About serenity of x

”From my first viewing of The X-Files my first and foremost love of this series has been its mythology. I hope that this website conveys that fact. Mulder, Scully, Doggett, Skinner, Spender, Fowley, Follmer, Rohrer, Reyes... they were only the cherries on top of an alien mytharc ice cream sundae."
- Dana Doggett

Serenity of X (SoX - pronounced just like "socks") was created because so many times while trying to find screen captures from "The X-Files" episodes we realized that screen capture archives, already on the internet, did not capture specific characters, scenery, etc. The sites we visited seemed too focused on Mulder and Scully - who we love dearly - but we wanted more to chose from than just those two characters (and their head shots). We don't just love "The X-Files" because of two characters, we love ALL the characters that have ever been on the show (well, there are two we could live without: Baby William and Leyla Harrison, but that's it). So out of years of frustration with other screen capture archivists we decided to make this site. This site is basically for us - and those of you who also get frustrated with other screen capture artists - to easily access these images, but if you have found your way here we hope you enjoy the site too. We've put a lot of hard work and time into creating this archive and hope that you appreciate what we have to offer.

About The SoX Webmasters

DANA DOGGETT
LiveJournal | BigLight
Website: www.danadoggett.com
XF Fan Since: Summer 1998
Favorite Character: John Doggett
Favorite Mytharc Bad Guy: Alex Krycek
Favorite Villain: Luther Lee Boggs
Favorite Season: Season 4
Favorite Relationship: Doggett/Scully
Favorite Episode: 6x20 "The Unnatural"
Favorite Writer/Writing Team: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Vancouver or L.A. Era: Vancouver
Mytharc or MOTW: Mytharc

About Dana Doggett, By Dana Doggett
I am first and foremost a fan of the entire "The X-Files" series and both movies.
I am a fan of all the characters, both liked and hated by the fandom.
Yes, that means that I love Diana Fowley. She's a great character.
I am a HUGE Doggett/Scully Shipper, it's my pairing preference.
I am a Doggett/Reyes relationship Noromo.
I am a Mulder/Scully UST Shipper.
I wish "The X-Files" had never left Vancouver.
I love John Doggett and I love Fox Mulder at the same time too.
I want to see John Doggett return in any third "The X-Files" movie.
I am a fan of the mytharc, IMO, it is the most interesting part of the show.

I began watching "The X-Files" in the summer of 1998 when reruns of the fourth and fifth season were being aired on FX. I never saw FTF in theatres, and wish that I had since that would have been such an awesome experience. I still hope for a threatrical re-release one day of FTF so that I can see it on the big screen. Before 1998 I hadn't really heard of "The X-Files" (mostly because I lived overseas in Saudi Arabia, where any new entertainment doesn't get there until years later). I had heard the name "Cigarette-Smoking Man" whilst eavesdropping on conversations at school, I had seen the Rolling Stones cover with David and Gillian in bed together, and I even caught the end of "Kill Switch" when it first aired, but it wasn't until I saw "Tunguska/Terma", "Memento Mori", and "Never Again" that I decided that this is "must watch" television. The whole alien mytharc story appealed to me, the paranormal, law enforcement and the awesomness that was "Never Again" hooked me and ever since then I haven't been able to turn away, not even when I thought doing such a thing would be the best thing (after Scully annoucned her pregnancy in the season 7 finale, "Requiem"). As a fan I've sat on all sides of the fence when it comes to the Mulder/Scully relationship. I've been a Shipper. I've been a Fencesitter, and after the kiss in season 7's "Millennium" I made a permanent home on the Noromo side of the fence. I still enjoy the MS/UST pre-"Millennium", but that's where it stops anything after that I'm 120% Noromo. Oh and John Doggett is my absolute favorite character EVER on television.

ABOUT LITTLE ALBATROSS
LiveJournal | Big Light
Website: www.littlealbatross.com
XF Fan Since: Summer 1998
Favorite Character: Alex Krycek
Favorite Mytharc Bad Guy: Cigarette-Smoking Man
Favorite Villain: Luther Lee Boggs
Favorite Season: Season 4
Favorite Relationship: Krycek/Marita
Favorite Episode: 4x05 "The Field Where I Died"
Favorite Writer/Writing Team: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Vancouver or L.A. Era: Vancouver
Mytharc or MOTW: Mytharc

About Little Albatross, By Little Albatross
I am a confused Phile as I hate and love "The X-Files" very much.
I am a fan of the show - the Vancouver years were the peak of the show.
I love the later characters, which means I love the entire series.
I adore minor characters like Bill Scully Jr. and Arthur Dales.
Yes, this means "Travelers" is one of my all time favorite episodes.
I love the villians and conspirators and crack up whenever the First Elder panics.
I love that Quiet Willy wears a beret, and I cry every time the Smoking Man died.
I was disappointed with the second XF movie, so much so that I don't want a thrid.
I am a Mulder/Scully USTer, but love many unconventional pairings.
I equally love Krycek and Knowle.

