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Oasx posted:I couldn’t disagree more, telling people what episodes of a tv show to watch is terrible, and should never be done. You wouldn’t tell people to skip chapters of a book either. Personally I would have been happier if I skipped that one and since this week's episode started with David saying he'd like to keep trying I wouldn't be missing the plot either. But you do you.
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to me the whole lenny vs david sequence was like inner monologue of david's personalities fighting. Switch was definitely under david's control when he was passing well being to others she passed out as well. I wonder if we are getting somekind of reveal after david's war against division 3.
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Jul 16, 2019 14:39
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Not sure why, but I started to think that Farouk was making moves in a long con this previous episode. He seemed eager to drag people that were not Syd into the "time between time" for his own purpose, after he alone tidily handled the blue meanies on the air ship. I wonder if he's somehow looking for a back door into the sort of power that Switch possesses, and this is his real play?
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hatelull posted:Not sure why, but I started to think that Farouk was making moves in a long con this previous episode. He seemed eager to drag people that were not Syd into the "time between time" for his own purpose, after he alone tidily handled the blue meanies on the air ship. I wonder if he's somehow looking for a back door into the sort of power that Switch possesses, and this is his real play? he definitely created a situation where he looked like the hero, saving them with a scimitar and whatnot and presumably no one there realizes the reason all the meanies disappeared is because they were reminded that david is god
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Jul 16, 2019 15:12
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That VFX article is cool, I had no idea the vermillions have so much prosthetic work on them
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By popular demand posted:Personally I would have been happier if I skipped that one But you also know now that you don’t like the episode and so you can skip it in the future without missing anything. But someone who is watching the show for the first time might love that episode, taste is subjective after all.
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Jul 16, 2019 16:15
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It's me, I'm the guy who thought that episode was interesting and worthwhile. (although admittedly nowhere near the best)
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Jul 16, 2019 16:23
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why the gently caress would you skip eps on a first watch, because some guide told you to? watch the fuckin eps and make up your own mind god drat
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Ersatz posted:It's me, I'm the guy who thought that episode was interesting and worthwhile.  I found it pretty compelling overall. Creepy, but appropriately so.
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Wafflecopper posted:why the gently caress would you skip eps on a first watch, because some guide told you to? watch the fuckin eps and make up your own mind god drat Knowing myself, I would have promised myself to skip episode 303 but then I'd watch it immediately before or after 304 because I suck at prioritising my free time. But in that case I'd have no one to blame but myself, which somehow sucks less than expecting a good episode and getting disappointed. I make no case for my taste in comforting thinking.
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Jul 16, 2019 18:04
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Such a good monster concept, in a show where the main characters are basically gods it takes real skill to have something actually scary happening
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I liked the hospital episode a lot. I rewatched the first episode to look for parallels and noticed some interesting ones. There were obvious ones like cherry pie, sketching, etc, but there was this scene I didn't even remember where David is wheeled around in a catatonic state after taking his medicine. The audio begins distorting and his eyes are slits, then Syd comes into view and he jumps out of his chair, mirroring how Gabrielle suddenly is at the window after being "healed" by Charles. Some other subtle ones are the scene with Charles and Gabrielle looking out the window, similar to the one where Syd and David do the kissing illusion thing. They both use their powers to get out of the hospital, with David's "escape" being accidental and tragic from killing someone, while Xavier's is intentional and relatively benign. David is in the mental hospital because he attempted suicide, while Xavier is in it because he made a person commit suicide, and I think "kill yourself" is thought by both characters in dialogue. Gabrielle is in the hospital and has "no one" because of the concentration camps, while Syd is loosely in a similar predicament because of her isolating mutant power. By the end of each episode, someone else's powers have assisted David "kill" someone by accident. Lenny is killed by the Syd body switch and only continues to exist as a consciousness, and Gabrielle is catatonic now from Switch traveling in time. Both Charles and David are arguably better off before they decide to go off to meet other mutants, maybe David less clearly so.
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Chalks posted:Such a good monster concept, in a show where the main characters are basically gods it takes real skill to have something actually scary happening I thought about that too and how it was like ten times more exciting than the X-Men movies where every threat is conceived to have Professor X be useless in assisting it because he's dead/powerless/comatose/under a delusion.
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I wonder if Farouk was leading the others on somehow with the astral plane thing, or if David is just that much stronger than him.
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Oasx posted:I wonder if Farouk was leading the others on somehow with the astral plane thing, or if David is just that much stronger than him. Well, Farouk and David both killed exactly one time demon, so... Who knows what Farouk might have been able to pull off given some more time?
