I watched the first season of Legion a few years back and loved it, so I decided to continue with the other two seasons and pick up where I left off.
Here are my main thoughts with the show after the last season:-
1. After Farouk gets his body back, he decided he's the hero and David is the villain, which seemed two dimensional for the way Farouk thought about morality. He was the main antagonist and killed lots of people when he was in David and Oliver, as soon as he gets his body back, he doesn't do much, there's no greater scheme which made the whole build up of Farouk getting his body back very disappointing, he was more threatening without it. Then in season three he's helping Division 3 for some reason and becomes a background character. He has no greater plan to use Division 3 and get David on his side, he's a changed man. That's boring. His fight scene with David at the end of season two didn't last long enough.
2. Season 3 was Messi, with David becoming a cult leader, then deciding to change his past. I think David is very unlikeable in this season and at the end his actions the entire season weren't challenged, he never had a change of heart and realised he was doing bad things, he just blamed his past and got what he wanted with reversing time. The central theme of the show has been whether David is a bad person or someone who is mentally ill and it doesn't do enough to carry that theme. The whole "a bad idea hatches like an egg" didn't really go anywhere in season two either. There's no cartharis with season three, it's the equivalent of it was all a dream ending. Farouk has a change of heart and poses no threat anymore too, also no cartharis. I've watched three seasons of the shadow king doing deadly things to become an ally. They tried to curb this with the time demons but they were inconsistent and got called off in the end.
3. Abstract ideas done in a creative way are fantastic but season two and three is like watching a show while dreaming, there's nothing to cling on to, only random events/ideas/behaviours and it's hard to follow
4. I really thought it was going to turn out that everyone on the show were created in David's mind, that would have been so cool and unexpected, but David's psychosis is in the form of multiple versions of him that aren't unique enough to be interesting
5. Character deaths, like Lenny, was anticlimatic, and felt unresolved. It was deep in the sense that she'd rather kill herself than feel trapped and manipulated by another telepath, and David had become like Farouk but it didn't lean into that enough. There were too many character angles for that to be effective. Either focus on David and Farouk switching places as protagonist vs antagonist or focus on Syd trying to escape her abusive, dangerous ex vs David not realising he's a bad person and has hurt the person he loves who grounds him in reality.
6. the wolf episode with Oliver was strange, and random, I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Overall I have gripes with what the show had become but I loved it at the start. I still really like the acting, but wanted more from it.
Here are my main thoughts with the show after the last season:-
1. After Farouk gets his body back, he decided he's the hero and David is the villain, which seemed two dimensional for the way Farouk thought about morality. He was the main antagonist and killed lots of people when he was in David and Oliver, as soon as he gets his body back, he doesn't do much, there's no greater scheme which made the whole build up of Farouk getting his body back very disappointing, he was more threatening without it. Then in season three he's helping Division 3 for some reason and becomes a background character. He has no greater plan to use Division 3 and get David on his side, he's a changed man. That's boring. His fight scene with David at the end of season two didn't last long enough.
2. Season 3 was Messi, with David becoming a cult leader, then deciding to change his past. I think David is very unlikeable in this season and at the end his actions the entire season weren't challenged, he never had a change of heart and realised he was doing bad things, he just blamed his past and got what he wanted with reversing time. The central theme of the show has been whether David is a bad person or someone who is mentally ill and it doesn't do enough to carry that theme. The whole "a bad idea hatches like an egg" didn't really go anywhere in season two either. There's no cartharis with season three, it's the equivalent of it was all a dream ending. Farouk has a change of heart and poses no threat anymore too, also no cartharis. I've watched three seasons of the shadow king doing deadly things to become an ally. They tried to curb this with the time demons but they were inconsistent and got called off in the end.
3. Abstract ideas done in a creative way are fantastic but season two and three is like watching a show while dreaming, there's nothing to cling on to, only random events/ideas/behaviours and it's hard to follow
4. I really thought it was going to turn out that everyone on the show were created in David's mind, that would have been so cool and unexpected, but David's psychosis is in the form of multiple versions of him that aren't unique enough to be interesting
5. Character deaths, like Lenny, was anticlimatic, and felt unresolved. It was deep in the sense that she'd rather kill herself than feel trapped and manipulated by another telepath, and David had become like Farouk but it didn't lean into that enough. There were too many character angles for that to be effective. Either focus on David and Farouk switching places as protagonist vs antagonist or focus on Syd trying to escape her abusive, dangerous ex vs David not realising he's a bad person and has hurt the person he loves who grounds him in reality.
6. the wolf episode with Oliver was strange, and random, I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Overall I have gripes with what the show had become but I loved it at the start. I still really like the acting, but wanted more from it.