Image professor X starts his school, and we get to see them meet new mutants through him and David searching. I feel like there’s a bunch of things that are different about this shows universe, such as no magneto, and I’d love to see more of it.

I have completed 80% of the series re-watch. I’ve had a sort of running list of David’s quotes from the 3 seasons. Mine are below. I would love to hear what ones live rent free in your heads in the comments.

1. To Lenny in chapter 23 : “if you can’t be nice, then I can’t be nice.”
2. To his mother in chapter 23: “this isn’t about the world. This is about me. “
3. To Lenny in chapter 19: “There is no blondie!”
4. To Switch in chapter 20: “I’m the magic man!”
5. In chapter 8: “Who am I without you? What happens to me when you’re gone ?”

S3 was the best season imo but it was a lot weirder than the previous ones

Like wtf is up with the wolf? The whole Astral plane thing was def one of the stranger parts of the season

Also how the hell did Lenny's girlfriend get pregnant??? Or the cow?? What the hell was that??

If there is a product by any part of Marvel made for screen that has as much or more depth to it than this series I would definitely like to know about it. I really am glad that so many people are still discovering it or are revisiting as I am. I have a small hope that enough people will create a new spark that would bring it back to life in some aspect. A new series is not probable but would definitely be wonderful. Growing up with the comics as "my friends" I could feel the pain in characters like Havok, and to see him softened so much in the film was awful. This series was redemption. Even if they didn't get everything quite right with my experience with mental health, you can sure as hell see they tried and I personally appreciate that. And who's to say what they got right because everyone's experience is going to be different, you know? Again, I'm just glad it exists and people are still paying attention.

The beginning was amazing. I was really enjoying a truly original show for once in a long time. Until they decided to make him the bad guy and the girl who basically got in others peoples bodies to have sex and whatnot decided to use the "you raped me" card. It was such a forced effort to make him the bad guy it was rediculous. But I guess it was her MO: I mean didn't she send her Mom's boyfriend to jail for abusing her because she got in her body to fuck him in the shower? I mean... After setting that kind of tone the shows goes and starts with the shitty #metoo preachy crap. It is the best example of double standards I have seen: in-show and in the audience.

Please make a Legion movie, or make an appearance in Secret Wars

Came here to say the ending had me COMPLETELY in my feelings 😭 I was crying for two days straight, it’s so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. I watched the first season several times, could never make it through the second but finally committed to getting through the entire series a couple weeks ago and it was absolutely A M A Z I N G.

I was just searching for the album for the music from season 2, entitled It's Always Blue. Before I finished typing it all out, Chet Baker's version of It's Always You popped up. I don't know if the phrase with 'blue' is connected to that song in any way or not, but it does sound like who David is in the series. It's always him, we'll, at least Legion is always him. I don't think this explains the "It's Always blue" lines in the series itself much, it was just an association made just now. I haven't looked at the lyrics yet, but probably should.

The music for season 2, and more in the other seasons as well, has a lot of covers of older songs, so it could perhaps have a loose connection in some way. I could just be wildly speculating here, but thought I would mention it.

Also, I wonder if there are any references to Pink Floyd's Chapter 24 in Chapter 24 of the series..(?)

Mine is 100% Chapter 14 (S2E6). Watching Dan Steven’s play a bunch of different David’s from diverging timelines was amazing. So entertaining. Also this was the episode where David saw a mouse singing Slave to Love by Bryan Ferry. Also the Clockwork Orange bit was sweet.

I checked the soundtrack out on Spotify. It says he’s on it. But I can’t tell if he’s singing/talking in it or not . Upon my first watch I thought it was Jim Morrison from the Doors. But after watching Fargo for so many years and seeing him interviews/knowing his voice. I’m pretty sure it is him. Pretty badass haha. That edit of White Rabbit rocks. Sounds like an early Doors song.

I was rewatching season 1 and thought about how you never see much of David's adopted parents and they're not brought up a lot. I then noticed in Episode 2 David talks about how his adopted dad died while he was still in clockworks and he seems really emotionally choked up by it and how you never see his adopted dad's face, even David brings this up asking why he can't see him.

Then it all clicked, Farouk would have tried to wipe them away as much as possible from David's memories because he considered David his child. Farouk literally stole David's memory of his parents faces.

Although it feels almost gauche to wish it, i must ask: with all the speculation that DP3 will in some part function as a swan song for the Fox X-properties, would any of you want to see David, Farouk or any of the gang pop up in it?

This is just my 2nd time through and there are so many details I missed the first time. You really have to pay strict attention to this show.

EDITED FOR CLARITY Although I start my post referencing the comics, my question pertains to the decision to have Professor X appear during Season 3.

From the very beginning, people wanted to know of David’s father would appear on the show. In the comics, David’s lack of a relationship who’s father is one of the catalysts to villainous turn The first question was which Prof X actor would fit into the story: Patrick Stewart or James McAvoy? (As Hawley discussed this in some interest)

The second question: will he reference his work with the X-men? There has been no shortage of hints and anecdotes Charles Xavier. Farouk, the Mi_Go monks, Clarke-all reference his power. After of the buildup and whispers, we finally got to see the professor in season 3. What is your opinion of his inclusion in the back half of season 3? Did he live up to the hype?

