" bumps someone off, you get the idea.

I would like to see that grow from there into him being the plan b in all attacks. rogue and group are in need, rogue calls in a favor to remy. He only does it for her as a personal favor that he can also call in when he needs it. He should show utter disgust to the other group members since he should technically still be a villain.

eventually I'd like to see the x-men have to help gambit in one of his missions as a favor to him (preferably a theft). during theft he makes it out okay with the target, but the x-men get captured and jailed. remy goes and post bail for Rogue and leaves the rest to rot.

it should be like this for a while until he eventually begins to cross over into a full fledge hero and x-man again. but still keep that "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." attitude.

[Nevaratoiel]

it should be like this for a while until he eventually begins to cross over into a full fledge hero and x-man again. but still keep that "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." attitude.

I always thought that attitude works best on him and I he should keep that attitude. But going  back to the full fledge hero and x-man, I'd rather not see. But if we want to keep seeing Gambit more often then I guess he has to come back....

[paws]

I'm hopeful. I've been really enjoying his writing so far. And I'm hoping that he handles it so that its a nice mature way to deal with it. He's said they won't be together, so I'm hoping that means that Gambit and Rogue can have a nice little chat and decide that is what is for the best. Then they can spend some solo time or be with someone that doesn't cause them so much pain.

A continued friendship or quasi-friendship would be cool to see. Somewhere where they may still feel some pangs of jealousy, but where they can do right by each other.

Paws

*Edit* Ack! I got to this thread off of 'today's posts' and didn't pay enough attention to realize this is in the 'gambit and rogue' area. If you feel that this is negative, please feel free to remove it, cause I can't figure out how.   Sorry guys.

[WHAGENT]

I always thought that attitude works best on him and I he should keep that attitude. But going  back to the full fledge hero and x-man, I'd rather not see. But if we want to keep seeing Gambit more often then I guess he has to come back....

thats my thought exactly. for us to see gambit, he has to be an x-man, which I am totally cool with seeing honestly.

I've always enjoyed the shady hero who would give his teammates that shiver down there spin and that thought in the back of thier minds "did he only save me to sacrifice me later?"

[jingurei]

Hmmm, I would like to see Gambit and Rogue, together.... eventually.  (Sometime in the far future, would be preferable)  Marvel's stories tend to get wrapped up too quickly, once they're officially started.  I would like to see the friends thing, first, then have it develop, slowly, into a relationship that is based on mutual trust and love.  This is why the story should take some time, after all these are two of the least trusting members of the X-men and, definitely, two people who manage to find a way to muddle through when it comes to relationships and love.

I don't know, having them not end up together just makes their whole history seem pointless, to me.  After all they've been through and trying, with some success, to get back together after each painful blow, then having this finally rip them apart and put them with someone else, just seems too soap opera-ish., at the same time.  Ripping people apart and having them get together with someone else is a staple of soap operas and Marvel seems to be heading into that direction, too much lately.

[Nevaratoiel]

thats my thought exactly. for us to see gambit, he has to be an x-man, which I am totally cool with seeing honestly.

I've always enjoyed the shady hero who would give his teammates that shiver down there spin and that thought in the back of thier minds "did he only save me to sacrifice me later?"

Hahahaha! I have to agree with you there too. And Gambit being the sly charmer..... *squeals* Oooohh, I can totally see it before me.

[Nekobaghira]

and where do you want the site to be in a year or so?  And since this is the Gambit and Rogue board, where do you want to see this part grow?

[Nevaratoiel]

I know we should be positive about their relationship, but I'd rather see Gambit 'breaking up' with Rogue. It has nothing to do with my dislike of Rogue or anything, but she drags him down too much and he really needs to get his own life back together. He hasn't been living for quite a while now.

[anya]

Well he hasn't been 'living' much solely because no writer wants to really write him. He's been in and out of limbo for going on years now, and the status of his relationship with Rogue hasn't really had much to do with it (except occasionally when a writer doesn't like the relationship, decided to end it and get rid of Gambit at the same time. Like with the Trial and the Death arc. And they ain't doing that because they just love Gambit so much but thought the relationship was weighing him down.  They don't like Gambit period. )

What we need is a writer who wants him around.

[Nevaratoiel]

I agree. I couldn't imagine why they wouldn't want to write him. He's by far the most interesting X-Man... or am I too biased now? Who wouldn't want to write him?!?!?!?!

[Esynthia]

I agree. I don't think his relationship with Rogue is the reason he's being written how he is. I just think that's an easy excuse for the writers to be able to write him out basically. And if they don't write him out, keeping him basically whipped by Rogue is a lot easier than making him think for himself because then you have one less character to worry about. It really pisses me off because I think, given the right writer, their relationship would be absolutely amazing *and* they would each be their own person. But for some weird reason, most of the marvel writers don't like him. And if they do, it's more of a "yeah he's cool" than a "man, I'd *love* to get the chance to write him."

[Beej]

They make good friends but terrible lovers. They had California, that was enough.

[Britt601]

It would be interesting to see where the relationship goes with those two, but I don't want to see anything else ROMY in the hands of a writer who has bad writing style(s). The writers just put him on the back-burner, and that's just sad.  It angers us fans b/c we want to see Gambit happy, and the writers are just tossin' him to the side.  What gives, Marvel?