Legion keeps getting better and better. In Season 1, Legion borrowed the X-Men`s general backdrop--there are mutants, they have special abilities, and people generally don`t like `em--to tell a very personal story about mental illness.In Season 2, things are different. These days, Legion is going all in on its comic book heritage. By weaving together the themes, tropes, and some other, more direct connections to the comics, Legion is finally starting to feel like a real X-Men adventure. Here`s why. 1. Protecting a world that hates and fears them In Legion Season 1, our heroes were concerned with keeping the mutant haven Summerland safe and saving David Haller from the Shadow King. That`s a fine goal, but it`s a little self-centered. For their sophomore outing, that the team has thrown in with the government-run Division III in order to stop Amahl Farouk and save the world. In other words, David, Syd, Ptolemy, and the rest are no longer mere mutants. Like the X-Men themselves, they`re now bona fide superheroes. 2. The future is doomed (probably) Days of Future Past. Age of Apocalypse. Old Man Logan. The Aksani`s Earth-4935. In the X-Men universe, you can`t throw a fastball special without hitting some kind of alternate timeline or post-apocalyptic future. In Season 2, Legion is embracing the trope wholeheartedly. David spends the first few episodes hopping through time. A future version of Syd tries to help him prevent doomsday. Heck, future-Syd is even missing a limb. As per X-Men tradition, that`s how you know that things get bad. 3. A couple of honest-to-goodness supervillains In Season 1, the Shadow King was less a character and more a force of nature. He wore other people`s faces and lurked in the corners of David Haller`s mind. In Season 2, Amahl Farouk`s in all of his glory, and it turns out that he fits right in among Magneto, Mr. Sinister, Apocalypse, and all of the X-Men`s other big bads. Farouk`s not the only supervillain on the scene thi ...
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