Legion Season 1 Episode 3 "Chapter 3" Review

And this is more playing out like a psychological thriller slash horror, especially this week. And I think that's great. I think it's great to take the superhero universe into different areas. This isn't quite the first time we've seen it done to this degree. When Jessica Jones came out, I felt that Jessica Jones the superhero kind of took a backseat to her being an abuse, um, victim of, you know, pretty much a rape. And, uh, it was just, um, you know, about all of those elements. And her superhero origins kind of was in the back seat, and it was still just this very interesting show as she dealt with having these powers and then at the same time dealt with being an abuse victim. You know, and being able to basically stand up to it, to find the strength to fight back her abuser. And I just thought that that was awesome how they did that and how well that worked. And there's similar things happening with this show. And every week I'm just impressed with the direction of the show. It's holding my interest to a T. You know, as I said in my first review review, if they kept this part of the show going, that I would be on board, and I thought it would be a great show. And it's almost like they can read my mind. They have done exactly that. Another comment I want to make before I just delve right into it, guys, that, you know, with these mutant shows, with these superhero shows, these comic book shows, we've seemingly had this one-dimensional storyline going, and that's, you know, the government against the mutants, the mutants against the government, the mutants not trusting the government, things like that. We have a similar element here, but it's taking a backseat to that. That's kind of secondary to what's going on with the story. But, you know, we've seen that in all these, you know, from the Avengers, the Avengers or Captain America: Civil War dealt with the Mutant Registration Act, and, you know, the fear of mutants and things like that, and just folks totally solely on that, but I like to see these shows showing us that they have range to go off into other areas, still hold our interest, and still be loosely based on these comic book, uh, adaptations. So guys, I'm very impressed with what I'm seeing so far. Uh, this week, guys, we get, uh, David, David Haller. Um, David's still pretty much thinking about the situation with his sister. Um, you know, as we left off last week, he's concerned about his sister. He wants to rush in and save his sister, but before he can do that, he needs some help. He needs to know how to work these powers, how to use these powers. So, um, they're taking him back under observation with the doctor from last week. You know, we recall the last time they, um, tried to, um, help David, he ended up tossing the MRI machines, uh, you know, outside the building, several, you know, several doesn't feed away. And so there's this kind of funny scene this week where the doctors, you know, basically letting David know, please don't break any more of the equipment. And David's like, you know, I can't promise that, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen. And sure enough, you know, once they start to place David under observation, they start to trigger something in his mind where, you know, he starts to have this conversation with— I believe her name is, uh, Lenny, played by Aubrey Plaza. And, you know, we, we, you know, we understood that in the previous episodes Lenny was, was killed when Sydney swapped places with David and she didn't know how to use his powers. Lenny ends up dead. Now Lenny kind of inhabits David's mind. Her memories some kind of way have been absorbed, or her being, into his mind. And they're having this conversation. She's talking about about how, um, you know, the people at— and I believe the facility that Dave is at is called Summerland, if I'm not mistaken. And, you know, Lenny's basically letting him know that, you know, he can't trust anybody. He can't trust, uh, you know, the, uh, the people that he believed, you know, are helping him and things like that. Uh, so, um, you know, uh, things just get crazier and crazier, um, you know, as Dave is, you know, going through his various memories. He starts to exhibit, you know, several different types of powers. He actually just starts to levitate in the room. He seems like he's about to destroy the facility, similar to what happened last week. And Sydney's there this time. She rushes in to try to, you know, be of some help, to try to comfort David, you know, at her, you know, you know, place herself basically in danger. And as she rushes in and she's impressed with the, with these extraordinary abilities that David's exhibiting. Uh, she's sucked into, you know, David's, uh, power of mind as well. And, uh, they actually kind of do this, uh, it's like they're on the astral plane, they're kind of projecting themselves. They project— they actually project themselves out to where David's sister is being held, uh, with, uh, Division 3. Um, you know, we know that Division 1, I believe, was the You know, I'm assuming Division 3, you know, might be their, you know, their higher level or something to that effect. But this is the, you know, the older gentleman who's kind of running the Division 3, and he's kind of sitting behind the scenes. You know, he's come down and he's, you know, part of the questioning of David's sister. And we also have the the other character that kind of has the perm here. I believe he's called the Eye, and he seems to have some kind of mutant abilities as well. And he's there during the interrogation. So we get to find out that— well, first David and Sidney, they actually kind of teleport there and You know, they can kind of see everything that's going on, you know, with David's sister, the questions they're asking her. And the Eye, his mutant ability must be that he can see, um, you know, things other people can't see, because apparently he's able to see David and Sid standing there in their projected form, and it's not their physical bodies. It's kind of like this hologram thing going on, and he reaches out to grab them, and they're they zap back, you know, to, uh, David's body. And but he actually ends up