Sunday, December 14, 2008

The sound of X-Files fangirls squeeing

Some interesting dailies from the X-Files have recently leaked onto the interwebs. There's a scene in 1998 X-Files movie "Fight the Future" where Mulder and Scully almost kiss. Right as their lips are about to meet, Scully is stung by a bee carrying a designer mutated alien virus (don't ask if you never watched the show) and passes out. Mulder/Scully shippers would have to wait another year and a half for an actually kiss between these two. (It finally happened on New Years' Eve 1999 in the episode "Millennium.")

In any case, it turns out that they shot alternate takes of the almost-kiss scene in the movie where Mulder and Scully do in fact kiss . . . and quite passionately. Putting this in the movie would have changed the entire dynamic of the TV show afterwards. Whether it would have been for better or worse will be the source of much fandom debate. However, I post this "what if" for the viewing pleasures of you X-Philes out there.

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