Hi, guys! Sorry in advance for the long post.
I am a Romy fan. I like Rogue (though, the writers have made that a difficult thing for me to do in recent years), but I definitely like Gambit much more. Funnily enough, I got put on to Gambit because he was Rogue's boyfriend. I just ended up finding him much more compelling and interesting.
My biggest problem with the whole Romy thing right now is that NOTHING about it feels remotely organic to me. Not the rushed and unsatisfactory way they got back together. Not the cheesy, out-of-nowhere proposal so soon after the rushed reunion. Nothing. And that has been a recurring problem with me and the X-books for years. It is the reason why I stopped reading them with any kind of consistency. They don't seem to care anymore about developing characters and their relationships in a way that is gradual, consistent and realistic. They just care about churning out cheap gimmicks in order to get people to buy their comics. The joke is that they have been shown time and time again that this is not the way to sustain readership, but they keep doing it anyway. It's always one machination after another.
I understand that writing necessarily involves machinations on the part of the writer(s). But good writing makes events, character development, relationships, etc. feel natural. You never get the feeling that a specific outcome is being shoved down your throat. You never see the strings.
With X-books, I ALWAYS see the strings.
If they wanted to marry off Rogue and Gambit, they needed to spend some time (maybe a year?) reacquainting us with their relationship and allowing us to see how they have changed and why things will work this time as opposed to every other time they've tried. Remind us of why so many were fans of the pairing in the first place (and no, one mini-story featuring them was not enough). A lot of us have become disenchanted with Romy because of how poorly they have been written in recent years. Show us that they are both equally in love with each other. Make us invest in their relationship and WANT to see them back together.
They did none of that. So I will probably not be reading Mr. & Mrs. X. TBH, I don't anticipate this series lasting more than maybe 12 issues before cancellation.
