quick look around online suggests that my read is not supported by Fuller though:
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/hannibal-finale-season-4-movie-revival-ending-spoilers-1201581424/
And yet it still feels like a little bit of a surprise at the end. [The post-credits scene with Bedelia] was very intentionally setting up another season of the story … essentially saying that Hannibal could’ve survived.
that the show was surreal and meaty enough to reasonably support such drastically different takes is part of what made it special
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
That finale really underlined for me that 3A was sort of an insane masterpiece and 3B was an excessively fan-service-y OK thing.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, August 29, 2015 11:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean...it was closer to a straight adaptation of the original source material than the rest of the series but i don't recall any wish fulfillment twists or meta winks to the camera that would qualify it as 'fan service.'
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
the show played with the viewer's head about whether someone was dead or alive with, what, 3 or 4 major characters? the ambiguity of the ending is totally part of the show's M.O.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
i forget exactly why they couldnt do clarice starling and basically subbed in miriam lass for her as a tangential character. i think it has something to do w/ the studio behind SOTL (orion) having folded and been absorbed by MGM, which is not exactly known as generous with its intellectual property, and it has the rights to the character in a way that harris, as the author, apparently does not.
(xps forks)
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Fuller said pretty recently that if they did later seasons without getting rights to the Silence story, they'd find some way to get around it with a 'Shmarice Shmarling' stand-in character...i never got the sense that it would be Miriam, although i guess there are enough things shared by those characters that it could work.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
well here's Fuller again from that (very very recent) Variety piece about one of the directions he wanted to go
Hannibal also made Alana (Caroline Dhavernas) a fairly ominous promise about her future, leading her to take Margot (Katharine Isabelle) and their son and get the hell out of dodge, proving she’s pretty much the only sensible person on the show. Did you foresee Hannibal keeping that promise in season four, or for Alana and Margot to live happily ever after?It certainly was going to be a part of season four, and I actually was really excited about exploring the Margot/Alana relationship and how they were going to dismantle all of the Verger slaughterhouses and turn them humane. She was going to completely undo the evils of her family with Alana, like a Joan Crawford sitting at PepsiCo’s table saying “don’t f–k with me, fellas.” I was really excited about that story for Alana and Margot and seeing more of them, and also seeing what it would be like for them to realize that Hannibal might be coming back into their orbit.
It certainly was going to be a part of season four, and I actually was really excited about exploring the Margot/Alana relationship and how they were going to dismantle all of the Verger slaughterhouses and turn them humane. She was going to completely undo the evils of her family with Alana, like a Joan Crawford sitting at PepsiCo’s table saying “don’t f–k with me, fellas.” I was really excited about that story for Alana and Margot and seeing more of them, and also seeing what it would be like for them to realize that Hannibal might be coming back into their orbit.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
xp oh, i dont think it'd be her, i figure she's locked up for trying to blow dr. chilton's brains out in s2
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Poor Chilton.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
http://not-my-supervisor.tumblr.com/
Hannibal + Archer
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
don't recall any wish fulfillment twists or meta winks to the camera that would qualify it as 'fan service.'
I'm specifically referring to the way the show might as well have literally been called Murder Husbands by the last few eps
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
Pretty impressive Wendigo cosplay from Dragon Con - http://rokkitgirl.tumblr.com/post/128674645730/for-anyone-interested-in-how-this-monster-goes-on
― carl agatha, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
wowhttp://40.media.tumblr.com/cca6cd4a19d0f043537d0ef6421ae52e/tumblr_nuc3m6urDu1r5knx1o1_500.png
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 September 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
So I'm just catching up on season 2 now that it's on Amazon Instant and I have the time and inclination to sit down and do it, and I can't stop thinking about what the writers have done in S2E9 ("Shiizakana"). Of course the show is constantly referencing and cutting and pasting and remixing bits of the Harris books, in ways that often play on audiences' knowledge of them, but this one felt really referential in a different way to previous episodes. Is it just me, or did this one (with the bearsuit guy) seem like a really strange, possibly poorly judged response to the side-eye Silence of the Lambs gets for its treatment of trans issues? The killer is described as suffering from a "bodily dysphoria," and- what seemed like a big tell for me, anyway- see the repeated use of the word "savage" or "savagery" (cf that cringeworthy moment in Silence where Lecter says Buffalo Bill's "pathology is a thousand times more savage and terrifying" than that of a trans woman). But also there's this correspondence with the main arc of Red Dragon, where Lecter sics a killer who uses a set of teeth to mutilate his victims on Will Graham and his family (the part of "family" being played this evening by ADORABLE PUPPIES)?
I'm too tired to make much more of this right now, but god damn, man, this show. THIS SHOW.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Friday, 25 September 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
hugh dancy interview supporting the path:
I could not get off the phone with you without asking if there is any hope for some sort of Hannibal revival — a movie, a short series, anything?I saw Bryan Fuller just the other day, and I think he has a very specific idea. And he’s obviously a very busy man, but I think he has a very specific idea of how he’d like to go about doing it. I think definitely the hope is alive.A lot of people are asking you about Hannibal coming back. Do you even want to get back to that character, or do you feel like you’ve already said your goodbyes?No, no, no, I wouldn’t say the thing about hope sarcastically… And I think, if anything, maybe everyone would benefit from a few years away. In terms of the storyline, from what Bryan has shared with me about what he might have done in a fourth season — he might even do a fourth season, actually — the idea of dropping out for a few years wouldn’t be a bad thing. I mean, who knows? But it would be nice.
