Legion starts good but goes woke several times such as when Syd starts spouting off about how "men are afraid of getting laughed at, women are afraid of getting murdered" to David. The guy is literally just trying to live his life away from all of the shit that has happened to him at this point and those who have caused it but continues to get harassed by people he thought were his friends who are now working with the very guy who has been abusing David and literally living off him like a parasite since he was born.
Season 2 only happens because future Syd is dumb enough to believe Farouk of all people and similarly the events that lead to season 3 only happen because Melanie is equally dumb enough to also listen to Farouk.
There is also Syd's history where she used her body swapping power to sleep with her mother's date/boyfriend and then acted like she was the victim afterwards, on top of not understanding why the date turned "her" around during sex in the shower 🙄.
Even better is the way the show en's as that all still happens because the whole time travel plan of the third season only changes David's early life and he didn't meet Sid until several decades had passed so all the shit Syd does will still happen in the new timeline.
Then you have girl boss Kerry, gay interogator Debussy, and whatever Ptonomy was meant to be because that character ends up getting dropped hard.
Apart from the rap battle in season 3 the few feel good moments of the show come from the catharsis of seeing David just cutting loose and turning various characters who have attempted to kill him into modern art, something we get to enjoy multiple times due to time travel being involved.
Basically everything you say, I agreed with upon my initial viewing (especially the later S2/3 “development” of Syd) but after rewatching the whole show I’ve come to largely think differently. I now regard it as probably the best show I’ve ever seen.
With regards to Syd, I think the issues you point out are addressed in Season 3’s “Syd episode”, Chapter 25. It was never her mother’s boyfriends “fault”, just like it wasn’t the “fault” of the girls who she beats when she takes over the young lad’s body. Her whole “I don’t need no man” shtick is a direct result of her upbringing by her “artist” single mother. Syd entirely lacked “coping mechanisms” for her alienation / unapproachability leading her to become the character we see over the show. I think the massive “shift” in her character we see after Chapter 25 drives this home. She goes from seeing David as an ebil r*pist to the hurt child he really was. Without her experience of a real, loving, and understanding family in the astral plane, the whole shitshow was bound to repeat itself with the same tragedies every step of the way. But thanks to her change, David has a chance himself. Perhaps even a school for people like them will be built this time.
Edit: I think the point of the show is second chances. Everyone needs one, even those variably seen as “villains” (peasants).
Legion starts good but goes woke several times such as when Syd starts spouting off about how "men are afraid of getting laughed at, women are afraid of getting murdered" to David. The guy is literally just trying to live his life away from all of the shit that has happened to him at this point and those who have caused it but continues to get harassed by people he thought were his friends who are now working with the very guy who has been abusing David and literally living off him like a parasite since he was born.
Season 2 only happens because future Syd is dumb enough to believe Farouk of all people and similarly the events that lead to season 3 only happen because Melanie is equally dumb enough to also listen to Farouk.
There is also Syd's history where she used her body swapping power to sleep with her mother's date/boyfriend and then acted like she was the victim afterwards, on top of not understanding why the date turned "her" around during sex in the shower 🙄.
Even better is the way the show en's as that all still happens because the whole time travel plan of the third season only changes David's early life and he didn't meet Sid until several decades had passed so all the shit Syd does will still happen in the new timeline.
Then you have girl boss Kerry, gay interogator Debussy, and whatever Ptonomy was meant to be because that character ends up getting dropped hard.
Apart from the rap battle in season 3 the few feel good moments of the show come from the catharsis of seeing David just cutting loose and turning various characters who have attempted to kill him into modern art, something we get to enjoy multiple times due to time travel being involved.
Basically everything you say, I agreed with upon my initial viewing (especially the later S2/3 “development” of Syd) but after rewatching the whole show I’ve come to largely think differently. I now regard it as probably the best show I’ve ever seen.
With regards to Syd, I think the issues you point out are addressed in Season 3’s “Syd episode”, Chapter 25. It was never her mother’s boyfriends “fault”, just like it wasn’t the “fault” of the girls who she beats when she takes over the young lad’s body. Her whole “I don’t need no man” shtick is a direct result of her upbringing by her “artist” single mother. Syd entirely lacked “coping mechanisms” for her alienation / unapproachability leading her to become the character we see over the show. I think the massive “shift” in her character we see after Chapter 25 drives this home. She goes from seeing David as an ebil r*pist to the hurt child he really was. Without her experience of a real, loving, and understanding family in the astral plane, the whole shitshow was bound to repeat itself with the same tragedies every step of the way. But thanks to her change, David has a chance himself. Perhaps even a school for people like them will be built this time.
Edit: I think the point of the show is second chances. Everyone needs one, even those variably seen as “villains” (peasants).