A Deity, An Erasure, And A Couple of Easter Eggs!!! Legion Series Finale & Ending Breakdown!!!

[@noirangel6416]

I feel as if this is the definitive end to the X-Men franchise. End and rebirth.💙

[@WhattheGeek]

It is pretty solid.

[@zemi2750]

it's the perfect fallow up for the x-men intro to the MCU, too bad that won't fly because of business reasons, too many to list. Best cinematography I've ever seen in any series, with a close second being FRINGE in my opinion. I always had this vision of David saving the universe at the end of the future x-men arch or the MCU main story in phase 5.

[@gafanhotogamer5993]

David kept being betrayed and pushed to his limits. Particularly in Season 2 by Syd. Future Syd tells him to help Farouk and doesn't warn him about his sister. Present Syd shoots him when he is vulnerable. Everyone else takes it with absolute certainty that he will destroy the world to the point of allying themselves with an old liar that ruined David's life and they take his word without questioning. They act as if they were perfect and the problem was David, and David only. At the same moment, they are David's only friends, and they dogpile on him at the same time as they ally themselves with Farouk. He was completely cuckoo by season 3, but he didn't get there alone.

[@abandonedmuse]

I agree. I was always on David's side. They just didnt understand him. He was a flawed character because of his circumstances. Plus, in the end he always wanted to fix things. He never wanted to hurt anyone for fun or sport. It was always to protect himself or others. His intentions were always in the right place. He was just misunderstood.

[@chrissuponcic5181]

I agree season 3 was really a heart breaker for me. David did everything not to save the world but to save Sydney and their love. Then she let's herself be influenced by Melanie and farouk. They show her real events but disguise the context behind those events. So in a matter of an hour syd no longer loves David and tries to kill him before she ever really talks to david. Then she turns all of his friends against him and leaves him with the choice off going back to the mental house or to die. David still loved Sydney even when he found out that she sent an innocent man to jail for underage rape! They felt David needs to die because in one of the millions of time lines he kills most of the human but farouk gets to live even though he's been killing, manipulating and bringing only suffering to mankind for 2000 years

[@MrAtfenn]

i hated syd for the entirety of the third season. i am completely convinced that she is the villian

[@GSP96]

@@MrAtfenn syd is absolutely the antagonist

[@marvelcomicsgeek1979]

The finale was good. I would have liked to see a grown-up David in the new timeline. I guess it leaves it to the imagination wether or not David had a good life or if he still had mental problems & was in the hospital. I'd like to think he turned out fine, attended his father's school, & became a member of the X-Men. Until the next video. Keep up the good work.

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

Time Travel is the perfect writers tool, and pretty much every show gets around to it eventually. Now that everything is changed, the slate is clean for completely new movies or shows later down the line.

[@angga8444]

Watch the chapter 14

[@WhattheGeek]

I think he did have a good life in that timeline, the fact Switch was watching over him and Farouk close to the end tells me that is the possible ending, like she achieved what she was set to achieve with him to start with.

[@tarnishedpose]

I wish we had a last scene of the baby but then have a shoot of David's face as an adult and have him make a facial expression to hint what he had become.

[@triple-d2640]

@@angga8444 What happened in that episode?

[@Dahrenhorst]

Legion was probably the most interesting, disturbing, confusing and challenging series I've ever seen. This series is in a league of its own. The only other series I could compare to it might be the newer Dirk Gently one.

[@DavidSanchez-vx4bv]

It was a good ending for the seres... I would wanted to have one more season... to expand more the characters, but considering they wanted to ended in the 3rd season, well, was a clever way to do, not to embark in a nonsense battle, but start a new version of the time (a time reset) with peace, love and hope.... ahh the Pink Floyd song was key!

[@WhattheGeek]

The Pink Floyd song was key indeed, haha!!!

[@sandwichqueen]

It's a good final episode, but I want to see the new timeline. That doesn't effect how good or bad it is though

[@oWarlock360o]

Possible if marvel pics it up, doesn't have to keep the same continuity due to this

[@sandwichqueen]

@@oWarlock360o true, but I think the show should end for good

[@oWarlock360o]

I mean I agree but I know a cash cow when I see one lol

[@WhattheGeek]

Haha that is left to the imagination now.

