Legion

[aelfgyfu_mead]

So I've finally finished watching the second season of Legion! I have thoughts and feels! And they're all spoilery! I hope at least nialla42 will help me work through them!

Comments

[nialla42]

I agree the pacing was a lot slower. Possibly because we were past the first season set up and didn't need the time to (kinda) explain things

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Thanks for the link! I forgot you'd written on the whole season-I had read up to the point where you got to an episode I hadn't seen, the one with the alternate lives, and stopped reading there because I hadn't seen it yet. I meant to come back and then, of course, forgot.

So you're reading Division 3's treatment of Farouk and David as further delusions, and I can accept that reading. I wasn't sure what was going on, because they seemed to have dropped the really heavy-handed stuff about delusions, so I wasn't sure if they meant it to work only up to a point and no further, or to extend to the whole season. They did bring it back in David seeing the screens, which I guess I should have taken to mean yes: they're all sharing these delusions now. Except David, who has his own sets of delusions.

One more question that I meant to ask in my post: in the first season, Amy tells us (by telling other characters) how corrupted David's memories have been. He never had a dog; his shrink at Clockworks didn't know that. And she says at one point

[nialla42]

There were little seeds of various delusions throughout the season. Melanie had the delusion that she was going to be able to be with Oliver which let Farouk into her head (I've been wondering if she's a mutant or plain human), Syd believed what not!Melanie was saying about David during the "show and tell" where Farouk was selecting bits out of context to make David look like a villain that could eventually destroy the world, because she'd already been primed to believe it

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Oh, right! I had forgotten that the man wasn't Lenny, he was Benny. That's why I only found Lenny and not Benny in the Legion Wikia. My confusion is compounded by misremembering things: it wasn't Amy who walked in on Benny and David high; it was David's girlfriend.

But I'm relieved I'm not the only one who is confused about Lenny's actual existence and whether the person who is out there now, in what used to be Amy's body, is a real person who once existed outside Farouk's head. That they seem to recognize her when she goes back home (if one can call that home) suggests that she is-but then again, the first person to 'recognize' her has never met her and knows her as Cornflake Girl, and it's only after she announces that that all the other seriously drugged people accept Lenny as their queen. So she may not be the person who was there before.

Never was a cornflake girl
Thought I had a good solution
Hanging with the raisin girls. . . .