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I've always had a little crush on her. And when she was on the Doug Loves Movies podcast they had some good banter about the Today show

Episode 4 "...apparently I'm this super-powered mutant so I'm guessing I'll figure something out..." (David makes several hand gestures, nothing happens) "He said it wasn't the drugs." "Who? Captain Nemo and his giant ice cube?" It's good to see some humor in the show :) Post your fave quotes from episodes here.

Ooh I like that!

Finally finished re-watching episode 3. When they show the Devil with Yellow Eyes he's wearing a tattered old version of the black and white suit that the Angriest Boy is wearing. edit: I'm also fairly certain Dr Bird is David's mother.

At first I thought creepy but in the context of her powers not working in the "memoryscape" (or whatever we're gonna call it) it was a sweet because it was prob the closest she'll get to a hug with him in a while.

@planet17 I just found another Kerry clue. Watch this scene - where does she come from? But you don't notice at first because the editing is so slick.

Afaik Kerry has only ever talked to David. That may be a clue. Also I'm super stoked you're as into this as I am :D I'm still not sure how much of the visuals represent something real like a connection between people, and a visual representation of David's mental confusion. grrrrrr With the info we have so far a lot of the characters seem to be a pastiche of stuff from the comics. The telekinetic from the pilot is no doubt "Jack" in terms of powers but obviously the devil/angriest boy is the one working counter to David's sanity. I feel like the Devil with Yellow Eyes is somehow both Jack and the Shadow King mixed together (not literally but in a narrative sense when translating one medium to the other). I don't think it was a coincidence that Happy Jack was the episode 1 opening song. In the comics: Check your PMs for more info... edit: btw I don't recall at all if he was able to teleport in the book...

Context?

@planet17 here's the scene I talked about with Cary/Kerry. At first I was thinking it could represent that one of them isn't really there, but it could also be a visual representation of David's confusion about the names while he was in the MRI. http://imgur.com/a/VI6jp

@planet17 yeah Syd's def real. And I think Summerland is as well, which is different to my theory above. I agree that Lenny is real but I still think she's possessed by the Shadow King (if that's who the devil is). As for Kerry, at one point she walked into Cary and merged with him. It was in ep 2 or 3 I'll find it and clip it later.

haha they totally are but it's worth it. I actually have a question about this scene - have we ever seen the end result or does it always stop while everything is still in the air. I ask because I'm assuming this is the "incident in Red Hook" that Division 3 mentioned and that the "explosion" affected more than just the kitchen.

Okay so watching more closely the Shadow King/Yellow-Eyed Devil is in the background of the very opening when David tried to hang himself, not just in the memory flashback. This time I made a gif. Watch the doorway behind David. Creepy as hell:

I uploaded some scans from the comic to give an example of the artwork from the origin story.

So far the show has varied greatly from anything in the comic but there are lots of thematic and deep underlying similarities. First of all the character was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz in a comic called The New Mutants, which was a X-men spinoff. Claremont was pretty much the sole creator of X-men related stuff for over a decade. Bill Sienkiewicz was an amazing artist, and here's where the stylistic comparison comes in. Sienkiewicz was a painter, and his comic book art was incredibly different to what was out in the 80s. Printing at the time wasn't going to allow for painted artwork in a comic like they can do today but Sienkiewicz treated the page like a canvas. He scratched and splooshed black ink all over the page. The characters were drawn in a way that was both more realistic than any comic art at the time as well as being expressionistic. I'm gonna find some to post here after I finish composing this. In any case, as far as the art goes, I think the expressionism is what attracted Hawley and he is recreating that feel without trying to ape the style. I like it. As for the character origins, here's a slightly edited copy-pasta of my summary from another thread. I'm writing this bit based on memory so if I have some details wrong please feel free to jump in: So here's my breakdown and some theories: Dr. Kind is playing the Xavier role, the teacher. Ptonomy is not in the comic so I suspect he was created as a way to enter David's mind in the absence of having Prof Xavier in the show. I'm pretty sure the Yellow-Eyed Devil is the Shadow King trying to take control of David. I'm also pretty sure Lenny is/was possessed by the Shadow King. I think the firestarter (Kerry?) and the un-named telekinetic dude are aspects of David's mind. It gets more complex with Syd. I think she's real, not a part of David's mind. I'm less sure about this one, but I think the kiss in the institution might be the equivalent of David being in the bombing. The theory is that Syd got trapped in his mind and everything we've seen since then, at least the stuff from David's perspective, has been in David's mind/the astral plane. The Division Three stuff and the stuff we see with his sister is all happening in the real world but everything at Summerland is happening in the astral plane. Dr Kind is helping David to use his powers by teaching the various entities in his head to work together as a team. Basically we're seeing a superhero team origin, but the team all exists inside one person. Post your thoughts here. I'm looking forward to talking about it. This is my new fave show!

The show differs incredibly from the source material and I only know one Legion story from the books but it's his first appearance/origin so I'll give it a go.

When I first saw him my first thought was "Mojo!" but I read a theory recently that it also could be the Shadow King. In the comics...

Not so much up close, but in some promo shots and such she reminded me of the blonde from Crazyhead.

OK I'm in the middle of re-watching this one. Right around 7:40 David is having a dream. There's a lot of images shown in succession and there's a shot of him preparing to hang himself, and in the background the yellow eyed demon walks by. I took a screenshot, but if you can watch the scene again it's creepy AF in motion...

I like the proposal. I usually don't but this was fun.

Are we all gonna not say anything about M'gann wearing Green-face?

Let's just all support Kim!

I'd say editing. One of the reasons they can edit stuff out is they film a show that's usually longer than its run time then edit down keeping the best. For a live show they have to have enough material to fill exactly the time and not cut anything so the stinkers stay.

I see what you did there...

Between this and facing her fear of a Canon loss then being ok with it, Kim Reed is my Winner of the Week.

I just wanna know Will @David T. Cole Hate This? based in the fact that it's *not* based in his favorite movie from 2010.