YAY! You posted! Since I don't have a TV and I cannot download video (I'm very rural and very frugal and satellite internet cannot handle massive downloads) I'm THRILLED that you've posted. Your recaps have sustained me all season. As soon as I can, I'll be watching with your recaps! I so freakin' HEART you!!!
So: put yourself in the shoes of anybody but Hannibal Lecter. You walk into someone's kitchen; that someone is shaking and traumatized and appears to have hworfed up human remains and nobody knows what the fresh hell is going on.
Admittedly, I would poke it with a fork. But that's just me.
As a singular series, Hannibal is much more like an orchestral piece than your average television show. Each note is carefully transferred through the medium, rests and key changes at the perfect points. I literally screamed at the Vide Cor Meum opening strains.
& Yes, Robert(as) is married to Lady Murasaki. Hannibal's first murder is when a man insults his aunt.
This has been such a satisfying season of television. Thank you again, for doing the recaps. I had heard about Hannibal, but had sort of, been burnt too many times by prequel stuff and Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to keep it that way. Still, seeing that someone enjoyed the show enough to spend the time/effort to recap pushed me over to watch the show. SO glad I did, despite all the painful feels.
*flaily hands* So many beautiful visuals, inversions, parallels, full-circle references. This show. HOW. How is it soooo gooood?
I want thirty billionty seasons of Will and Hannibal's stalemated chess matches...is it next year yet? Burning desire to see Uncle David Bowie Lecter.
Word, most shows have the occasional lackluster episode in a season's run, but I want to say that Hannibal only got better as the season went on and the plotlines spun tighter and tighter.
So good. Any day now, the feels will recede enough that I can sit down and rewatch everything and appreciate instead of drown in feels. Any day now?
There were episodes I personally enjoyed more than others, but there were things I just loved in every single episode. "Sorbet" and "Fromage" may have been the high points for me, but it's immediately after those two that things started getting really emotionally wrenching, and those two were actually pretty fun, so that might have something to do with it.
I don't know if it's because I've processed my feels pretty thoroughly by writing everything up (there's nothing quite as cathartic as capslock, I guess), but I feel pretty good about everything, not upset or drained. If I weren't physically exhausted (for multiple reasons), I could easily sit down and start rewatching the whole season.
I'm amazed and applaud you for going through all the episodes and linking back to them. And, hee, this is like Christmas for me because I love when writers put this much devotion and thought into foreshadowing and call-backs.
And in that moment, we were all Alana Bloom.
Seriously, that scene encompassed all my emotions throughout the episode: denial, anger, sadness, depression, and numb...so very numb. (Heh, it looks like the Five Stages of Death.)
It had the narrative full-circle feel of a good novel
Perfect and accurate description. Not only that, but it leaves us wanting the next chapter right now, but we have to wait for the next book to come out.
Or, to quote my mom, "We have to wait a YEAR?! Well, that sucks ... We are getting another season, right?" "Yes, Mom, we are."
I'm amazed and applaud you for going through all the episodes and linking back to them. And, hee, this is like Christmas for me because I love when writers put this much devotion and thought into foreshadowing and call-backs.
Hee, thanks. That's why I felt compelled to go back and put in all the dialogue callback quotes, because you don't really get a feel for HOW TOTALLY UNDER OUR NOSES IT WAS THE WHOLE TIME until you do that. And there's probably other things I missed, too--I was rereading initially just to pick up on running gags or phrasing, and then I started seeing things. I also didn't pick up on how wrenching the throat-cutting implication really was until I came across the "he kept saying he was sorry" bit.
Bedelia knows!! That scene at the end was sickening. I suspect that she's a killer also, remember the line about how "rarely people see us", and how people like "us" build up walls. I don't think "us" refers to psychiatrists.
Poor Abigail...I still don't want to believe she's dead..but Lecter cried. That's a really bad sign.
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Admittedly, I would poke it with a fork. But that's just me.
As a singular series, Hannibal is much more like an orchestral piece than your average television show. Each note is carefully transferred through the medium, rests and key changes at the perfect points. I literally screamed at the Vide Cor Meum opening strains.
& Yes, Robert(as) is married to Lady Murasaki. Hannibal's first murder is when a man insults his aunt.
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*flaily hands* So many beautiful visuals, inversions, parallels, full-circle references. This show. HOW. How is it soooo gooood?
I want thirty billionty seasons of Will and Hannibal's stalemated chess matches...is it next year yet? Burning desire to see Uncle David Bowie Lecter.
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So good. Any day now, the feels will recede enough that I can sit down and rewatch everything and appreciate instead of drown in feels. Any day now?
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I don't know if it's because I've processed my feels pretty thoroughly by writing everything up (there's nothing quite as cathartic as capslock, I guess), but I feel pretty good about everything, not upset or drained. If I weren't physically exhausted (for multiple reasons), I could easily sit down and start rewatching the whole season.
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And in that moment, we were all Alana Bloom.
Seriously, that scene encompassed all my emotions throughout the episode: denial, anger, sadness, depression, and numb...so very numb. (Heh, it looks like the Five Stages of Death.)
It had the narrative full-circle feel of a good novel
Perfect and accurate description. Not only that, but it leaves us wanting the next chapter right now, but we have to wait for the next book to come out.
Or, to quote my mom, "We have to wait a YEAR?! Well, that sucks ... We are getting another season, right?" "Yes, Mom, we are."
(Is it 2014 yet?)
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Hee, thanks. That's why I felt compelled to go back and put in all the dialogue callback quotes, because you don't really get a feel for HOW TOTALLY UNDER OUR NOSES IT WAS THE WHOLE TIME until you do that. And there's probably other things I missed, too--I was rereading initially just to pick up on running gags or phrasing, and then I started seeing things. I also didn't pick up on how wrenching the throat-cutting implication really was until I came across the "he kept saying he was sorry" bit.
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Poor Abigail...I still don't want to believe she's dead..but Lecter cried. That's a really bad sign.
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