In this context, the absence of the mother that David calls for helps him build his “wall” or his impulsive, reckless, blame avoidant nature. Legion has its most impressive musical break yet with Pink Floyd’s Mother, a song that’s so spiritually perfect it’s a wonder that Noah Hawley and company had the restraint to wait so long to use it. Turning Switch into an omniscient, higher being is some extreme Comic Book Shit, and as a fan of comics, it leaves the same thrilling impression as the Captain America: Civil War airport fight or watching Spider-Man battle the trippy illusions of Mysterio in Far From Home, where you just can’t believe this story is being done for mass audiences without a trace of irony when it seemed like something that could never happen.
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Just when it looks as if Switch could have been a wasted character, used by the series as a plot device much in the same way that David used her as a means to his own end, the series gives her a meaningful arc, one where she finally stops rebelling against the lessons of her father and finally transcends into a fourth dimensional being capable of knowing and changing the long arc of time. Sneakily, Legion has always been a series about the lasting effect that good parenting or a lack of could have on a person, and the finale hits this theme hard.