#and how you can try to cut it out (hannibal gutting will) but the ‘toxicity’ is like a disease

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MAC I'M GONNA WATCH THE HANNIBAL FINALE. I'M GONNA LIVEBLOG IN UR INBOX BECAUSE IT'S FUN :3

godddd i feel so bad for reba :( she just had a crush on this weird ass guy and now he's kidnapped her and told her he's a murderer. I LOVE HER SHE DESERVES BETTER

DID HE JUST SHOOT HIMSELF???? OHHHHH REBA I'M SO SORRY :(( oh she's escaping.... oh i hope she lives i hope she gets out i am so worried for my girl she has been a highlight of this season fr

SHE'S ALIVE!!!!! oh she's going to have trauma for life. babygirl is not getting through this without copious amounts of issues

will trying to reassure her oughfgh :((( there r parallels between her and will and alana..... i need 2 make that into its own post tho it would b way too long for liveblogging in ur inbox

he's talking 2 hannibal now....... gay ass..... ohhhh will graham girlie u so wanted to kill that guy. u can't even deny it u wanted to murder him soooo bad <3 aren't u tired of being nice? don't u just want to go apeshit?

OH SHIT. HE'S STILL ALIVE. HOW THE FUCK IS HE ALIVE. OH MY GOD HE FAKED HIS SUICIDE

btw i am like. so invested in whatever the fuck will and bedelia have going on. two victims of hannibal who fell in love with him and were so close to being eaten by him. what is happening here is NOT therapy, and it's definitely not a friendship, but a secret third thing

can i just say i love alana bloom in this season as well???? she used to be kind and loving but she was broken down and is now cold and unforgiving. she's put her shields up and can't let anything happen to her again waaaaaghhfh :((( also she's pretty <3 i love women

"i need you hannibal." GAY ASS!!!!!!

"going my way?" HOMOSEXUAL!!!!!!

they're having fucking wine together this is a date this is a gay ass pre-murder date come on dude

what's gayer than this..... drinking wine while watching some guy film your dying boyfriend..... the homoeroticism of this.........

YEAHHHHH KILL EM BABYGIRL!!! STAB THAT MAN!!!!! ohh the camera cutting between shots of will stabbing him and hannibal hitting him with the axe.... will gutting him like a fish and hannibal ripping into his neck with his teeth..... this is gay sex this is homosexual intercourse right on my screen here

THE BLOOD SPREADING TO LOOK LIKE WINGS ARE YOU SERIOUS. dude this wing imagery with this guy is insane i'm going to eat cardboard

HANNIBAL HELPING HIM TO HIS FEET BOTH COVERED IN BLOOD. THEYRE LOOKING EAHC OTHER DEAD IN THE EYES. THEY NEED TO MAKE OUT SLOPPY STYLE RIGHT NOW IM SO SERIOUS.

"it's beautiful." YEAGHHHHAH!!!! GET WORSE!!!! GET WORSE!!!!!!

DUDE THEY FELL. HOLY SHIT. i mean what's more romantic than falling off a cliff in your lover's arms covered in some other man's blood??? like fr. oh my god dude

BEDELIA!!! THERE SHE IS!!!!! is she back in italy????

wh. what's that on the table. wh.

GIRL. GIRLIE. YOU CUT OFF YOUR LEG???? OH THERE IS SOMETHING SO WRONG WITH HER <3

holy shit dude. oh my god. realistically they probably could not have survived that fall but either way, like. how fucked up is that??? and also romantic in a horrible toxic way??? if they died they died in each other's arms. if they lived.... they made it. they fucking made it through everything they did. where would they go now? to italy? are they going to meet bedelia? do we have the most fucked up cannibalistic throuple in the universe?? my god dude. i gotta lay down and think about this for a while. 10/10 amazing show i'm going to explode thank you for recommending i watch it <3 i'm going to evaporate into a million little pieces now i need to scream

AHAHAHAAHAHHAAAA GOOD LUCK . THIS SHOW IS GOING TO LIVE IN YOUR BRAIN FOREVER NOW. YAYYYYYYY IM SO GLAD U LIKED IT. I LOVE THE INBOX LIVEBLOG THANK YOU. HOLD ON I HAVE SOMETHINF FOR U TOO GIVE ME A SECOND TO TYPE IT UP HEHEHEHE

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I’ve never seen anyone point this out but can we talk about how jack and bella’s marriage literally foils will and hannibal’s relationship? because I’m obsessed with it. let me explain:

in s1 we learn about bella’s cancer because of hannibal’s keen sense of smell, which later underpins the scene where he smells will’s encephalitis (a major plot point and driving force in s1). there’s a lot of time dedicated in s1 and s2 to bella’s characterisation, and how the cancer contributes to her lack of autonomy and the increasing strain in her marriage, and although will and hannibal’s relationship isn’t consummated until s3, I at least felt there was something thematically resonant about bella’s character, especially hannibal’s coin toss deciding whether he lets her live or die. obviously this highlights his lack of empathy, but I think it also works to show bella’s loss of control and the power hannibal has over other people. further still, it also introduces ideas surrounding free will, divine intervention, and strengthens the life/death polarity this show loves to play around with. and, in my opinion, the coin toss also sets up for the s3 finale where will finally takes his autonomy back and throws hannibal and himself off the cliff (it being a coin toss whether they’re allowed to live or die).

but moving on, the first two seasons show these relationships evolve side by side, one fuelled by love (jack and bella) and the other fuelled by hate (will and hannibal). it’s only when s3 starts that the romantic parallels between these two relationships becomes clear, or at least that’s when I had my oh moment. I mentioned this earlier, but this show loves to play around with the life/death polarity, but paired with this is the love/hate polarity. note: there are a number of polarities that this show explores, but we’ll only focus on these ones for now. by s3 both relationships “end” for different reasons, bella passes away and hannibal escapes the house in baltimore after the horrific events of Mizumono.

s3a, then, is when we truly start to see these relationships parallel one another, something that feels natural because it’s been set up for so long. for bella and jack, they wake up together in hospital, vulnerable and honest with each other, which directly contrasts the separation and betrayal felt between will and hannibal. jack sits with bella as she dies (love and death coming together) and after this travels to florence where he scatters her ashes. by this point, florence has already been set up as a romantic location, since it is repeatedly referred to as the place jack and bella met and fell in love (bella’s name being a constant reminder). the audience subconsciously associates romance with florence, and it’s here where will and hannibal meet again. it’s also where alana and margot become romantically engaged, and that relationship shares its own parallels with will and hannibal’s, particularly the gallery scene (“I’m curious whether either of us can survive separation” “we’re conjoined” “the two of us have begun to blur”) being paired with the kaleidoscopic sex scene no one likes to talk about lmao. but putting that aside, will and hannibal continue on (hate and life coming together) until they too have to confront their complicated feelings towards each other.

I just think it’s interesting how by the time we reach the florence arc will and hannibal’s relationship takes on an explicitly romantic tone, with a more marital quality than that of young love or a summer fling (“betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love” “you cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love”). there’s depth in tone here, something dark combining with something that feels strangely pure, and I think jack and bella’s marriage actually supports this reading/interpretation, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence either. again, I’m obsessed with it <3