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.

  • dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io
    18·
    3 days ago

    looked at its rotten tomatoes rating

    You looked at some shitty movie of the same name lol. The show is highly rated.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I mean marvel mutant and he originated in the comics but im not sure he has ever been part of a team or had his own comic.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        There was definitely at least one Legion comic book series. That’s where the character came from.

        Yes, it’s a great show. Noah Hawley made it, who also made the Fargo series and stuff

          • Mister_Feeny@fedia.io
            2·
            3 days ago

            You’re correct, he came out of a new mutants arc, back about 40 years ago. He did also eventually get a solo series, as well as sort of a team series, but those were much later, and certainly not where the character came from. He was just a character that would occasionally pop up in X books for many years before actually having a book. Unless the other person was more just saying the character came from A comic book series, not specifically a Legion one.

            But anyway, X-Men Legacy (Vol. 2, 2012) was basically a Legion solo book. Si Spurrier wrote it, had 25 issues, and was a lot of fun.

            Then Si Spurrier returned to write Legion of X, well into the Krakoan era. Was basically a team book of Legion, Nightcrawler, Juggernaut, Pixie, and maybe someone else? Legion and Nightcrawler were definitely the main character focuses though.

            Neither resemble the tv show in any way.

            • HubertManne@piefed.socialOPEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              my comic days were win the eighties and nineties with the majority of that being in the middle 85-95 span.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I wasn’t a fan of the show but I do find it interesting the range on the main actor (Dan Stevens).

    David from Legion:

    Mathew Crawley from Downton Abby:

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    6·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’m playing PEAK with some friends, and one is always slow and behind, and his name is David. So anytime we call out to him, I say “Davidddddddd, hello, are you with us?!”

    Also yes fantastic show.