Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Feb 13, 2017 1:54:36 GMT
No one yet? Really?
First episode aired on 2/8 - and wow, what a ride. Full of wild, trippy visuals, hooking you *just* enough with display of powers to draw you in without going totally overboard.
"Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of Scott Young (Dan Stevens) - comic name David Haller - , a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, Scott has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 20's and free once again, Scott loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the daily life: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. Scott spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Shannon (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient whose life-long and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David's routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which David must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees may actually be real."
The way it's directed, you can actually feel the guy's schizophrenia. It's wild.
Anyway, if you aren't aware, Legion is a bona fide Marvel character, part of the X-Men universe - he's the secret son of Professor X and his lover Gabrielle Haller. He is one of the highest order of mutants (along with Jean Grey/Phoenix and Franklin Richards/son of Mr. Fantastic & Invisible Girl) and his abilities are beyond powerful and nearly limitless...reason being, he absorbs the personalities of people at the time of their deaths, and each personality controls a separate power. So, he has over 100 or so known powers (ranging from lycanthropy to telekinesis to tons of other stuff), and the potential to gain more. The show is starting to delve into the depth of his powers, which at the time even he doesn't know.
Although this ties into the X-Men world, it's in kindof a parallel arc so don't expect a Wolverine cameo just yet. Very cool premiere, so check it out!
Random easter egg: David's new girlfriend in the mental hospital is named Sydney Barrett, nickname Syd....obvious nod to Syd Barrett, original lead singer of Pink Floyd who spent time in a mental hospital for treatment of his presumed schizophrenia.
First episode aired on 2/8 - and wow, what a ride. Full of wild, trippy visuals, hooking you *just* enough with display of powers to draw you in without going totally overboard.
"Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of Scott Young (Dan Stevens) - comic name David Haller - , a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, Scott has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 20's and free once again, Scott loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the daily life: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. Scott spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Shannon (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient whose life-long and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David's routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which David must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees may actually be real."
The way it's directed, you can actually feel the guy's schizophrenia. It's wild.
Anyway, if you aren't aware, Legion is a bona fide Marvel character, part of the X-Men universe - he's the secret son of Professor X and his lover Gabrielle Haller. He is one of the highest order of mutants (along with Jean Grey/Phoenix and Franklin Richards/son of Mr. Fantastic & Invisible Girl) and his abilities are beyond powerful and nearly limitless...reason being, he absorbs the personalities of people at the time of their deaths, and each personality controls a separate power. So, he has over 100 or so known powers (ranging from lycanthropy to telekinesis to tons of other stuff), and the potential to gain more. The show is starting to delve into the depth of his powers, which at the time even he doesn't know.
Although this ties into the X-Men world, it's in kindof a parallel arc so don't expect a Wolverine cameo just yet. Very cool premiere, so check it out!
Random easter egg: David's new girlfriend in the mental hospital is named Sydney Barrett, nickname Syd....obvious nod to Syd Barrett, original lead singer of Pink Floyd who spent time in a mental hospital for treatment of his presumed schizophrenia.