HANNIBAL on NBC seems amazing and therefore deserves it's own thread!

man Lance Henriksen bought some Albert Fish to his character, creepy as hell. That whole speech about smiling and waving, going to church, good stuff

Renewed.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/hannibal-renewed-by-nbc-for-second-season/

:D

"In the next season, VegemiteGrrl convinces Hannibal that her unusual Australian taste due to a diet of koala tacos and Vegemite pancakes means he should look elsewhere."

It deserves another series, it isn't perfect as many bitchy interlopers have pointed out. But hell it is good enough to warrant another.

if that stupid Lifetime/Clarice Starling thing goes ahead swear to god I'll give Mads $$$ to practice his craft

the series-long progression from "coy implication that hannibal killed somebody" to "hannibal straining bodily to rip a guy's jaw off his face" has been really effective in freaking me out.

Agreed. I am also really glad they toned down the Hitler haircut.

CAT scan hallucination wigged me right out

also ppl under the bed O_O noooooooo why is this show trying to give me nightmares

“we'll help you with the nightmares.”

the series-long progression from "coy implication that hannibal killed somebody" to "hannibal straining bodily to rip a guy's jaw off his face" has been really effective in freaking me out.

The blurred out face caused by the mental illness made this more freaky/scary to me that it would have been if Hannibal's face had been shown.

well with the blurry face we have no idea who it was at all. this show is getting weird.

I'm enjoying the regular characters' interactions way more then the sometimes slightly tiresome serial killer of the week stuff.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 25 May 2013 01:50 (6 days ago) Bookmark

defo. the show has come on leaps and bounds as these become more complex

signed, a former bitchy interloper

I think I remember we get an objective shot of Hannibal without blurred face before the subjective faceblind shot.

I do very much like how this show never clues you in in an obvious way as to what's the all-seeing camera's reporting and what's subjective and untrue.

probably more appropriate for this thread but there's been a few callbacks to Bryan Fuller's previous show Dead Like Me, eg diseased girl Georgia Madchen = dead reaper George Lass, both played by Ellen Muth.

And Laurence Fishburne's trainee who died was named Miriam Lass.

thinking about it some more, it's kind of a twisted take on the character - George Lass, the supernatural dead girl who takes people's souls, might just be Georgia Madchen, who kills people because she -thinks- she's dead. :/

She is:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/9449a21e1d7b37b7ff2f545860ebe21a/tumblr_mnn7vmUVnK1ssjjooo1_500.jpg

ah ok then!

this show

I was all "killing Max Chilton is NOT CANON" but they pulled back...somehow.

A friend who's had eye surgery was practically having a meltdown on Twitter over this episode.

shit, i guess i better get a p. honest clock buddy in case my brain is inflamed and i got no clue

yeesh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

why did they make the girl all cro-mag?

I'm sure it was a perfectly fine performance, but sadly I cannot take Eddie Izzard as a serial killer seriously.

yeah, it seemed uncharacteristic for him not to offer his victims the cake option.

the portrayal of dr. gideon was meant to directly reference hopkins' version of lecter? like the entirety of the hopkins movies gets retconned as something that gideon imagined after he became convinced he was the ripper, or something. or else it's a bleeding through from an alt universe where hopkins really is lecter, but in this universe that role's already filled, so gideon becomes a vessel for that persona but can only function as a kind of manque, or a negative that points out the differences in the mads version.

I feel like I say this a lot on this thread, but man this show is so gross.

Also tattlecrime.com better be making crazy money to justify all the shit freddie lounds has been through.

what made gideon ask lecter if he was the ripper?

Gideon's feeling headfucked; meeting the Ripper would help he figure out who he isn't.

the portrayal of dr. gideon was meant to directly reference hopkins' version of lecter? like the entirety of the hopkins movies gets retconned as something that gideon imagined after he became convinced he was the ripper, or something. or else it's a bleeding through from an alt universe where hopkins really is lecter, but in this universe that role's already filled, so gideon becomes a vessel for that persona but can only function as a kind of manque, or a negative that points out the differences in the mads version.

― slugbuggy, Friday, 7 June 2013 18:14 (1 hour ago) Permalink

i'd love to pick your brain sometime

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/TheWhiteTuxedo/2012/liotta-hannibal-brain.jpg

posting just to move the bookmark away from that pic :/

:( i'm sorry

lol it's fine, I just didn't want it to freak me/other people out if I'm at work the next time I open this thread

idk, it's one thing for a derivative work to diverge from the source material or even other derivative works in significant ways in terms of characterization or storyline etc., but when you take what was altered or excised and fold it back into the new work where it stands alongside its double it creates a kind of diegetic dissonance.

the "fake" ripper that gideon turns into is pretty much identical in personality , mannerisms, and bearing to a "real" ripper that exists in a different and extant diegetic reality, from the perspective of the viewer. i like the notion (that i don't actually believe but am going with anyway) that this is what is fucking with hannibal's sense of identity: not that there is a false ripper going around sullying his reputation, but that at some level gideon's ripper is as real as hannibal's.

otoh, hannibal already has an other in will that he's trying to turn into the ripper; gideon is kind of superfluous wrt that project anyway.

also i just wanted gideon to ask chilton "cake or death? well, we're all out of cake" before digging into him.

hannibal's conversations with du maurier are really tense:

d: "i know exactly what you are"

h: "out of respect i'm going to deflect that so i don't have to kill you"

d: "noted. wine?"

the "fake" ripper that gideon turns into is pretty much identical in personality , mannerisms, and bearing to a "real" ripper that exists in a different and extant diegetic reality, from the perspective of the viewer. i like the notion (that i don't actually believe but am going with anyway) that this is what is fucking with hannibal's sense of identity: not that there is a false ripper going around sullying his reputation, but that at some level gideon's ripper is as real as hannibal's.

seriously i love this idea of ripples throughout the hannibal multiverse

Yeah I dig it too - in a weird way, it also fits in with what the show's doing with the georgia madchen/lass thing I mentioned upthread.

Eddie Izzard was a great fit for this role.

i like this show!

the procedural stuff is dreadful (i don't like procedurals). izzard was pretty bad (i don't like izzard). the totem thing was ridiculous.

the menswear for both will and hannibal is amazing. hannibal's ties and collars. will's shirts are never ironed but are quite nice. wtf is going on with will's beard by the way. does he shave just the corners of his jaw?

it kinda looks like he pulls it out in clumps instead of shaving, lol

yeah the tailoring is fantastic. and the design elements of Hannibal's office, or Quantico, just *mwah* so gorgeous

i like hannibal's office curtains!

http://i.imgur.com/wAuEMVO.png

dr chiltern's pimp game was so tight this ep

xpost omg yes the red & grey vertical stripe

no the stripes are horizontal iirc, which is even more pimp game for curtains

http://i.minus.com/ibfixBJuyhcr5y.png

they looks like sheffield united scarfs!

i really want the exact sports jacket will teaches in btw so if anyone recognizes it plz let me know/send me one (i'm 40R)