#facts about nbc hannibal

[suchawrathfullamb]

controversial but I actually am always right so whatever but I kind of...think the whole "you only did that because I rejected you" scene is super duper misinterpreted heehee sorry but I am god so I'm right. no but seriously, it's because I don't think Will, who constantly showed just how he couldn't accept that Hannibal could love or have this type of feeling, specially towards him, could've predicted that Hannibal fucking Lecter would've surrendered to the fbi.

I think when he says that to Hannibal, in prison, he just meant "stop trying to get me to take you back, I know you only surrendered because I rejected you, you fucking flight risk, you won't let me have you unless I keep rejecting you and chasing", he literally says "I knew you would keep running if I kept chasing", but I don't think he meant oh yeah I totally counted on you FUCKING GIVING UP YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO PROBABLY GET THE DEATH SENTENCE like no guys hold up there is zero evidence for that in fact there's opposite evidence, being that Will just kept turning a blind eye to Hannibal's "better nature" as he said in his dream, "I wasn't aware you had one". Maybe he thought Hannibal would've settled somewhere but fucking surrender his whole LIFE? no and I think that fucking face Will makes and then just walks away is a fed up face like UGH WHY YOU FUCKING WHORE I MEANT FOR YOU TO SURRENDER TO MEEEE NOT THEM UGH FUCK YOU BYE

anyway this is my opinion law the absolute truth

[grahamcore]

one of my favorite things about hannibal is that they went for it and did not hold back with will’s “villain arc” in season three. i mean just look at this transformation

it always feels like a massive let down when a narrative plays with the idea of letting the good guy go bad before inevitably reverting back to the status quo. let me see a bitch go crazy for once!! show me the character who’s been through hell and back finally snapping. the character who has only suffered as a result of doing the right thing choosing to be selfish for once. will going with hannibal in the end was wonderful for their love story of course, but i was equally thrilled to see will finally finding happiness, even if it was through morally irredeemable means

[bodiesinthelake]

hannibal and will are literally two nerds except one of them tries their best to be socially acceptable and the other has no idea how to act normal ever and they like each other so much because they can say nerd shit and spend time in each other's freakish company without having to act like someone else. and they eat people

[honeygrahambitch]

I hope Bryan and some streaming platform owners know that nbc Hannibal has been trending daily.

[pebbles-scatter]

being into multiple things that involve main characters that are morally grey in very different ways is so interesting because. sure, jonathan sims isn't perfect but hannibal lecter and will graham are literally called "murder husbands." in the show. in comparison, the man is practically a saint.

[eldritch-ace]

Hannigram is literally just Eat Your Young x Too Sweet

[mongooseundertheporch]

“Will, have you.. set a limit for yourself? On how much dogs you're gonna adopt per year? At this point I worry we have to give the bed to them...” maybe even the whole house..

[ hello from Faust! He's teasing of course @corxner ]

"........... We can get a new bed-"

[put-them-thangs-away]

caved in and watched the happy ending pilot/teaser even tho i always go in blind and this was a MISTAKE DDHJKJUTFGHH I NEED IT NOW NOW NOW obvs i am excited for jeff to get to be unhinged and covered in blood since that seems to be his happy place but i am somehow even more excited about getting to see barcode also be feral yhiiyhjkjbb

[willgrahamsbecoming]

not to be ex-shadowhunters fan on main but i'm thinking about the parallels between magnus/alec and hannibal/will now

like these scenes kjdfls

magnus breathing on alec (not shown because i couldnt find that specific gif) vs hannibal smelling will 😭

also;

in one of the first interactions between alec and magnus alec is dealing with his repressed gay feelings and magnus tells him there's nothing to be ashamed of, to which alec says "i don't know what you're talking about" and magnus responds with "you will"

you know. like in aperitif. "i don't find you that interesting" / "you will"

their whole cat and mouse game is very similar to hannigram as well. alec is afraid of himself and his feelings and keeps pushing magnus away, just like will does with hannibal

which just goes to show how much will's arc is a metaphor for queerness lkjfldf

also these scenes are the same. to me

[borf-borfs]

ok but hear me out… matthew brown and chiyoh duo

[cultivated-man]

Back at it again writing my thesis and watching Hannibal- I haven't watched it while writing for long but picked it back up again

But today I paused it to get food and found one of very many shots of han staring at wills ass and I had laughed a bit too hard.

