Hannibal; after some reading of other people's thoughts I found the best way to view this show is to think of it as Gothic Horror (or Gothic Romance), and then suddenly everything clicks. This is definitely not a procedural drama, and it becomes more apparent as the series progresses.
It is totally gothic horror. Which is why I love it. That and its dark sense of humour, which is usually a thing I appreciate (even in something so ostensibly serious -- perhaps especially in something so ostensibly serious). I also love the idea of playing the character of Lecter as Lucifer.
I'm not a shipper, and I don't find Hannibal sexy. His fashion sense is, of course, great. His plates of food are freaking ridiculous, and I could go on to an embarrassing degree about how much I love the food. His office is unbelievably awesome.
But sexy? No. I'm in the same camp as you, in also not finding vampires sexy because of the whole "they see you as food" thing. Go fig. XD
The humour is really interesting. My subjective experience is that it's not funny at all when I'm watching it, but really funny when I think about it afterward. XD;
I'm probably going to write a big long thing about this on Tumblr (and I'd be surprised if the show doesn't address this head on at some point), but I feel like I grok Hobbs' thought process a lot better than I grok Lecter's? Like I keep thinking, if you find humans gross and awful why would you eat them? Kill them for kicks, sure, but I wouldn't eat someone I found gross and awful! You are what you put in your body! I'd be afraid that if I ate rude ppl all the time I'd become rude.
The book of Silence of the Lambs is one of my favourite books - I think it's psychologically astute and often quite wise. None of his others before or since are a match, in this regard.
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I'm not a shipper, and I don't find Hannibal sexy. His fashion sense is, of course, great. His plates of food are freaking ridiculous, and I could go on to an embarrassing degree about how much I love the food. His office is unbelievably awesome.
But sexy? No. I'm in the same camp as you, in also not finding vampires sexy because of the whole "they see you as food" thing. Go fig. XD
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I'm probably going to write a big long thing about this on Tumblr (and I'd be surprised if the show doesn't address this head on at some point), but I feel like I grok Hobbs' thought process a lot better than I grok Lecter's? Like I keep thinking, if you find humans gross and awful why would you eat them? Kill them for kicks, sure, but I wouldn't eat someone I found gross and awful! You are what you put in your body! I'd be afraid that if I ate rude ppl all the time I'd become rude.
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