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.
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.
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Date: 2016-01-03 03:32 pm (UTC)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.