Anonymous asked:
Ok so it’s time to admit something
I don’t know how Spotify works
brianwilson2 replied to your post “LEGION Recap: 1x05”
“It turns out to be a white room by the sea, somehow kinda inescapably ‘80s to me? Someone explain this.” same and at least for me i think it’s because it reminds me of san junipero
oh my god
Actually come to think of it, Manhunter + Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ = Legion might not be so far off, themathematically
Well catch me laugh-whimpering to myself for days after watching THIS ONE, woof. Legion does horror, Tarra done lost her mind.
Season 1, ‘Chapter 5’
Fall has come to Summerland.
Rain is pattering through the evergreens, which have been slowly dropping loose needles and branches on the MRI machine in the lawn, making it start to look like some old Dharma Initiative pod. Appreciated.
Cary watches with intense anxious focus as they bring Kerry in on a stretcher. “Oh careful careful,” he whispers to himself. How about be careful with my HEART, Cary. This unendurable sweetpea!
Like a taut string has suddenly been cut, he wheels around and into his lab to help them in. The audio goes muffled immediately, the first of what will be many sound manipulations in this, A Very Auditory Episode.
“David,” Melanie calls through the hush a few times, until he walks over to where she’s standing on the other side of the glass. “I met your husband,” he replies in his mind. Oh BABE, you can send now! Oh my cracked little Xavier. “He’s a…Beat poet?” David asks curiously, but Melanie just gives him a sort of inscrutably terrified expression and glides off stage left.
Actually come to think of it, the fact that Oliver and Melanie are married is bewildering and wonderful. Hahahaha.
Later, Syd finds David sitting alone on a dock, as they do so oft. Two points of interest:
1. This dock is way crooked now, oh fuck me up with this MAGICAL REALISM. The season changing and now all this structural weathering — the sense that so much has happened in the seemingly week or so since David has left Clockworks that the environment is reflecting it.
2. In a whole run of incomprehensible outfits, this is easily David’s best look yet, omg, what is happening, I’m delighted.
invisible-to-the-touch-deactiva asked:
Let’s put it this way: if Deep Space Nine is the Star Trek show I apparently wrote, Legion is the X-Men show written for me.
And as I am a noted WEIRDO who fell into X-Men bittersweet headcanons first, has a regular springtime playlist that’s about half French songs from the 1960s and/or tracks from Wes Anderson movies, and cut my teeth writing Hannibal recaps, pun intended — your own mileage may vary.
:D :D So glad to spread JOY FROM WHICH THERE IS NO RECOURSE
And doubly glad over THESE THOUGHTS, which are themselves right up my alley! I veerrry agree that Wes Anderson, whose work I definitely think is being homaged at various points in Legion (that opening montage!!), achieves far more of a Brechtian distancing than these TV shows (although I can’t speak to Mr. Robot) (yet?).
My off-the-cuff take right now is that Wes Anderson is deliberately staging and composing his works to create the feeling of something….staged and composed. Like, he wants you to feel like you’re watching tiny actors acting out their tragicomedies in a diorama theatre. It’s tilt-shift without tilt-shift. So that’s what his scene-setting is doing — Bryan Fuller and Noah Hawley, to my eyes, are doing something different. They’re setting scenes to tell you “Once upon a time…” In fact, occasionally someone literally says that. So if Anderson is theatre, maybe Hawley and Fuller are storybook? Both those things often have distinct stylistic viewpoints and fourth-wall-breaking frameworks, but I think they engage an audience in different ways, possibly to different ends.
strangeassortment replied to your post : LEGION Recap: 1x04
Citation, because I’m a Proper Academic: businessinsider.com/aub… It was a pleasure watching with you <3
I should be so lucky to be able to watch ALL Legion episodes with you, and not just because you always cite your sources
theglintoftherail asked:
ALSO: would you mind telling me where you get (or how you make) your Legion screencaps? I went looking for an image of Philly in the real estate office to make sure I wasn’t misremembering, and I wound up having to just go on Hulu and fast-forward…
OOOOOOOOOO!
[laughs at own joke for far too long]
I had not paid any particular heed to this, but I sure will now! I love a visual theme.
And in fact, I hand-craft all my screencaps from whatever streaming service/network website is airing the show. After gettin my pile together, I then import each one into the copy of Photoshop Elements a roommate once gave me that was included for free with some actual legit design software she’d bought — which should give you some indication of the quality of that program — and try to clean those suckers up a bit. Tragically, it wasn’t until after I was no longer screencapping Hannibal that I did some poking around and discovered a far more sophisticated way to lighten shadows and adjust color contrast, which would have vastly improved those….
Anyhow, for fun here are Before & Afters for the Legion ‘Chapter 4′ Chains of Circles collection:
I don’t claim to be some sort of maestro at this, but they are better right? In addition to just being personally satisfying/meditative, it’s worth the time I spend doing this?
I have truly and too deeply loved many television shows in my time. I have written tens of thousands of words about some of them, hundreds even! But there have been a few among them that I have loved specially, personally. Shows that make me feel off-kilter in my joy, almost suspicious that someone peered into my soul, and found there a well of spooky sweet stylized absurdism, and they hauled up a bucket of the stuff, and from it made Twin Peaks, and Pushing Daisies, and Legion.
So that may be partially why these are only getting longer.
Season 1, ‘Chapter 4’
First up here I just want to give a quick shout-out to the masterpieces of cagey chiasmus that are FX’s episode descriptions.
FX’s Legion: THREATS, SEARCHING?? ?
Anyway full disclosz I first watched ‘Chapter 4’ with my bff Jen, right after consuming a strong cocktail, a cup of Turkish tea, some champagne, and a mug of ice cream in fairly quick succession. I proceeded to lose my mind THOROUGHLY and with GREAT VIM.
Here is how it started:
Me, singing at the black screen: “Shooww me Jemaine Clement!”
First shot:
Me: [scream]
“Good evening,” Jemaine Clement addresses us from his Mylar lounge, and like, yes Jemaine, it is, thank you. He proceeds to deliver a short lecture on human nature as the camera slowly pulls back. We are the root of all our problems, he proposes, through our own confusion and anger. “Violence, in other words, is ignorance,” he declares, and he should have stopped there, but then blurts out “Figure your shit out, that’s my…what I’d say.”
He scoops up his glass to take a drink, but the liquid inside has turned into a solid ice cube. It slowly slides out and falls to the floor, the camera obligingly zooming back in so that he can start over.
Hi so I love every fucking thing this scene is doing and I’m only halfway through it. Rather like me and this show I guess.
platoapproved asked:
It is a real and present AGONY to know that I have gotten people into Legion who have since so soundly surpassed me in amount of Legion watched
YOU CAN’T KNOW HOW I YEARN
