Originally Posted by
FUBAR007
And yet, according to Morrison himself, his intent was the exact opposite:
[Tom DeFalco]: "In your mind, did Scott and Emma commit adultery?"
[Morrison]: "The way I saw it was that Jean and Scott had become remote. For me, the great emotional moment for Scott and Jean was when they ran out to die together on the moon during the Phoenix Saga. After Jean died, Scott ended up with a lot of other women. Scott was very attractive to women even though he didn't know it and I wanted to play around with that. Since he was becoming emotionally remote from Jean, because she was becoming more and more godlike, it just seemed like he would naturally fall into the arms of someone more emotionally connected, which Emma actually was. Yes, it was a kind of adultery, but at the same time Jean wasn't being his wife any more. I just felt that the spark between them had died out and it was time to give Scott someone else."
--from Comics Creators on X-Men by Tom DeFalco, p. 235
Morrison's intent was that Jean froze Scott out. But, the way he wrote it, it was Scott who froze Jean out.
Morrison didn't just botch Jott compared to how it'd been historically portrayed; he botched it compared to his own terms.