Is there a singular place to find all of the amazing cover art for the show? I saw someone recently with a tattoo from one of them and I’d like to do the same

I know I am late to the game I just started S3 and holy fuck the hypocrisy....... Everyone switched on him so fast and gaslit him it being evil....... They told him so many times that he is evil and that he becomes evil and they have to prevent him from doing this thing that they pushed him into that role......

I know I am late to the game I just started S3 and holy fuck the hypocrisy....... Everyone switched on him so fast and gaslit him it being evil....... They told him so many times that he is evil and that he becomes evil and they have to prevent him from doing this thing that they pushed him into that role......

I'm a professional actor and lifetime geek. Grew up reading & watching X-Men and other comics, collected cards, and pretty much haven't stopped discussing comic book stuff all my life. Recent comic shows I enjoyed were Loki and Wanda/Vision.

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Let's start with what I liked about Legion:

All the design -- set, costume, hair & makeup, lighting were all really awesome!

The concept is fantastic and lends itself to TV.

Syd (Rachel Keller) and Clark (Hamish Linklater) did great acting work, and it took me a while + some research to truly and finally appreciate David (Dan Stevens).

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Here are my problems with it:

The director/show runner/writer Noah Hawley. It's a top-down issue here with Legion, and it's apparent.

Overall Acting: I'm certain all the Legion actors are good at their craft, but their performances felt forced onto a tightrope to fit Hawley's vision. I know how it works on set with directors, and it's so obvious to see he infected affected everyone. It felt like actors were acting both against type and against characters; either giving too much or too little.

Overall writing: It's like student-film level of bad. The characters CONSTANTLY didn't communicate with each other about basic things, nor did they follow basic logic. Plus so many times characters were just standing there while another did something utterly brainless and destructive to their plans. Come on! It felt like watching idiots betray themselves over and over. Not just that, but an absurd-level of action timing. That's bad writing. In addition, some of the dialogue was adolescent and seemed to pander towards teenage edgelords.

Lastly, the editing: Directors & showrunners do the editing with the head editor. So again, it's Hawley's hand on the wheel, and in this case, just spinning it wildly while blindfolded. What an utter mess of editing. Yes, I've read the show is supposed to be from David's point of view, but that's not what I'm getting at. It's like showing a closing door nearly totally closed, but then oh wait it's still super wide open in the next shot... or the lazy slow-motion to drag out mundane moments in order to fill with a song, or the dialogue that doesn't match connections to the next scene. That's just really, really garbage editing, and it happened through the entire season, dozens of times per episode.

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I love marvel. I love most of the movies. Lots of TV shows. The concepts and stories. I really, really wanted to love Legion for the story potential, but the way Season 1 was presented makes me not want to continue.

Does it get better in season 2 and 3 with the acting, editing, and writing?

Thank you for any insightful discussion you can give on the topic.

Idk why I dreamed about this as I had literally finished watching the show months ago but I had this weird dream about running away from monsters, and when I looked in the mirror I saw the angry boy with his knife staring at me it was so damn realistic, then when I looked back he was gone. Then he kept trying to stab me every time I saw him in the mirror 😨😨😨

I think I've started and stopped trying to watch legion at least 3 times. I haven't gotten past episode 1. Admittedly I've tried to watch as background noise/distraction during WFH (work from home). The first episode is a jumbled mess. I know at least once I tried to give it my undivided attention but it just didn't capture me. Should I push through, does it get better?

I mean, Future Syds whole thing is that she has to stop Future Evil David, right?

Why not just go back and save him from the Shadow King in the first place?

All of Summerland and D3 remind me of the kids in Highschool whose lives are so boring that they attach themselves to people who live with actual problems just commiserate and convince themselves that they are doing something helpful.

In the final, Switch/Time says "Sydney Barrett, Gabrielle Xavier and the infant David, the universe acknowledges you..." but Kerry is sitting right there. Can time not see then clearly bc of the dual temporal identity thing or was there something else going on?

The fact that she helped an ancient primordial mutnat that previously literally mind raped the child of someone trying to help the mutant race is just...mind boggling.

The Shadow King is literally one of the most hated mutants on Krakoa and in the MCU because of him being the embodiment of everything wrong with telepaths.

She'd get boo'd off Krakoa with what she pulled.

"omg he gun end the worl gunna help a man who sexualizes everyone he sees and mind rapes ppl".

D3 and Syd deserved a way worse fate than the one they got.

I guess the show itself captured the tragedy of David's character from the comics.

Only difference being in the comics Xavier betrays him and in the show, it's some mutant with one of the most useless powers a mutant could have.

So I swear I’ve seen this house before in person. Is it from downtown Pasadena, ca from the Craftsman district? Anyone know this answer? I’d love to know. Thank you!

These coins have caught a case of the chattering

https://youtube.com/shorts/xlh0Cy-4Jho?si=d7z0sq_pzlbvGEZj

I watch a lot of comicbook shows, i like comics and i want to give as many adapted shows a chance but fucking shit we Do Not Need Jeph Loeb to be involved in every single one. Less Jeph involvement please. Now Steve Blackman as producer on Legion and Umbrella Academy is exactly the kind of weird strange and colorful I want more of.

From set design, to music, to character development and amazing time mind fucks. Finale had me sobbing.

Also anyone know if they’re doing a spin off or are there comics on switch? (time girl)

And the cinematography. Like this seems like it's going to be good all the way through on every level.