Sykes and Psyches

In light of her character's initial trajectory, Aubrey Plaza seemed unusually optimistic in "Legion". I really did enjoy how she and David played off each other. What was that Paul Giamatti movie where the kid checks himself in to a mental clinic for nervous exhaustion or something and bonds with a girl patient over T. Rex? I was actually quite fond of that movie. Anyway, a similar dynamic was on display here. I do enjoy that trope of young mental patients in like.

When I was in hospital as a teenager, our ward's intercom system was broken, which meant that we had to ring actual metal bells to signal the nurses. They called our section the Anita Ward. 

Most of that's untrue. I just wanted to get that joke in.

One of my other favourite parts of the episode was the moment when I finally stopped struggling to place the interrogator's face. "The New Adventures of Old Christine"! I knew that the main recognition point was something tonally different. It's such relief when that effort culminates. Man, that show had a great cast too. The intial draw for me was Wanda Sykes, but the dude in this show proved to be fantastic, and by the time at which I finally got around to watching it, I knew the former husband better from his Agent Coulson role in the Marvel movies. Hm. With this guy's "Legion" role, that gives "New Adventures" two silly men who went on to play suited, stoic government types in Marvel properties. 

Bonus Question!

Where did you last see Wanda Sykes?

I've just started watching "Alpha House", a relatively recent John Goodman show, and I was pleasantly surprised when Wanda Sykes showed up to hang out in the middle of the season.

 

Nice Hair, Cool Shades

A show about Professor X's son is  out. They ditched the extreme hair, but they kept the dissociative identity disorder and its attendant powers. It's one power set for each personality? Or a personality for each power set? It's a bit of a chicken-egg situation. But that's what the X-Men are all about. Mutation's why the chicken hatched from an egg that was laid by something slightly different from a chicken. Also, a lot of chickens seem to possess multiple heads. Mutation!

But first the dude who actually played Professor X is giving his own take on DID in that "Split" movie. Heredity! A related genetic concept!

But I've heard whispers that the next actual X-Men movie might touch more on that Phoenix business? Which . . . There are probably more novel places to go, but I can understand Bryan Singer's urge to give that plot a just screen treatment after "The Last Stand" took the threads he'd woven for it in "X2" and pulled them into a frayed mess because no one could wait for him to finish "Superman Returns" with his best buddy James Marsden before returning to his rightful place atop the X-Men film throne. The throne is obviously cruciform. 

But yeah. "X2" basically set up the Phoenix pins, and then "The Last Stand" wandered in and threw a watermelon at them. It definitely wasn't a strike, and it left gross bits of watermelon all over the lane. Now, I personally enjoyed "The Last Stand" more than I like watermelon, but it was clear to see that it had nothing to do with the vision Singer left in the air at the end of "X2". But on the subject of vision, I can say that Cyclops's shades never looked better than they did in "Last Stand". And apparently they were all that survived his fiery kiss death in that movie. Technically, they had more screen time in that film than he did. So.

Bonus Question!

Best Cyclops sunglasses?

See above.