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Date Posted: 09:13:41 08/30/01 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
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Why does everybody always seem to think. . .

that it "ruins" a TV show if two of the major characters finally resolve several seasons of UST by finally sleeping together?? The implications in regard to the MSR are obvious here; most noromos and fencesitters and even a few shippers worried that as soon as Mulder and Scully "did it", the show would lose its edge.
Everybody always cites "Moonlighting" as an example of a show where resolving the sexual tension did, indeed, lead to a dramatic drop in ratings. Yet other shows, such as "The Practice" have had characters who were flirty in the early seasons (i.e. Lindsey and Bobby) eventually sleep together, marry, have a child, etc. and continued to do well in the ratings. Does it matter if the show is basically a two-person vehicle (as both "Moonlighting" and "The X-Files" were) or if it's an ensemble show (such as "The Practice" or "NYPD Blue")??
The whole issue of the MSR and whether or not it should be resolved was always kind of a paradox, IMHO. Noromos (including the biggest noromo of them all, Chris Carter) always claimed that the show wasn't "about" the MSR and that its focus was on aliens, conspiracies, etc. Yet, at the same time, these were the people who insisted that allowing Mulder and Scully to become physically intimate would "ruin" the show. They were, in effect, saying, that: "The personal relationship/sexual chemistry between Mulder and Scully is *NOT* an integral part of the show" but at the same time they were saying "Any change in the personal relationship betweenn Mulder and Scully would dramatically alter the show and lead to its downfall".
We shippers were, I suppose, just as paradoxical in our own way. We admitted that the main reason we watched the show was for those little moments of intimacy (few and far between though they were) between Mulder and Scully - the hand squeezes, the forehead kisses, the flirty smiles - but, at the same time, we longed for a more definitely romantic relationship between them. I still say we shippers were sort of shortchanged. While we now know what we longed for actually came to pass, we never got even *one* scene where we saw then in bed together. I didn't necessarily want a heavy duty sex scene, but it would have been nice, after eight seasons, just to see them lying next to each other in bed talking or something.

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No -- Stardoe, 03:39:25 09/03/01 Mon
- You're right that there was a kind of intimacy in. . . -- Islandgirl, 10:25:38 09/03/01 Mon
  - I would like to think that -- CW, 20:10:48 09/04/01 Tue