...Alright. Now that weâve gotten all that out of the way, letâs move on to what weâre all really here for, shall we? After seven long, very long, years of unresolved frustration⊠more so on the part of fans than Mulder and Scully themselves⊠The Kiss.
Oh, how do I even start? It was chaste but not dead, sweet but not sugary, self-conscious but still self-deprecating, too friendly to be lustful but too lingering to be friendly, open without spilling secrets, meaningful without digging too deep, loaded yet casual, joyful yet not manic. In short, it was so much all that it needed to be that Chris Carter is lucky I didnât hunt down his place of residence and kiss him myself.
I wonât confess how many times Iâve watched this scene and out myself as a closet sentimentalist. Suffice it to say that Mulder and Scully bring out the inner girl buried somewhere underneath layers of Teenage Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat, and this is coming from the child who never cried at Bambi.
I just canât with these two. The flailing. The flailing!
I said in the review for âThe Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fatiâ (7Ă4) that Mulder and Scully essentially said their vows at the end of the episode, that the only formal barrier left between them was the physical one and it was only a matter of time before that one dropped as well. If you werenât sure then that they had an âunderstanding,â please pay close attention to the way this kiss goes down.
Mulder doesnât look at Scully as if heâs just realizing how he feels about her, nor does he kiss her as if heâs declaring his feelings. I love (love) the way he looks at her and mischievously contemplates the kiss as if to say, âWhy not?â Why not indeed, Mulder? Now is as good a time as any. Whatâs holding you back any longer? The conspiracy is dead. Diana is dead. Y2K never lived. Go on and kiss the girl.
And please notice that on Scullyâs part, after Mulder kisses her, her face doesnât say, âMulder! Does this mean you have feelings for me? I never knew!â No, no, no, no, no. Her face says, âThat was nice. What brought that on?â Thereâs only mild surprise at Mulderâs spontaneity. Thereâs no shock, no emotional breakthrough. They already know.
What I love about the fact that itâs taken so long for Mulder and Scully to get their romantic act together is that thereâs almost no conscious choice involved. By the time it happens, it has already happened. It passed the point of possibility and crossed the Rubicon into inevitability some time ago while neither of them was paying attention. They donât need a declaration, or fanfare, or even a hallway the walls of which must be painted with some sort of aphrodisiac it causes so much romantic yearning. At this point, they just are, and I canât express in words how much I love that. Youâd just have to count the flails.
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