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How Do You Feel About Beat Poetry? [ FX's Legion]
Gustav
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Ok, how do you feel about FX's new television series Legion?
Legion is the story of David Haller, a curious man in a curious psychiatric ward with curious friends. We are told, as is he, that he has schizophrenia. But there might be more to it than that. After a startling encounter with another patient we, and David, start to have our doubts. And not just the little nagging doubts, like did I leave the light on? Doubts about that result in the decimation of the core truths of your existence. And maybe everyone else's existence. What follows is a man unsure of himself dealing with might be a secret war boiling in the corner of your eye. Is this onslaught real or is it just him developing a messiah complex?
It's an X-Man show.
It's the new hit show from Fargo's Noah Hawley. It stars The Guest's Dan Stevens.
Keep your spoilers marked to their respective episodes please!
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EDIT: By which I mean, are we spoiling episode 1 or are we spoiling everything up to a certain episode?
Im going to avoid the thread till then just to be safe.
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Episode 7
Like any kind of battle on an astral plane, or psychic battle type situation will have to contend with this. It felt unnerving in all of the best ways.
Cause the FX app has them up to episode seven I think?
Also Dan Stevens' facial expressions are a national treasure.
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To Expand on this with more spoilers..
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Seriously. He acts so hard with his face, it's amazing. Super expressive.
Also, I didn't even realize it was the guy from The Guest! That's cool, he's very good. Even better than I realized, apparently.
Do the random aspect ratio changes ever get addressed in any way?
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I just watched this and that might have been one of my favorite scenes of anything ever?
Also, I think David broke his own mind when he destroyed Clockwork in the astral plane. We do see him go through his own memories to get to the Clockwork illusion so that reality is linked to his own mind. It would be poetic for David to destroy the mad house and let the crazies out.
Paraphrased because I can't remember them exactly
When he is in the coffin with his own mind
"I'm your rational Mind"
..."And you're British?"
As well as during the classroom scene
"Is that your attempt at a English accent?"
What makes it all the funnier is that he is actually English! I didn't realize this until I looked up the actor.
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I cannot explain what's going on but I dig it.
Latest episode
But yeah, it was also from a metatextual way a great way to show a psychic battle. They are literally using the medium as a weapon. Which was brilliant on just a textual level, but that they actually made it work and super thrilling in execution is the cherry on top. I'd be hard pressed to come up with some better examples to be honest.
Oliver's glasses replace that with a silent black and white movie, changing their perception of the mindscape through his re-genre-ing of it. And that Oliver is a trendy sort of art house dude means he creates a trendy sort of art house impression of things.
And it's great that the show does that without spelling it all out. It assumes you are paying attention. Which is a nice touch, really.
Makes me want to play some Mage...
after episode 1 I was disappointed that they'd killed him off since I thought he was fantastically intimidating in an understated sort of way
and now he's back!
The editing quality in that whole scene where they are flashing from the room to the asylum to David to the telekinetic waking up in another mindscape to the room to the asylum etc etc etc is incredible. Like, it flows together so well, builds and builds to the crescendo of the whole episode and is so exciting to watch! Really great work there, they pulled together so many things going on at once, made them really clear, and kept the ongoing feel that this was all happening simultaneously with apparently effortless ease.
Great work
He's apparently only able to play one very specific type of character, but he's pretty good at that, it seems.
That is not even remotely the role he's normally associated with!
He's the guy from Flight of the Concords.
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And no
Don't be ridiculous.
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