Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

yeah i have found it p funny all the way through

Whaaaat no the angriest boy and YED arent funny! Dear god, theyre frightening!

idk most of these things read as vague campy weirdness rather than actual humor, especially a conchord reciting ginsberg

clement's comic turn seems to operate on some of the same levels as syd's incongruous noir narration, they're there to indicate that Oh We're Doing This Now

actual humor is garbage. surrealism and people who think they're hip but are insufferable, when you watch other people have to suffer them, is funny

You're an odd fellow, thomp.

mh 😏 otm

I think my major block for this show rn is that I just don't find Dan Stevens' performance or the character (whose name I honestly cannot recall right now despite having watched all eps so far which is maybe an indicator) at all compelling. also it's depressing to watch Aubrey Plaza re-enact Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys.

See I'm not getting that feeling from either of them. And Aubrey's become quite malevolent in the last episode! (srsly what is with the whites of her eyes. Is she wearing billiard balls for eyes?)

I'm convinced there's eye-light touch-up done in post..

Halfway thru most recent one and it's great but I agree about Stevens. Just don't need all the facial reax nonsense. Would it kill him to just say "really?" instead of *squint* *raise eyebrows* *tilt head* *frown* "really?" Also starting to not care too much about his past and his book etc. You were scared of stuff and were into drugs who the fuck wasn't

lenny http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12052003

lol

hmm yeah some kind of shadow king, other consciousness infestation

that was like watching one of my bad dreams dear god.

Man, Bill Irwin is a national treasure

reread some old comics after the show, kind of see some of the inspiration

would people appreciate posting of comics images if I get around to it (no possible spoilers)?

I would

that wd be cool

time to put that marvel unlimited subscription and my ability to crop screenshots to work

There was an interview with Noah Hawley a while ago where he was fairly firm on the fact they wont be following the comics much at all tho.

Tho its obvious now we do have the Shadow King, right? (from what little I know of the story).

The last 10 minutes reminded me of that Buffy episode where no one could speak!

Also, what the heck with the last scene? Were they teleported back in time? Is that a fakeout Clockworks? Waahhhh?

Man, Bill Irwin is a national treasure

The bit where he realised no one could hear and he yelled MOTHER FUUUUUCK and gestured "see!?" and then Bird shakes her head, that was awesome.

https://gfycat.com/ShadowyCrispKawala

I watched this with my missus and afterwards noticed that we both went completely silent when the show did.

I assumed that the last scene was David taking everyone away in the same way that he did to Syd, except Lenny is in control. The 'next week on' definitely leans that way.

whaaaaaaat a mindfuck holy shit, how much scarier can this get jfc

gonna just fall into my old Fringe habit & just roll with this & see where it goes instead of trying to "get" it

also i dont think i want to hear Rainbow Connection for a v v long time GAH

Ha yes his version was so broken and full of terror. And man the words fit! Especially the bit he didnt sing:

Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

gaaaaaaaaaaah

lol sorry <3

I commiserate, this episode was like one of those bad dreams I have where everything is too dark and I'm desperately trying to turn lights on and they wont come on and I cant talk or move.

the negative security-cam footage of the yellow eyed man freaked me the fuck our

Yeah that was horrifying. And a real whiplash bcs 5 seconds earlier, I was giggling at Dan gleefully dancing thru the halls, flicking his hands and obliterating soldiers into random body parts and nothingness. Then it was like hahahahOH DEAR GOD

TBH I'd well worked out what was going on by that point though. The way he acted like another personality was done quite well.

I didn't really twig until they said it and then I was like OH OF COURSE DUH

I was a little too creeped out by his having fun at maiming people and destroying property while making light of it to laugh. Like realizing the guy you have thought of as a friend has had a knife pressed to your throat the whole time, you were just having too much fun to notice.

(Sure, it's the "bad guys" but given it's a malicious personality doing this, it's irrelevant who he did it to)

And now of course Syd is thinking "wait, did I fuck David or the monster?!? Ewwgh!"

yeah fucking hell

and her story of her first time was like um O_O

extra um O_O

I can't be the only person thinking a) Holy Jesus that's fucked up and also b) as soon as she turned back, she'd turn into him? Or does her power have a cooldown?

what? her actual body was in the other room

oh wait, I see the confusion:

her mom's consciousness was in her body, which stayed in the living room or w/e, her consciousness was in her mom's (which she took into the other room)

Yeah, and after it wears off, her body rubber-bands to her consciousness...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And then would she have likely swapped with him at the moment, assuming they would be touching each other?

Yeah it took me a while to work out, but yes when she touches someone and they swap minds, when it wears off, the *bodies* swap back not the minds.

So yes, the bf would have suddenly found he was fucking his stepdaughter or whatever she was meant to be to him. WHich was sort of left uncommented on.

It is funny to think on though: David was the one who said "you dont want to go in my head. You wont think the same of me afterward" but arguably Syd's done worse.

Mind you this will all be moot if it turns out Syd is just one of his personalities which I am still ready to accept could happen.

I bow to everyone's logistic excellence and am kind of glad I didn't puzzle out this startling rape/unintended sexual encounter drama while watching the episode

Yeah it only occurred to me on post-show thinking. Gross.

Hm a thought occurs: what if that wasnt Syd's story? What if it was the YED?

I'm not down for extrapolation just yet

Ha you sound like my other half. "why do you always have to try and work everything out before its happened goddammit"

oh, I always work stuff out, I'm just enjoying this one as it rolls

They seem to play fair with who the POV character is, I think.

while it's not position I understand where 'im indoors is coming from