So I noticed legion was avialable on one of my freebie things and I don’t rewatch stuff much but I was like. Yeah I liked that and gonna watch it again. Am liking it on a second rewatch and love the trippy way its done so I wonder how other people felt and looked at its rotten tomatoes rating. Wow. So realizing how unpopular it is I decided I would post my opinion here. I love it. My only issue with it is the body swap power seems to work inconsistantly.
EDITED - Figure I should edit this. So it turns out I was looking at the rotten tomatoes for the legion movie. Which I actually saw and feel is better than the 20% its rated I don’t have the strong feelings of how good it is as I am for the legion marvel series. So I now see the marvel series has great reviews and based on feedback here I realize it is not an unpopular opinion.
It was good. Went kinda off the rails later on, but it started very strong and even later it looked super nice and had some fun concepts.
If you’re going to go weird and deconstructive with superheroes it’s so much more interesting than the usual “bad Superman” The Boys crap. And it captures this weird 80s/90s British weirdness that Alan Moore or Grant Morrison brought to the proceedings in a way that has been almost entirely unexplored. The only other attempts I can think of are the Berlantiverse Doom Patrol, which, sorry, just doesn’t have the ability beyond superficial imitation and the current Sandman run. Which, weirdly, takes almost the same approach.
Legion found its own way to channel that weirdness in a way that feels native to the medium rather than copy/pasting comic book panels. I thought it was well worth the rough spots.
Yeah I like the doom patrol series to but it does seem more tacked on than legion because of legion/faruk’s powers lending itself to a malleable reality. Have not seen sandman but will keep an eye out.
There’s supposed to be a bunch of that in Doom Patrol as well, it’s just that… well, the type of production that show is just doesn’t allow for it, both creatively and in terms of what it’s able of constructing visually.