The season finale of Legion left us with a bad taste, and no hero
The season finale of Legion brought with it the dark revelation that David Haller is very much a villain, removing any hope of heroic tendencies.
There is one thing a hero never does and Legion made David Haller do the one thing he most definitely shouldn’t. We get it, heroes are flawed but there is a way to express that without making your main character commit sexual assault.
That’s right, a man we’re supposed to cheer for did the unthinkable. So does this mean we’re supposed to hate him come season 2? Because that’s what definitely happened throughout this episode. Syd even points out that maybe David was the villain all along.
Which would make sense with the way the season was going and with how he acted within the last few moments of the show. Drugging your girlfriend and having sex with her without her consent does not a hero make.
Throughout the season, we’ve been teased with this idea that David would be the downfall to the world as we know it. He’d be the one to bring destruction, not Farouk. So the concept that David was always the villain and that we, the audience, was just unknowing to his true nature is interesting but also negates the entire first season.
How can Legion fix this in the next season? I don’t really think they can.
Unless, by some miracle, they go back in time and make it so he doesn’t try to end the world and sexually assault his girlfriend, David Haller is effectively the villain of Legion from here on out. Truly, no exceptions to that rule when you do something so terrible.
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Check back here on Culturess for more Legion news and recaps when the new season begins. Where will David Haller and Division 3 go next? Well, we’ll just have to wait and see.