I am so mad that I didn't pick up on the firefly light = ghost/dead person thing because I have played Japanese games where that is literally true, and I knew why, and yet it still went whizzing right by while I watched this episode. But then so did about a million other things.
The idea of Hugh Dancy as Jonathan Harker does soothe many hurts, though. Oh, he would be so perfect.
He's cute! He's English! He's incredibly good at portraying trauma! He managed to carry as much weight as the title character on a show named after Hannibal Lecter! And he's good at scary, too, so knife-whetting!Jonathan would be appropriately alarming!
But this was even while knowing what "nakama" meant, and I've never seen a single episode of One Piece or Naruto. ...Not that I'm all that inundated with Japanese culture, nor have I been researching it, it's true. I tend to enjoy very Western-influenced anime for that funhouse mirror effect of seeing familiar culture translated through an unfamiliar one and back again. Possibly relevant: they have some interesting interpretations of Dracula.
I congratulate you on both your attention to detail and on surviving your recent trials! Both are things to be proud of.
OH HEY RE: Will apparently inferring Hannibal's thoughts as though he were psychic during that gorgeous "session" in the woods, one common piece of vampire lore I've seen in modern adaptations is the sire and his fledglings having a supernatural link, mind to mind. I'm sure the actual explanation is something along the lines of Will taking on Hannibal's persona and making really good guesses about stuff AKA Murder Wizard dream logic don't examine this too closely, but it's interesting.
This was a stunning achievement in recapping/meta and I enjoyed every single link and footnote.
I'm with you all the way about appreciating the series as remix, akin but separate from the source(s) and the films, enriching the places where they touch while standing alone where it needs to.
Major kudos for "fount of symbolism". Somewhere, Fancy Cannibal smiled wryly, wishing he'd thought of it first.
Heh. I'm glad the footnotes were enjoyable, then, because you really do kind of need to read them for some of the later points to make sense, buuuuut I wouldn't blame anyone if they didn't.
God, these recaps are a lot of work. But I really appreciate them because they help me navigate all the layers which the show loves to pile one on top of each other
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Yeah. I've had a really tough time accepting that someone so important to me isn't even on the show, much less important TO the show. But we're at a point where I don't think I'd want them to try to cram her into what tiny space might be left over. It's tough to reconcile.
Oh, I absolutely don't think she was personally based on Clarice Orsini (what I read of the article sounded vastly un-Clarice); it felt more like a name Harris might have grabbed while he was in the neighborhood, so to speak.
a) this is spectacular b) I should not have read this before bed c) THEY LITERALLY HAD HIM SAY "I HAVE TO EAT HIM"? ???? ????? hannibal means you are never making it up, holy SHIT
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The idea of Hugh Dancy as Jonathan Harker does soothe many hurts, though. Oh, he would be so perfect.
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To be fair, I spent an actual month researching this business. I had time to notice.
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But this was even while knowing what "nakama" meant, and I've never seen a single episode of One Piece or Naruto. ...Not that I'm all that inundated with Japanese culture, nor have I been researching it, it's true. I tend to enjoy very Western-influenced anime for that funhouse mirror effect of seeing familiar culture translated through an unfamiliar one and back again. Possibly relevant: they have some interesting interpretations of Dracula.
I congratulate you on both your attention to detail and on surviving your recent trials! Both are things to be proud of.
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This was a stunning achievement in recapping/meta and I enjoyed every single link and footnote.
I'm with you all the way about appreciating the series as remix, akin but separate from the source(s) and the films, enriching the places where they touch while standing alone where it needs to.
Major kudos for "fount of symbolism". Somewhere, Fancy Cannibal smiled wryly, wishing he'd thought of it first.
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Oh, I absolutely don't think she was personally based on Clarice Orsini (what I read of the article sounded vastly un-Clarice); it felt more like a name Harris might have grabbed while he was in the neighborhood, so to speak.
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b) I should not have read this before bed
c) THEY LITERALLY HAD HIM SAY "I HAVE TO EAT HIM"? ???? ????? hannibal means you are never making it up, holy SHIT
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