The X-Files at 30 S1E3 Squeeze
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- We're talking about episode 3
Mulder and Scully investigate a bizarre series of sealed room murders where the victims liver is extracted by hand. A 30 year old X-file suggests this has happened before.
0:00 Intro
2:15 Colton
4:43 Tooms
6:16 Squeeze
8:17 The Nest
11:21 Close Call
12:52 Impressions
Music
Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/)
CGI Snake - FMA - CC BY 4.0
Fantastic. Keep up the good work
Thank you, I'm going to keep at it and try to do at least a little better each time.
“Squeeze” is an iconic episode, but is quite dated in some respects. Due to being a very early episode, the dialogue is expositional and isn't delivered convincingly. Briggs was definitely miscast, but Hutchison is a perfect fit, no pun intended. “Tooms” concludes the story in a satisfactory manner, but still feels like a downgrade from the initial episode. I can appreciate the subtle irony of Tooms evading detection for a century only to be crushed to death by the ever-expanding forces of consumerist modernity. I just wish more time had been spent exploring his origins in the late 19th century. Maybe we could have a graphic novel set in Victorian times, exploring his backstory. I can just imagine him bursting through one of those old brass vents, yellowed with bile and arms outstretched, or snaking his way down the chimney of some decrepit tenement.
Certainly, Squeeze is the advent of the MOTW in its proto-stage. The nature of pre-streaming network tv just never gave writers enough time or space to really develop some concepts with a few rare exceptions.
I could envision a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen run where a murderous Tooms as the real Ripper has climbed through a coal chute, powdery black as midnight looking for liver #5.
I gotta wonder if the lore would be acceptable were it the case that the guy could have done without human livers if he just eats, say, chicken liver and/or cod liver and he just didn't know because he never tried them lol.
I think Eugene was born in what 1870? By default he'd regularly eat both chicken and cod liver. I can see an alternate ending where Mulder makes this joke with his characteristic smirk.