So awesome!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 07:56 (seven years ago) link
first ep really reminded me of brit series Utopia
― sktsh, Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
(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.
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:57 Bookmark
fuck... it literally never occured to me that i wasnt watching rachel blanchard
― r|t|c, Thursday, 16 February 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
second episode was super creepy
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
man I am loving this
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
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."
― El Tomboto, Monday, 20 February 2017 04:38 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.mymbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Legion-1.02-Chpater-2-vapour.png
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
that children's book
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
right?!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link
at first i thought it was maurice sendak's pierre but it was much darker
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 05:35 (seven years ago) link
having the faceless shadow-dad makes it way creepier
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:35 (seven years ago) link
feel like they're eventually going to get over this syd no-touching thing by having telepathy mind sex
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah i think so too, it's got a short shelf life otherwise lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
hoping she meets someone else whose with a superpower that lets her fuck that person instead, just to drive the hysteria level up
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:46 (seven years ago) link
sound design in this is so great, the way they so clearly layer voices to whispered, tinny, etc
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2017 09:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah that MRi was terrifying noooope no thanks
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
I am vapefrog
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
#vapefrog
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 February 2017 08:41 (seven years ago) link
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)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 February 2017 08:58 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah, doubt it's a thing, but who knows?
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
It occurs to me they did have that memory scene where he couldnt see his dads face...
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
AH! ok that makes sense. Yeah I dont know this comic's story at all tbh. I dont suppose that will matter?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
not a bit
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
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?
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
OR IS HE
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
i was trying to think what x-men cameos would be tonally appropriate w/ the show. xavier maybe?
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm sorry, he's "Logan" now
xp
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
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).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
i was thinking rogue might be good but syd is essentially thematically rogue already
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
xp it's still good, JiC
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
Wolverine was always Logan? Which isn't even his real name but an alias he *mumbles off into comic oblivion*
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
just a reference to the new movie which is titled after his new/old name
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 February 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
whatever his name is he's not going to pop up in legion
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 February 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 February 2017 03:15 (seven years ago) link
James Howlett, the hairiest plot loophole
― mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Holy christ new ep was scary as fuck
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 February 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― trishyb, Friday, 24 February 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
So on a scale where 1 is "Trapped in a MRI machine while Mike Myers' Fat Bastard is staring in at you and about to touch your feet", what does the new episode score?
Trish, I haven't seen the new one yet but yeah the second one tried to have its cake and eat it, intercutting between scary soldiers in the woods and their largely unconcerned prey. But I could watch another 8-9 episodes which are just memory hi-jinks, so I'm okay with that.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 February 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
still love her performance in season 1
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 August 2023 23:18 (seven months ago) link