[@dammagrilla]

Even with Farouk out of his head David's sense of right and wrong are still skewed from the experience. During season 2 there was a narration that covered being taught the wrong thing (this is red, red means stop. This is green, green means but go with the colors switched). That's how I think of David in this series, even without Farouk physically in his head he's still being influenced by his "teachings"

[@WhattheGeek]

Well he had the right people around him though beyond that point to be able to define right from wrong, but he insisted on making the wrong choices, don't you think?

[@TheLeagueoffailure]

@@WhattheGeek I disagree. He made the wrong choices because of revenge. He feels as if his whole life, his existence is violated, because of someone and he is in the right for blaming Farouk for that. All the terror that Farouk has done to him. Sure, at the end of the day he is the one who does it but it is really unfair to say that those actions are not heavily influenced by Farouk. And even his "teammates" betrayed him at the end of season 2, thus launching the prophecy. Self fulfilling prophecy I'd say. Too bad none of them was smart enough to see it. Not justifying anything he has done, but to blame him directly is just wrong

[@junhaozheng5692]

You bring good point on green and red thing. What we have learned on a thing, it will stuck for long, like we learned of Farouk's modern, he said he loves David, he shed tears in Season 2 finale, but who knows he truly meant it or flat out lying again. Same with Syd, she was as hostile as David to Farouk, unforgiving.

[@creyzi4j]

No, he’s always had mental problems. His mother said to Syd that his sickness was hereditary. So, even without Farouk, he would still end up troubled.

[@creyzi4j]

@@junhaozheng5692 No, he’s always had mental problems. His mother said to Syd that his sickness was hereditary. So, even without Farouk, he would still end up troubled.

[@WhattheGeek]

Hey all, Here is my review of the *Series finale of Legion* Let me know what you thought of the episode. Posting more Agents of SHIELD next!!!

[@12chapin]

Esoteric Emissary All those minutes and you didn’t know there is a symbiote in the MCU.

[@WhattheGeek]

Well posting SHIELD tomorrow, probably.

[@davidtabaka2663]

I wonder when people are gonna realize that David is basically to the universe what the scarlet witch was to that little town. Except everyone has free will in David's universe.

[@Sunstar808]

Well we got the answer that all these characters are individuals and not aspects to David’s personas. Loved the finale although i was hoping for more affection from Syd at the end as a final forgiveness. Geek you did an excellent job of reviewing this series with insight making it more enjoyable.

[@BEarl-hy2ng]

im reaaaally glad they didnt have a happy-dappy full on forgive at the end. would've felt very regressive in a lot of ways i think

[@keith3819]

Seems like she still held resentment for adult David. Willing to forgive but not forget what he did.

[@WhattheGeek]

Well I think she forgave fully Keith, but not because she wanted to, but rather because there is no reason to not forgive at this point with all of it changing. Part of it as well was possibly the hope her being glorious in this new timeline meant less suffering, etc.

[@InfiniteQuest86]

An alternate ending could have been cool if David tries to kill Farouk, and Professor X dies stopping him, hence starting a new Age of Apocalypse.

[@yamilink03]

The time monsters were an amalgamation of mutants while also using nightcrawler's teleport ability to observe events that have happened in time

[@sunjoexys7251]

I loved Season 3 way more than Season 2. Season 2 was a little all over the place, saved by the solid last episode (S2E11). Season 3, in my opinion, is a brilliant study about power and love.

[@yensid4294]

I think it was an optimistic, inventive & surrealistic telling of how love, compassion & forgiveness can overcome fear, anger & confusion. It wasnt meant to be a literal adaptation or interpretation of the comic book imo but more of a surrealist fairytale inspired by the comic book. I really enjoyed Legion.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Well said.

[@WhattheGeek]

Agreed Yensid, hence the lack of Easter Eggs. And yes it was a solid one.

[@PiotrPieszynski]

I watch your old films and.. WOW! Youve got a great taste! Legion, The gifted, The Man in the High Castle... Thank you for this video!

[@shomarigt984]

Disagree with #14. Even after leaving David, in season2 Shadowking still killed(switched) Davids sister, just to mess with David. That alone should be revenge worthy. And David was leaning to see Lenny as a victim also of circumstances. Shadowking chose to do that.

[@WhattheGeek]

Well to want revenge is one thing, to ignore everything for the sake of revenge and become the villain or be willing to is another thing.

