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B And then a funny thing happened. It was announced season two would be moving not only the whole storyline toward the south, but the entire production to Los Angeles. In a dreams-do- come-true scenario, it not only moved to a place near family, great crews and so many vendors (waiting for translights to clear customs three times a week never gets any funner), but also got a chance to start over. Cue the subtitle of episode 201: Welcome to Madness. Starting over isn't all it's cracked up to be. Not only does one need to get a whole new batch of bewildered crew into a mindset that "not everything needs to make sense," but there is a real pressure that doing all new sets for a show could, conceivably, go very wrong or feel too different. Does creative lightning strike twice? And there was a new brief. The theme of season one was: An Insane Man in a Sane World. Season two would be: A Sane Man in an Insane World. Legion's hero was told for years that he was crazy. He was drugged and left to rot in an institution. After he was rescued from that institution, he was forced to see the world the way it really is. The world of Legion, with a new lair, and new apartments. Geoffrey Mandel made graphics that were incredibly retro and shored up the comic lineage of our show. Property master Jeffrey Johnson and his crew manufactured a lot of props for Legion. Sometimes the rental houses just don't have a vape pipe in the shape of an elephant. They made weapons, giant sewing needles, low-tech lab equipment, you name it. The property department worked very closely with the writers. There is a very fine line between weird and just plain idiotic. It's also hard to decipher what is too much and what is just A. & B. THE DESERT PLAYED A VERY LARGE PART OF SEASON TWO. PRACTICAL ELEMENTS WERE USED AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. SINCE NO ACTOR INTERACTED WITH THE PROP PLUG, IT COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN DONE IN POST. IT WAS INSTEAD, A PRACTICAL SET PIECE MADE FROM PLASTER OVER A WOOD FRAME. A