Testaments to the Boom Times to Come (Posts tagged LEGION)

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amatesura

There are two kinds of stories we tell our children.

The first kind: Once upon a time, there was a fuzzy little rabbit named Frizzy-Top who went on a quantum, fun adventure only to face a big setback, which he overcame through perseverance and by being adorable. This kind of story teaches empathy. Put yourself in Frizzy-Top’s shoes, in other words.

The other kind: Oliver Anthony Bird, if you get too close to that ocean, you’ll be sucked into the sea and drowned! This kind of story teaches them fear.

And for the rest of their lives, these two stories compete.

Empathy and fear.

And so I bring you tonight’s play, a work in five acts about a fuzzy little bunny who got too close to the ocean and what happened next.

Source: amatesura
Legiiooonnn can you even believe that these screencaps aren't edited can you even believe this monologue was delivered to us right through the fourth wall by Jemaine Clement in a leisure suit CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THIS X-MEN SHOW Legion X Men

theglintoftherail asked:

Thanks for reminding me (since I watched it a bit ago) how much Legion rules. (I am probably gonna watch it again pretty soon despite my long to-watch list!) I'm in a weird space with it where it's shot up the list to one of my favorite shows ever, yet I'm never sure who I should recommend it to because it's WEIRD AS FUCK. I've been pitching it based on if they watched and liked Twin Peaks or Hannibal or Fargo, but it's almost kinda weirder than all of those shows put together!

It is very weird!! It is Jemaine Clement dancing to jazz on the Astral Plane weird! Which I think means its closest weird corollary has to be Twin Peaks? No one does what David Lynch does, but Legion gets a damn sight nearer than a lot of things that invoke his name. In the weird, and also in the NIGHTMARE. Twin Peaks reminded me powerfully of my childhood nightmares, and Legion had a lot of the same ~effect~ on me. There’s a sort of primal simplicity to how both those shows do scariness, that’s pretty different to the kind of horror Hannibal was dealing in, say.

I started touching on this a bit in my last recap, but actually I find Hannibal more of a fascinating contrast to Legion than I do a comparison. Because they start out with so much of the same spooky shit, but the attitudes with which the characters in Legion respond to it honestly reminds me much more of a different Bryan Fuller show: Pushing Daisies. Like, is David or is David not basically what you’d get if Ned had Will’s storyline happen to him. And Pushing Daisies also brings in that thing you get off Dale Cooper as well: the delight of childlike wonder. These shows are sorta bravely sweet in a way I find so lovable.

So yeah I think my Legion litmus test would be something like Twin Peaks, Pushing Daisies, (probably Fargo but I have not seen that) (yet), and like, the people this was made for.

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