teleporting their physical body outside of the facility as well, and they kind of reappear in a pond outside the facility. They're still, you know, at the facility, but they're outside the building in a pond. Uh, so, uh, was kind of a little bit puzzled there. Looks like he not only was able— they were not only able to project themselves out, but actually able to physically teleport themselves as well. So apparently David has a lot of different types of abilities he's starting to tap in, seemingly accidental. But, you know, you know, as it was brought up, he's the most powerful mutant they've ever seen or encountered. But David's sister is at— is, is at the— is with Division One, and she's being questioned about out, um, you know, basically, uh, the idea that David isn't who she thinks he is. She's thinking that Dave is just sick, he's, uh, he suffers from schizophrenia, he needs to take his medicine, and she keeps repeating to them, but they're letting him know, letting her know that David is not sick. David has tremendous powers, powers that we find it hard to believe that you weren't aware of. And, you know, they start to kind of go back in her history and trying to, um, you know, uh, you know, find out if there was nothing that she found out of the ordinary as they were growing up, you know. Um, you know, no displays of power, uh, you know, if she thought there were ghosts in the house because things were moving seemingly by themselves, you know. And David would be moving these things, you know, she was kind of dismissing it as maybe it was just ghosts or things like that. And so, you know, I guess she's starting to think— David's sister, you know, starting to think back because it's looking like either she was aware of incidents with David like this, you know, she had to be, or her memory as well has been suppressed by something or someone growing up in the house, you know, same as how Davis's memories have been suppressed and hidden away for some reason, whether that reason be either for his own safety or to limit his abilities so he's not effective. We don't really know that yet in the show, but the strange thing about that scene is it's seeming like the Vision 3 has some very valid points that a being like David moving around with powers unchecked would be a danger to not only himself but everyone else. And we know that his powers are a danger also to himself because we remember in the first episode where he's kind of having the episode in the kitchen and the objects are flying by him and they're actually hurting him as well. They're cutting him. So he's not he doesn't have any kind of protective field around him when he's using the power. So, you know, I just thought what Division 3 had to say about the situation with David was quite valid. And that, you know, they don't— the way that the doctor was talking to the sister, he didn't seem, you know, all that much of a bad guy. But, you know, the thing is, I don't know what was going on with the eels. No interrogation method seemed to be or harsh methods were seemingly used on the sister. So maybe those things could possibly be some kind of way to use powers or stop them. They may serve some purpose other than the purpose initially I thought they were going to be used for, which was going to be something dealing with interrogation. And, um, you know, so as David, uh, you know, and Sid, you know, come out of the pond, and after they've teleported from, you know, back from where Division 3 was having— holding his sister, uh, you know, he, um, has this conversation with the, um— and geez, I can't remember her name. I had known it, but she's, you know, who I call the Charles Xavier figure. And, uh, You know, she's basically telling David that, um, he's so powerful and, and how he's, uh, you know, he has this memory, he's repressing his memories and how he's keeping them out, which he keeps denying he's doing. But they're saying they believe it's David doing this, that she doesn't feel that she can help him, that perhaps they've made a mistake. And that she could be making it worse. So David's taking this like she's giving up on him, you know, but at this point they're becoming very much afraid because, you know, David, they can't control him and they don't know really what's going to happen next. She also tells them this story about the character of I, who was back at the Division 3 interrogation, you know, basically letting them, you know, giving them an idea of how he was able to see them and how he was able to, you know, reach out to try to grabbed them, you know, and that he himself is a mutant, you know. But it goes a little deeper than that, that her husband had built the facility of Summerland to help other mutants adjust to their abilities, and that I was a mutant who wanted to hurt people, you know. So he didn't fit into the idea of why Summerland was created to help mutants. He, he had this tendency, as she explains it, to, you know, to hurt people. And so, um, you know, she also warns David that, you know, hey, you know, you guys can't keep going back there because eventually they're going to be able to, uh, you know, not only trap you all but track you all back here, and they'll come in and kill everybody. So, you know, not exactly sure how the Eye would be able to do that. Maybe he has more abilities than what we could see, you know. Maybe he's able to kind of, you know, get into their minds as well. I have no idea, but they were very much afraid about what the Eye could do, you know, in regards to David kept going back there and his powers weren't, you know, up to par to deal with Division 3. But in addition to that, they also come up with this plan that there may be one way that they're able to try to get David back his memories, to try to get his powers under control, and that is through sedating David. You know, they want to sedate him, they want to shut him down, and David's willing to do that. Sydney wants to come as well, but David really doesn't want her to join in because of the dangers, you know. And so basically they're able to sedate David and And Sydney's able to convince David to go, you know, for her to go in and things like that. So they're all— they all go in once David's under sedation. Um, and