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.