ntcrawler said:
Jean: "Don't make me do this"
Logan: "Do what?"
Jean: [walks away]
Does he need it to be told to his face, spelled out phonetically and acted out with sock puppets to get the message?
Maybe. To me the message wasn´t that clear, anyway.
And take a look at some parts of the X2 novelization I put below.
That exchange inside the X-Jet? Yeah I know about it. Jean had the right idea. Setting up a ROLO would help take the attention off of her.
I didn´t ask if you know about it, but if you´ve read it. If you read it, you know how Logan made Jean feel, and why she said those things to Storm. And you know what Storm told her.
And maybe you also know about this:
"She caught him by surprise, covering his hands with hers, reaching out at the same time with her telekinetic power to close the miniscule gap that remained between them" (...)
He was the one who moaned as barriers collapsed between them and Jean gave him access to her own mind, her own sensations, her own emotions."(...)
"He wanted her to see the whole of him; he wanted to give her every excuse to run away, because if she chose to stay, if she accepted what he was, then this was real. It would last.
What surprised him was the discovery that she was just as scared, just as determined."(...)
"It would be easy if her heart told her one thing and her head another; scientist though she was, empiricist to the core, she knew she would follow her heart.
But her heart felt equally, passionately, torn between them, and she couldn´t see any way yet to heal the rift."
The kiss scene. Yeah, it was just Logan robbing a kiss and then Jean telling him to back off...
You're just not gonna be satisfied, are you? So how the heck is Jean supposed to make it 100% clear to him then?
100% clear? She never made it 100% clear to him, not in the movies, even less in the novelization.
And I wasn´t the only one who perceived those things, so I guess it wasn´t 100% clear to great part of the audience, either.
From his first moments he saw them together he could see them tenerly holding hands in the garage scene, and the fact that they're sharing a suite together should be a big hint, yet Logan doesn't hesitate to keep chiseling in. Why not go after someone who's actually available, like Ororo instead?
Well, you see the scenes you want to see, based on your notion of the Jean/Scott relationship
in the comics. Part of the audience, who didn´t know a thing about the comics, knew that Jean and Scott were a couple in the movie, but also perceived a strong attraction between Logan and Jean. Simple as that.
And why should Logan go after Ororo just because she was "available"? He felt something that connected him to Jean, maybe not even love, but the beginning of something that could be love. Why being so rational about feelings? That´s how we act in real life, all rational and stuff? Why couldn´t someone like Logan enter Jean´s life (and vice-versa), and change it? Now you´re going to tell me it never happens, not when people have "stable" relationships. Come on...
You change any of these, and you change the essense of the X-men.
Many things changed in the movies, from the very first one until the last, and while some fans complained, a lot enjoyed the changes. Singer changed the uniforms, for starters. Of course he wouldn´t change the fact that Scott wore visors, or that Logan had claws, because he wasn´t stupid. But he gave us the Bobby/Rogue relationship, something that NEVER happened in comics. So by that he was changing the essence of the X-Men?
The idea for a Jean/Logan/Cyke triangle came from the comics, so it was nothing new. Singer only gave hints that a Jean/Logan thing in the movies had more possibilities than it ever had in the comics.
Possibility? Sure, but not the way it's portrayed in the film. In X2 Logan has been around Jean not more than 5-6 days.
Again, you´re being rational about feelings. I don´t know what Logan saw in Jean, or what Jean saw in Logan, but something clicked between them. And 5-6 days are enough for it.
So on what grounds do you base this... possibility? Wishful thinking? Because the cast members look good on camera together? You gotta give more credible evidence than that. A relationship is based on more than physical attraction. If they both like the way they look, then at best you're looking at a fling. But certainly nothing so dangerous that it could threaten to break Jean and Scott apart.
And how do you know Scott and Jean´s relationship was so strong and meaningful, and Logan´s attraction based only on "physical attraction"? Based on your knowledge of the comics? Because I knew nothing of the X-Men before I watched the first movie, and Scott and Jean looked just like a very ordinary couple to me. There was nothing in the movie that made be believe they would be in love forever, and that Logan didn´t stand a chance.
Again, see above. Nothing ever happened that would threaten to break apart Jean and Scott's relationship.
Logan happened.

And again you´re talking as if things like that never happen in real life. Happy couples break apart everyday, all the time. It´s not the end of the world.
But I guess that, anyway, Marvel wouldn´t allow a Jean/Logan in the movies, so they prefered to kill her.
But when it came time to the big test and Logan overstepped his bounds, she made it clear that those boundaries were there and that he must not cross them. Granted, the damage had already been done ever so slightly and Jean felt the guilt for having betrayed Scott's absolute trust he gave her along with his heart, but it was still a far cry from destroying their relationship.
Again, read the novelization quotes. He wasn´t just eye candy to her, and she wasn´t just a piece of meat to him. And they crossed the boundaries when they opend their minds to each other.