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

[lonelywalker]

I want Jack to try and depose the Ravenstag next week.

Why is there a stag head in a box? Was someone like "Welp, better pack this lot up and give it to the local charity shop!"

I wonder if Will ended up back home because his default setting is to go to Hannibal when he blacks out.

Also, regarding Hannibal's agitation, I wondered why he was fiddling with his pen during his first scene with Jack. Initially I thought it was the Scalpel of Doom, but no.

And on a possibly entirely insane note, where have I seen Bedelia's door before? This has now been bugging me for days. I mean, maybe it's just something I've seen in real life, but with Fuller's endless references to other things, perhaps not. Anyone?

[cleolinda]

I wonder if Will ended up back home because his default setting is to go to Hannibal when he blacks out.

Oh God. Hannibal's gonna get home from HIS flight and find Will curled up on his doorstep or something.

[cleolinda]

I didn't see that, if it was in the preview! I just assumed Abigail was super dead because Will apparently ends up in jail for reasons. And Stag Man. WTF, Stag Man.

[beth_shulman]

This is just my weekly flailing/freaking out "why don't I watch this THIS IS WHY" comment. Really enjoyed reading this, especially the "Anything you can do, HE CAN DO FANCIER" line - and the Happy Father's Day one. YIKES.

[cleolinda]

Heh, thanks. Honestly, once we got past poor Georgia, there was almost no gore this week. Her body, Sutcliffe's body from the other week, and that really brief shot of horns going through Abigail's shoulders--like, that's a tea party, for this show.

[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

[blackcatmoebius]

Crawford: "Let's play Jeopardy, shall we?" (Jimmy gives him a hilariously eager look in response.)

That cracked me up.

"The answer is that these people were killed by the copycat, who's connected to Garrett Jacob Hobbs. You tell me how." Brian: "You mean beyond the application of supposition and unexplained leaps?" "I've been yearning for a return to the fundamentals of investigation!" cries Jimmy.

Two things:
1) Brian's cheap shot at Will's usual methods is hardly surprising, given what we've seen of those two interacting, but I was surprised that Jimmy joined in.

2) They're all like, '"Let's do some real investigating instead of all this supposition"... but they seem to accept Will's supposition that all these copycat kills are done by the same person without any qualms

[cleolinda]

Aw, thank you! I hadn't wanted to mention The Jar because that seemed a bit too much like making money off the show.

Brian's cheap shot at Will's usual methods is hardly surprising, given what we've seen of those two interacting, but I was surprised that Jimmy joined in.

I had a "Y'ALL JUS JELLUS" line that I took out because the recap was going SOOOO LONG (because this episode was almost ENTIRELY DIALOGUE OMG). But yeah. I get it, though--kind of like the only thing worse than Mulder having a new crackpot paranormal theory every week was Mulder always being right. And honestly? All of that business with the tickets and hotel rooms? They should have ALREADY BEEN DOING THAT weeks and weeks ago. I actually kind of took it as a comment that Crawford may have run Will into the ground because it was quicker to just throw him at a crime scene than it was to have everybody else do painstaking, time-consuming legwork.

[blackcatmoebius]

Well, you basically got me to watch the show - on nbc.com, which has commercials - so they're getting (ad) money too. (Or would that be, 'ad eyeballs'?)

[lonelywalker]

everybody else do painstaking, time-consuming legwork
AS we saw in episode 1, Crawford seems to literally have a team of Will + 3 lab geeks + 2 psychiatrists who honestly shouldn't be near this stuff at all, let alone paying house calls on suspected serial killers.

[m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

THIS BLOODY SHOW! I did catch your note about less gore than usual this time around, and silly me, when I noticed that while watching, I thought that meant that this would be another palate cleanser. Great recap as usual.

[cleolinda]

Thank you!