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

[winterlive]

1. i read hannibal's "...yes [it's chicken soup]" as "i... did do something sort of homey and comforting for you, didn't i? that's weird and i didn't mean to and i don't like it. shut up and eat your people."

2. i read bedelia's "yes... thank god" as an implied "god had nothing to do with that".

3. really agree with you that abigail-as-will's-last-victim is just one possible outcome, not his from-the-start end game. hannibal has said repeatedly that he does [ridiculously awful] things just to see what will happen, out of curiosity; while i believe he has certain goals in mind (like not getting caught), i do think he's just playing the people here as he'd play a theramin. make it up as you go along.

4. fuller said the season ends on a hair-pulling cliffhanger. i had always assumed that cliffhanger would be about abigail's fate, but if she's already dead...?

5. THIS SHOW.

[cleolinda]

1. i read hannibal's "...yes [it's chicken soup]" as "i... did do something sort of homey and comforting for you, didn't i? that's weird and i didn't mean to and i don't like it. shut up and eat your people."

I kind of read it as "I did something homey and comforting for you, yes. I'm also about to severely screw you over, and... are these what you humans call 'mixed feelings'?"

2. i read bedelia's "yes... thank god" as an implied "god had nothing to do with that".

Oh my God. I should have read it that way.

i do think he's just playing the people here as he'd play a theramin. make it up as you go along.

Oh, I like that. Playing an open strategy also seems both smarter and more dangerous to me than someone who works out a plan in advance and has to manipulate every event towards that. We know he's capable of improvising, too, because that's exactly what he had to do when Will unexpectedly called him on the Nick Boyle thing, and we actually saw him decide to go for diplomacy instead of the scalpel.

fuller said the season ends on

[winterlive]

it CAN'T be anything to do with will and hannibal, because we already know how their story ends. if they leave us dangling on something like that, all we have to do is go pick up red dragon to see what happens next. jack, the investigators three, will, hannibal - all sorted. that's what made me think it had to be to do with abigail. so i still kind of think it must be.

if s2 is the bad breakup, i'm seeing it kind of as will seeing through some of hannibal's manipulations. re-learning to distrust him, to pull away, like s1 in reverse. and at the end of THAT, that's when he must figure out that hannibal's the ripper, and get stabbed eeeeek.