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

Comments

[cleolinda]

1. i read hannibal's "...yes [it's chicken soup]" as "i... did do something sort of homey and comforting for you, didn't i? that's weird and i didn't mean to and i don't like it. shut up and eat your people."

I kind of read it as "I did something homey and comforting for you, yes. I'm also about to severely screw you over, and... are these what you humans call 'mixed feelings'?"

2. i read bedelia's "yes... thank god" as an implied "god had nothing to do with that".

Oh my God. I should have read it that way.

i do think he's just playing the people here as he'd play a theramin. make it up as you go along.

Oh, I like that. Playing an open strategy also seems both smarter and more dangerous to me than someone who works out a plan in advance and has to manipulate every event towards that. We know he's capable of improvising, too, because that's exactly what he had to do when Will unexpectedly called him on the Nick Boyle thing, and we actually saw him decide to go for diplomacy instead of the scalpel.

fuller said the season ends on a hair-pulling cliffhanger. i had always assumed that cliffhanger would be about abigail's fate, but if she's already dead...?

Yeah, I'd heard that, and also that "the audience would be screwed" if the show didn't get renewed. Which made me think that it was going to have something more to do with Will and Hannibal themselves (probably with Abigail dead earlier in the episode), maybe Will being on the verge of discovering Hannibal's the Ripper, or having just discovered it and the two of them staring each other down like, "What now?" But Fuller's also (often) referred to season two as "the bad breakup," with a whole two seasons until Red Dragon, which makes me think it can't possibly be anything as concrete as "I know you're the Ripper." So everyone speculating that Will gets institutionalized as sort of an ironic riff on Silence of the Lambs--it sounds really, really likely, even though that sounds a bit too on the nose for me. But I trust them at this point, so.

[winterlive]

it CAN'T be anything to do with will and hannibal, because we already know how their story ends. if they leave us dangling on something like that, all we have to do is go pick up red dragon to see what happens next. jack, the investigators three, will, hannibal - all sorted. that's what made me think it had to be to do with abigail. so i still kind of think it must be.

if s2 is the bad breakup, i'm seeing it kind of as will seeing through some of hannibal's manipulations. re-learning to distrust him, to pull away, like s1 in reverse. and at the end of THAT, that's when he must figure out that hannibal's the ripper, and get stabbed eeeeek.