re: Legion Season 1 Thread - Starts Wednesday 9 CT on FX

But what's in the hatch?

As of now, as far as I can tell, this has all been happening in David's head.

Far out speculating now - David could be possessed by everyone else...they are all existing inside of him.

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Mark 5:1–5:13 5They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. 3He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain; 4for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones. 6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him; 7and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”.

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Don't taint this awesome show with Lost references.

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I didn't even watch LOST. Love this show though, just playing around.

The monster is clearly Shadow King and is synonymous with Lenny/Benny/the dog/etc. Same entity.

They are currently stuck in his mind while Shadow King has free reign. Others are starting to realize they aren't in reality, but not David. He's been controlled too long by the parasite and can't resist very well anymore.

I think that little halo thing is going to be how he beats it.

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I'm of the mind that they've been in the "hospital"/astral plane this whole time.
...As of now, as far as I can tell, this has all been happening in David's head.

Far out speculating now - David could be possessed by everyone else...they are all existing inside of him.

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That doesn't make sense from the context of at some point you have to assume David will break free and then what's the show about? These imaginary characters that make up the cast of the show just go away? Or they stick around imaginary friend style and the show is just David walking around IRL talking to his "team" like a crazy person? This show doesn't work long term if they aren't real.

Judging by who is in the virtual mental hospital, it had to happen at some point after the encounter in the van where Syd (switched with 70s jewfro bad guy) shot Kerry. Because when Kerry was running away from jewfro in the hospital she was holding her side where she got shot. I don't get the apparent time freezing element, but I think when David went to the white room with Syd, he took everyone in the vicinity with them and Lenny took over.

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I'm of the mind that they've been in the "hospital"/astral plane this whole time. Last night's episode snuck in a repeated hint. When David came into Syd's room to snuggle the first shot of the room was from a camera angle under the bed. As the door is opened it shows no feet as David entered the room. The same thing happened in E1 but with the roles reversed, which at the time made me think that Syd was a figment of David's imagination. As far as can tell all of S1 so far has taken place on the astral plane.

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Another thing that would support this would be how the crew of Ptonomy/Syd/Kerry moved around when searching for clues and shite. They would just walk everywhere...boom at this little town...through woods and boom...at the lighthouse. Its like everything was just beyond the trees and only a few hundred yards away.

I believe there are very real bullets flying towards David/Syd and time is nearly frozen while we are in the astral plane.

The reason I bring this up is I noticed that Syd has placed herself in the bullets' path.
- Syd's body is the one about to get shot
- David's body is under the control of Shadow King, acting as the mind. They mentioned this a couple of times this past episode.
- Syd is in very close contact with David
- Syd has the ability to swap minds when directly touching.
- so if Syd is really touching David, then the Shadow King mind should enter her body as it is being shot and killed.
- she and David would then be stuck in the same body, but both alive. And free of the Shadow King.

That was creeplingly awesome!!!

Good stuff. Y'all think shadow King makes it to season 2? If not, will David appear normal?

Who knows. I expect there will be some sort of victory over it, but I doubt it is killed this season.