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“Legion Season 2: Heroes and Villains”

I was so on board with this until you said what David did wasn't rape. It was rape. He altered her mind, even if it was just taking out the bad, making her forget how she had felt about him when she tried to shoot him. It wasn't consensual because she was in no way able to consent because not all of her knowledge and feelings were intact. If he had tried that without wiping her mind, she would have rejected him and no one can deny that. 

Well, she would have tried to kill him again, not had sex with him! But she wasn’t in her right mind when she “made” the decision to break up with him and kill him either. Syd didn’t have much agency in the last two episodes because she was caught between two powerful telepaths. I argue that David undid Farouk’s violation of Syd’s mind, restoring her (mostly) to how she was before she was pulled down the rabbit hole. If pre-rabbit Syd was able consent to sex with David, then post-Desolé Syd also was able to consent to sex with David.

Again, I really hate having to argue about whether it was rape or not. Fuck Hawley for using that plot point in the first place! I’m not trying to defend his writing choices, just understand them as best I can. We may have to just agree to disagree. 

With THAT said. Did he do it with the intention OF raping her? No. It was a case of his emotions controlling him and when his emotions overtake the logic, he does... not great things. Which is why I think Syd was able to still be calm in the "trial" scene, why she still wanted to help him. She acknowledges that he wasn't and isn't in a good place mentally and especially emotionally, but he needed to know what he'd done.

Agreed. It was absolutely not David’s intent! 

Syd is clear-eyed during the intervention, seeing that David really does need help, not punishment. She still loves him, I think, despite it all. If anyone understands how it is to make a terrible mistake and live with the consequences it’s Syd. Like Amy, she loves David enough to know when she needs to let him go because she can’t help him the way he needs to be helped. 

Additionally: I agree with everything else though, it checks out, IMO.

An interesting question. I find myself thinking about the full extent of Legion’s powers every single episode , but you’re right - from the looks of it , there’s still a lot that David has to learn on this path of ye-high-powerful-mutant before he begins to fully understand what he’s capable of. In the same realm, ( and on a slight tangent while I have this in my mind, sorry ), David said he “did a thing” in Ptonomy’s head when he rescued him from his maze. Although I highly doubt that David had anything to do with the issues Ptonomy experiences in Chapter 13, I think we shouldn’t rule that out. Do I think David did anything bad? No. Do I think he might have done something that could inadvertently make things a lot more difficult for himself and everyone else? That’s possible. ( I have my thoughts about what Ptonomy saw when he was trying to go through Lenny’s mind, too, but that’s for a different day . )

At the pace the show is going, I don’t think David will gain “full” control of his powers by the end of this season. His learning process is slow, and that really doesn’t help with all the problems that are popping up left and right. But yeah - that super eerie ending isn’t helping anything at all, with David promising that he’s “coming for [Farouk]” EEYIKES . Because if I were David, I’d want to bash Farouk’s brains in for doing that to my sister too. Hands down. Legion is already really difficult to predict, so… who knows. He sure looks like he’s thinking bloody murder, which is fair.

do you mean logan paul flsjf lmao

FUCK.

Him too.

Tom is "low key" in love with Davey. "LOW KEY."

THAT WAS LIKE THE BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT I’VE EVER MADE. Tom is like head over heels in love and I am convinced the dinner date actually ended with him standing outside Davey’s house blasting Peter Gabriel.

Tony’s got the “we took him on a date” speech down to a science when people ask how this came about and it’s like if he says it enough maybe he’ll get a second date.

I know she wasn't fucking around, but Syd's also not a hypocrite. We're definitely going to have to agree to disagree on this one, lol.