Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

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

Damn, I completely dropped off the train on this show right on start of S2. And I was heavily into it.

yeah i fell off too! :/

S2 was not as satisfying as S1, but I’m ready to give S3 a shot.

plus Preacher’s back in June too

ooh yay :D

I remember really enjoying an awful lot of Season 2, but have no memory whatsoever of what happened in the end.

David broke bad

Those who’ve watched the show and read the comics: can someone explain how david’s multiple personalities relate to his powers. I know that in the comics, his power is to absorb abilities as personalities, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in the show. Yet his increasing instability seems to be directly related to his split personality in the show?

What gives???

This season has been a massive improvement btw, the fairy tale episode from last week was batshit in the best way. Makes me wish Mantzoukas was in everything.

They haven’t really delved into the personalities bit in the show, although they’re setting that up to be the drop in the finale, maybe?

In the comics, he originally had multiple distinct personalities (although only three iirc, and a couple were based on actual people he’d absorbed during a bombing) that each had a different power, and didn’t coexist in the real world, although they interacted in the astral plane. This evolved over the years — he’s had moments of clarity where he could command a multitude of powers, and also periods where there was a mental prison/hotel of sorts where he could interact with characters with different powers and bring them to the forefront or “steal” their powers for use.

I’m kind of surprised by how little has been explained in this season and the finale is either going to give us a piecemeal explanation and some resolution, or a fuller explanation and less total conclusion, imo

For instance, what is up with those time wraith things?

I think the time demons were always lurking in that hallway, waiting for someone to destabilize the timeline enough to set them free

if i dropped out on this midway thru last season can i jump back in this season and not be totally lost? i love zouks and i'd give this show (a show i liked a lot in the first season) another shot to watch him in it.

Zouks is only in episode 6, which is totally self-Fontaine’s, so you could always just watch that

*self-contained, not self-Fontaine’s,

I loved this season! The ending was surprisingly sweet, and some of the visuals were really beautiful: The stop-motion bits, the creepy-as-fuck time demons. I loved the ending for the poor toothless time-traveler, and I felt like the more out-there stuff was more purposeful than in season 2. I plan to re-watch this once they put it out in HDR.

I need to rewatch it in a more focused manner but the good episodes were up with the best of the series and I feel like the ending was as good as we could get.

It didn’t quite hit it on the nose but as a tale of people who were damaged, as everyone is, it became a tale of extraordinary people striving for a better conclusion

We finally got around to finishing this, watched most of the last 6-7 episodes over a week or so. I think I was a little let down by the way that some of season 2 seemed to be cut up into digression episodes - though that said, the one of these in season 3 was excellent - the promise of Jermaine rap battle led us onwards, and by that time we were hooked.

I did like the use of Pink Floyd's 'Mother' to indicate this is a very cliche son-mother thing, it happens.

There's a lot of actors I'll be looking out for because of this - Rachel Keller, Amber Midthunder, Bill Irwin (though holy shit, I just found out the's the other guy who isn't Robin Williams in the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" video), I don't think I'd even seen Dan Stevens before - but man, Hamish Linklater is definitely the catch.

(Should I watch The New Adventures of Old Christine?)

Recently finished season 2 after initially bailing awhile ago, and this show finally clicked for me (and my partner), although I apparently have the exact opposite opinion of most people in this thread. Season 1 had too much dream logic and pointless psychedelia and I can't remember many details, but season 2 felt way more focused and purposeful (except for that whole thing with the black oily idea monster that crawled inside people's heads, although that worked thematically). My partner actually joined in after I was a few episodes into it and ended up rewatching almost the whole season, and a lot of little things in the early season really hold up once you know where it's headed.

Just started season 3 and I'll allow them one music video/musical scene per season, there better not be any more, lol. Also a little skeptical of Farouk just being one of the team now, but maybe they have plans to contain him once David is dead/captured, and I assume he also still wants to kill all non-mutants after that gets taken care of.

Just started season 3 and I'll allow them one music video/musical scene per season, there better not be any more, lol

*noah hawley nervously taps feet and looks around*

Haha. Also, sorry but Rachel Keller is often kind of bad in this?

the character is very flat, but imo that’s kind of what she’s given to work with

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