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:
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looked at its rotten tomatoes rating
You looked at some shitty movie of the same name lol. The show is highly rated.
I saw this and was like "Is OP trying to get some ragebait? That show was great!"
Oh I will check again. I saw like 20% and was like. whaaat?!
Nope, the series is 91%
Legion was a GREAT show.
The x-men show? I enjoyed it as well.
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.
I meant X-Men universe. IIRC he's...
Spoiler
Xavier's son
Oh yes. Certainly.
He got a whole run of X-Men legacy to himself. I think the show is loosely based on it. Comics are very good. https://www.marvel.com/comics/collection/60495/x-men_legacy_legion_omnibus_hardcover
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
I though legion came out of a new mutants arc.
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.
my comic days were win the eighties and nineties with the majority of that being in the middle 85-95 span.
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.
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.