Legion 2.03
Apr. 19th, 2018 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which the stylish nightmare fuel continues.
You know, other than adding to said nightmare fuel, I wonder whether all the Oliver voice overs at the start of episodes will turn out to be have a larger point, or provide some clues (for example: whom is he talking to? Himself, back when he was locked in his mind? Lenny? Future Syd? Faroukh?). Anyway, the question he poses this time around is disturbing enoughl
So is the teeth chattering, and I‘m assuming one reason for this particular speech at the start of this particular episode is that this is how the teeth chattering actually spreads - not through physical infection but by the mind. As to Faroukh‘s claiming he didn‘t start it but the monks did - hm. Could be either way. In the flashbacks David gets from the monk, we see more and more monks lose it while Faroukh‘s body through a considerable length of time - enough for a lake to turn into a desert - inflicts constant banging noises on them.
You know, Faroukh, your critique of Xavier the white imperialist waltzing into your kingdom would be a little sharper and less self serving if you didn‘t insist your subjects were perfectly happy before that. We‘ve seen how you treat people under your control. (Not so coincidentally, David retorts, „you fed from me when I was a baby“.) We also see it even the most „benevolent“ form now, with Lenny. While her various attempts to commit mental suicide were played for laughs in their ineffektiveness, the detail that really creeps me out is her telling David she tried to cut her hair and it instantly grew back. The other personae no longer having control over even their mental self image is very telling.
Cary and Kerry: were heartbreaking. These two must survive (and survive sane, I insist on it).
David actually gets to use his telepathy efficiently in this episode, with the two people he‘s able to release from their chattering coma, Ptonomy and Melanie. I do love the visualisation of their respective mental states, too, that the show really thought about what their respective safe places would look and feel like and came up with two wildly different things. Incidentally, re: chattering Syd, I don‘t think so, or rather, I think she wasn‘t in her body when this happened. Since every episode made a point of showing us Syd switching bodies with the cat, I‘m assuming either the cow is her or she did it with the cat again, and that‘s why David, attempting to get into Syd‘s mental maze by holding her body, entered what looks like a snow storm - she‘s not there.
(Mind you, I very much doubt any cat in the world would create a snow storm to feel safe in - but it might to deterr others from entering?)
Faroukh schooling David in how one version of changing timelines works, that if David succeeds the future version of Syd he‘s been talking to will cease to exist: also sounds like setting up a future plot point. I mean, as long as David has present day Syd, he‘s not going to angst about this too much, but if he doesn‘t have her anymore...
You know, other than adding to said nightmare fuel, I wonder whether all the Oliver voice overs at the start of episodes will turn out to be have a larger point, or provide some clues (for example: whom is he talking to? Himself, back when he was locked in his mind? Lenny? Future Syd? Faroukh?). Anyway, the question he poses this time around is disturbing enoughl
So is the teeth chattering, and I‘m assuming one reason for this particular speech at the start of this particular episode is that this is how the teeth chattering actually spreads - not through physical infection but by the mind. As to Faroukh‘s claiming he didn‘t start it but the monks did - hm. Could be either way. In the flashbacks David gets from the monk, we see more and more monks lose it while Faroukh‘s body through a considerable length of time - enough for a lake to turn into a desert - inflicts constant banging noises on them.
You know, Faroukh, your critique of Xavier the white imperialist waltzing into your kingdom would be a little sharper and less self serving if you didn‘t insist your subjects were perfectly happy before that. We‘ve seen how you treat people under your control. (Not so coincidentally, David retorts, „you fed from me when I was a baby“.) We also see it even the most „benevolent“ form now, with Lenny. While her various attempts to commit mental suicide were played for laughs in their ineffektiveness, the detail that really creeps me out is her telling David she tried to cut her hair and it instantly grew back. The other personae no longer having control over even their mental self image is very telling.
Cary and Kerry: were heartbreaking. These two must survive (and survive sane, I insist on it).
David actually gets to use his telepathy efficiently in this episode, with the two people he‘s able to release from their chattering coma, Ptonomy and Melanie. I do love the visualisation of their respective mental states, too, that the show really thought about what their respective safe places would look and feel like and came up with two wildly different things. Incidentally, re: chattering Syd, I don‘t think so, or rather, I think she wasn‘t in her body when this happened. Since every episode made a point of showing us Syd switching bodies with the cat, I‘m assuming either the cow is her or she did it with the cat again, and that‘s why David, attempting to get into Syd‘s mental maze by holding her body, entered what looks like a snow storm - she‘s not there.
(Mind you, I very much doubt any cat in the world would create a snow storm to feel safe in - but it might to deterr others from entering?)
Faroukh schooling David in how one version of changing timelines works, that if David succeeds the future version of Syd he‘s been talking to will cease to exist: also sounds like setting up a future plot point. I mean, as long as David has present day Syd, he‘s not going to angst about this too much, but if he doesn‘t have her anymore...
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Date: 2018-04-20 08:41 am (UTC)I am loving this show, which makes the original Twin Peaks, though not the recent season 3, look utterly normal.
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Date: 2018-04-20 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-20 04:05 pm (UTC)