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SimonChris posted:Well, Farouk and David both killed exactly one time demon, so... Who knows what Farouk might have been able to pull off given some more time? For some reason they thought David was way more of a threat. I guess they figured they could beat Farouk with numbers in turn based time but david owned them in continuous time by being active in every turn simultaneously if you want like a videogame analogy. Episode kind of reminded me of that Buffy episode from way back in the day where they can't talk and these weird monsters are doing surgery on people. Curious to see what the long term effects of the time loss is. Also like that Deep Space Nine where Sisko gets stuck in time and is haunting Jake with Lenny.
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Mostly enjoyed the show but them talking about monsters that eat time just made me think of the somewhat decent Stephen King short story The Langoliers, which also was a terrible movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_2LpM3gNj8
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Jul 17, 2019 00:35
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On the less regulated forums the fan base for this show is unbearable. It feels even worse than Skylar from Breaking Bad because the leaps in logic are even greater. It's my favorite show. 
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Edge & Christian posted:This was actually addressed in the original comics, though in a way that makes it clear that it's a Chris Claremont comic from 30+ years ago: PTASD
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Jul 17, 2019 03:50
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Wow! I haven't felt tingles of fear up and down my back like that since the introduction of the Weeping Angels. Those Time Eaters are supremely creepy. Uggggh. My skin's still crawling. Excellent job as usual.
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B33rChiller posted:Wow! I haven't felt tingles of fear up and down my back like that since the introduction of the Weeping Angels. Those Time Eaters are supremely creepy. Uggggh. My skin's still crawling. I thought it was a brilliant episode. Even the sepia postcard action movie.
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Rocksicles posted:I thought it was a brilliant episode.
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It bears repeating on this page that searching for "time eaters" will get you to some spoilers for future things in an interview (and pictures) with the FX guys. You have been warned.
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I really liked that, but I am always a fan of "broken" time episodes. But yea, Cary taking Switch with him realizing that David was controlling them was great. David is clearly going to go off the deepend because he has zero moderating influence, as Lenny is just going to push him to be worse and worse, and without Switch he can't fix time the way he wants.
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Jul 17, 2019 06:44
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Well that episode was fantastic (and whiplash) and even if I have trouble with how they managed some things with this show, it'll all still be worth it for Season 1's Bolero sequence and this: https://i.imgur.com/G7HhAOB.mp4 It's a shame that those time demons are most likely not gonna show up in the next 4 episodes because I would've loved to have an entire season of those buggers. They're probably the best monster creation I've seen in media since... I don't even loving know.
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My impression is that David is not controlling Switch, but that Cary just assumed so, she just went with him to be safe from the time eaters.
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They're really leaning into the arm chopping motif: Syd last season, David earlier in the season, and now a time demon. I'm kind of hoping that time demon turns out to also be Future Syd somehow, but Legion doesn't generally followup on its fantasy/scifi weirdness and I doubt we'll hear about the time demons again. The only storylines that get followup are interpersonal drama.
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Oasx posted:My impression is that David is not controlling Switch, but that Cary just assumed so, she just went with him to be safe from the time eaters. By popular demand posted:It bears repeating on this page that searching for "time eaters" will get you to some spoilers for future things in an interview (and pictures) with the FX guys. So... about them showing Syd talking to her younger self... The fact she's admitting that she did love David (gently caress the suggestion that David had manipulated her from the first episode on) makes me think that they actually, somehow, possibly, just might reconcile the absolutely stupid way the plot went with all that poo poo. I honestly thought they were just going to ignore the end of Season 2 and try to move in this forced direction but there's now a renewed hope in me. Good poo poo. Good episode. God I hope they can finish this show strongly.
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I want more time eaters too, the big question I'd like answered is were they humans once or are they some natural cosmic manifestation shaped by the imagination of heavily stoned Beatles fans? I don't want like a whole episode on that but I'd like a hint or two.
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Jul 17, 2019 12:08
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I love how this show uses practical effects. Any other show would've made those Blue Meanies pure CGI, and they probably would've looked fine, but probably not much better than your run-of-the-mill video game monster.
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I think a lot of it was CGI replacement, it looks like they have wide open jaws in a few of the scenes I was freeze-framing through
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Is anyone able to squeeze this down to avatar size? The various online tools that I have tried can't quite do it.
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By popular demand posted:They were Practically built and then enhanced with CGI, which I find to be the best approach unless you got major motion picture kind of money. So they're Blue Meanies? They looked like that dude from Nier to me.
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Jul 17, 2019 22:02
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Hey y’all this episode fucken ruled.
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Jul 17, 2019 22:39
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that poo poo owned so hard goddamn
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That, my friends, was some sweet action.
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That's the first time I've felt the fear from a piece of media in a long time. Great work, creepy as poo poo, everything about it.
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