Hannibal through 3x02

[kindkit]

"I forgive you."

Oh, Will.

I surrender. I have no morals anymore. I just want Will and Hannibal to live happily ever after. If they'll try to only murder and eat the extremely rude, that'll be enough to square it with my conscience.

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[st_aurafina]

Season three is such a trip - watching you watch it is like those photos of people coming down Splash Mountain.

If they'll try to only murder and eat the extremely rude, that'll be enough to square it with my conscience

Pretty much my philosophy.

[kindkit]

Quite a trip--I haven't been this engaged by a story in a long, long time.

I've been meditating on how Hannibal seems overall to be revisiting the plotline I hated in Thomas Harris's book, where Hannibal Lecter manages to seduce Clarice Starling and turn her into a cannibal. It was badly done and implausible in the book, whereas in Hannibal-the-show it's not only believable that Will would start to love Hannibal, but you end up wanting him to. The fact that Hannibal/Will is a queer relationship, as opposed to yet another tedious iteration of "powerful older man transforms and dominates young woman" makes a lot of difference to me, but Hannibal also has much better storytelling.

[lilacsigil]

I think that's where the entire fandom ended up by this stage!

[kindkit]

I was just watching a youtube video of a con panel with Bryan Fuller and the cast after S2. Fuller talked about crying when he was writing the Will-Hannibal scene at the end of the finale because he felt so heartbroken for Hannibal, and finding himself thinking "Will's an ass." Apparently Hannibal's seductive power even extends to the person writing him!