FX: So, how do we film a psychic battle without it being cliché constipation faces? Noah Hawley: Lol, let's do a trippy dance sequence FX: wait, what? Hawley: too late, already done. Bask in it.
This scene is fantastic, because is (un purpose ) non perfect, the absence of logic, is ideal. I really enjoy this "LEGION" , because force you to think and go deeper in every scene. How about the last fight in the mountain? With the Song "behind blue eyes"
With Godlike superbeings. I sure as hell hope not. As long as war is fought with bombs and gun we muggles stand a chance. When omega level mutants throw down, we all lose.
As ever, fucking brilliant. Legion does exceptional work using music to accompany the scene. The musical dance scenes are art in of themselves, particularly in a "comic novel" genre adaptation. They serve to tie in emotional and fraught sections of the story that can really only be told this way.
OK. The first time I watched the premier I was confused but after watching again I think I got it, this is basically a psychic battle between the three of them right? Oliver and Lenny vs David. It's just being represented with dance because telepathic battles are about perception and mental attack. They are supposed to be surreal and mind bending. Right?
supernaturalawesome1 that's what I got out of it as well. I also think that the dance battle might be David's mind shrouding his understanding of what happened in the club. The psychic battle might have been much more horrific in reality, but David's mind is protecting him from that reality.
Yeah, David was trying to get to the bald man(who is probably the real Farouk) and Oliver and lenny are protecting him. The light change from orange to blue is to show they are in the astral plane.
actually i think the bald man is another personality inside david... there have been subtle hints throughout the first season that shadow king wasn't the only entity inside david's mind... unlike shadow king the bald man might be a good person.. real Farouk is probably the guy with the mustache in paris who was shown in the first scene of 2x01
tru e Remember, on the Astral plane they can create people. Like last season when Lenny/Shadow King created the asylum and filled it with patients that went crazy and attacked everyone. I think this is the same. There "backup dancers" are manifestations they create. Or maybe your right. We still don't really know what happened in the club but that's what I think.
I'm sure you've notice too , but I really love the 1 frame smile they added in sync with the music around 1:34 1:35 , it makes it more mad, creepy, idk! Really love the touch in it
A DAMN shame Cary (Bill Irwin) could'nt have been on the 'dance-floor sequence' because he was actually a WAY better dancer, overall (almost on-par with the all-too-brief snippet of Benedict Cumberbatch dancing seen in the 'out-takes/bloopers' of Star Trek 'Into Darkness' alternative-timeline 'Wrath of Khan' reboot) than any of those three. That said, the look on David's face as he backed onto the dance-floor reminded me of Chris Pratts hilarious challenge to 'Ronan': "It's a DANCE-OFF, Bro...you an me..." and I enjoyed every second of it...was an AMAZING way to open the 2nd-season to an AMAZING show ! !
Like most people I think this was a psychic battle between Shadow King & Oliver vs David but can someone explain why Cary was dancing too? Was it David affecting him or something?
I definitely think David was affecting him. No spoilers, but season 3 kind elaborates on David's ability to affect other people via his own emotional state.
Do you guys notice the way david pushes down his subordinates until oliver works with them, then david has them stand back up. Another lie. He's always lying, even during this dance battle
As our friend above said, by the end David escapes a powerful hit from Oliver/Shadow King that ends teleporting himself out of the chamber where Syd finds him in the Terminator's position. Ofc that is all interpretation. :)
Aba Log No,my mistake it probably did happen. I seen at least 3 episodes of it thought it was the slowest show I had watched and I watch a lot of slow shows. Can't mind listening to 5 songs simultaneously though.
anyone else feel like this could have been even better if they added sharp objects and a lot of violence? like, don't get me wrong, i LOVE the dance-off. i just wish it was a little more sinister. maybe throw in some telekinetic energy and such? i hope they keep doing scenes like this that just get crazier.
Nah. I prefer the subtlety of using dance and light to depict the mental battle between Farouk and David. Less heavy-handed than using outright weapons to me; and it shows how David and the Shadow King have honed their powers.
Curious if It’s names the White rabbit... doesn’t it remind you of something??? ...once upon a time, there was a fuzzy little Rabbit named Frizzytop who went on a quantum adventure......
A cover of White Rabbit by the show's creator, Noah Hawley, is the song that plays at the very end of the episode. This is just part of the soundtrack by Jeff Russo.
