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* Lenny's home life wasn't exactly the greatest. Her mom was a junkie, her dad was a pedophile, and her gran repeatedly gave her alcohol to drink while watching cartoons. When she was nine. She never had a chance.
* Lenny running through some of what she did to get high. Example: she once lured a man with the promise of oral sex, only for her pimp to extort him for money with a fake gun to where he's begging for his life. All so she can get high again.
* Oliver telling Farouk that he his experiences with the Astral Plane and as his slave have made it to where he can't tell what's real anymore.
* David tells Lenny that, until Farouk left, he didn't truly understand the meaning of silence. Never was able to appreciated the ambiance of a room, or hear a heartbeat.
* Lenny running through some of what she did to get high. Example: she once lured a man with the promise of oral sex, only for her pimp to extort him for money with a fake gun to where he's begging for his life. All so she can get high again.
* Oliver telling Farouk that he his experiences with the Astral Plane and as his slave have made it to where he can't tell what's real anymore.
* David tells Lenny that, until Farouk left, he didn't truly understand the meaning of silence. Never was able to appreciated the ambiance of a room, or hear a heartbeat.
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* The opening scene where Syd refuses to touch her mother as a baby and young girl. All set to a melancholy Bon Iver piece.
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* After seeing the couple making out in the art museum, Syd goes home and plants a kiss on her reflection in the mirror.
* The heart-wrenching scene revealing that Syd cut herself as a child.
* The sex scene in that episode is sad beyond words. A cruel twist on budding teenage sexuality and Syd's desire to be touched leads to a horrific outcome and massive amounts of emotional trauma for everyone involved.
* The heart-wrenching scene revealing that Syd cut herself as a child.
* The sex scene in that episode is sad beyond words. A cruel twist on budding teenage sexuality and Syd's desire to be touched leads to a horrific outcome and massive amounts of emotional trauma for everyone involved.
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* Lenny's predicament. Farouk refuses to let her go, and even mocks her stated reason for leaving to David. She tells David that she pulls all her hair out of frustration, and tries to kill herself while he's there. Even if she were to leave, she likely would end up either back in an asylum or with a nose-full of drugs.
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* Lenny's predicament. Farouk refuses to let her go, and even mocks her stated reason for leaving to David. She tells David that she pulls pulled all her hair out of frustration, and tries to kill herself while he's there. Even if she were to leave, she likely would end up either back in an asylum or with a nose-full of drugs.
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* Despite the humor present, Kerry essentially has to be toilet-trained and taught how to eat and drink.
* Lenny's predicament. Farouk refuses to let her go, and even mocks her stated reason for leaving to David. She tells David that she pulls all her hair out of frustration, and tries to kill herself while he's there. Even if she were to leave, she likely would end up either back in an asylum or with a nose-full of drugs.
* Lenny's predicament. Farouk refuses to let her go, and even mocks her stated reason for leaving to David. She tells David that she pulls all her hair out of frustration, and tries to kill herself while he's there. Even if she were to leave, she likely would end up either back in an asylum or with a nose-full of drugs.
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* What Farouk!Oliver does to Kerry and Cary, especially after we see them so happy and coexisting.
* Melanie's speech to David about how his power is preventing him from being truly happy, and how the positive and powerful Summerland was worthless. It's especially sad coming from her since she was so caring and affirming toward David in the past.
* Melanie's speech to David about how his power is preventing him from being truly happy, and how the positive and powerful Summerland was worthless. It's especially sad coming from her since she was so caring and affirming toward David in the past.
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* Oliver laughing mirthlessly as he "enjoys" his state as a mental slave of Amahl Farouk.
* Melanie, broken after Oliver's and David's fates last season, [[spoiler: is now a junkie, addicted to the same drug that David was before his institutionalization.]]
* The excellently-told metaphor concerning delusions. Incredibly sad that, as powerful as the human mind is, it's also so frail as to so easily descend into madness. Poor Albert A, [[spoiler: and his missing leg.]]
* Melanie, broken after Oliver's and David's fates last season, [[spoiler: is now a junkie, addicted to the same drug that David was before his institutionalization.]]
* The excellently-told metaphor concerning delusions. Incredibly sad that, as powerful as the human mind is, it's also so frail as to so easily descend into madness. Poor Albert A, [[spoiler: and his missing leg.]]
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* Clark's recounting of what his life was and is like as a burn victim. About forty percent of his body is burned. He had a tube stuck in his urethra for weeks. His husband cries himself to sleep every night. Despite all the lofty field-work he once did, he's having to beg for desk duty. The show does an excellent job of generating sympathy for a seemingly one-note villain.
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* Kerry gives Cary the cold shoulder after they escape from fake!Clockworks. It's clear that their relationship has suffered as a result of Cary's otherwise noble actions to help them escape, which left Kerry alone for a time to be tormented by The Eye.
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* Ptonomy recounts to Lenny how his mother died. She dropped dead while doing the dishes one day. Just like that. While he was in the room. He was five. He tells it serenely, with a smile on his face, just like it was any other memory.