[mousfri]

when he says this, hannibal refers to will's life after his arrest. will's life is 'polite', as in a formality, something he has been taught but that will only follows because it is the socially acceptable thing to do. not only that, but he implies that accepting hannibal, accepting himself, is the natural, rational thing to do, while living his life of normalcy (molly and walt and will as the perfect template of a nuclear family) is 'maddening'. it APPEARS equal parts scathing remark and encouraging reassurance.

but while hannibal is pretty terrible at showing he wants what's best for will from a 'maddeningly polite' perspective, he's really done a stella job from his own perspective. if he's being cruel with how he frames molly and walt, it's only because he knows exactly why will felt the need to have them in his life at all. he says 'don't worry about me' but what he means is 'i meant what i said. you'll always know where i am and i will forgive you for making me wait'. he says 'think about me' because he wants will to come to his own truth about how he felt with hannibal vs. how he feels now with molly. is it snarky and presumptuous and demeaning? yeah. is it a genuine expression of care and gentleness? YEAH.

will and bedelia speak about decisions shortly after that scene, and will essentially tells her he hasn't been doing a whole lot of making those lately. it mirrors something he says to jack earlier in the season - he hadn't decided what to say to hannibal until he heard his voice, he just picked up the phone. bedelia spends this scene being increasingly correct in her analysis. will IS becoming pathological - that old behaviour of thinking very little and then whining about/ignoring/enjoying the consequences as if they're not his doing is becoming primary.

he spends a lot of s3b manipulating everyone as much as possible, so that they make choices on his behalf without ever having to make a premeditated choice of his own. encouraging the dragon to go for hannibal; positioning chilton as his pet and denying his part in it later; making hannibal's escape possible but not really doing anything to make it happen directly; letting jack assume will's with him but being largely neutral to the whole thing; implying hannibal will live to go after bedelia almost entirely to fuck with her. not only does it absolve him of blame in the eyes of the law, it absolves him of acknowledging his own predilections for being just as fucked up as hannibal.

i don't think the moment where will thinks to himself 'this is it. i've reached my limit. i'm going to go apeshit if i have to pretend to be this person any longer' happens after hannibal encourages him to consider it. hannibal says it not knowing what will's doing in the background already. i think that moment hit the second jack delivered him back into hannibal's orbit. will is ALREADY doing things that are just so completely unethical, at the very least. he's not killing anyone directly, sure, but what he is doing is just as scheming and subtle as hannibal's careful manipulations throughout the first two seasons. they swap roles: will is carefully and precisely manipulating everyone around him just to see what happens, while hannibal loses a lot of his finesse because he has no need for that person suit anymore.

this isn't the only role swap you can see. will is a character with a very clear vision of what he 'wants' for his future, an image of who he should be, a life he 'likes', with a wife and kids where he is caring and sweet. in contrast (as mr. mikkelsen has recently interpreted for us), hannibal is someone who thinks little of the distant future. in s3b though, they flip. hannibal knows what he wants, a life with will, acceptance for hannibal but also for will too. will's perfect future is disrupted by hannibal and by the dragon, and he loses sight of it entirely - everything he does becomes about simply seeing what will happen, that pathology taking root in the wake of instability. in fact, he puts effort into making as many possibilities as he can, rousing as many players into as many contradictory and beneficial courses of action as he can manage.

bedelia sums it up the best: "We assign a moment to decision. What you propose is so thoughtless... I find it difficult to imagine that moment exists."

not only does this line go HARD, she's also right - will ISN'T making decisions. and he keeps not making them until he's falling off a cliff with hannibal and letting fate decide if they live or die.

“Maddeningly polite” is one of my favourite expressions from the show tbh. Cause Hannibal is soooo fixated on politeness himself, killing people because they’re rude, his entire person suit being the embodiment of “polite”. “When life becomes maddeningly polite, think about me, Will” ??????? He’s saying the politeness he forced down everybody’s throats maddens him. He’s hinting at taking off the person suit with/for Will. He’s ready to stop the polite charade

[vivasity]

oops caught the hannibal brain rot bug again... *sips whiskey* haven't felt like this since high school

definitely gonna write some unethical fanfiction with this

[honeygrahambitch]

One of the most underrated and cute things Hannibal has ever said to Will is "I need you to smile."

I love it when Will as fucked up as he was, smiles. And then Hannibal smiles back so genuinely sjdkdkdkfk

[honestlydarkprincess]

okay so since my last one wasn't specific enough lemme try again, have some more facts about moi

[sunrisetune]

[ID: Screenshots from several series that have the same theme.

1st - A screenshot from 'The Witcher' Netflix show. Jaskier and Geralt are sitting together on a mountain, looking out. Jaskier says without looking over, "We could go to the coast."

2nd - From 'Killing Eve', focused on Villanelle walking through Roman ruins. She's turned to the side and saying to Eve offscreen, "I was thinking, we should go to Alaska."

3rd - From 'Our Flag Means Death', with Ed and Steve talking to each other. Edward's turned towards Steve and the camera, and he says enthusiastically, "We could go to China."

4th - From 'Good Omens 2', a close-up on Aziraphale's face as he's speaking with Crowley. He looks upset, and is saying, "-- to Heaven. I'll run it, you'll be my second in command."

5th (posted in the reply) - From NBC's show 'Hannibal', showing Hannibal talking with Will. He says, "We could disappear now."

6th - Part of the transcript from The Magnus Archives episode 154. It says - "Archivist: 'Uh, I, I don’t know. I don’t – know. But… maybe it’s worth it? The risk – y-you and me, together, getting out of here –' [Martin sniffs.] Archivist: '-- one way or another.' Martin. 'John.' (He sighs.) "

/End ID].

I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending