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David broke bad

groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

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???

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link

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.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link

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?

untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link

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

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link

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.

Mordy, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link

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

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link

*self-contained, not self-Fontaine’s,

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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.

DJI, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link

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

untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

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?)

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 3 May 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link

three years pass...

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.

50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:27 (seven months ago) link

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*

is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:56 (seven months ago) link

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

50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 28 August 2023 19:03 (seven months ago) link

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

mh, Monday, 28 August 2023 19:37 (seven months ago) link

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).

50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 28 August 2023 20:35 (seven months 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


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