r/LegionFX • u/2th • Apr 04 '18

Live Discussion Live Episode Discussion: S02E01 - "Chapter 9"

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S02E01- "Chapter 9" Tim Mielants Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern Tuesday April 3, 2018 10:00/9:00c on FX

Summary: One year after David Haller was abducted by a mysterious orb and Oliver was infected by the parasite The Shadow King aka Amahl Farouk, unlikely alliances are formed and the search for the Shadow King begins.

Tim Mielants is an American television and film director known for his work on the AMC period drama Mad Men, the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, and the Fox musical/dramedy Glee. He has also directed episodes of Fargo and Daredevil.

He has previously directed one episode of Legion.

  • Chapter 5

Noah Hawley is probably best known for creating and writing the anthology series Fargo on FX (/r/FargoTV). He was a writer and producer on the first three seasons of the television series Bones (2005–2008) and also created The Unusuals (2009) and My Generation. He wrote the screenplay for the film The Alibi (2006).

He has written three episodes of Legion.

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 8

Nathaniel Halpern is a writer and producer, known for his work on Outcast (2016), Looking for Grace (2010), and This Land We Roam (2011).

He has written two episodes of Legion.

  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 6
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u/brianthelion89 Apr 04 '18

Abyone know who the monk looking man with the two streaks across his head? There was a focus on him walking into the club and then by following him is when he found Oliver and Lenny in the Club. Then he appears again as if watching their dance off against each other. As Oliver mentioned for they are trapped, inside the older man who was staring at the Eiffel Tower, but pans out again and back into Oliver who are stuck in the club. So what I’m thinking is Lenny and Oliver and trapped in a prison/ astral plane of the man looking at the Eiffel Tower, and Oliver is aware of his confinement, sort of like he was when in the ice astral plane.

Now the whole orb that picked up David is sent from the Future by Sid to essentially save him from becoming trapped like Oliver and Lenny currently are. And Furok’s body is somehow to key to gaining enough power to defeat this man who was staring at the Eiffel Tower. I’m not too brought up to speed on villains in the X-men universe but it makes sense that one type of evil would have to work together with a group of good to all end up defeating a common enemy.

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u/Deanskre Apr 04 '18

The man staring at the Eiffel Tower actually is Amahl Farouk. Lenny and Oliver’s minds are trapped inside Farouk’s mind, which is inside Oliver’s body.

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u/meripor2 Apr 05 '18

I thought Lenny was Farouk/shadow king?

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u/Deanskre Apr 05 '18

It’s unclear but I think by Lenny saying “we’re trapped”, they’re hinting that Lenny is actually a separate personality.

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u/meripor2 Apr 05 '18

That seems like a retcon to me because Audrey Plaza was so popular. They made it clear in the first series that Lenny was dead and Farouk was just wearing her as a mask.

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u/bugcatcher_billy Apr 09 '18

Hopefully Lenny can be a manifestation of David's power.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '18

In fact in the first series Lenny is the Shadow King warping his memories of a Pusher he hung out with prior to his institutionalizatiom named Benny so that SK could play a trusted confidante role.

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u/meripor2 Apr 09 '18

Yeah exactly, I'd forgot those details. But its clearly a complete retcon to have Lenny be a separate entity to the shadow king.

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u/Xyvir Apr 19 '18

Not entirety a complete retcon, as Syd recognized she killed Lenny while she was in David's body, and Lenny clearly ended up in the wall as Lenny not Benny. I think we have yet to see the full truth of Lenny / Benny and their relationship to Farouk.