They built a set of that chapel, apparently, which would account for why it looked smaller than you remember; it's probably literally smaller, I'd guess. Cara and I wondered if it was a real place and googled it after we watched to make sure. It's surely gorgeous, hitting me in my sweet spot where the Siena Duomo is my ultimate happy place and anything that resembles it I find similarly beguiling.
I was going to ask you in my comments why you didn't like the ep but then I saw this post, so now I know. I see your points but at the same time I was completely absorbed in it and willing to go along, admiring the writers' willingness to just abandon all conventions of TV storytelling and linear time and just, as Hannibal said to Abel last week, Go Go Go.
The one plot point that I didn't anticipate was that Will goes to Palermo before the crime; Cara and I had both assumed at the end of ep 1 that he'd have gone there in response to it, and when we realized that wasn't the case, we kind of gasped, and I thought, nice one. Cara wondered
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Seeing Pazzi is weird, given that in Hannibal the film (and the book), the whole thing happens after Silence of the Lambs! The actor is okay.
BTW it makes again little sense for Hannibal to get such an exposed position as Dr Fell in a city where he was suspected to be il mostro years ago...unless he's clueless about Pazzi's suspicion of course.
Apparently Harris was inspired by the real il monstro di Firenze when he created the character of Lecter.
The thing with head!Abigail is that they already did it last season when Will thought Abigail was dead and was fishing with her in his head...
But, as I said, I think that this time it's more about Will's feelings for Hannibal than about his feelings for her. She was just a substitute so he could talk to himself about his Hannibal problem...hence his telling Pazzi "you don't know which side I'm on". But I guess he eventually chose the side of "good" and we won't see the Hannibal'sadvocate Abigail again.
I wouldn't be surprised if Will hasn't yet quite chosen the anti-Hannibal side. I think he's got some deep ambivalence going on; I think he's attracted to Hannibal and his darkness in a way he wasn't before.
And I'd further argue that his having fished with Abigail before when he thought she was dead, is even more reason for her to continue to be his companion in his imagination; she's not just a but the intrinsic third in his relationship with Hannibal; frankly, leaving her behind just because she's now really dead doesn't make all that much sense to me, especially for a character like Will whom we're meant to understand has this highly developed unique empathetic skill, or call it a curse. She ought to stay with him, in some form or another, whether she actually has conversations with him or just recurs again in the river memory
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frankly, leaving her behind just because she's now really dead doesn't make all that much sense to me, especially for a character like Will whom we're meant to understand has this highly developed unique empathetic skill, or call it a curse. She ought to stay with him, in some form or another, whether she actually has conversations with him or just recurs again in the river memory.
We'll see if she stays in there...
Anyway, Hannibal knows now that Pazzi is tracking him and knows who he is.
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I was going to ask you in my comments why you didn't like the ep but then I saw this post, so now I know. I see your points but at the same time I was completely absorbed in it and willing to go along, admiring the writers' willingness to just abandon all conventions of TV storytelling and linear time and just, as Hannibal said to Abel last week, Go Go Go.
The one plot point that I didn't anticipate was that Will goes to Palermo before the crime; Cara and I had both assumed at the end of ep 1 that he'd have gone there in response to it, and when we realized that wasn't the case, we kind of gasped, and I thought, nice one. Cara wondered ( ... )
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BTW it makes again little sense for Hannibal to get such an exposed position as Dr Fell in a city where he was suspected to be il mostro years ago...unless he's clueless about Pazzi's suspicion of course.
Apparently Harris was inspired by the real il monstro di Firenze when he created the character of Lecter.
The thing with head!Abigail is that they already did it last season when Will thought Abigail was dead and was fishing with her in his head...
But, as I said, I think that this time it's more about Will's feelings for Hannibal than about his feelings for her. She was just a substitute so he could talk to himself about his Hannibal problem...hence his telling Pazzi "you don't know which side I'm on". But I guess he eventually chose the side of "good" and we won't see the Hannibal'sadvocate Abigail again.
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And I'd further argue that his having fished with Abigail before when he thought she was dead, is even more reason for her to continue to be his companion in his imagination; she's not just a but the intrinsic third in his relationship with Hannibal; frankly, leaving her behind just because she's now really dead doesn't make all that much sense to me, especially for a character like Will whom we're meant to understand has this highly developed unique empathetic skill, or call it a curse. She ought to stay with him, in some form or another, whether she actually has conversations with him or just recurs again in the river memory ( ... )
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We'll see if she stays in there...
Anyway, Hannibal knows now that Pazzi is tracking him and knows who he is.
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