* It's also sad to see the pugilistic and headstrong Kerry become a shell of herself who is entirely dependent on Cary but can't phase with him. She doesn't even try to fight The Eye, but just runs away in terror.
* It's also sad to see the pugilistic and headstrong Kerry become a shell of herself who is entirely dependent on Cary but can't phase with him. She doesn't even try to fight The Eye, but just runs away in terror.
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* The story of the poor woodcutter and his wife, which perfectly mirrors Melanie's sorrow over the missing Oliver. Told by Oliver's voice, to boot.
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* The pervasive nature of [[spoiler: the Shadow King's]] presence in even David's happier memories, and the way [[spoiler: he makes David instantly forget his presence]].
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* Watching David attempt to hang himself, especially with hindsight and observing [[spoiler: the Shadow King lingering in the background]].
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* In this AlternateTimeline separate from the X-Men films, mutants appear to not be as common knowledge as other movies have portrayed them. On the one hand, this means that they're not persecuted by the public, but this also means that they're more likely to be blamed for things that can't be explained, believed to be mentally ill (like David or Syd), or worse worse, are the victims of a sinister GovernmentConspiracy.
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* David isn't any well off in the alternate Clockworks either, despite being relatively comfortable-- in it, he inadvertently forms a rift between himself and Syd when he brushes off her observation [[spoiler:[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers about the bedroom door in the hallway]]]]; and Nurse!Amy tells him outright she and her family secretly ''hated him,'' and fake-gags loudly to emphasize it. That's before [[spoiler:Psychiatrist!Lenny/ TDWYE delivers his hybrid BreakingSpeech-MotiveRant and traps him in a glass coffin.]]
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* David isn't any well off in the alternate Clockworks either, despite being relatively comfortable-- in it, he inadvertently forms a rift between himself and Syd when he brushes off her observation [[spoiler:[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers about the bedroom door in the hallway]]]]; and Nurse!Amy tells him outright she and her family secretly ''hated him,'' and fake-gags loudly to emphasize it. That's before [[spoiler:Psychiatrist!Lenny/ TDWYE [[spoiler:Psychiatrist!Lenny/TDWYE delivers his hybrid BreakingSpeech-MotiveRant and traps him in a glass coffin.]]
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* Throughout the episode, we see the different ways that David's life could have turned out. In one of them, he uses his telepathy to become rich and powerful, but also loses his empathy. In another, he is homeless and even less in control of himself than usual. And in still another, he lives a seemingly stable life with a job, with Amy constantly reminding him to take his medicine, but is so frustrated at his dependency on her that he snaps anyway. The FamilyUnfriendlyAesop seems to be that [[spoiler:going to Clockwork was the only path forward for him, even though it also set in motion the events that led to Amy's death.]]
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* Throughout the episode, we see the different ways that David's life could have turned out. In one of them, he uses his telepathy to become rich and powerful, but also loses his empathy. In another, he is homeless and even less in control of himself than usual. And in still another, he lives a seemingly stable life with a job, with Amy constantly reminding him to take his medicine, but is so frustrated at his dependency on her that he snaps anyway. The FamilyUnfriendlyAesop seems to be that [[spoiler:going to Clockwork was the only path forward for him, even though it also set in motion the events that led to Amy's death.]]
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* Seeing everything that Syd had to endure while growing up. She had a intense fear of touch since birth and was bullied by other girls during her school years because of her dislike of being touched and whatever happened to her biological father.
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* Oliver seeing a vision of Melanie while he's talking about morality with the Shadow King, and the look on his face as he sees her.
* David's painful reaction to discovering [[spoiler: that Farouk had murdered his sister and used her body to make Lenny corporeal again]].
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* Seeing everything that Syd had to endure while growing up. She had a intense fear of touch since birth and was bullied by other girls during her school years because of her dislike of being touched and whatever happened to her biological father.
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* Oliver seeing a vision of Melanie while he's talking about morality with the Shadow King, and the look on his face as he sees her.
* David's painful reaction to discovering [[spoiler: that Farouk had murdered his sister and used her body to make Lenny corporeal again]].
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* The final paragraph of the released first page of the Episode 9 script:
---> "He starts to laugh too. They laugh longer and harder than seems normal, until it reaches the point of hysteria.
---> We see their faces in close-up, the panic and grief and disbelief at the reality they're in. They would scream if they could, but they can't--so they just laugh and laugh."
---> "He starts to laugh too. They laugh longer and harder than seems normal, until it reaches the point of hysteria.
---> We see their faces in close-up, the panic and grief and disbelief at the reality they're in. They would scream if they could, but they can't--so they just laugh and laugh."
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* [[spoiler: Oliver's fate. He finally breaks out of his prison in the Astral Plane and starts to remember Melanie, but is possessed by Farouk shortly afterward.]]
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* [[spoiler: Oliver's fate. He finally breaks out of his prison in the Astral Plane and starts to remember Melanie, but is possessed by Farouk shortly afterward.]]
