Dana Doggett, a.k.a. Cassie, was born in Kansas and
before entering her teenage years had become a world
traveler. Cassie spent seven years living overseas in
Saudi Arabia before moving back to the States. The experience
is one she wouldn't trade for anything in the world
(except for maybe a date with Keanu Reeves).
Looking back it was inevitable that she would end up
watching "The X-Files", as a child and to
this day, she enjoys watching shows like "Unsolved
Mysteries" and specials about ghosts, hauntings,
the bermuda triangle, Roswell, and cop shows.
At the age of nine she began teaching herself the French
language since her elementary school did not offer classes
for foreign languages. She has also studied German,
Spanish, and Russian. She can probably also tell people
off in Japanese and Korean if need be.
Her experiences with different people and different
cultures may explain her open and sometimes different
views of "The X-Files" TV series. She believes
that it is because she's experienced different perspectives
of the world and its people and beliefs that she developed
many different ways of looking at the X-Files tv show.
After graduating high school Cassie went on to earn
an Associates Degree in Interactive Media. She works
part time during the week, coaches figure skating on
weekends, and works with her sister with their freelance
webdesign business.
Cassie one day hopes to live in Europe, "it doesn't
matter where, I'm good at learning languages so I can
adapt".
RANDOM FACTS
Favorite Drink: ice water (lots of
ice, lots and lots of ice)
Favorite Ice Cream: mint chocolate
chip, french vanilla, moose tracks
Favorite Fruit: raspberry
Favorite Book: "My Sergei: A Love
Story"
Favorite Actor: Harrison Ford
Favorite "Hot" Actor: Keanu
Reeves
Favorite Actress: Vivien Leigh
Movie I Cannot Live Without: "Gone
With The Wind"
TV Show (not "The X-Files") I Cannot
Live Without: "Lost", "24"
Favorite Singers: Madonna, Keri Noble,
Utada Hikaru, Garth Brooks, Patsy Cline
Favorite Bands: The Beatles, Coldplay,
Filter
Favorite Film Composer: James Newton
Howard
Favorite Classical Composer: Sergei
Rachmaninov
Favorite Film Directors: Quentin Tarantino,
Robert Rodriguez, Tim Burton
Favorite Current TV Shows: Desperate
Housewives, 24, Lost, The Unit, Chuck, L&O:SVU
Favorite Sport: Figure Skating
Favorite Figure Skaters: Michelle Kwan,
Brian Boitano, Gordeeva & Grinkov, Ekatarina Gordeeva,
Torvil & Dean
Countries Visited: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
Cyprus, Switzerland, France, The Netherlands, England,
Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico
Other Current Screen Name: naganosilver98
(at the Michelle Kwan Forum)
Previous Screen Name: foxytime
X-PHILE
I've Been A Fan of TXF Since: Summer
1998
Favorite Vancouver Season: Season 4
Favorite L.A. Season: Season 8
Favorite Vancouver Main Character:
Fox Mulder
Favorite L.A. Main Character: John
Doggett
Favorite Character You Love But Most Everyone
Hates: Diana Fowley, Brad Follmer, Bill Scully
Jr.
Character You Hate That Most Everyone Loves:
Leyla Harrison, baby William, season 8 and 9 Mulder
Favorite Writing Teams: Glen Morgan
& James Wong, Howard Gordon & Alex Ganza, John
Gilnitz
Favorite Writers: Vince Gilligan, John
Shiban, Frank Spotnitz, Steven Maeda, Darin Morgan
Favorite Director: Rob Bowman, Kim
Manners, Michael Watkins, James Wong
Single Favorite Non-Canon Relationship Pairing:
Doggett/Scully
Favorite Canon Relationship Pairing:
Follmer/Reyes
Favorite Episodes (one per season):
Beyond The Sea, The Calusari, Jose Chung's "From
Outer Space", Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man,
Unusual Suspects, S.R. 819, Amor Fati, Empedocles, 4-D
Mytharc or Monster of the Week? Mytharc
If Forced To Choose Between MSR or DRR, Which
Would You Choose? MSR, Mulder/Scully Relationship
First and foremost I am a fan of "The X-Files",
all nine seasons and both movies (that's more than some
fans can claim to be). I love all the characters except
for Leyla Harrison and baby William. The only relationship
of the series that I will NEVER support is Doggett/Reyes,
all other pairings have a fair chance with me (yes,
that includes Mulder/Scully, I 'ship them in a darker
light).
