User blog comment:LiSi/Why the Sam and Freddie kiss was MEANINGFUL/@comment-3209350-20110119232625/@comment-3092491-20110119234448

Not if Sam still showed up in the end. Also a lot of the same sort of elements from the Sam/Freddie kiss would be missing it would seem (some I didn't even go over here) and we don't know *exactly* how the kiss would have played out. For instance, how serious it would have felt, if there would be an "awww, oooh" track or anything like that. Something tells me it would have been a pretty important moment, a lot less surrounded by comedy than the kiss in iSYL, but the fact that Sam walks in at the end kind of negates a lot and redirects most of the meaning and atmosphere back to her.

Also, just by the fact that Dan chose to take the scene out because it would interfere with future episodes, as he said, (which I'm assuming was iSYL) and the way iSYL and it's kisses played out, gives more evidence towards their kiss not having meant to be as meaningful, or at least not meaningful in the same way.