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* While David is figuring out why he was put up for adoption, he has a brief moment of self-doubt and questions whether it was to [[spoiler: keep him safe from the Shadow King]], or if his parents just didn't want him. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, [[spoiler: Chalkboard Xavier reaches out his hand in despair.]]
* While David is figuring out why he was put up for adoption, he has a brief moment of self-doubt and questions whether it was to [[spoiler: keep him safe from the Shadow King]], or if his parents just didn't want him. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, [[spoiler: Chalkboard Xavier reaches out his hand in despair.]]
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* David isn't any well off in the alternate Clockworks either, despite being relatively comfortable-- in it, he inadvertently forms a rift between himself and Syd when he brushes off her observation [[spoiler:[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers about the bedroom door in the hallway]]]]; and Nurse!Amy tells him outright she and her family secretly ''hated him,'' and fake-gags loudly to emphasize it. That's before [[spoiler:Psychiatrist!Lenny/ TDWYE delivers his hybrid BreakingSpeech-MotiveRant and traps him in a glass coffin.]]
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* The whole cast becomes trapped in some alternate world where they're all inmates and Lenny is their doctor. Melanie takes it especially hard, as Lenny delivers a BreakingSpeech convincing her that her husband is truly dead and the whole "trapped in the astral plane" business is just a story she tells herself to avoid dealing with her grief. Melanie spends almost the entire rest of the episode nearly catatonic.
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* The whole cast becomes trapped in some alternate world where they're all inmates and Lenny is their doctor. Melanie takes it especially hard, as Lenny delivers a BreakingSpeech convincing her that her husband is truly dead and the whole "trapped in the astral plane" business is just a story she tells herself to avoid dealing with her grief. Melanie spends almost the entire rest of the episode nearly catatonic.
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* It's rather low on the list of horrible tragedies in the show, but it's sad that when Cary was born after Kerry, their father abandoned their mother when he thought she was having an affair--when the truth was that they were a mutant LiteralSplitPersonality.
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* Amy is brutally tortured by Division 3 with no absolutely no idea why and what all this has to do with David, and all David can do is watch from afar telepathically.
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* David in general even when viewers first watch the show ''knowing'' that he's not (entirely) crazy makes this show the incarnation of UnreliableNarrator.
** He spends the majority of his life haunted by a 'Devil With Yellow Eyes' who appears particularly when David is about to lose control of his powers. It makes you wonder whether or not its entirely his fault.
** Even after learning that he's not crazy; lifelong trauma, difficulty controlling his powers, and hints that at least ''some'' of his problems are psychological in nature constantly makes you question everything that's happening whenever he's on screen.
* In this AlternateTimeline separate from the X-Men films, mutants appear to not be as common knowledge as other films have portrayed them. On the one hand this means that they're not persecuted by the public, but this also means that they're more likely to be blamed for things that can't be explained, believed to be crazy (like David or Syd) and worse are the victims of a sinister GovernmentConspiracy.
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* David's on the verge of tears when he tells Melanie and Ptonomy that his father had passed away last year, and he didn't get the chance to say goodbye because he was institutionalized at Clockworks.
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* David in general even when viewers first watch the show ''knowing'' that he's not (entirely) crazy makes this show the incarnation of UnreliableNarrator.
** He spends the majority of his life haunted by a 'Devil With Yellow Eyes' who appears particularly when David is about to lose control of his powers. It makes you wonder whether or not its entirely his fault.
** Even after learning that he's not crazy; lifelong trauma, difficulty controlling his powers, and hints that at least ''some'' of his problems are psychological in nature constantly makes you question everything that's happening whenever he's on screen.
*In this AlternateTimeline separate from the X-Men films, mutants appear to not be as common knowledge as other films have portrayed them. On the one hand this means that they're not persecuted by the public, but this also means that they're more likely to be blamed for things that can't be explained, believed to be crazy (like David or Syd) and worse are the victims of a sinister GovernmentConspiracy.
* David in general even when viewers first watch the show ''knowing'' that he's not (entirely) crazy makes this show the incarnation of UnreliableNarrator.
** He spends the majority of his life haunted by a 'Devil With Yellow Eyes' who appears particularly when David is about to lose control of his powers. It makes you wonder whether or not its entirely his fault.
** Even after learning that he's not crazy; lifelong trauma, difficulty controlling his powers, and hints that at least ''some'' of his problems are psychological in nature constantly makes you question everything that's happening whenever he's on screen.
*In this AlternateTimeline separate from the X-Men films, mutants appear to not be as common knowledge as other films have portrayed them. On the one hand this means that they're not persecuted by the public, but this also means that they're more likely to be blamed for things that can't be explained, believed to be crazy (like David or Syd) and worse are the victims of a sinister GovernmentConspiracy.
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* [[spoiler:Even though we didn't get to know her too well, David (in Syd's body) finding Lenny's corpse fused with the wall is depressing to watch. Especially since she appeared to be one of the few friends David had.]]
* [[spoiler:Even though we didn't get to know her too well, David (in Syd's body) finding Lenny's corpse fused with the wall is depressing to watch. Especially since she appeared to be one of the few friends David had.]]
