Season 2 of Legion seems less interested in provoking well-informed theorizing as it is in leaving its audience in a semi-permanent state of confusion. After all, it’s difficult to speculate about the future of a show when you can barely tell what’s actually going on in its present. But these Future Syd Legion theories merit some analysis anyway, because something is definitely off about her.

When David was zapped into that floating orb at the end of Season 1, fans had a field day hypothesizing about who had kidnapped David and why. While a popular theory espoused that Magneto was behind the abduction, I don’t think anybody predicted the real answer: that the orb contained a future version of Sydney Barrett, who told David he needed to help the Shadow King find his body, because the Shadow King would be the only one strong enough to stop another threat that had all but wiped out humanity in the future.

Ever since David so blindly accepted her insistence that he help his archnemesis — and since present-Syd so blindly accepted David’s account of her own future self — some fans have been skeptical about Future Syd’s true motivations… and it turns out that there are many possible explanations for her fishy behavior.

1. She’s Working For The Shadow King

Then again, perhaps the simplest explanation is that Future Syd doesn’t really exist at all. There is still time unaccounted for during David’s year-long absence from Division III; could the Shadow King have been the one who really abducted David, and then implanted the psychic with a slimy delusion to make him think an imperiled version of his lover had done it? Urging David to help him with the face of Sydney Barrett would be far easier than trying to convince him on his own. Until someone else time travels to the future to check out this apocalyptic timeline, there’s no real proof that Future Syd even exists.

It may be unclear who Syd is working for or why, but it is clear that viewers should be suspicious of everything they see — especially as the season moves into its final five episodes, sure to be packed with mind-blowing twists and jaw-dropping revelations.

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