we get this very touching scene where, you know, inside David's mind while he's under sedation, we get to see this younger version of David. And, you know, this kind of representing certain aspects of David's mind, the more innocent, the more calm part of David's ability, I guess, you know, to reflect this again, you know, that, you know, that it's a more calmer space inside David's mind, you know, under this, you know, under the sedation. And, you know, you know, in this place, we know that Sydney has this ability to— when she touches— when she touches anyone, she'll swap places with them. But inside David's mind, it's safe for her to touch David. So get this really emotional scene where she hugs David for the first time. And it's something she can't do once she leaves there. So they're moving along through the various aspects of David's mind. And Sydney is seeing a lot of things David didn't want her to see. You know, as David's warned her before she's went into his mind, that, you know, there are things about me that you won't like, that you'll start to see me different. You know, we— you know, David's, um, uh, you know, basically revealed— is what they find out once they're in his mind— that he is a junkie. You know, they know he's a junkie, that he was, um, you know, did a lot of drugs and things like that. And, um, you know, a lot of strange things start to happen. They, uh, David, you know, the younger version of David starts to run off. Sydney's pursuing him. Uh, everybody's been cut off from different sections of David's mind, you know, in inside, you know, his, his mind. And as they— as Sydney's pursuing, as Sydney's pursuing David Uh, they're all being pursued by the demon, you know, the yellow-eyed demon. Um, and you know, you know, as I have been saying in earlier episodes, you know, this demon, uh, when he enters David, when he comes on the scene, it's almost like a type of possession. Only David could see the demon, but now for some reason Sydney can see the demon as well. You know, she sees the demon earlier, she warns him about the earlier when they go into his mind. When she went into his mind the first time. And then she sees him again when they all go in whilst David is under heavy sedation and they're being pursued by the demon. And, you know, Sidney's basically begging David that you got to get us out of here. The demon, you know, the demon's, you know, right on our tracks. He's gonna kill us. And, you know, it must— it seemingly works because Sydney is able to come out of the memory of David. And whilst in there, we recall from the other week's episode that David's, the book, The World's Angriest Boy was being read. And this was the story being read to David. And it's this very, horrifying, terrible account of, you know, this, this little boy who, uh, his mom forces him to go to bed, and when he doesn't want to, and, you know, he basically cuts off his mom's head. And, um, you know, as we get to the end of the review, I'm going to give some speculations about what that might mean. But this, like, cartoony character is coming alive in David's mind, and he's pursuing them all over. David's mind is really creepy. And we also got, you know, again, the demon, like, demon doing it, uh, you know, who, um, I speculate could be from the comic books, uh, a main character. And but, um, she, uh, convinces David, or some kind of somehow reaches a part of David that's able to send her out of David's mind. Everybody else is still under in David's mind. And so Sydney's trying to wake everyone up, you know, uh, to get them out of the dangerous situation. And she's successfully able to, to wake everyone up, uh, but David. You know, she can't wake David up. And, uh, um, uh, you know, we get, um, but before she can wake up— I'm sorry, the character here, like, uh, Professor Xavier, and I gotta learn her name, um, again. She's found out— she has come across the book in David's mind, The World's Angriest Boy. So she's starting to put together some pieces of what it could mean, and she's going through the book trying to ascertain more information. The book closes on her, on her hand. It looks like it takes off some limbs and crushes her some digits on her finger and crushes her hand. And she's just, you know, I'm just going crazy, you know. And when she's pulled out of the dream, when she's awakened by Sydney on the outside, you know, she can't determine if it's real or not. And the Black character, he's who creates the, you know, who's known as the memory artist. You know, he's able to calm her down and let her know that it's not real. That we get to see her hand is perfectly fine. But, um, you know, uh, just of, you know, you know, just very horrifying and terrifying experience, you know, inside, uh, David's mind. And, uh, as the episode leaves off, everybody's now outside of David's head. They're back, but David is still under. And in the, in the, uh, last scene, we see David, and David is, uh, just being barred by dozens and dozens of people just screaming at him, all these beings inside his head. And, uh, David's just kind of in the middle, uh, covering his ears, uh, trying to deal with all these voices in his head. Just an awesome episode. This was an excellent episode. I, I can't— my review can't do the episode justice like I wanted to. Because the scenery and the cinematography and there, you know, the way that they shoot this show and the way that they use the imagery to represent these, uh, various, um, memories and, uh, in David's mind and these various projections, uh, is just awesome. You know, it's awesome. And that's why I like so much they picked this character like David to do where we can kind of go inside his mind and see all these interesting things going on. It'd be symbolic and representative of different concepts and ideas that emerge, these abstract ideas that kind of take these various forms. And I just thought that's just so awesome. So I want to get into some speculations and some theories about what exactly is going on in David's head, since we're staying in David's head week after week. We don't seem to be getting out of his head, which I like, because, you know, as I said earlier, I thought it was going to be one of these mutant