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shadowkat1. My brother has apparently contracted Lyme Disease. Read up on it and don't recommend reading if you are prone to hypochrondria. I'm not. But...seriously, some of those symptoms I have. Vertigo, Fatigue, headaches, joint pain, arthritis...check, just not all together. And no fever or rash. Also I'm not outside enough where the ticks would be located. My brother on the other hand...is a horticulturalist who is turning his backyard into a farm. And his back yard gets a lot of white tailed deer. They are treating it with antibiotics. He's out on Fire Island, recuperating on the beach.
I'm hoping he's okay. Lyme Disease is scary. My sister-in-law has been obsessed with it for the last ten years now.
2. Legion
Finished watching S2 of Legion, which is more wacky than S1, but follows the limited comic series relatively closely. The series is sort of an origin series for a comic book villain, and LEGION is well one of the more powerful and insanely interesting villains of the Marvel universe. He basically makes Thanos look tame. LEGION is a top level telekinetic and telepath who can bend the nature of reality to his whim. And he's called Legion in the comics because he is insane and had DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder -- he basically has a legion of personalities inside him. He was driven insane by the power and well the Shadow King. But in the story -- everyone thinks the Shadow King who'd been living as a parasite inside David Haller is the big bad villain, when in reality he was the only thing keeping Haller in check.
Haller is the son of Professor Charles Xavier and Gabriel Haller, proof that Charles really shouldn't have kids.
Anyhow that was the comics. And so far the series is following the limited series fairly closely with some minor changes.
My difficulty with the series is I don't care about anyone really other than David. Everyone else is barely developed and to the extent they are -- they are annoying and rather flat. Actually the slower paced episodes are the ones that attempt to focus on the other characters points of view and you feel as if you are watching them under water or something.
We're very much in David Haller's head and David is an unreliable narrator, mainly because he's most likely insane and has been from the beginning. So Haller really has no idea what is real and what isn't. He's also extremely powerful. So you have someone who is going insane that can basically with no effort whatsoever see inside everyone's head, and not only do that, change their reality or how they see things.
Most of the season seems to be a commentary on the nature of madness or how you end that way or rather how David ends up this way -- becoming a villain. Also it shows how those around him inadvertently and at times directly contribute to it. Sydney, Melanie, the Shadow King, and Bill Nye being the main contributors.
David basically saves everyone else from madness only to catch it himself, although he probably had it to begin with.
What I liked about the season was the weird educational component -- that was cool. I highly recommend it for the weird philosophical/educational component that sort of reminds me of The Good Place. There's a great bit in the second to last episode about how looking at everything through a filter will eventually result in a loss of empathy, and an inability to see outside your own head (aka narcissism), where the feelings and values of others no longer matter. It is highly critical of cell phones and the addiction to looking at them all the time. Not wrong -- I went to the park today and noticed how many people who lying out studying their cell phones. Not looking at the lake, not interacting with each other, just looking at their phones. I envisioned myself snapping my fingers and every phone suddenly disappearing. There'd probably be mass panic.
So, an uneven bag...Dan Stevens is amazing as Haller, but everyone else...sigh. I do like Lenny.
Also the educational bits are really cool. And as long as we are in Haller's pov, the story moves along. When we leave it -- it slows to an abrupt halt and slugs along, I sort of drifted off during some of those sections.
I'm hoping he's okay. Lyme Disease is scary. My sister-in-law has been obsessed with it for the last ten years now.
2. Legion
Finished watching S2 of Legion, which is more wacky than S1, but follows the limited comic series relatively closely. The series is sort of an origin series for a comic book villain, and LEGION is well one of the more powerful and insanely interesting villains of the Marvel universe. He basically makes Thanos look tame. LEGION is a top level telekinetic and telepath who can bend the nature of reality to his whim. And he's called Legion in the comics because he is insane and had DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder -- he basically has a legion of personalities inside him. He was driven insane by the power and well the Shadow King. But in the story -- everyone thinks the Shadow King who'd been living as a parasite inside David Haller is the big bad villain, when in reality he was the only thing keeping Haller in check.
Haller is the son of Professor Charles Xavier and Gabriel Haller, proof that Charles really shouldn't have kids.
Anyhow that was the comics. And so far the series is following the limited series fairly closely with some minor changes.
My difficulty with the series is I don't care about anyone really other than David. Everyone else is barely developed and to the extent they are -- they are annoying and rather flat. Actually the slower paced episodes are the ones that attempt to focus on the other characters points of view and you feel as if you are watching them under water or something.
We're very much in David Haller's head and David is an unreliable narrator, mainly because he's most likely insane and has been from the beginning. So Haller really has no idea what is real and what isn't. He's also extremely powerful. So you have someone who is going insane that can basically with no effort whatsoever see inside everyone's head, and not only do that, change their reality or how they see things.
Most of the season seems to be a commentary on the nature of madness or how you end that way or rather how David ends up this way -- becoming a villain. Also it shows how those around him inadvertently and at times directly contribute to it. Sydney, Melanie, the Shadow King, and Bill Nye being the main contributors.
David basically saves everyone else from madness only to catch it himself, although he probably had it to begin with.
What I liked about the season was the weird educational component -- that was cool. I highly recommend it for the weird philosophical/educational component that sort of reminds me of The Good Place. There's a great bit in the second to last episode about how looking at everything through a filter will eventually result in a loss of empathy, and an inability to see outside your own head (aka narcissism), where the feelings and values of others no longer matter. It is highly critical of cell phones and the addiction to looking at them all the time. Not wrong -- I went to the park today and noticed how many people who lying out studying their cell phones. Not looking at the lake, not interacting with each other, just looking at their phones. I envisioned myself snapping my fingers and every phone suddenly disappearing. There'd probably be mass panic.
So, an uneven bag...Dan Stevens is amazing as Haller, but everyone else...sigh. I do like Lenny.
Also the educational bits are really cool. And as long as we are in Haller's pov, the story moves along. When we leave it -- it slows to an abrupt halt and slugs along, I sort of drifted off during some of those sections.