Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

Awesome.

oooh

*ominous music intensifies*

fighting the urge to just post 'yesssssssssssss' to this thread every five or six minutes of this

I appreciate the psychic battle scenes, which have had myriad ways of visualization in the comics, being portrayed as surreal dance struggles

this show does such a good job of nailing the Marvel Goes Edgy And Weird aesthetic of fifteen years ago in the comics, by which i guess i mean it does an okay job of it, that i'm not at all able to maintain any critical distance

probably a question that crosses over with the comics board: what particular things do you feel like it's aesthetically close to from fifteen years ago?

They're definitely playing with some of the weirdness of Bill Sienkiewicz's visual ideas, but the aesthetic reminds me more of some Chris Bachalo stuff from the mid 90s when it comes to some of the sets and use of patterns and light.

for anyone enjoying the show and wondering about the earlier comics with some of the characters, this collection is still a buck at amazon if you're fine with reading the digital copy:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077ZG3DHQ/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

the cover seems to have been picked at random and has nothing to do with the contents

amusingly, the issues collected cover enough time over one of x-men's more tumultuous periods that they've inserted catch-up pages of text between arcs. even with those, the ephemeral bits happening seem ridiculous. "by the way, since the previous page, the x-men are now dead (but not really) and storm is a child. have fun!"

Maybe a little more than 15 years ago, but this show's clearly very reminiscent of The Invisibles and Doom Patrol! I'd assumed the only reason no one had explicitly said so upthread is that it's so obvious that there's nothing to say.

I know it's firing up the sic-signal but I find it curiously reminiscent of Steranko's Nick Fury run. Something about the slightly go-go costume design, slightly archaic but stylised technology and the psych undercurrents to David's experiences. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

My favourite bit was Cary Loudermilk dancing while David was in the flotation tank. Him dancing round while plugging 1/4" jacks into a giant panel made him look like a modular synth guy waiting for his new release on Tone Science to drop.

I keep waiting for swirling black and white or checkerboard patterns on things, which I was coding as Bachalo but probably move obviously is a Nick Fury thing!

xp

Movin’ and groovin’. #LegionFX pic.twitter.com/WKF4vkx4HR

— Legion (@LegionFX) April 4, 2018

oh maaaan i have missed this show

same as always, i dont know what i watched but i loved how it felt to take it all in!!

things i love
-the mustache girls who talk like Tina Weymouth in “Genius of Love”
-delusion chickens
-hexagons & shapes everywhere always
- dance off!!
- two of my favorite comedic actors doing the straightest, most serious faces is perversely hilarious
- BASKET HEAD BASKET HEAD
- vape elephant (rip vape frog?)

aldo otm re Cary dancing & plugging his plugs

probably a question that crosses over with the comics board: what particular things do you feel like it's aesthetically close to from fifteen years ago?

They're definitely playing with some of the weirdness of Bill Sienkiewicz's visual ideas, but the aesthetic reminds me more of some Chris Bachalo stuff from the mid 90s when it comes to some of the sets and use of patterns and light.

― alvin noto (mh), Wednesday, April 4, 2018 3:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heyo i was more thinking of the tone that arrived when they had grant morrison and peter milligan writing x-men books, the kind of awkward grafting of the tone they'd developed on vertigo and second-tier dc properties onto what still had to situate itself as mainstream and comprehensible. actually the second season is way more just straight up doom patrol on present evidence. i didn't mean visually.

things i love
-the mustache girls who talk like Tina Weymouth in “Genius of Love”
-delusion chickens
-hexagons & shapes everywhere always
- dance off!!
- two of my favorite comedic actors doing the straightest, most serious faces is perversely hilarious
- BASKET HEAD BASKET HEAD
- vape elephant (rip vape frog?)