[@Dominic-Decoco]

You know what I don’t get. If Farouk is over 2000 years old, how is 2019 Farouk so different than 1950’s Farouk? You’re telling me after 2000 years he gained all that wisdom in only the last several decades?

[@oWarlock360o]

He never put himself inside another person like he did with David over that long maybe, and perhaps the affection and surroundings while inside David had that impact.

[@yensid4294]

I think they were going for Farouk gaining compassion by experiencing David's suffering so intimately. They both felt alone & unloved in their own way & like monsters.

[@Dominic-Decoco]

yensid Ok I get that part. But even just the way past Farouk acted was so different than present Farouk. I just don’t buy the personality change after 2000 years of life.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Yes. The experience with David was unprecedented for Farouk. He had to "become another" to learn empathy.

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@Dominic-Decoco Transformative experiences can be sudden. A lifetime of bad ideas can be overhauled through a short, extensive period of meditation, a drug experience, a death of a loved one or an illness.

[@R3VO7UTION]

it ends where the chapter 1 begins, so to me, it's kind of like them saying go back a rewatch the series, time is a loop and nothing changed. they're all trapped within a time loop reliving the same lives again and again... rinse, repeat.

[@WhattheGeek]

Well the music does, but no it is not a loop.

[@R3VO7UTION]

@@WhattheGeek The end. What it all means is not for us to know. It is for history to decide. and i decide it's a time loop. it starts with the Happy Jack by The Who and baby in the crib and ends with the same footage of the baby in the crib and yellow sheets. also the last episode begins with the trees ("this is the end"), same as the first shot in the first epsiode (right b4 the aforementioned baby david and his yella sheets).

[@brettthemonster]

The action scenes were by far the worst parts of the show. In fact, the action was pretty much the only part that I didn't like about Legion. The actress who played Kerry is also the worst actor on the show by far. Everything else in the show is so excellent that the casting of Kerry is kind of baffling to me. Legion was a complex puzzle of a show and I loved it despite Kerry being a total stinker when action scenes came around because it was secondary to the wonderful storytelling.

[@WhattheGeek]

Oh I actually liked Kerry, action wise, acting wise, her role was not all that big anyway.

[@brettthemonster]

@@WhattheGeek Oh yeah, that's why I really didn't mind it when all is said and done. Not a big role anyways. Glad you enjoyed her in the show though.

[@vicegrips188]

I loved the series and liked this episode too. I wish Oliver could’ve been there in the post credit scene reprimanding us for still being still being there or some thing

[@joeciavarini9508]

Thank you Geek for this video, it was a great season and series, I give it an 8.5 overall. I personally loved the ending of the Carey/Carey arc, what a nice wrap-up for those two characters. I am glad they made it until the finale, they were my favorite characters of the series.

[@WhattheGeek]

They were definitely up there on my list as well.

[@davidtabaka2663]

I don't blame anyone. I turned Farouk from the Darkside. In order to do that, one must meet darkness at it's level. Though I walk through the valley of the SHADOW of DEATH, I mock the Proud...

[@VincoMalus]

Elegantly beautiful analysis/& dissection🎥💪

[@WhattheGeek]

Thanks buddy.

[@ACIoannina]

I didn't particularly love the ending to be honest. There was no real catharsis. Everyone basically forgave everyone, the timeline changed in an unknown way and the story just stopped. Only Switch got a satisfactory ending. On the other hand I realize it was the only "surprise" ending they could have done. The alternatives I can think of are the following: 1) To go the Endgame route and kill both future and past Shadow king. That would obviously be too similar to the movies. 2) To accidentally cause the past Shadow King to possess baby David, effectively creating the timeline he was trying to avert, 3) To go the comic book route and actually kill baby David. That would be too similar to the movie the Butterfly Effect and was not set up anywhere in the series. Unless it was something that followed scenario 2, in which case they would have needed one more episode, 4) To go the Age of Apocalypse route and kill young Charles. But that could have only worked if they were planning on making a spin-off or continuing the series, That's the possible scenarios I can think but none of them would have really worked. Maybe we got the best possible ending but it was a bit underwhelming

[@mattgilbert7347]

Nah. Understated is better. This was sad and beautiful, wise and reflective.

