ROMANCE ASPECT
²/¾The Romance Aspect²/

¹There will be *no romance* between Fox
Mulder   and  Dana  Scully.   Everyone
readily  admits  that  there  is  some
attraction,    a   "sexual   tension,"
between   the   characters.   However,
neither  series  creator Chris Carter,
nor  actors David Duchovny and Gillian
Anderson,  nor  many  X-Philes, want a
full-blown romance to develop.  Carter
"firmly  believes that a series can be
'ruined'  if  the characters cross the
boundaries    of    sexual   tension."
[Starlog #201, April 1994] He has also
confirmed  that Scully and Mulder will
not  have  a  romance  in almost every
online  conference  and interview that
he  has had.  In the AOL conference in
March,   when   asked   when  the  two
characters  would get together, Carter
replied,  "When  Hell  freezes  over."
Carter   continues  to  reiterate  his
opinion   publicly   at   the  various
Creation    X    Files    conventions.
Anderson  [Starlog  Platinum #2] says,
"I  don't  want  that to happen, David
doesn't  want  that  to happen, [Chris
Carter]  I  don't  think wants that to
happen.  The show's not about intimacy
between us; it would be a huge mistake
to  make  it  about that.  Both of our
characters are single-minded about our
work  and  respectful  enough  not  to
complicate   it   in   any   way.   We
[eventually]  warm  up  to each other,
and  there are times when there's more
sexual  tension  than others, but it's
not    going    to   be   a   romantic
relationship."   Duchovny's  viewpoint
[Starlog  #202,  May 1994]:  "Having a
friendship  and a professional working
relationship with a woman is much more
interesting....It's  very easy to just
jump into bed.  That doesn't take much
imagination."  So:   don't  even think
about it!

Numbers:    The   number   11:21  that
continues  to appear on digital clocks
in  the  show  is  a  salute  by Chris
Carter  to his wife, whose birthday is
November 21.  Ten Thirteen Productions
was named after Carter's own birthday,
October 13.

So  far Mulder has fired his gun seven
times:     to    scare   away   wolves
[Conduit], to kill John Barnett [Young
at  Heart]  and a beheader about to do
in   Scully   [Our   Town],   at   the
shapeshifter  creature  [Shapes], at a
morphing  terminator alien [End Game],
at lights casting a potentially lethal
shadow [Soft Light], and at a possible
alien  being [Little Green Men, though
no   shot   actually  left  the  gun].
Scully  has  fired her gun five times:
three  shots  to stop the air duct fan
[Ghost  in the Machine], once to wound
Lucas  Henry  [Beyond  the Sea], three
shots,  to kill [so we thought] Warren
Dupre [Lazarus], once at the murdering
twin   [Humbug]  that  she  saw  in  a
mirror,  and once to wound Mulder when
it  appeared that he would kill Krycek
for   the   murder   of   his   father
[Anasazi].
Mulder    has    been    shot   twice:
critically,  in  the  upper  femur  in
Beyond  the  Sea,  not so seriously in
the  left  shoulder  by Scully to keep
him  from  killing  Krycek  [Anasazi];
Scully  has  been  shot  once,  in the
chest  (though  she  was  wearing  her
protective vest at the time), in Young
at Heart.
Mulder    and    Scully    have   been
quarantined    three    times    after
potential  contact  with an infectious
organism -- at the end of the episodes
Ice, Darkness Falls, and Firewalker.

Mulder  has  lost time in the Pilot (9
minutes),  Deep Throat (undetermined),
E.B.E.    (undetermined),  and  Little
Green  Men (undetermined).  Scully has
lost  time  in  the Pilot (9 minutes),
E.B.E.        (undetermined),      and
Ascension/One  Breath (approximately 3
months).

For  the  morbid:  X Files' death toll
to  date:  157 [through second season;
these   are   deaths   of   characters
identified on-screen only]

Scully's  FBI  ID  number is 2317-616.
Her   home   phone   number  is  (202)
555-6431, [Ghost in the Machine.], and
her  cellular phone number is 555-3564
[Sleepless].   Her apartment number is
#35.   Her X File number (given to the
file  began after her abduction [Duane
Barry]) is 73317.

Scully  and  Mulder  met for the first
time  on  March 6, 1992 X.T.  (X Files
Time) [Pilot].

Mulder has a computer at home, and his
password is TRUSTNO1.  He was a fan of
the  television show "The Magician" as
a  child.   [Little  Green Men] Mulder
lives   in   an   apartment  (#42)  in
Alexandria   [Novel:   Goblins].   His
badge number is JTT047101111.



The "saying" at the end of the opening
credits,  The  Truth Is Out There, has
changed three times:
    Trust  No  One  --  in  Erlemneyer
Flask, episode 1X23.
    Deny  Everything  -- in Ascension,
episode 2X06
    EI  'AANIIGOO  'AHOOT'E (The Truth
Is Out There in Navajo) -- in Anasazi,
episode 2X25.

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