cosign all of these

also 'that creepy thing they do with their teeth'
also i didn't even notice the narrator was jon hamm

ughhhhh the teeth was a huge pile of nope, that freaked me OUT

and yeah, Jon Hamm combining the Mercedes commercial voiceover & DSM nightmares, good stuff

first 30 seconds of this are momentarily amusing but there’s no way it needs to be 2:30 long (also lol @ the twitter acct)

lets get it started // legion pic.twitter.com/M7X8rJtH5X

— iconic scenes to iconic songs (@flghtscenes) April 4, 2018

thomp, that makes sense and I'd agree

-the mustache girls who talk like Tina Weymouth in “Genius of Love”

they sound almost exactly like the GLADOS computer from the video game Portal

oohhh you’re right

there are a half dozen things the basket-head guy reminds me of
http://comicsalliance.com/files/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-24-at-1.35.32-PM-630x628.jpg

i was hoping he would talk like Cobra Commander

i was hoping the sword in the stone bit would go on longer. B- episode

Not as thrilling or narratively compelling as the last, but that's a weakness of a lot of exposition episodes in television. Hopefully it picks up a bit.

this week's episode was a slight step backward, but i'm looking forward to exploring Syd's psyche next week. i think my favorite image of the entire season is still the cafeteria with the table river and the little boats bringing food. reminds me of something murakami might dream of.

the plot detail I've been trying to figure out is if this tv version of David is just a telepath and the Shadow King has other abilities? I assumed when he was doing all the wonky things (people dropping into the ground, being incinerated, etc) in the last season that was Farouk using David's powers, but now that he's exorcised, he's been doing those things in Oliver's body, too.

very minor nerd lawyering, here

David is capable of affecting the physical world too, like in the most recent episode when he teleported himself and the monk to the top of the building

yeah!

maybe Oliver's a telekinetic, too, and he's doing the incinerating

right. i think maybe the King is just a parasite that knows how to use his hosts powers better than they even do, kinda like Fry's worms in that one episode of Futurama lol

THE INEXPLICABLE LETTERBOXING IS BACK

Loved that episode. Even made Turtleneck sound good.

in the same vein i have a longstanding moratorium on dark moody covers but "white room" tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7ZP215n0A

I still haven't seen any of this show, but someday I'll binge it all (probably will buy the DVDs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqAkhDLhhw

Renewed for a third season, which will certainly be interesting after this week's finale.

This season started veering into hate-watch territory for me. I hope they right the ship next year.

same tbh. i stanned hard for the first season but this one was... not as good

Damn, I was just about to start this. What flubbed the second season?

A lot of nonsense-for-nonsense's sake. I didn't read the comic, so maybe it comes from there (wouldn't be shocked! The comic creators were pretty nutty), but the mustachioed robot women, the basket head guy, the random ninjas and dance-offs and other goofiness. Also, the elliptical dialog really started to creak, with every sentence trailing off, questions being answered with more questions, etc. This show needs a voice-of-the-viewer character SO BAD, to just shake all these weirdos and be like "WTF IS HAPPENING DUDE?!"

Also it's tough to get invested in a show which doesn't seem to have any rules. David is pretty much a god, and so it's hard to tell what limits he has, and whether scenes are taking place in reality, his mind, or the astral plane. We never see ANY normal people (or I guess if we do, they are just cannon-fodder), only this collection of weirdos, so that's also hard to relate to.

But if you liked Twin Peaks, then this will probably feel like CSI Miami to you, so ymmv.

Season was definitely a mixed bag but the highs were still very high

i lost interest halfway through because it felt overexplained ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

catching up

so would people say noah hawley has issues with women or

hell of a finale

three people played by the same actor yelling at each other to express mental illness is kinda .. not something to be doing in 2018 though

one should have been a dwarf obv

I liked the showcase episodes a lot, I'm happy that the next season will presumably have a lot of Aubrey Plaza.

This show needs a voice-of-the-viewer character SO BAD, to just shake all these weirdos and be like "WTF IS HAPPENING DUDE?!"

We never see ANY normal people (or I guess if we do, they are just cannon-fodder), only this collection of weirdos, so that's also hard to relate to.

Hah, we were actually laughing about how much use they got out of Dan Stevens' "WTF IS HAPPENING" expression, apart from the showcase for Normal Person Amy Haller, which was pretty clearly the "Dan would also like to stretch his acting chops" episode.

We took in the last three in one sitting yesterday, partly because we were near the end and partly because we kept having to remember what happened before.

The end is fucked up in, eh, more than one way.

Third and final season coming in June

ooooh

There’s no time like the present. Or the past. Or the future. The final season of #LegionFX premieres Mon. Jun. 24 pic.twitter.com/TEH5jfAT0d

— Legion (@LegionFX) May 7, 2019