shows with him just using telekinesis and telepathy on people and just, you know, these various mutant armies fighting, which, you know, if it goes to a season 2 or something like that, we probably eventually will get it. Maybe this episode here just wants to focus on you know, was understanding just the importance of Legion, the character, and what's going on in his head. But my theories and speculations, one, that, you know, as they had played with— we were trying to figure out the schizophrenia thing from the multiple personality disorder thing, like brought up in the comic books. And I'm going to be careful, guys, for now with the comic books because, you know, generally I use comic books to try to give us an overall synopsis of the show to try to set it up so, you know, we know what the show was about. But this has been very dangerous with this show because the way they're doing this show, a lot of the things that I would consider a comic book synopsis into the adaption of TV show is actually turning out to be spoilers. And I like to watch my shows along with you guys, so I'm gonna have to try to dial it back some because I've already given out a little bit too much information in my reviews. You know, just being a little bit slow behind how they're doing the storytelling on this show. I did think it was going to go in a different direction and it didn't. It's actually making the character this great mystery the entire show. So, but, you know, so, uh, some of my speculations is that, uh, with the multiple personality disorder, the schizophrenia thing, I think what we're seeing in David's mind And I'm going to try to give my speculations too, just based on what we've gotten from the show and not so much from what the comic books is telling us as well. But I think that what we're seeing in his mind is a type of multiple personality disorder where I don't necessarily think a lot of the characters that we're seeing talking to him are real. Of course, we know Lenny is dead. I think maybe Lenny was alive at some point. I think that part was real. I think she was real, but I think what may have happened with Lenny was that Lenny, some power, some other ability he has, might have absorbed some type of essence or personality of her inside of himself. That's my guess on it, guys. Also, um, I'm also going with I don't believe that the people we think are real are fake. You know, like some people are saying that they think that the doctors here at Summerland and, uh, some of the characters that are helping David are, um, you know, uh, basically, uh, from his mind. Uh, I don't believe that. I think they are very much real. I think the only people that— in other words, guys, I guess what I'm saying is it's conflict complicated as this show is seeming, as much of a psychological roller coaster is taking us on, I don't think it's going to be as complicated as a lot of us are making it. Like, I think the characters we see that we believe are real are actually real. Like the doctor, I think they're real. I think the only people that aren't real are the people that have these weird scenes in David's mind, like Lenny, like all the people we've seen talking to him, all the different voices talking to him in his head. I believe they're all falls. You know, obviously I won't comment on the Yellow Demon if I think he's real or not. You know, some people speculate that he might be, you know, some version of David's mind, some evil version, sort of like how Lenny could be some type of version that seeks gratification, this version that just has these uninhibited ideas of, do you know, 'What you wanna do, do what you feel,' that type of thing. I won't go that far with that. I think both Lenny and the Yellow Demon are beings that were actually real. They seem to be in a category of themselves when we get all the voices screaming at David in his mind. So I think that they are real. So that's my speculation that The people who seem real are real. And as we look back on the show, you know, another thing I think kind of supports that is that if we look at Lenny, you know, it's, it's very much in our face and clear that Lenny is not, is not no longer alive, that she's not real, but that she's existing inside David's mind, some part of his memory or something like that. But if they want to kind of take us on a roller coaster ride, I think where we didn't know who was real and who was fake. I think they could have just did that with Lenny as well. I think they could have just kept Lenny's character kind of hidden from us where we went, oh, I don't know if Lenny's actually alive or not. You know, he— she could be not. So, and then again, there's the scene where he's asking his girlfriend, is this real? Is this real? And she's saying yes, it's real. So I believe Sid is real, his girlfriend is real as well. Um, And, uh, you know, um, you know, so that's pretty much my speculations with the show so far, guys. I'm still trying to figure out a lot of elements just like you are. Um, uh, I think the show's doing an excellent job so far. Um, and I think we're gonna get— oh, I did have one more speculation, and, uh, I'm not gonna— and it's kind of comic book based, but I'm not gonna say name the characters who I think might be involved in this. I'm just going to give an idea of what, uh, coupled with that I think might happen. I also think that David's, um, the person who's hiding David's memories— or I'm sorry, the reason he can't remember is to do with, uh, you know, you could go in the direction of David is suppressing his memories with his own power on his own kind of like how, you know, a person who's had a traumatic experience can do with their own memories. But I think with David is different. I think with David it might be suppressed by a more— another mutant, another powerful mutant that's trying to protect him. And that's all I'm gonna say on that, guys. Guys, thanks for watching this week's episode. I hope you're enjoying the show as much as I am. Be sure and comment. Let me know what you all think about the show. If you, you know, what are your, um, what are your predictions about the show, or what do you think's going on? Um, don't forget to like and subscribe, guys, and until next time, take care.