That light in Hannibal's eyes is (I think, and probably deliberately) the maroon color the books said he was supposed to have. I never liked that detail, because who has maroon glints in their eyes? Now I realize who: Mads Mikkelsen by torchlight.
I genuinely thought, for her first new scene in this episode, that they'd replaced Kacey Rohls with a different actress. The hair was different, the makeup was different (seriously, her lips were a completely different shape, I'm not wrong, shut up), the pitch of her voice seemed different, I actually thought she was a different person. Well done, team, well done.
One of the things I love about this show is the same thing I loved about LotR. Fuller's amazing at slipping in a single line or image that immediately takes us to the entire scene in the book, without seeming out of place for people without that backstory (chafing dish nononononononono). In this case, it means he can show us the bomb before he ever even shows us the bomb, as it were.
And my reaction to Stagenstein remains the same as it was before (you can just replay the link from the above paragraph, if you like). I actually can never remember what it looks like until I see a picture; my brain simply refuses to hold onto that information. It's hard to even pinpoint why exactly I find it so horrifying (other than things without heads moving as if they had heads, which is not even remotely ok in a reality-based universe), because my brain slides away from it like I'm in a Lovecraft story.
Re: Actual CommentmelethJuly 18 2015, 01:41:14 UTC
And the scene from Mizumono: Hannibal Lecter is one of the only characters who becomes more terrifying when he puts down the chef's knives before following yon maiden up the dark and creepy stairs.
I genuinely thought, for her first new scene in this episode, that they'd replaced Kacey Rohls with a different actress. The hair was different, the makeup was different (seriously, her lips were a completely different shape, I'm not wrong, shut up), the pitch of her voice seemed different, I actually thought she was a different person. Well done, team, well done.
One of the things I love about this show is the same thing I loved about LotR. Fuller's amazing at slipping in a single line or image that immediately takes us to the entire scene in the book, without seeming out of place for people without that backstory (chafing dish nononononononono). In this case, it means he can show us the bomb before he ever even shows us the bomb, as it were.
And my reaction to Stagenstein remains the same as it was before (you can just replay the link from the above paragraph, if you like). I actually can never remember what it looks like until I see a picture; my brain simply refuses to hold onto that information. It's hard to even pinpoint why exactly I find it so horrifying (other than things without heads moving as if they had heads, which is not even remotely ok in a reality-based universe), because my brain slides away from it like I'm in a Lovecraft story.
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