# Legion (show on FX) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378 "2017-02-09T05:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/41 "2017-02-24T05:09:06Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > It is him, he also does the random announcements you hear over the intercom. Awesome, I love Jemaine and thought that was him. Also, at some point Melanie said that the voice was of her husband, and that he and Kerry the guy doing the tests on David fixed up the place after he had bought it in the 40s, did I hear that correctly? Or was it in his 40s? The show has been very vague on time, with a mix of styles that could be from various times, so that stuck out to me. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/42 "2017-02-24T05:44:56Z")
I’m enjoying the show. Does anyone know how or indeed if the show or comic fits into the larger X-Men universe? I keep expecting Professor X to show up at the training school! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/43 "2017-02-24T09:00:39Z")
Hey memory guy, you’re going to bring the two of us into some random, non-threatening memory and then put on headphones and read a book while we go at it like rabbits for the next two hours. k’thx. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/44 "2017-02-24T13:22:31Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’m enjoying the show. Does anyone know how or indeed if the show or comic fits into the larger X-Men universe? I keep expecting Professor X to show up at the training school! It has no relationship to the X-movie continuity. It’s still questionable about how much of the X-comic continuity will be brought in. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/45 "2017-02-24T13:47:09Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > Awesome, I love Jemaine and thought that was him. Also, at some point Melanie said that the voice was of her husband, and that he and Kerry the guy doing the tests on David fixed up the place after he had bought it in the 40s, did I hear that correctly? Or was it in his 40s? The show has been very vague on time, with a mix of styles that could be from various times, so that stuck out to me. I thought i heard in the 40s, but then she said he spent 30 years building this place which would make it the 70s at a bare minimum and that doesn’t quite fit. The government psychiatrist did have a very advanced looking tablet though. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/46 "2017-02-24T22:39:47Z")
E3: It’s so beautiful to look at. Like art, really. I hope the set designer/s get recognition. So at the moment, the total mission is to … rescue his sister, because the beastly evildoers appear to have made her mascara run - just as well we’re all preoccupied with how he’s going to bang the babe. We’re seeing more dimensions now, which might be interesting. Don’t know about the 70s, home base of the Rebels looks more like some ghastly Apple campus. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/47 "2017-03-09T23:39:19Z")
Can someone remind me what the bad guy agent’s power is? I forget. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/48 "2017-03-09T23:52:00Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Can someone remind me what the bad guy agent’s power is? I forget. He can transform himself (visually and voice) into someone else–whether that’s his only power, I don’t know. (He impersonated the psychiatrist–psychologist?–that David had been seeing.) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/49 "2017-03-09T23:55:48Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > He can transform himself (visually and voice) into someone else–whether that’s his only power, I don’t know. (He impersonated the psychiatrist–psychologist?–that David had been seeing.) He was also able to perceive David when David was in the astral plane and spying on his sister’s initial interrogation. Whatever the full extent of his power is, it is definitely still ill-defined. I’m kinda wondering what happened to Rudy, the telekinetic guy he was most recently impersonating. Dead or just knocked out somewhere? Loved the latest episode, by the way. So far it is still going strong. Though, like _Humans_, I’m a little disappointed it is only 8 episodes rather than at least 10-13. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/50 "2017-03-10T01:09:38Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > He was also able to perceive David when David was in the astral plane and spying on his sister’s initial interrogation. . He was also able to do something to dream guy by grabbing his face. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/51 "2017-03-10T03:57:44Z")
So did a mutant transfer its conciousness into David when David was a child? Is that what “it” is? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/52 "2017-03-10T04:08:59Z")
That seems to be Cary’s hypothesis… which would make “Lenny/Angriest Boy/Yellow-Eyed Demon/King” the equivalent to the comics’ Shadow King. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/53 "2017-03-10T05:08:20Z")
I’m still loving the show and I’m glad others are too. The acting is phenomenal, I don’t think I would have cast Audrey Plaza because I just so much associate her with April from Parks and Rec but she is so good as Lenny/Benny/whoever. Dan Stevens is great at showing all the different things going on with him. And of course everything looks gorgeous. The music and scoring is also really well done. I loved the use of the Radiohead song showing the aftermath of David’s attack, and later the loss of sound when they went to the house. I didn’t comment after last week’s show, but I loved it too, and loved seeing Jemaine in his groovy frozen bachelor pad. I hope the show catches on with more people. It’s not a typical superhero/comic TV show, and that could scare away some people who wanted or expected a more typical comic series. But it seems like Fargo caught on after it was streaming, and even more so after it got some awards consideration, same with some other FX shows, hopefully it will be the same for Legion. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/54 "2017-03-10T15:28:47Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > He was also able to do something to dream guy by grabbing his face. He also walked through the hail of bullets pretty casually. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/55 "2017-03-10T23:46:01Z")
I didn’t understand why neither David nor Syd freed the other prisoner. I know he was Davids doctor at the insane asylum, did he screw him in some way? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/56 "2017-03-10T23:48:57Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I didn’t understand why neither David nor Syd freed the other prisoner. I know he was Davids doctor at the insane asylum, did he screw him in some way? David didn’t free him because David isn’t David, he’s the Demon/Lenny/etc. Syd didn’t release him because he was acting very strange. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/57 "2017-03-10T23:49:19Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I hope the show catches on with more people. It’s not a typical superhero/comic TV show, and that could scare away some people who wanted or expected a more typical comic series. But it seems like Fargo caught on after it was streaming, and even more so after it got some awards consideration, same with some other FX shows, hopefully it will be the same for Legion. Yeah, I’ve already ran into some folks who were like “I was expecting something more superhero like”. But this is far better than any of those type of shows, IMO. It’s a show about what is reality and mental illness that stars a superhero. And that makes it all the better. And I agree, awards would help. The visuals alone are with the price of admission. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/58 "2017-03-11T00:55:03Z")
E5. A hell of a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/59 "2017-03-11T03:20:09Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I didn’t understand why neither David nor Syd freed the other prisoner. I know he was Davids doctor at the insane asylum, did he screw him in some way? He was acting just the same way the guy in a horror movie acts before you trust him and he ends up eating your face. Syd, obviously, has figured out she’s in a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378/60 "2017-03-11T07:34:38Z")
The very last scene: So is everything we’ve seen so far Syd’s imagination running away with her while she’s in a group session with the same people … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-show-on-fx/779378.md?page=4)