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Jonah Galtberg posted:This episode was one of the best things I've ever watched and I feel strongly enough about that to kind of dislike people who didn't like it even though I know how irrational it is to get mad over differences of taste Sorry about that (I hated it) Proteus Jones posted:I tried explaining this show to my 76 year old dad, and kept running out of words as my mind ground to a halt trying to describe it. I’m just going to show him the 1st couple episodes of season 1 when I visit and tell him, if you like watch more. It worked for the Expanse (he loves that show). "It's a mental illness TV show with loads of weirdness. Like Twin Peaks.".
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Jerusalem posted:This reminds me of all the times I'd try to figure out how Hannibal was an NBC show. Because I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Hannibal was an NBC show. With Parks and Rec as a leadin for the first season! And most episodes were TV-14 unless they showed a butt cheek!
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May 11, 2018 15:57
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I watch this show delayed a few days usually, but gently caress me did that last part with the 'Superman' song and the visuals get me. This show is so loving good.
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Jonah Galtberg posted:This episode was one of the best things I've ever watched and I feel strongly enough about that to kind of dislike people who didn't like it even though I know how irrational it is to get mad over differences of taste I didn't hate it, I just waited a week for David Goes Ham on the Shadow King and got that instead, so I felt cheated. As a standalone episode, it was great.
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idk how attractive this description is but Season 1 to me is a "psychadelic action therapy series". Also forgot to note one of my favorite things on the show so far was a recent episode where the intro says "Apparently, on Legion" instead of "previously on Legion" lmaoooooo
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Also forgot to note one of my favorite things on the show so far was a recent episode where the intro says "Apparently, on Legion" instead of "previously on Legion" lmaoooooo This is definitely a holdover from Fargo where you'd have different characters saying "Erstwhile, on Fargo" or "Precedently, on Fargo". I appreciate that Hawley sees every part of the TV format as an opportunity to build the mood of the particular story he's telling, even if it's just making a little change from what you're used to.
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I think it's also a nod to the notion that this season is all some dumb dream because comics.
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glad she is dead posted:I don't really give a poo poo about the future Sydney poo poo and the plot of the show in general other than as a vehicle for cool cinematography, music and fun performances, so I thought this was maybe the best episode of Legion yet. The Kubrick references were loving incredible - more like this pls. As emotionally engaging, draining, and amazing as this episode was, I'm still holding out hope for a solid 5-minute scene in this season that makes me feel as excited and entertained as S1's Bolero scene. This ep was like an hour long sad version of that. Edit: I am just now realizing that my favorite Hawley work (s1/2 of Fargo) I binged all at once while my lesser favorite work (Fargo s3 and s1 Legion) was watched weekly. I'm now convinced that Hawley's work all has to be fully binged. Get this man a Netflix deal, please! DaveKap fucked around with this message at 07:56 on May 13, 2018 |
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 Why does Syd look like this from the footage of the pool episode in the last episode? It's the same look from season 1 so they didn't change anything. night slime fucked around with this message at 08:47 on May 13, 2018 |
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That's Kerry, isn't it? Edit: Oh wait, the person in the middle?
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Uhh isn’t that just Kerry, psychokinesis guy and Ptonomy? Like the three who rescue him? Edit: no I just watched the end of the pilot on YouTube, it’s Syd...hmm. But I think it’s just a weird angle and distorted. Even if it was supposed to mean something they might have ditched it, there were elements of the pilot they seemed to have switched gears on. Blamestorm fucked around with this message at 12:33 on May 13, 2018 |
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DaveKap posted:It took me way too long to get to this point but I'm here with you now. Legion just plain can't have proper seasonal plot pacing. Period. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy each episode as its own individual amazingness. Considering Noah Hawley has a semi-mastery of seasonal anthology (via fargo... s3 forced me to add the "semi") it would make sense that he's failing a bit on a "proper" fully serialized plotline. That said, I'm now super curious how he'd handle an episodic anthology ala Black Mirror or Tales from the Crypt. This feeling of Hawley needing to be binged is exactly why I'm waiting to watch this whole season in one sitting, I felt that same sense of impatience and desire to see the next step all the way through each Fargo season and especially in S1 of Legion, so now I'm just giving in and waiting on all things Hawley. This probably won't hold up for a S4 of Fargo since I love that show too drat much to resist, but I'm holding to it so far on Legion despite really liking S1.
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Chokes McGee posted:I didn't hate it, I just waited a week for David Goes Ham on the Shadow King I don't think we'll get that this season. David used all the timelines to find out he get hurt or hurts in every one of them.
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incoherent posted:I don't think we'll get that this season. David used all the timelines to find out he get hurt or hurts in every one of them. except he’s already in this timeline so gently caress it, hit em with that rock like you’re the First Doctor without human companions 
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NowonSA posted:This feeling of Hawley needing to be binged is exactly why I'm waiting to watch this whole season in one sitting, I felt that same sense of impatience and desire to see the next step all the way through each Fargo season and especially in S1 of Legion, so now I'm just giving in and waiting on all things Hawley. I really enjoy watching Legion with some space between episodes as I find it benefits from reflection on what’s going on more than many shows.
