Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

god i love this show

new one excellent, best episode so far

No, I agree that the father is likely to be a element, either in the last two episodes or next season, but tbh with the show as it is now, I wouldn't be surprised if he was someone else.

I would like to clarify that my remarks here were taken out of context.

I haven't enjoyed any tv-nonsense as much as this since the parallel universes at war with each other in Fringe, which this series sort of reminds me of.

Not since Tomorrow's World have I had so much information dumped on me so elegantly by a TV show. Makes a really nice change from HBO-style sexposition.

haha i don't know how sincere that is, but i hope very because it's how i felt. i like that they waited so long to tell us anything and then did everything at once so you can't be sure what is material and what's colour. the timing was perfect for integrating the exposition into plot and character development, and like so much else with the show it really was done with style.

Hay! Mish! Link-la-ter!
Hay! Mish! Link-la-ter!

That is all.

Also I can't imagine this is a controversial view but it needs said: Aubrey Plaza has been killing it these last two episodes.

otm

xxp it's pronounced Hay-mish...damn

Either way excited to have him back, third-degree burns and all

took a while until i was able to get around to this episode but yes fantastic. glad they doubled down on the silent movie schtick. really want to see cary and oliver do more double act stuff. would be happy if last episode was just a big prison break action sequence, albeit i can't imagine that's where they're going with this

omg i looooooove this show

also who the fuck is cary

i mean i know who he is but i have no memory of him

Holy fuck at this week's episode.

Incredible

I'm not sure I understand the relation between the two clauses there, VG :)

But: He's played by Bill Irwin, he shares a body with Kerry, he seems to be the technical person in Melanie Bird's gang, he was I think first seen putting David into the MRI machine?

ok then who was the vegetative drooling guy they were wheeling around in the wheelchair, that melanie found stabbed in a closet, that they were calling cary

clearly I'm confused

I think you mean Rudy. I read this to try to sort out WTH is going on: http://ew.com/recap/legion-season-1-episode-7/2/

That's Rudy the barely developed character we're supposed to somehow remember anyway, yeah.

rudy. ok got it.

yeah I was like ok I don't remember him AT ALL, why do I care about him?

He's the one that can fling stuff around with his mind.

Yeah, Rudy's the one who flings doors and people over the horizon.

He's the one The Eye was impersonating in the house and was firing the machine gun at David and Syd.

He did seem to disappear from our screens though when they were at the institute type place travelling through David's memories.

Seems like a manifestation of the split personality. I wondered if that was what the main guy really looked like or saw himself.
Wasn't Legion shown as a paraplegic in one of the Xmen films or comic s? Trying to think what happens in X2 but I think Striker brings somebody into play that I thought would be the character. Very powerful psychic.

i did wonder if rudy's absence was a deliberate thing -- like we were meant to think something was up with that. i also didn't know his name until just now

i think there was one title card w/ 'cary!' where 'rudy!' would have made more sense, also

Really explicit Charles Xavier ref in the last episode. While David's in his mind classroom and he talks through being adopted, and left with his adoptive parents, he flashes back to being dropped off and there's a wheelchair with X wheels (plus the cartoon of the fight with the Shadow King totally looks like Charles Xavier).

Not to mention when David (not "Rational Mind David") affects a British accent he sounds remarkably like Patrick Stewart

is that a diff british accent than the actor normally has? i'm not up on regionalisms

Rational David is his natural accent - I'm not sure what voodoo chili is talking about.

There's a very brief moment where David (not Rational David) affects a third accent--when he says "sweetheart it's over I won, give me some sugar..." and his rational mind snarks, "is that a British accent?"

That part is distinctly Patrick Stewart-like

Lol yeah it kinda does, and he's impersonating his dad after defeating the Shadow King at that point

AND chalk dad is bald

He was definitely going a Pat Stew Xavier there for a moment, for sure. do not pretend that it wasnt BECAUSE IT TOTALLY WAS

this show is wonderful

I love the music in the credits

one of the best arrangements of bolero ever, too

Omg right!?

Yeah, that stood out to me too. This show is one of the most technically proficient I've encountered in sci fi. All of the audio design is superb, the music cues impeccable, the editing tight, and the mise en scene pretty inspired. I think at times this covers up for some shoddy acting / and slow, vague plotting.

It's so good that when Rudy doesn't make any sense, along with catching bullets, and Oliver escaping from a frozen diving suit without breaking the ice, or whatever, I'm fine with all of it. It's impressionistic comic book television, a thing that 2017 needed.

Yeah exactly

No spoilers as guess some won't have seen it yet but there's a pretty important post-credits scene this week so don't switch off once the credits start to roll.

dang

thoroughly enjoyable, well made show. maybe the best tv example of the comic book tradition of sophisticated handling of comparatively unsophisticated material.

ok that was dope

PINK FLOYD RULES

Is the post credit scene on every episode? I've been turning the show off when the credits roll until this week. So may need to go back and look at them for that if so.

No, just this week.

welp, that was kind of a dramatically unsatisfying ending

So many ppl are saying that but i didnt feel that way at all

after episode 7 the season finale would have had to be really amazing to not be a letdown.

I'd go with satisfying but slightly anticlimactic after last week (but was always likely to be the case).

Lots of Season 2 set up and can't wait to see the Jemaine/Aubrey double act.

I like that they let Jemaine sing a couple of times. It feels so right

I hope next season there arent any more slow motion fight scenes

That was my only peeve this ep. Like, we just had the house slowmo that lasted 2 episodes, stooooooop dragging these out

can we have like half of next season be jemaine clement and aubrey plaza doing a sort of wacky anton chigurh pilgrimage of evil