[@R3VO7UTION]

after watching the final episode begin the first episode immediately... nothing changed. they're all trapped within an endless time loop.

[@WhattheGeek]

They are not trapped in a time loop. Trying to claim so when you got a time God, literally mentioning the next you is going to be glorious, it is silly to claim they are in an endless time loop.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

I was AFRAID they would make a cheap plot twist like that in the end, but I'm so glad that they didn't. It had a meaningful story and execution from beginning to the end, no need for "surprises" or dark twists for the sake of being edgy.

[@legendswarble2845]

I liked the ending. It had a very gentle feel to it, but it's not how I would have done it. I felt that everyone had fallen so far that maybe a more tragic ending was fitting. I felt that everyone should have lost, especially David and Faruk. Never the less, I liked the one they went with. A much more hopeful story.

[@Ghost8386]

Awesome recap!!!

[@WhattheGeek]

Thanks man

[@phillydragon9434]

well i mean you missed the part where at the end the effects while zooming in on baby David. I think it means more i believe he transferred his consciousness from grown up David to baby David it totally makes sense and think about this how many times has he lived his life and transferred his consciousness to his younger self layering on more and more personalities while going back through time till you have a "Legion" of them . . . "drops keyboard walks away". . . . "picks keyboard back up".

[@WhattheGeek]

It is possible, not that I think so but it is possible.

[@WhattheGeek]

One of those things that is left to the imagination I suppose.

[@guyincognito82]

That would be a horrible way to spend existence though. Putting ur older self into a babies body and being stuck there with all those voices again and again and again. I'd rather die and see what comes next instead of putting myself thru thousands of years of suffering over and over again.

[@12chapin]

wow, David talking about madness, like a Multiverse of it?🤔 I believe in time.

[@WhattheGeek]

Random, Random, Random.

[@lisaslusher9516]

The song at the end was from S1 and used the name Jack. Do you think that song was chosen because of Jack Wayne? Well it is sad to see it end.😭 Great job as always.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Probably an allusion to Townsend' s work on "Tommy" - not unlike all the Pink Floyd stuff.

[@mattgilbert7347]

It's the same song the series opens with. The lyrics are important. And it ends as it begins.

[@WhattheGeek]

Not sure they meant to reference that, but you never know Lisa.

[@LeahIsHereNow]

Yay… I found smart people! 🙏🏻

[@travisspazz1624]

Honestly I was pretty disappointed with the finale, and the season. I felt the build up in the first two seasons was expansive, and this felt so low scale and underwhelming. The characters that died were seemingly forgotten, including scene stealing Aubrey Plaza!!

[@mattgilbert7347]

This was a finale for adults. No whiz-bang apocalyptic stuff, this was more *mature* Farouk said it: "Surely we can imagine better? "

[@travisspazz1624]

@@mattgilbert7347 uh huh sure, a knife and a bottle. S2 finale had full on animated battle with behind blue eyes!!

[@WhattheGeek]

Travis, a finale does not have to be a finale with a huge battle, we have reduced stories IMO to the concepts of how much fight it has. It is like what people did with Endgame, oh we did not see the Hulk fight, we saw him play a God Damn role. We did not see him fight Thanos, that is not the point, for a mature audience it is not about the kid who took my lunch money, it so I gotta seek vengeance if and when I can, it is about the greater good, etc.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

Yeah it needed more full-scale CGI battles and quippy catchphrases.........

[@travisspazz1624]

@@Commander_Shepard. Why would it have quippy catchphrases? I just said Aubrey Plaza was seemingly forgotten.

[@MrAtfenn]

syd was the villian. i dont agree that david was just looking for someone to blame.

[@danielnugent7046]

I loved it, but I really would have liked to have seen the world destroyed, in some manner, before they reset the timeline.

[@WhattheGeek]

Well we know in a way that future existed.

[@12chapin]

Geek, David is coming. The ruler of an ancient, distant kingdom. 🤷‍♀️

[@WhattheGeek]

For once make the right comment on the right video lol.

[@MusicCritique-db3qt]

Will David and syd ever meet again in the life?

[@davidtabaka2663]

David kept to himself until he funtil he found out that he had been cursed for 33 years. Should I really thank the shadow king? Psalm 122:5 Ezekial 37:24-27 I think you're forgetting that everyone was trying to blame David and use David only it's only to turn on him for doing exactly what they asked of him.