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I am still seriously processing the last episode. I found season 1 to be good binging, but this one has way more of an emotional weight to it that I don't think would make good binge watching. Season one was more about trippy mind stuff so you got to see lots of cool stuff and a bunch of other things that didn't really give you all the feels as they like to say.
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I don't feel like this season NEEDS to be binged so far. That'd be a dumb thing to do for a show that comes out weekly. But I can deffo understand the perspective that having 2 weeks in a row almost entirely inside people's heads or alternate realities is a bummer, pacing-wise, if you're really into the race for Shadow King's body. Fake edit: Also, not sure on this but: are we all definitely expecting the middle of the season or so to jump back in time to David's missing year and catch up to the start? The episodes labels start at chapter 9 so I'm not even sure if that lines up mathematically but it seems telegraphed sooooooo?
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I don't feel like this season NEEDS to be binged so far. That'd be a dumb thing to do for a show that comes out weekly. But I can deffo understand the perspective that having 2 weeks in a row almost entirely inside people's heads or alternate realities is a bummer, pacing-wise, if you're really into the race for Shadow King's body. season 2 started at chapter 9 because the first eight episodes were the first eight chapters
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flatluigi posted:season 2 started at chapter 9 because the first eight episodes were the first eight chapters 
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lol whoops throw another on the pile
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Well,  Ptonomy
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Wait, hold on a sec here. Is the implication that Jon Hamm was canonically a meta-super-villian narrator who sent the delusion monster? Because that is pretty awesome. I love this show. Good call with Nicolas Jaar too, his stuff is perfect for this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RieXq8zGIc f#a# fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 16, 2018 |
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This will make you vomit
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f#a# posted:Wait, hold on a sec here. ...wait, the shadow king came out of an egg coffin did... did any of this happen? at all? did I even watch this show? AM I EVEN REAL?! 
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... Wait, what? Also, David at a literal kids table was 10/10 awesome. Sick burn by the Le Roi.
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I wonder who the dead French kids were. Also I remember the woman who dropped off Shadow King's body to the monks was an older black woman, like the one at the end of the episode.
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THIS THREAD IS A DELUSION YOU'RE ALL DELUSIONS
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I... did not care for that one as much. It's still good and has a few great parts but it's def not my favorite.
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I loved the reveal of all the shattered eggs, and David's instant (and almost happy) recognition of insanity.
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Loved David's little-boy-shorts dinner suit. Also Kerry with an axe and the legless vermillion pulling itself along. Oh and David using huge powers at the end there (with no need for fx when he popped in) Also the reveal that Admiral Fukyama looked pretty much normal, probably just dealing with his own issues about being seen by people, or choosing to build up his mystique, Young Pope style. It could have been either when it was used against him. The episode itself kind of reminded me of the last one of Counterpart. All this for that?? I mean, it was very big in-story, but feels like it was being built up to the audience as something more. Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 12:35 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 12:29
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Even though the show is barely about superheroes I do love it when David gets to use his powers in a more dramatic way, it's just cool.
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f#a# posted:Wait, hold on a sec here. No? Like that could happen but that wasn’t implied at all.
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f#a# posted:Wait, hold on a sec here. my takeaway was that the bird delusion was some kind of parasite the shadow king put in ptonomy when they invaded that one time - hence it being the most developed in him - and it spread to the others while convincing them fukuyama was the one causing their symptoms. whether jon hamm is a real character is a mystery still
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that was pretty neat.... what the gently caress is going on?
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double nine posted:that was pretty neat.... what the gently caress is going on? thread title
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Watching this show certainly leaves me feeling like I have a severe mental illness.
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I don't think we're done with delusions since we don't know what _caused_ the delusion in the first place, despite the narration saying that they start from nothing. The shushing woman in the rocking chair seems to be involved and might even be the source, somehow I think we're going to see the aftermath of it all (especially with Ptonomy), and we might even see a delusion coming to David (and him fighting against it)
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I had major Gaspar Noe vibes all the way through that. Just a phenomenal looking (and sounding) episode of TV.
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flatluigi posted:I don't think we're done with delusions since we don't know what _caused_ the delusion in the first place, despite the narration saying that they start from nothing. The shushing woman in the rocking chair seems to be involved and might even be the source, somehow Unanswered questions, ranked:
VERMILLION: Farouk's mind is strong, but the mutations are genetic, meaning "of the genes. Physical, not mental. DAVID: What does that? VERMILLION: On its own, the Shadow King's mind is powerful. But were he to rejoin his body, he would be unstoppable. and from season 2, episode 2: DAVID: Am I dead in the future? SYD: *stares* DAVID: Wait, am I dead? SYD: It's complicated. The merge gun is either going to have been previously used to hide Farouk's body, or more likely, Farouk plans to use it to create a new one. So I think Farouk's plan is to use the merge gun, his body, and David to make a Farouk/David hybrid. "David" doesn't destroy the world, Farouk does so while looking like him. Hopefully David remembers to remove the delusion from Carrie's head - or perhaps it's necessary for Carrie to create the orb in the future?
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