Hannibal 1x6.5: Art for Art's Sake

[garnettrees]

Alright! The rest of 1x06, as promised! Due to technical difficulties, I think we've all basically pushed back 1x07 to Thursday. Which is just fine, because absolutely no one should feel pressured or rushed. (Damn, you, RL-- we will have fun, and you cannot stop us! ^_~)

Very quickly, for any one who missed it, I posted another piece of Hannibal

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[minttown1]

in the sense that he is definitely a villain that survives by exploiting all the tropes and inherent privileges of being a 'sophisticated' white male
This is part of what makes him so scary to me as a villain. We've been socialized to trust people in his position. He's not some inbred backwoods mutant with a chainsaw. He's an educated, urban professional with a lot of expensive suits and fine tastes. (Well, "we" above meaning society in general. Personally, I was kind of socialized to distrust the wealthy, the educated, and the superficially polished. But I know that makes me the exception.)

It's okay! It's all in the service of the Efa Bee Eye. If more people lose their lives, it is totally not his fault. In some way that he hasn't… quite… figured out yet.
They play this gamble on Criminal Minds all the time, too. I can't decide whether it's purely for TV drama, or whether this is something that actually happens.

My theory is that Freddie also grossly misplaced some commas and turned off her spell-check, just to make sure

[garnettrees]

(Well, "we" above meaning society in general. Personally, I was kind of socialized to distrust the wealthy, the educated, and the superficially polished. But I know that makes me the exception.)
I can empathize with you here because one of the things that makes Lecter so frightening, for me, is the conflicting responses within myself. You're right-- society in general tries to convince us that the professional elite are deserving of their position because the very fact they're educated somehow means they are good. The conceit of achievement occurring in a vacuum (i.e., "I made it because I worked hard; if you didn't, you didn't work hard enough") intones a very simple equation: work + money + education + achievement = good person. It doesn't consider the apathy that creeps in when one considers oneself "better" or more "deserving" than others. It's false logic that leads to false pride. So the child, who has internalized all this nonsense, says "I should trust him, he's a [insert authority figure]". The beating, living heart of the