I never paid attention to much of anything, but when Canadian neighbors brought over a tape of some season 2 episodes of "The X-Files", I found it rather dark, creepy and cool. I first saw "The Host" and thought it was kind of gross. Then came two powerful episodes that would make me the Phile that I am today: "Little Green Men" and "Sleepless". I love the paranoia I felt from the show in "Little Green Men". I love that Krycek was working for the bad side in "Sleepless", and I desperately wanted to know more about that guy who smoked cigarettes who seemed to have authority. Then I forgot about the show, until 1998 when my sister brought hom "Fight The Future" on rental VHS (yes, back when movie rentals were video cassettes). I fell madly in love with the show. Mulder and Scully were strong characters and somehow I felt connected to their search for the truth and the conspiracy that was all over the movie. I had to see more. Then I tuned into the television and found season 4 was running in reruns on FX. "The Field Where I Died" is the most memorable - it still gives me goosebumps to this day. "Musings of the Cigarette-Smoking Man" - Finally! I know more about that mystery man with cigarettes. The cancer arc. I was drawn in. Catching all the episodes I could before the new season - and somehow I managed to see them all! I am a fan of every aspect of the show: Mulder/Scully (yes, I've been a shipper, a fence sitter and a noromo, but I love their UST), the conspiracy and the Syndiate, the informants, the monsters, the last two seasons and their characters, and the mythology. I love the show and I hate the show - I'm complicated. But at the end of the day, I enjoy what this show was, what it brought to television and would love to see it redeem itself if a third movie were to actually happen.

Thank You...

First and foremost, this website would not have been possible without the creation of "The X-Files" TV series so... thank you, Chris Carter, for developing the idea for this series and pitching it to Fox and not giving up on getting them to pick up this little show which became first a cult hit and then grew into a show with mass appeal. Thank you for creating ALL of the characters (good and bad, loved and hated, remembered and forgotten, serious and flakey) up through the final season and the second movie.

Second, we would like to thank ALL of the cast, writing staff, and production crew of "The X-Files" for dedicating chunks of their lives to bringing us quality television for nearly a decade. All of you brought your talents to the production of "The X-Files" that gave this show its distinct look that no other series has been able to match, even this many years after the series finale. You all made this!

Third, we would like to thank the members of the Serenity of X discussion forum. We know we've said this before, but online, you guys are like family. Thank you all for sticking with SoX in the good times and the difficult and frustrating times. We not only thank you for being such great friends, we also primarily dedicate this site to you.

We hope that the Serenity of X website serves as a worthy tribute to a variety of aspects of "The X-Files" series. Though it has its flaws, it is THE one show that is closest to our hearts, now and always.

Dedications

PRIMARY DEDICATION:
The Serenity of X website is dedicated to our online family which resides at the SoX Forum up until the launch of this new design in 2010: DammitTony, krycekisthehotness, Cindermuffin, Sue866, doggettfiles, Lilith, Miss Browncoat, possibilitiesDSR, geekery, gorglaud, loopyallie, and AD Skinner. SoX is also dedicated to Kryceksfox, for we have known her the LONGEST online, longer than anyone else. We love you guys!

SECONDARY DEDICATION:
To the fans of "The X-Files" who enjoy every season from 1993 until 2002. To enjoy all nine seasons is a very special thing, and I consider us fans - who love especially those last two seasons - to be a rare kind of X-Files fan so this site is dedicated to you as well.

SoX Forum History

Few know that a handful of SoX members have been with us since 2003, before the name Serenity of X (SoX) had ever been created. The original idea for the SoX Forum began in 2003 on a free discussion forum. The forum was called "Foxy & Teso's Forum of Fun" and it was a general "The X-Files" discussion forum. The main concept behind that forum - which has carried over to the current SoX Social Network - was to be able to have a general discussion forum that was free of fandom drama that tends to infect some other general X-Files forums. Members of "Foxy & Teso's Forum of Fun" were not your typical X-Files fan, they were not die-hard Mulder/Scully shippers who could not tolerate anything else other than their beloved relationship preference, and they did not like being attacked for having opinions that were not shared by the majority of the X-Files fandom. All they wanted was to have a safe place to come and discuss "The X-Files" without the fear of being attacked for their opinions and "Foxy & Teso's Forum of Fun" was that place. Unfortunately in 2005 (after a few forum relocations to other free forum servers) - the now titled Serenity of X Forum - was hacked, this is often referred to in these parts as The Big Damn Hack of 2005. This general X-Files forum that had become a home and its members like family had been destroyed.

In 2006 Dana Doggett (Foxytime) and Little Albatross (Teso) had had enough of being harrassed and hacked by bitter fans of "The X-Files" and decided to figure out how to maintain a discussion forum hosted on the web server they pay for. This new SoX Forum was a hit for SoX members as it was capable of having so much more options for interactivity and design, and SoXers went on their merry way for three years before being hacked again in 2009. The forum was attacked multiple times throughout the twelve months of the year and finally in early October of 2009, Dana Doggett and Little Albatross gave up. There was nothing more they could figure out how to do in order to secure the discussion forum that they had hosted on their web server.

The SoX Forum was going to be gone forever until one day Dana Doggett was posting on Frank Spotnitz's Big Light social network and realized that SoX Forum could make a comeback in the form of a social network. On October 27, 2009 the SoX Social Network was born, replacing the old (and hacker vulnerable) SoX Forum. Dana Doggett and Little Albatross didn't expect a big turnout after what had gone down with the old forum, but as invites were sent out and a few loyal original SoXers joined and spread the word, this new SoX Social Network quickly gained more members than the previous SoX Forum had had over the past few years. We had found our new home. Having our group on a social network has proved itself to be a good decision. The main concept of the SoX Social Network is the same as when the SoXers were established under the "Foxy & Teso's Forum of Fun" era, to be a X-Files group with no drama, no flame wars, no bashing, tolerant of unconventional views, and always respectful towards others. Below you will find a list of the new SoX family, and if you are a fan of "The X-Files" who is not considered a mainstream fan, and you tend to prefer the unconventional over the conventional, or even if you are a conventional fan who enjoys discussing the show with fans with different opinions than your own, you are welcome to join us. Click here to visit and join the SoX Forum.