Spoilers Legion season 2
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Syd has the compass that David gave her that always points to him.
EDIT: oops: I missed that was already answered
Too much weirdness and the story is dragging. I think it was a mistake to add more episodes. It seems they're just adding more weirdness than story.
How did she get a fighter pilot to take her anywhere? Allies in the new and improved Division 3? Does she really have that kind of clout all by herself?
I couldn't help thinking of Dragonlance... hopefully any Dragonlance fans out there will understand what I mean...
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I just chalked that sequence up to Rule of Cool/Rule of Funny from TVTropes. Then again, being Legion it's possible that there's Unreliable Narrator in there.
Sid is now a government agent in an organization apparently working to monitor and control super-powered individuals worldwide. It's not hard to believe she had access to a fighter plane and pilot. She probably could have gotten a whole combat group if she thought it would help.
I couldn't agree more. I don't know why I'm watching this series any more. All they ever seem to do is fart around, like a drunk man with his pants around his ankles screaming, "Look how smart I am!" The show never seems to get to a point, and as beautiful as it is, they need to hurry up and start telling a story, 'cause I can't be the only person who thinks so.
I remember being totally baffled during that scene where Syd meets up with David towards the end. It felt like it was the first time in a long time, that the show felt like it was moving forward, that it was trying to tell a story and not just be complicated for complications sake.
I'll never call Legion a bad show, but Christ, get to fucking' point!
This is like watching a music video turned into a series, lots of lovely evocative imagery, cool music, open to interpretation and not all that concerned with logic, narrative or actually making complete sense. Still where else can I see Jean Smart huffing smoke out of a gilded elephant?
It's interesting how Legion has two sets of end credits. I assume the first one is considered part of the episode's runtime to guarantee it gets shown and then the second one can get the usual network butchering with overlaid promos and what not.
It's interesting how Legion has two sets of end credits. I assume the first one is considered part of the episode's runtime to guarantee it gets shown and then the second one can get the usual network butchering with overlaid promos and what not.
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Well, it doesn't have any opening credits beyond "FX PRESENTS... IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARVEL TELEVISION... LEGION," so the first set of end credits takes their place. There are two levels of screen credit, contractually determined -- "above the line," which means the people thus credited get residuals from reruns and home video sales and such, and "below the line," which means they just get paid for their work on that episode. Traditionally, the above-the-line credits come at the start of a show or movie and the below-the-line credits are at the end. But when a production shows all its credits at the end, the above-the-line credits still have to come first and be shown more distinctly.
You see this in movies too. It's become common to save the credits until the end, but then you get the above-the-line credits first, usually shown one at a time and in the reverse order from how they'd come at the start of a film (i.e. first director, then producer, writer, etc. and finally the "A Film by Director" and "A Producer Production" vanity credits), and then the below-the-line stuff is smaller and scrolls by fast. (Marvel puts its mid-credit scenes between the two sets.)
^ that makes sense re: opening credits
The shoe is on the other foot now for Lenny. She's gone from occupying David's mind to Amy occupying her mind (well, technically Lenny is occupying Amy's body, but you get my meaning). I hope Amy's mental visit in this episode wasn't a one-off as her fading away seemed to suggest. I'm really loving these people occupying other people's mind's dynamic the show has built upon. Plus, I want David to know that Amy is still alive in some form.
Good to see Melanie having something to do other than getting high to forget her depression all day, although she doesn't get too much to do here. We still don't quite get an answer for why she whacked Clark over the head. Poor bastard, bad things keeping happening to his head.
With Lenny transporting in the car from the Blue Octopus to the desert confirms that last week's desert adventure is happening in the physical world and not in someone's mind. That said, what about about that weird minotaur creature leering from behind Lenny lying in the prone with the rifle in the desert, the same one that we've only ever seen in Melanie's mind?
Cary and Kerry continue to be my favorite pairing of the show, even more so than David and Lenny. I could watch a whole show about just those two.
Good to see Melanie having something to do other than getting high to forget her depression all day, although she doesn't get too much to do here. We still don't quite get an answer for why she whacked Clark over the head. Poor bastard, bad things keeping happening to his head.
With Lenny transporting in the car from the Blue Octopus to the desert confirms that last week's desert adventure is happening in the physical world and not in someone's mind. That said, what about about that weird minotaur creature leering from behind Lenny lying in the prone with the rifle in the desert, the same one that we've only ever seen in Melanie's mind?
Cary and Kerry continue to be my favorite pairing of the show, even more so than David and Lenny. I could watch a whole show about just those two.
Kerry got me wondering why we do associate blue with sadness. I mean, it strikes me as a happy color, the color of a clear sky or the ocean. I looked it up, but apparently it's a really old idiom and nobody's quite sure where it came from.
Hooray! With The Americans over, I think Legion is now my favorite current show and I'm thrilled it's still going strong. I'm also happy FX has such faith Noah Hawley and his team to continue to produce this strange but amazing show.
We'll need Season 3 just to explain what happened in Season 2.
I really enjoyed this episode!
Same here. This was probably the best episode of the season, although I also really loved the split-universe episode, too.
Farouk is real proper bastard, isn't it he? Forced Oliver to resist torture from David's rage over Syd's disappearance and took over Melanie's mind in order to turn Syd against David...because of David's torturing of Oliver. He played everyone like little toys.
That said, I do think there are grains of truth of Farouk/Melanie's supposition about David's true face. Considering how the episode opened up with David looking a bit like the comic version of Legion, it looks like we'll be seeing the very ugly side of David next episode...and perhaps for some time to come.
Farouk is real proper bastard, isn't it he? Forced Oliver to resist torture from David's rage over Syd's disappearance and took over Melanie's mind in order to turn Syd against David...because of David's torturing of Oliver. He played everyone like little toys.
That said, I do think there are grains of truth of Farouk/Melanie's supposition about David's true face. Considering how the episode opened up with David looking a bit like the comic version of Legion, it looks like we'll be seeing the very ugly side of David next episode...and perhaps for some time to come.
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The most insidious lies have truth in them.
That said, I noticed the problem with David's enjoyment of using his powers against people last season. I don't think they really made an effort to hide it.
I like how they've circled back to The World's Angriest Boy in the World and covered David taking pleasure in all the ways he could kill Farouk. But a couple of things: David was worried about that himself, which shows he still has a sense of right and wrong, and Syd should know not to trust a situation in which she is hooked down a drain with rabbit bait.
The hammerspace case holding Lenny's gun was hilarious.
That said, I noticed the problem with David's enjoyment of using his powers against people last season. I don't think they really made an effort to hide it.
I like how they've circled back to The World's Angriest Boy in the World and covered David taking pleasure in all the ways he could kill Farouk. But a couple of things: David was worried about that himself, which shows he still has a sense of right and wrong, and Syd should know not to trust a situation in which she is hooked down a drain with rabbit bait.
The hammerspace case holding Lenny's gun was hilarious.
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