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One of the more charming things X-files It is how often the show transformed classic urban myths into truly scary episodes of television. For example, the show has an episode about Jersey Devil, which gave fans of this particular Cryptid real excitement. But in a plot worthy of the show in his first -class hours, one of the best “Tooms” episodes was created thanks to the writer who wanted to create his own city myth about a monster in the escalator.
How “Tooms” created a myth
The first days X-files They were largely formed by Glen Morgan and James Wong, a team of writing that brought us some of the various excitement. “Tooms” was an episode that brought back the title villain, a kind of stretch monster that was previously introduced in the episode “Squeeze”. And “Tooms” has an unforgettable strange peak inspired at a time when Morgan was doing some Christmas shopping at Los Angeles Mall and saw an exposed escalator, which made him think about the scary custom city myth of the monster could be inside the escalator.
Those who have seen “tooms” know that the show helped revive their own city myth in the most scienth possible way. At the culmination of this episode, Mulder and Scully are trying to watch Eugene Tooms at his old address, just to find out that a shopping center was built and that a monster man seemingly disappeared inside the escalator. When mulder goes inside, he finds that a cunning environment is suitable for a queen Aliens;; He attacked him naked, bile -covered tooms, and finally sent a villain by turning on the escalator, and in his inner function he pulled the tooms to death.
If you know a lot about urban legends you have already guessed X-files Basically mixed in the old when creating a new one. Long before the “tooms” was written, there were urban myths about how dangerous escalators could be and how easy it is for someone, especially children, to catch and injure or kill them (from there an unforgettable piece in Goods Where Jason Lee’s character still screams at repeated and risky rides with a child escalator). Tooms, who is killed by an escalator, basically meets the classic myth, but Glen Morgan added something new to the urban mythology with the idea of a monster man living under the escalator.
Probably “Tooms” improves the tropics of the series that it gives a new turn to old city myths. For example, the above episode “Jersey Devil” examines the idea that one woman can be a titular monster before revealing her to be much worldly. “El Mundo Gira,” in the meantime, he focuses on the myth of Chupacabra, a Mexican goat-S-scoring that may or may not be alien in this story. Speaking of extraterrestrials, the show is constantly engaged in urban legends about “Little Green Men” and alternated from the depictions of these visitors from space as small gray boys to vicious monsters from horror film.
At the end of the day, “Tooms” would be memorable even without the inclusion of urban myths, thanks to the title of villain. But the escalator really makes an exciting end and Glen Morgan has fulfilled his goal to unlock new concerns in the audience. Now, every time we go to an abandoned mall, we can’t help each other, but we are wondering how many hungry horrors can be hidden inside, all thanks to an hour of absolutely crazy TV 90.
