Official Legion (TV Show) Thread

[Elixer]

While I did watch the first episode, I am PVRing the others, I feel this show is gonna need to be binged on to fully understand it, and go with the flow.

 

[ringtail]

After (epi 1) I was Wondering, maybe this will be good....
then (epi 2) was enjoyable and had intrigue,
the I crashed into (epi 3) which to me was a garbage disposal / Backyard Bowls blender MESS...

Initially I was a FAN.
after episode 3 I'm suddenly not sure I'll give my PRECIOUS TIME to more episodes....

Hollywood writer idiots.

 

[ctbaars]

I thought this was another all Canadian show. Not Hollywood.
Anyway, I think the show is great. I've caught up on the DVR and I think the show and the story is very creative and refreshing. Very intense.

 

[destrekor]

I love this show! It's just my kind of crazy.

Latest episode: woah.

 

[Elixer]

Renewed!

Only 8 episodes?

FX announced today that their X-Men spin-off series Legion has been renewed for a second season. The news does not come as a big surprise even though its ratings have been only passable the past few weeks. The show started out with a 0.7 rating based on the overnights for the 18-49 demographic, very good for a cable series these days, though it has slipped from there and been in the 0.4 range the past couple of weeks. But it has been more than doubling its numbers with delayed viewing (more important to the cable channels than the broadcast nets), and I’m betting that this show’s survival was not heavily leveraged on the linear viewing. The second season will likely be eight episodes like the first and it will probably debut in early 2018.

 

[Riverhound777]

I just finished Episode 5 and holy crap the last two are a trip! I'll have to rewatch to understand more, but it had me actually jumping and getting scared at the end. Not what I was expecting from the first couple episodes.

 

[destrekor]

Just you wait!

That last episode. Hoooollly shit. This show is intense!

 

[Malogeek]

I love this show! Is it weird I enjoy this much more than your standard Marvel superhero crap?

 

[destrekor]

I love this show! Is it weird I enjoy this much more than your standard Marvel superhero crap?

How would it be weird?! It's perfectly normal to enjoy a show that isn't a cookie-cutter superhero story. I enjoy all things Marvel, but this show just takes the cake. Now, I thoroughly love all things Marvel on Netflix, that darker tone, but I also enjoy the regular entries, even Agents of SHIELD. But the Marvel entries that are different, that don't take themselves too seriously, they really are a treat. Guardians of the Galaxy fits this mold for me.

Though I gotta say, this show took me by surprise. After the first episodes, I was expecting the show to hold the same style it had for the premier, that high energy comedy. For lack of a better comparison in mind right now, like it was perhaps a new Scrubs in that regard. Serious subject matter, pure comedy, though not afraid to show occasional glimpses of raw emotion.

I expected it to play the serious plot lines much slower, turns out it had thought otherwise, to never let up and keep throwing the punches, keeping the intensity dial turned all the way up forever.

Honestly, it has dived into deeper territory and is often far more terrifying than I ever imagined would become of the show. And I love it. I love having my expectations thrown for a loop like that.


Now, I did find one fault with the last episode, but it is a small fault at that: it seems there was an awfully strong moment of exposition, expecting viewers to simply accept them as facts when the concepts noted are far more profound than should be relayed in exposition. When David is at the chalkboard. I was not very happy with how that scene played out. I loved the art direction and the scene as a whole, but that information should have been relayed in a superior manner, of which there are many. It was glazed over, and really did not feel natural for David to suddenly have reached that level of self-understanding when we have been presented with a man who has no memory or understanding of his origin. And then he knows his origin as a baby, and motivations of a plot to seek vengeance upon his father?

Did anyone else struggle with that scene? Am I reaching? I rarely critique TV shows, and many moments like that I just accept as a necessary fact of storytelling, it just has to happen from time to time. Similar would be adapted versions of books that change one thing or another or have entirely different sequences of events with differing outcomes, or shortcuts with reality/fact to hurry up the background so that the plot is the focus and marches forward. All common elements of fiction, and forgivable when not in excess. But sometimes I also commonly accept "meh" TV more often than I do movies, of which I am far more critical; sometimes, a long series that gets to flesh out a story, even if sub-par, can be an entertaining escape.

 

[destrekor]

Oh last night was the season finale! Only 8 episodes!!

Man, what a damn good show. I'd say it's the most unappreciated of the shows I'm currently watching, but that honor goes to The Expanse. And that show is insanely great, by Syfy, so, ratings are so hit and miss on that network. A lot of DVR with that demographic, and they are counted in some capacities but I don't think the low numbers account for them on the basic reporting found on tv show pages on wiki. I'm hoping the other numbers NBCUniversal gets, include DVR, streaming (say, Syfy's terrible streaming service that was giving my Roku only 2.0 audio. Hell no, I found alternative means when my DVR missed an episode), and even episode purchases like on Amazon Video (and no, not prime, I checked and left disappointed).

This show's basic viewership reporting actually has respectable viewership. It's no Walking Dead or GoT by that measure, but those are rare gems.

 

[ctbaars]

Okay. What is the power of the gloved girl? The guys girlfriend. Doesn't she just mentally switch bodies only? Why would she be in the shower? Now I'm really confused ...

 

[destrekor]

I was wondering if anyone was going to revive this thread for this season!

I've been meaning to myself but, well you know, procrastination.
Haven't watched latest ep yet but this season has been awesome so far.

 

[zinfamous]

oh i didn't know it already started. i'll check if hulu has it...