#nbc hannibal theory

[murderzzz]

Fannibals: We want Hannibal season 4!!!

Hannibal season 4:

[notfernintheslighest]

the wardrobe department for Hannibal was on point cause every male teacher i’ve ever had dressed exactly like this:

button up, preferably plaid + slacks + coat = male teacher fit

[share-somelove]

I think it’s interesting how nbc Hannibal gives the viewers no context for most of the characters before the start of the series. Like even though Hannibal Lecter is a well known character from the books and other movies, it doesn’t give you much to go on for what’s going on with the characters before the first episode starts. We don’t meet a Will Graham or a Hannibal Lecter that don’t exist in the context of each other. And even when we get backstory, it’s vague or it’s a small part of their entire history. You don’t know what these characters were like before we meet them in the first episode. We only learn about Hannibal and Will as they exist with one another. And as for Will, we don’t really get to see him when he’s clear headed and fully himself. He has encephalitis, and then he has Hannibal in his head. Even in Dolce Will says his life is separated into before Hannibal and after Hannibal. The show doesn’t give us the before because it just doesn’t matter anymore.

[mismatchsocks]

not even trying to be funny when i say i genuinely think freddie thought hannibal and will were gay the first time she saw them together

[thespiralsavatar]

i headcanon that will graham bites people. just. bites them. not out of love, not out of fear, he just bites people. why? primal instinct. he must sink his teeth in somewhere. he does not know he is doing it until it has been done.

i imagine him sitting next to hannibal. hannibal is reading. all the sudden, he feels teeth in his skin. will is staring up at him without ONE SINGULAR THOUGHT behind those big ol eyes. subconscious desire to cannibalize

[antleredreality]

[patroclus021]

I saw someone comment/post on tiktok that we never get a solid baseline for Will Grahams character bc when we first meet him in the show he's already experiencing the effects of consulting for the FBI and the first symptoms of encephalitis.

I cant find the creator but now all I can think about is how Alana is the only person in the show (including us as the viewers) who knew him before he started consulting and the encephalitis symptoms started, which means the strength of her concern is a good indication of how much Will Graham changed.

ALSO, the closest we get as the viewers to what Will Graham probably would've been like is in season three when he's married to Molly bc he wasn't consulting or aggravating his empathy and he wasn't being yoyo-ed by a serial killer.

[suchawrathfullamb]

you know how everyone's like oh I don't know how Will forgave Hannibal for the hypnosis thing in season one? Well I think it's because when he remembered everything in prison, he realized that he consented to it. Why? Because no one can be put under hypnosis in that way without consenting, Hannibal would've needed to suggest it so Will could actually allow him to put him under transe but also, canonically, the files say so:

He submits nicely with the pendulum. It's exactly like Alana did to him. This type of technique needs the subject to feel safe otherwise they cannot let go and enter a relaxed and suggestive state (I actually studied it and have been a subject myself).

Of course the drugs probably weren't super consensual lol but still, I think Will knows he allowed that to happen, except maybe for the details lmao

[addicted-to-the-knife]

I finally had the chance to watch the Boston panel.

and I'm starting to think that a lot of you either haven't watched it yourselves, or were so set on specific opinions you personally have, while also having clear expectations of what their answers will be, that with their answers (or what are talked about as their answers) made you so unhappy that now you're just bashing them; especially Hugh.

why, though? none of the things I've seen people complain about were actually said like that or fully implied. so... what? doesn't make sense to me why some of you are so upset about this panel. it was so much fun and just lighthearted entertainment. panels like that are the reason these things exist and are usually so much fun in the first place.

[sillywillygrahamcracker]

I was thinking about episode 6 of season 3, Dolce, and I realized something. Why would Will try to kill Hannibal now, right in front of Uffizi Gallery, in front of a bunch of people in broad daylight? Why would he do it after saying and then confirming that he had forgiven Hannibal? And why would he do it with a knife? He said it himself, if we were to kill Hannibal he would do it with his bare hands.

If you look at a deleted script from their conversation , Will was supposed to tell Hannibal that he forgave him, but he still couldn’t forgive himself. Will had already left his dogs to Alana Bloom. He let go of what happened during Mizumono, he let go of his hallucinations of Abigail. All that was left was to let go of Hannibal. Once Will finally talked to Hannibal, saw him again and finally had closure, I think Will was ready to end his life. And he was going to do it in front of Hannibal. I also think this is why Will didn’t put up much resistance to Hannibal trying to eat him immediately after.

[love-songs-for-emma]

are u the "insane meta mutual" or "guy who's just along for the ride"?

[sappho-hoziers-version]

I’ve rewatched Hannibal over 10 times, and I will not be moved on this:

Hannibal and Jack are two sides of the same person. Jack isn’t bad at his job in the sense that he’s incompetent. He’s Hannibal of Hannibal had chosen a different position of power.

Jack sees Will breaking down and following a path of violence and encourages him. Exactly like Jack pushed Miriam just enough to find a killer while too unskilled to actually handle the situation. He entertains Will’s plans when he clearly has ulterior motive. He pushes Alana out of situations where she would have been a voice of reason. And he doesn’t TRULY show remorse for any of it. Only when it inconveniences him does he have any sort of reaction.

And it’s all for the same reason Hannibal did it.

He wanted to see what would happen.

[toothmarqed]

deer theory

Text credits: ‘The Stag and the Quiver’ by Richard Siken / Hunter - Have A Nice Life / Little Deer - Spelling / ‘Grendel’ by Rodger Reeves / thesun.co.uk / Fawn - Mercy Necromancy

Image credits: Hannibal (NBC) / True Detective (HBO) / The Hull Truth / The Dead Deer Photograph by Joan Sorolla

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Pretty sure that Bedelia du Maurier and Hannibal actually first met on a fetish dating site for cannibalism enthusiasts, and it was only later that she became his ethics-challenged therapist.

For all her (extremely reasonable) hesitation about actually following through, this woman matches his freak to an alarming degree.

[honeygrahambitch]

Now i don't want to be a bitch and bring psychology into this but there is a tini tiny possibility that season 2 slut era Will Graham is a consequence of his severe encephalitis. Sometimes brain damage can lead to personality change. We unfortunately don't know more details about the encephalitis and which parts of his cortex it has affected but we know that by the end of season 1 it was pretty advanced. And sometimes changes like that happen. But again, this is just a theory. His change could totally be thanks to finally being healthy and having the energy and clarity to play the same game as Hannibal.

[sabythemerchant]

Delving into color theory with fem Will 💘