I saw Bryan Fuller just the other day, and I think he has a very specific idea. And he’s obviously a very busy man, but I think he has a very specific idea of how he’d like to go about doing it. I think definitely the hope is alive.
A lot of people are asking you about Hannibal coming back. Do you even want to get back to that character, or do you feel like you’ve already said your goodbyes?
No, no, no, I wouldn’t say the thing about hope sarcastically… And I think, if anything, maybe everyone would benefit from a few years away. In terms of the storyline, from what Bryan has shared with me about what he might have done in a fourth season — he might even do a fourth season, actually — the idea of dropping out for a few years wouldn’t be a bad thing. I mean, who knows? But it would be nice.
somehow was not aware that fuller is doing the star trek tv reboot
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
just finished s 3. wild ride. i was really into the surrealism of the first half and thought the ending was p perfect. verger almost ruined it for me tho
― Spottie, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
i just started watching this and i'm already in the middle of season two. i couldn't tell if i liked it at first, and the csi: serial killers aspects of the production grated, but the middle of season two is masterfully created and sustained tension. this is definitely one of my favorite shows ever
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
last few eps of s2->first half of s3 is an amazing run imo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 11 July 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
yeah if this is already one of ur fave shows ever mid-s2 then bruhh ur in for some stuff
― r|t|c, Monday, 11 July 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
:D
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 11 July 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
imo, on rewatching, S1 is a lot more even than it may initially seem, it's just that you're into the style by the time S2 rolls around
the S2 finale is, even after having seen it before, insane. so much so that parts of the beginning of S3 are devoted to unraveling everything that happened offscreen because it's worth further examination
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
ok yeah the season two finale
woof
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
emotionally traumatizing
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah last half of season two/first half of season three lived up to what y'all said, they really sustained that feeling of unreality. excited to get into the red dragon stuff if a little sad that it's obv going to snap back into more terrestrial rhythms
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't trust me
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
oh thank god
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
there are a few moments where you think life might return for what passes as normal
they're fleeting
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
btw now that i have the full context for my friend's puppet-oriented hannibal recaps they are even more delightful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Z8SdC4AnI
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
imo instead of joe anderson they should've replaced michael pitt verger with that puppet
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
appreciating these silly recaps
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
I'd also recommend the gag reels/outtakes from the different Hannibal seasons if you need some levity or just want to see the actors goofing on set. There's something about seeing Mikkelsen in character as an incredibly meticulous Hannibal juxtaposed with a shot of him completely forgetting how to tie a tie that's hilarious
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
imo this was a great show about the power of friendship
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 22 July 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
I love the puppet hannibal recaps and I would like to pay the man to do all my favorite shows please.
― poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 July 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
friendship, romance, murder, the blurring boundaries therein
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
I recently again saw Bryan Fuller's gleeful tweet about how they got "button stitching" past the censors. Classic censor-dodging.
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
I loved those puppet recaps!!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 22 July 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Just watched all of this in about three days
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't quite sure what we were meant to infer (in S3) about what happened with Hannibal and Mischa
Apart from that and a few killers of the week being a bit corny, what a show
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm not usually sensitive to stuff like this, but what those final couple of episodes with Chilton... man, really disturbing. That might have shaken me more than anything I've ever seen on television.
― Evan R, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
That was the leg? Or did he get skinned?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 17 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
His lips being bitten off. Then the rest of his face being burned off.
― Evan R, Monday, 17 October 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
the lips biting off was def hard on the eyes
― Spottie, Monday, 17 October 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
iirc that sequence was very specifically lit/designed to not upset censors
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 05:08 (seven years ago) link
It's a sign of how few people were watching that nobody was upset about it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.splitscreensfestival.com/event/hannibal-the-wrath-of-the-lamb/
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 9:00 PM | IFC Center
A special theatrical screening of the finale of NBC’s “Hannibal,” a nightmare fantasy from Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) that reinterpreted Thomas Harris’ novels through the eyes of an expressionist, polymorphous sensualist. Reworking much of the plot of Harris’ Red Dragon, but in a more hallucinatory way than in earlier film versions, the finale builds to an orgiastic release of pent-up intellectual and sexual energy so intense that viewers may need a cigarette and a towel afterward.
Fuller will join the audience via Skype to discuss the finale, the legacy of his cult classic, his new Starz series American Gods, and what a hypothetical fourth season of “Hannibal” would look like. A panel of New York-based Fannibals will discuss the legacy of the show, including its impact on popular art.
In person: Leila Taylor, Creative Director at the Brooklyn Public Library; novelist Rob Hart (New Yorked, The Woman from Prague); composer Matt Marks of Alarm Will Sound; illustrator and author Janice Poon, food stylist for Hannibal and author of Feeding Hannibal; Dr. Lori Morimoto, independent scholar of fan studies; (via Skype) Hannibal creator and executive producer Bryan Fuller.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 29 May 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
uh, HELLOOOOOOO
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 29 May 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
please attend and report back
― mh, Monday, 29 May 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Am planning to!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 May 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Janice Poon is amazing, she did a blog about her food styling for Hannibal
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 May 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
and a book
― mh, Monday, 29 May 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
I know because I apparently preordered itand forgot it was a thing until I found it in my mailbox
― mh, Monday, 29 May 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link