I began watching "The X-Files" in the summer
of 1998. I did not see "Fight The Future"
in theatres because I couldn't find anyone who wanted
to go see it with me. I watched reruns of season 4 on
FX that summer and got hooked. I think the episodes
"Tunguska/Terma" hooked me: there were two
hot guys (Mulder and Krycek) running around in Russia
and one of them speaks Russian. I was hooked, no better
way to get me hooked on a show than to show me hot men
running around, white t-shirts and have one of them
speak a foreign language (which I happen to have been
studying at the time <-- extra bonus!). My first
full season was season 6 and I went into it declaring
that I was a Mulder/Scully shipper and I was, I won't
deny that, but I will say that I don't think I had enough
knowledge of the series and the characters to have really
made a rational decision on 'shipping at that point
because by the time season 6 ended I was what is called
a fence-sitter (not a shipper, not a noromo, somewhere
in between). I tired quickly of the Mulder/Scully 'shippy
stuff and by the end of "Amor Fati" I thought
I had been dragged right back down to the shipper side,
but then when Mulder and Scully kissed in season 7's
"Millennium" that was the day I officially
became a Mulder/Scully noromo. I realized in that kiss
that when 'ship stuff with Mulder and Scully isn't natural
and is forced into an episode that it doesn't feel right
and I didn't like seeing Mulder and Scully like that.
That's not what the show was about to me. I'd much
rather see Mulder and Scully kick some alien ass and
use a proton pack on a ghost than see them all smoochy
poochy with each other.
I am on open Mulder/Scully-USTer, that is a fan of
their relationship in its Unresolved Sexual Tension
days. The times when it was just UST between them were
when they were at their best. I can do without them
being hooked up and all that blah, blah, blah every
other show relationship crap that we get with nearly
every other show out there. I miss my MS/UST. I really,
really do.
I've been told that being a MS/USTer qualifies me as
a multi-shipper, but even then I already knew that,
just didn't register straight away that I was including
the Mulder/Scully pairing in my many lists of 'shipping.
Obviously most of you know that my favorite relationship
possibility on "The X-Files" is Doggett/Scully,
but did you also know that I will 'ship (nearly) every
pairing combination you can possibly come up with? Well,
there is an exception to that... I DO NOT (have not
and will not) ever 'ship Doggett with Reyes. That's
the only pairing on the series that I can't stand.
By the end of season 7 I had nearly lost interest in
the show altogether, it felt like I was obligated to
watch the series (simply because I had already invested
quite a bit of money on merchandise and didn't want
to give up on something I had spent so much on). But
then Scully said she was pregnant and the shippers went
crazy claiming it to be Mulder's and I said I wasn't
going to tune in for season 8. Then along came July
21, 2000 and Robert Patrick was announced to be the
new male lead on the series as John Doggett. Since I
had been a fan of Robert's since "Terminator 2"
I decided to give the show one more chance and boy am
I glad that I did. It turns out that John Doggett is
my favorite character on television EVER. The interaction
between Doggett and Scully intrigued me, it reminded
me of the reasons why I loved the interactions between
Mulder and Scully in the earlier seasons of "The
X-Files" (before the 'shipper fiasco - and I say
"fiasco" as a flavor word, not meaning that
all the episodes were overly 'shippy - episodes of seasons
6 and 7). I had fallen in love with "The X-Files"
again. Yeah, yeah there were the parts of it that I
didn't like (Scully's over a year long pregnancy, the
baby, her weepy over Mulder, blah, blah, blah) but a
great man once said... "I'll take the bad as long
as I remember the good." and that about sums up
my feelings about "The X-Files" series as
a whole.
Don't get my perspectives on Doggett/Scully,
Mulder/Scully or Doggett/Reyes relationships?
Read my essays about each below. I would like to point
out that I have not updated my commentary in these episodes
since 2006 so some of my viewpoints may have changed
slightly, but when reading you'll get the gist of my
views on these three relationships:
Why I Like The Doggett/Scully
Relationship
Why I Don't Like The Mulder/Scully
Relationship
Why I Don't Like The Doggett/Reyes
Relationship
