Heh. See, I would have been totally okay with the dreamlike timeless quality (dude, my mom would grill in a blizzard, even that didn't really bother me), but once you threw in a scene where a family actually seemed to be opening presents, I started tripping over the specific Christmasness of the timing.
Could they have been planning a trip to see family out-of-state and wouldn't physically be home for Christmas? I know my older brother and his family open presents and have a simplified Christmas dinner before leaving to come visit me and our Dad for Christmas.
Somehow, I feel like "Wendy" (yeah, I can't not think of that either) just didn't get quite as much background as the other two. I feel like I just confabulated a shit-ton of stuff from "I think I read somewhere she was supposed to be a counselor."
Holy crap, all of the 'family' scenes are SO MUCH MORE DISTURBING with this context behind them.
Yeahhhh. Especially when you make the explicit connection between the brainwashing and the grooming. "Captor bonding," eeeeeeh.
Also, I was particularly struck in the re-watch how, well, friendly Hannibal and Alana are. It's not unreasonable since he was her mentor, etc. but that first exchange - Do you have an appointment/Do you have a beer - seems positively teasing to me.
Yeahhhhh. That's why I was like, O GIRL the first time around.
I was a little confused about the timing of this episode, because yes, what the fuck is that Christmas shit, but then I started getting the impression that they (being The Lost Boys and Wendy) purposefully decorated the house like that to be more...fucked up (perhaps because she abducted him around Christmas(?) although that's just speculation). There just isn't enough snow around for it to be anywhere near Christmas on the East coast.
And I took the Christmas being early or late comment that Lecter made as a kind of 'well, it's like June, so which is it when you're six months off' type of comment. And while I definitely don't think it's June, it's certainly not around Christmas.
Hm, true. Well, going along with my personal headcanon, maybe they just wrapped random thing to give the impression of presents and then went SHE GETS NONE BECAUSE SHE IS NOT WORTHY.
I still think the weather is All Wrong for anywhere near Christmas. And I say this as someone whose family puts up the decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Yeah, we do too. Either the weekend after or the first of December. We don't really get snow, if at all, until sporadic bursts in January. The foliage might should have looked a little more brown than green, but I was willing to buy the North Carolina part overall.
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Or Santa is a time-traveler. Whatever.
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Holy crap, all of the 'family' scenes are SO MUCH MORE DISTURBING with this context behind them.
Yeahhhh. Especially when you make the explicit connection between the brainwashing and the grooming. "Captor bonding," eeeeeeh.
Also, I was particularly struck in the re-watch how, well, friendly Hannibal and Alana are. It's not unreasonable since he was her mentor, etc. but that first exchange - Do you have an appointment/Do you have a beer - seems positively teasing to me.
Yeahhhhh. That's why I was like, O GIRL the first time around.
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And I took the Christmas being early or late comment that Lecter made as a kind of 'well, it's like June, so which is it when you're six months off' type of comment. And while I definitely don't think it's June, it's certainly not around Christmas.
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I still think the weather is All Wrong for anywhere near Christmas. And I say this as someone whose family puts up the decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving.
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