Was the X-files series inspired by the Bob Lazar story?

bo0li5eumx12kp · 06-10-2020 06:53PM #1

Was looking for a decent popular science type series - since Breaking Bad culminated the landscape has been bleak.

Decided to look back in time and, whilst much of the camera work etc is very dated, the X-files is kind of interdasting in its own 1990's era way.

The primary theme of each episode pretty much relates to flying saucers in some way or other.

As in, they'll be dealing with a mysterious disappearance, and the episode will finish with crop circles alluding to flying saucers.

Or they're investigating an unknown illness, and it turns out it was brought to earth by aliens etc.

From what I understand, general weird dude, manufacturer of homemade fireworks and one time brothel owner, Bob Lazar - basically initiated that entire media circus around flying saucers.

He saw an opportunity and took it, no harm no foul.

My query being, is that contention correct?

Even the terms, "flying saucers" and "Area 51", would they be modern iconicism without Lazar?

And presumably that hysteria is the primary theme basis for the science fiction series, "The X-files".

......

AmIRite??

c.p.w.g.w · 06-10-2020 06:57PM

Don't know, but hasn't Bob suggested that some of this technology that's is being studied in A51/A51b was actually discovered on earth and may have been on earth for 1,000's of years

Graham Hancock has some interesting thoughs on ancient civilizations and how in precise many of their structures are to line up with certain aspects of the cosmos...Look up Göbekli Tepe, its mental reading, it's like something out of Stargate

06-10-2020 07:05PM

Whatever about your theory OP, the X-Files creator has given much credit to Kolchak: The Nightstalker as his main inspiration for the show.

Sorry if that doesn't answer your question, but I can't let this moment pass to impart some trivia from my 'X-Files freak' years.

Zebra3 · 06-10-2020 07:09PM

OP,

A lot of the episodes were fairly random and not connected to the long running central plot of aliens, abductions and cover ups, but a lot of episodes were one offs.

Read this book back in the day. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468534.The_X_Files

If you can get your hands on it (there was two volumes of it, I think) it explains a lot of the inspirations for the show from true stories and urban legends that they based the one off episodes on and then took them a step (or two) further.

c.p.w.g.w · 06-10-2020 07:23PM

Sure wasn't the structure of the series... Something like below

Monster Story
Monster Story
Central Arc Story
Monster Story

1990sman · 06-10-2020 08:01PM

X files was and is probably thd best show on tv.

yes i was an xphile back in the day and rewatched alot of the earlier seasons 2 years ago.

same goes for twinpeaks

what was the one with john noble and spock and the parallel universe? that was alrite

06-10-2020 08:20PM

1990sman wrote: »

X files was and is probably thd best show on tv.

yes i was an xphile back in the day and rewatched alot of the earlier seasons 2 years ago.

same goes for twinpeaks

what was the one with john noble and spock and the parallel universe? that was alrite

Fringe. I must actually go back and finish watching it. I've seen good things said about it.

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Sure wasn't the structure of the series... Something like below

Monster Story
Monster Story
Central Arc Story
Monster Story

Yep, pretty much.

Each season would generally open and end with arc episodes. You'd also get a mythology 2 parter in the middle of some seasons. In a 24 episode season, there were generally at least 18 monster episodes.

I loved the main arc episodes, but sometime soon after the first movie, the mythology/arc went way off the rails, getting very convoluted and self-contradictory.

I'll always love the X-Files, but it stayed around way longer than it should have.

1990sman · 06-10-2020 11:05PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Fringe. I must actually go back and finish watching it. I've seen good things said about it.

Yep, pretty much.

Each season would generally open and end with arc episodes. You'd also get a mythology 2 parter in the middle of some seasons. In a 24 episode season, there were generally at least 18 monster episodes.

I loved the main arc episodes, but sometime soon after the first movie, the mythology/arc went way off the rails, getting very convoluted and self-contradictory.

I'll always love the X-Files, but it stayed around way longer than it should have.

Dr Dana Scully, perfect woman, my first love

Capt'n Midnight · 06-10-2020 11:12PM

Bob's not a real engineer. Another self publicist because there's stuff to sell.

06-10-2020 11:20PM

I'm just starting into season 10 at the minute..
A lot of it really stands up still.. if they just stuck to the drama and avoided the almost piss take episodes it might have been better..
A lot of stuff was kind of referencing actual reported events I think.. earlier on anyway..

bo0li5eumx12kp · 06-10-2020 11:38PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bob's not a real engineer. Another self publicist because there's stuff to sell.

But he went to caltech and MIT and made the car with the fire out the back - plus he makes homemade fireworks.

KungPao · 07-10-2020 12:07AM

I always felt it was more of an easily digestible for the masses copy of Twin Peaks, much in the same way Friends was of Seinfeld.

Temptamperu · 07-10-2020 12:12AM

If you need a good show on the level of Breaking Bad you should check out Fargo or Better call Saul if you havent seen it.

KungPao · 07-10-2020 12:44AM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you need a good show on the level of Breaking Bad you should check out Fargo or Better call Saul if you havent seen it.

Just be wary of season 3 of Fargo. Still decent but not at the level of the previous installments.

bo0li5eumx12kp · 07-10-2020 03:27PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you need a good show on the level of Breaking Bad you should check out Fargo or Better call Saul if you havent seen it.

What I like about X-files (vs Twin Peaks as mentioned), is it basically references popular and in many ways, cutting edge scientific topics as a base for its themes.

I don't know if twin peaks does this (never saw it)?

Breaking bad kind of did, which made it enjoyable/watchable.

Apart from the occasional mention of "warp drive" (a purely hypothetical concept), I'd question whether Star Trek does also.

the purple tin · 07-10-2020 09:23PM

The X-Files was great but one thing I hated about it was the background music. It plays almost nonstop and at times is loud enough to drown out the dialogue.
I only noticed it when I rewatched a few episodes.

10-10-2020 11:29PM

Jesus.. the two later seasons..10 and 11.. that they did a few years ago were fairly poor..

Should have left them..

Was the X-files series inspired by the Bob Lazar story?

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