[@allen100k]

Yea a good run........

[@WhattheGeek]

Indeed it was.

[@MarcusMacgregor2]

Listening to video "David was the one who destroyed the universe with Grammarly"

[@WhattheGeek]

Come again?

[@jonathandakota2430]

Masterpiece! 9.8 from me!!

[@WhattheGeek]

It was an epic series with a great finale.

[@12chapin]

Do all Marvel characters need to have wrist device to time travel, or to keep evil entities from possessing them?

[@WhattheGeek]

Focus on the series at hand, do you have ADD?

[@12chapin]

What the Geek What is ADD? Is another organization like Shield or Sword?

[@rodriquh]

A great summary. I also loved this series and everything Marvel. What a neat story.

[@WhattheGeek]

This one was extremely well done, I gotta say

[@shapeshifter7676]

The ending, tho, It kinda left the door open for a Possible series. even if they don't wanna talk about it, even if they haven't even discussed it, they can easily start a new series, since everything's changed. It would be like a reboot within the story itself.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

NAH. It's over. Let it stay that way.

[@roccygnus2570]

How'd you guys feel about the show overall? I think it has it's dark spots but overall it's a great show.

[@brucepaulson6279]

This series could be the way that the X-Men gets rebooted in the evil mouse marvel universe. Whatcha think? Possible? 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

[@mattgilbert7347]

FUCK NO

[@WhattheGeek]

I wish,you wish, but not happening.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

This was never part of X-men universe in the first place.

[@supernovaws]

Why retelling episode now calling "breakdown"?!

[@WhattheGeek]

Was this retelling? You mention events and you analyze them and state your opinion, there are no absolutes, don't be silly :P

[@tekircelebi]

Can Prof.X be David?

[@colinhoughton5394]

Nice idea, but no, David would have had to sleep with his mother to be born. A different paradox is going back in time and killing your grandfather

[@tekircelebi]

Colin Houghton thank you

[@WhattheGeek]

Nope, but there was a David Personality based off of Prof. X in the comics.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

Prof. X is David's dad. They literally say his name is Charles Xavier.

[@tekircelebi]

Commander Shepard , or in his new life David had a son who he name after his dad and that boy became Prof X

[@brucepaulson6279]

Great series. I'll miss it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@WhattheGeek]

It is pretty great, glad you enjoyed the finale my friend.

[@brucepaulson6279]

@@WhattheGeek Thank you my friend. I also enjoyed how much they included and used Pink Floyd (a personal favorite from back in my youth) throughout the series, especially in the finale. How appropriate.

[@lucerocastro5]

I bealive David believes love is good their all being selfish fighting for their wants even syd poot me first in her wrist she poots her need before anything as everyone faruk n all human fight for their need end they all srlfish

[@chiraggupta1009]

First?

[@WhattheGeek]

Yepe!!!

[@mattgilbert7347]

Alpha. Omega?

[@tvega3000]

You guys can act like this series wasn't trash if you want but it is absolute garbage. No wonder it was cancelled. I'd rather watch the Inhumans show that flopped. Gifted was waaaay better than this. The worse seasons of Agents of Shield were way better than that. My expectations were way too high going into this show. I wish Switch could come give me back the time I wasted on this show.

[@WhattheGeek]

You can keep going and claim everyone is "acting" but the way you put it I start thinking maybe you did not understand the show, I mean a lot of people hated it because of that. Gotta say love your thumbnail though, that out of the boondocks, right?

[@tvega3000]

What the Geek I’m just talking shit. But you’re right, I didn’t like it because I didn’t think I was getting it then after all the reviews and breakdowns, I realized that I actually did get it and I just didn’t like it even more than I thought. Aubrey was great though. I just think they tried too hard to be too weird and succeeded. What do you think I don’t understand and should love about this show? And thanks, yea it’s Huey Freeman

[@WhattheGeek]

I loved the boondocks, I need to rewatch that, haha!!!

[@Commander_Shepard.]

I'm so sorry that you're brain dead. Hope you get better. :)

[@tvega3000]

@@Commander_Shepard. I'm sorry that something I said over a month ago hurt your feelings today. Get over it Bozo.

[@desertdweller9548]

Narrator is mind numbingly bad.