Hannibal 1x12: "Relevés"

[cleolinda]

BEFORE THE SHOW

@cleolinda: I am straight-up drinking through tonight's episode. #SOEXCITED #SOSCARED

AFTER THE SHOW

@cleolinda: I'm not okay, you guys, everything is terrible, I'm not okaaaaaay, oh God I can't wait to recap this

We're beyond Worst at Helping, guys. Beyond Kelvin Worst, beyond Unmitigated Fucker. We're beyond words for

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[goldenusagi]

Anything you can do, HE CAN DO FANCIER.

He really IS modeling himself on her, lol.

"Whatever you're doing with Will Graham... STOP."Another person besides Alana who’s not afraid to call him on his shit. More impressive, even, because she KNOWS

[lonelywalker]

a mix tape of ‘Will’s most disturbing statements’

*dies*

[goldenusagi]

He has them all queued up and ready to go. Except for anything where he himself sounds suspicious, of course. Notice he did NOT play the conversation about killing feeling good to God, lol.

[everstar3]

MMCHA MMCHA I think I killed him WOOP WOOP

[tabbyclaw]

Not gonna lie, my brain went almost instantly to Hannibal holding up a boombox outside Jack's window a la Say Anything, only with Will's damaged psyche instead of Peter Gabriel.

[mokie]

DEAR TUMBLR: NEED PICTURES.

[chibi_regalli]

Give me some quotes, and I'll do it. (Granted, it'll be a really SHITTY picture, because I only have MS Paint, but I'll do it.)

[mokie]

I got distracted, but is this you?

[chibi_regalli]

No, I am not nearly talented enough to make an edit like that.

BUT IT IS AMAZING.

[lonelywalker]

I'm seeing this boy and he just might be out of his mind...

Although at least in those circumstances Bella would be all "WTF?" and probably sort the whole thing out in seconds.

(Bella, Beverly + Freddie need to form some sort of Sensible People Alliance.)

[meleth]

Although given how closely Freddie's sticking to her "Will Graham's a killer for shooting a man who'd just killed 8 teenagers, his wife, and was in the process of cutting his daughter's throat," I'm not sure how reliable she is, either.

[cleolinda]

the fact that he then saved her makes it more interesting.

This seems like one of the reasons he's gotten overconfident about being "curious"--nothing really bad will happen, right? He sent that guy to her, but he saved her in time, right?

Also, I have to say that despite Abigail circling Hannibal’s activities for a while, I can’t blame her for not putting it together before now. Even if she thought something was off with him, I don’t blame her for not jumping right to ‘he’s the most evil serial killer ever’, because who would.Well, and also, I think there's a survival mechanism--denial--at work here. I mean (let me pull this up), in EPISODE THREE, she says, "I think you called the house as a serial killer. Just like my dad." And the episode ends with her sort of thinking this over, like she's having an epiphany--but in retrospect, I almost wonder if it wasn't more like her brain was resetting itself. NOPE, CAN'T HANDLE THAT. She realizes what he's served everyone for dinner: NOPE, GONNA GET HUGS INSTEAD. And both of those moments

[goldenusagi]

Also, regarding Bedelia: I wonder what his endgame for that scenario was? Why send a problem patient to her and save her? Especially as it showed her something about him. Or was that the goal--to see what would happen if she 'saw' him?

In 1.03, Abigail says, "They think whoever called the house is a serial killer, just like my dad." Which seemed to be a way of asking without saying what she thought. I do think there's a healthy bit of denial going on there. Because what are the odds that she's found ANOTHER serial killer. I'm just not sure why in this episode she confronts him, if not for the fact that she can't ignore all the little things that are adding up (and adding up quickly at this point).

And the little finger point!

YES. HOW CAN FINGER POINTING BE SO CREEPY.

[cleolinda]

The way she stepped back from him... I think she kind of already knew it was too late. He was just way too calm about "They're going to arrest you and they'll think Will killed everyone." Right after "I was so worried about you," something seemed to switch off, and I think she could tell, on some level. It wasn't so much confronting him as getting answers before the inevitable happened, maybe.

[mokie]

I'm just not sure why in this episode she confronts him, if not for the fact that she can't ignore all the little things that are adding up (and adding up quickly at this point).

I think she figured out at that point that she'd gotten the pair mixed up. She thought of Will as shaky, crazy, too much in the head like her own dad, and not quite safe, while Hannibal was cool, collected, in-control and kept their secrets and promised protection. Oops.

[tabbyclaw]

She learned far too late that Shaggy Dad was only shaggy on the outside.