Originally Posted by
Omega Alpha
Yeah, but the problem is that someone that is really progressive should know the difference.
And of course Jean becoming a literal God, more than once, and resurrecting from the dead, made it worse.
And it's very important to acknowledge, like I think Gillen does, that if Scott was still with Jean, the X-men wouldn't have survived the Decimation era; he'd be too afraid of letting her down to do some of the darkest things he did (even X-force Scott kept from Emma for a long time, imagine with her around). Not to mention Norman Osborne would never have picked Emma as the mutant contact and the story would go differently. And without Scott, we see what happens in HCT, not to mention Emma would never be able to inspire the entire mutantkind to follow her.
Basically, preferring Scott with Emma or with Jean mostly indicates if you prefer your love stories classic (romantic, beautiful, keeps characters in their "ideal" versions) or realistic (messy and chaotic, but makes people grow to new and unexpected directions). I prefer the latter, not to mention it would be good not only for them, but for Jean too- you have the one woman that could pretty much have any X-man she wanted, is seen as the perfect X-woman by many, but loses the one man she wants not to someone like Storm, noble and heroic, but to a former villain with a history of bad behavior and attitude that is the opposite of her in most aspects. A good writer could get a great character arc out of this.