Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

Lenny was apparently written as a middle-aged man until the show-runner met Plaza - she insisted on keeping the lines as was - which does explain her enthusiasm for the idea of having tits.

So awesome!

first ep really reminded me of brit series Utopia

(I liked it!)

This show is great, Rachel Keller is completely entrancing.

I think it's fairly clear that the dude is mentally ill in some way, even if Jean Smart insists that his delusions are just a manifestation of his ability.

feel like even if he isn't suffering from a genetic neurological condition years and years of dealing w/ his powers/hearing voices would be enough to do longterm traumatic damage

This show is great, Rachel Keller is completely entrancing.

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fuck... it literally never occured to me that i wasnt watching rachel blanchard

second episode was super creepy

man I am loving this

just finished ep 1. just now realizing how funny it is that only when charred skeletons started falling into the swimming pool did my wife say "that was weird."

lol

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that children's book

right?!

at first i thought it was maurice sendak's pierre but it was much darker

having the faceless shadow-dad makes it way creepier

feel like they're eventually going to get over this syd no-touching thing by having telepathy mind sex

yeah i think so too, it's got a short shelf life otherwise lol

hoping she meets someone else whose with a superpower that lets her fuck that person instead, just to drive the hysteria level up

sound design in this is so great, the way they so clearly layer voices to whispered, tinny, etc

Yes, I've been meaning to say that too. Dan Stevens' tic-acting is wearing incredibly thin for me but the approach to sound design is really something else. I don't think I've ever seen a TV show be so adventurous (I guess the "going crazy" aspect gives them this license)

The whole MRI business was about to give me a goddamn heart attack. Hey Bill Irwin - love your work but your character needs to get fired I think

yeah that MRi was terrifying noooope no thanks

I am vapefrog

otm

#vapefrog

Just caught up with the first 2 eps. Love this. BF made the observation the story moves in a rather Slaughterhouse Five way which I thought was a good point (if not perhaps on purpose).

I liked Dan's ticcy schizoid mannerisms!

How close to the comic/Xmen universe is this hewing?

At the moment:

. David Haller is a character in the X-Men comics
. They say the word 'mutant'
. Er...
. That's it

All the other characters in the show appear to have been invented for it (though what is reality, etc)

Right. So, the thing that immediately spoils this guys backstory if you look him up on wiki (ie who his parents are) is not going to be relevant or a thing here? I guess no one knows now that I type that out.

yeah, doubt it's a thing, but who knows?

It occurs to me they did have that memory scene where he couldnt see his dads face...

well now you have to know the spoiler that in the comics he never met his bio-dad until he was a teen and was raised by a stepdad

AH! ok that makes sense. Yeah I dont know this comic's story at all tbh. I dont suppose that will matter?

not a bit

a dude on the nerdist website did a recap on legion's comicbook backstory & i was like O_o O_O whuuuuuut & then I had a stroke

I am assuming that the reason this is a mutant story is that it was an easy way to get it made. But then I never watched Fargo - is that tightly tied to the film, or just an excuse to set a story in an insular town?

it is very tangentially related to the film--there are some archetype characters that are similar to major characters in the film (and one major piece of connective tissue), but it tells its own story. Season 2 has nothing to do with the film, as far as I can remember.

I feel like Legion's attitude toward its source material is probably similar to Fargo's. Wolverine's not gonna show up, ya know?

OR IS HE

i was trying to think what x-men cameos would be tonally appropriate w/ the show. xavier maybe?

I'm sorry, he's "Logan" now

xp

Fargo is so good. It has virtually nothing to do with the film.

That said, I'm afraid to start this. Is it still good after three episodes? (Haven't read thread yet).

i was thinking rogue might be good but syd is essentially thematically rogue already

xp it's still good, JiC

Wolverine was always Logan? Which isn't even his real name but an alias he *mumbles off into comic oblivion*

just a reference to the new movie which is titled after his new/old name

they call him Logan all the time in the movies!

half of The Wolverine was him imagining Jean saying "logan" interspersed with the actual plot

whatever his name is he's not going to pop up in legion

OR IS HE

James Howlett, the hairiest plot loophole

Holy christ new ep was scary as fuck

Is it still good after three episodes? (Haven't read thread yet).

I'm finding it simultaneously really creepy and a bit boring. Episode one, yeah! Great! Exciting! And now we're all sitting around twitching and talking about our feelings and sharing expository dialogue and delving into the same memory over and over again and it all feels a bit stuck. Maybe I'm just watching it too late at night and I'm too tired.

True, she has all the worst lines, but she doesn't do much with them compared to everyone else and it sticks out imo (at least in s2).

still love her performance in season 1