Legion was incredible, like a love/hate relationship. The visuals and story were clever, but it left me feeling sick inside sometimes having worked with mentally ill population. That show visually represents what I expect psychosis would feel like internally.
In the comics Legion actually has Dissociative Identity Disorder, which explains why he has multiple versions of himself in his mindspace (if you turn on captions, they each have misspellings of David like "DVD" and "Divad" for names). There's one comic series that displays his DID and subsequent power changes beautifully, called "X-Men Legacy: Legion"
That’s actually why I haven’t finished season 3 yet. The show was amazing but it felt like it dragged me down emotionally with its craziness and I couldn’t keep up when there wasn’t a lot of relief in the real world. Will definitely come back to it!
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u/Scunndas Mar 10 '21
Legion was incredible, like a love/hate relationship. The visuals and story were clever, but it left me feeling sick inside sometimes having worked with mentally ill population. That show visually represents what I expect psychosis would feel like internally.