We don’t really know what Oliver was doing with his Bolero shield, since he didn’t get to finish it. And since he’s still kind of hopped up on astral plane goofballs, who knows if it would’ve worked.
They were still on the astral plane for most of that scene. We see the moment when they transition, as each character “merges” with their static selves - and Oliver winks out.
You’ve never had an incident where you just couldn’t really think it through until someone who was relatively outside of it broke it down in bite sized rational bits?
And it was fun to have Dan Stevens talk in his normal accent for a bit.
And then use a fake British accent.
I may be being wooshed, but are you saying that Stevens used two separate British accents in “rational David”?
There was one point where normal David “acted rational” and used a British accent. to which Rational David responds, “was that supposed to be a British accent?”
Ahhh… right. For some reason I have it in my mind as “fake Patrick Stewart accent” so I didn’t put the pieces together.
I don’t think David has the power to contain him. He worked through the problem and found a way out of his “jail,” but it’s the headband keeping him in check, and we saw at the end it broke.
Just binged the show up to episode 7 based on a review I read saying that the show was everything Twin Peaks had ever wanted to be.
I’d disagree with that assessment. While the cinematography is dream-like, the writing is still fairly linear. Everything is explained and everything fits together (or, to the extent that it doesn’t, that’s due to a failure in the writing, not as a feature). There’s insufficient realism to take anything too serious or feel much genuine fear in anything. The small cast size, heavy re-use of the same actors in every scene, and lack of meaningless conversations all bring up the sense of ‘straight fiction’ too strongly to compare with David Lynch. He does weird in a more subtle and subdued way.
Though, of all of that, my only complaint would be the small cast size. Hopefully, for the second season, they’ll have a large enough budget to not only do the special effects but also have more than 6 actors with speaking roles. It’s really going to limit them if they have to stick with such a small body of characters for everything.
A better comparison than David Lynch is actually a variety of anime. Many scenes seemed pulled straight from Akira, The Future Diary, and Elfen Lied both in terms of content and cinematography. Though, all woven together well enough and sufficient uniqueness to not feel like a lazy cut-and-paste.
Definitely looking forward to the finale and the next season. Hopefully, they don’t burn all of their story on season 1 and have nothing to maintain the crazy with on season 2.
And for anyone who’s looking for more in this style, I would suggest looking up The Future Diary. Though, that’s ups the crazy and scary by about 3x.
Well, this season was a hell of a ride. Aubrey Plaza was outstanding; I think she was just signed on for this season, but hopefully she’ll be back next. 8 episodes was just about the perfect length for a storyline like this; hopefully FX won’t pad it out to 13 episodes next season.
And I will definitely be watching next season.
I really loved the final episode. One thing I’m a bit worried about, though, is that with David now free from the Shadow King, he ought to be effectively in full control of his powers—it’s gonna be hard to come up with something that’ll believably challenge him, without either being overkill, relying on some silly way to nerf the character, or, worst of all, forgetting about his powers when convenient. But I’m definitely along for the next season!
And yeah, I do hope Aubrey Plaza returns for next season; just watching her was delightful. Also, nice touch with the sorta-Asian look there in the end!
The model of the car at the end was amusing.
The ending was very tidy. I dunno. I have to think about the whole concept and decide if I’m a bystander for this stuff or if I can develop an understanding to the extent the time spent is rewarding.
Right now, all I want is a safari suit.
Aubrey Plaza and Jemaine Clement are gonna make one hell of a team. I can’t wait for 2018 and Season 2. This has been an astonishing coup for Noah Hawley with Fargo and now Legion. He’s captured lightning in a bottle not once but twice
Well, there is the Shadow King himself, who seems pretty formidable if not quite as strong ( witness the confrontation in the hallway with David ). Then from the nerf perspective, one presumes David’s natural abilities were amplified by having the Shadow King hosting inside of him. Maybe deprived of that extra oomph he is more just very, very powerful instad of very, very, VERY powerful ;).
And this all presupposes his scizophrenia was entirely situational. It may not be - I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that some permanent damage was done and David will never be entirely whole again.
I haven’t read the original source material, but I’ve been assuming that the story is called "Legion’ as a reference to the New Testament story of Jesus casting demons out of a possessed man. If so, then David may continue to have problems with parasitic entities.
There would be ways to keep this from being repetitive, I believe. But, who knows where the show will go?
Luke 8:30–And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
That’s surely the original reference.
But more specifically in the source material it referred to David having a severe multiple personality disorder wherein each seperate personality ( some essentially benign, some very much not ) manifested a different specific ability.
Random moment: I opened E7 by mistake when looking for E8 and the moment in the show it opened at Syd was in a single bed wearing headphones. Turns out it’s David’s bed I think (other references) but the point is on the wall beside the bed and above a lamp was spot lighted a poster with the word ‘Enceladus’:
As they say ‘make of tat what you will’ #randommoment
In some of his comics appearances, Legion actually brings the minds/personalities of others into his own mind. Sometimes to “save” someone dying, other times by accident. Legion is often depicted as being overwhelmed by all the personalities in his head - which may have been real people, or may be just figments of his own mind.
In the most recent series that focused on him - X-Men Legacy - he’d regained control of himself by creating a prison in his mind to incarcerate all his rogue personalities. And then there was a riot and jailbreak.
Who knows where this crazy show will go, but that’s always been a core part of the Legion character; it’d be a shame to drop that aspect, which is certainly drama-fodder.
A “President”? Why is that amusing?
A president carrying parasitic forces aspiring to be the King?
FWIW I absolutely loved the first few eps of this series but was heavily "meh"ed by the season finale. Doubt I’ll come back next year. Ah well. It had potential.
Really, they had go so heavy handed and so long with establishing that our secondary villain to date is loved by his husband and his adopted Black son? Oy.
Not sure the last bits of switcheroos even made in universe sense. ?David and SK go into Syd’s body (but from the first time we know the power remain’s in David’s body), then into Kerry from Syd’s body, uses telekinetic powers in battles (which should still be with David’s body), then SK jumps of his own accord after collision of David’s body possessed by Syd with Kerry’s body possessed by SK, into Oliver? Maybe Oliver having remembered that he was married to Melanie now is eager for another place to run away to, from that marriage (such seems to be humorously implied), that’s cute, but how does the rest make in universe sense?
I had hopes but the show seems to me to have been more decorative stylistic fluff and it initially looked like it was going to be more.