Legion (TV series)

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Legion (TV series). Based on Legion comice by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz. Noah Hawley, show runner, creator, one executive producer among many. Original Network: FX, with Marvel Television. From the X-Men series in the Marvel "universe." Season 1, eight episodes, February-March 2017. Second season, eleven episodes, April-June 2018. Renewed for a third season starting 24 June 2019 (slated to be the final season). For further details, see Wikipedia entry, our primary source here,, and the entry on IMDb.

Relevant here: The safe area for the Mutants is called "Summerland," contrasted with the psychiatric hospital "Clockworks." Chapter 8, season 1 (29 March 2017), credits on IMDb: the image of David Haller/Legion with an electronic/cybernetic band around his head, called a "halo" and looking like a high-tech coronet/diadem — a headband for the royal or noble. We're told the halo limits and controls the monstrous parasite within David, containing and constraining the parasite and leaving David free and immensely powerful — although with imagery with him of the mildly demonic as he exercises his psi powers, especially violent telekenesis. Meanings may change in later episodes, but here the diadem is both confining and empowering, mundanely electronic and possibly cybernetic, constraining and freeing and allowing to be directed powers that are borderline supernatural. Climactic sequence (beginning some 25 minutes in) shows David wearing the halo, strapped down to an ER-size operating table in a kind of operating room, surrounded by electronic equipment and inside a variation of the mage's pentagram, a square marked off by raised beams that look like lasers in the visible-light frequencies (red); the dialog here suggests the David will give birth. It's actually a transferring of the parasite by contact, with the parasite continuing to be imaged mainly as a young femme fatale (Lenny) and Amahl Farouk: the Shadow King, looking like a particularly decadent reincarnation of Egypt's King Farouk (ruled 1936-52).

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