#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

[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

[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.

[murderzzz]

When Hannibal took Abigail from the recovery home and fed her mushroom tea, Alana showed up and went ballistic. Her exact words were “shockingly rude, Hannibal”, which I find interesting because Hannibal literally kills rude people. It’s his whole thing. “Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.” But he was rude! He defied Alana and stole her patient and did what he wanted with her because he felt like it. I wonder, is that a slip up on his part, and he didn’t realize it would be rude, or does he not apply his own code to himself?

[craqueluring]

re: this reddit post i found that discusses the idea that bedelia was too focused on being safe from hannibal, and that she neglected to consider the danger of actively provoking will (and his jealousy), who is just as dangerous. she did this by taunting him about how she was hannibal's wife, and with him "behind the veil" unlike will. OP says that bedelia seems like will's primary post-fall target because of this, and mentions the end credit scene of bedelia in TWOTL. (i really recommend reading their whole post! it was a very interesting observation and theory)

i am going to work with this idea that will is jealous of/angry at bedelia for her being in italy with hannibal instead of him (because will was supposed to be the one hannibal ran away with), and that the end credit scene of bedelia is reality.

i think there is significance to the fact that bedelia specifically had her leg (and most likely the rest of her limbs) cut off, cooked, and eaten by will and hannibal.

who is the only other person we have seen killed this way? gideon. why did hannibal want gideon dead in the first place? because gideon was effectively stealing hannibal's identity as the chesapeake ripper.

both gideon and bedelia were living lives that were not their lives to live. gideon falsely living as the chesapeake ripper, and bedelia falsely living as hannibal's companion, "behind the veil," in will's place.

i also thought it was interesting that in antipasto, the episode switches between the b&w flashback of hannibal cooking and eating gideon's limbs, and hannibal and bedelia's life in europe. i thought this could've been some subtle foreshadowing — as bedelia is living a life that wasnt hers to live, we see what happened to a man who was living a life that wasn't his to live.

as hannibal and gideon eat together, gideon learns about the real chesapeake ripper ("you were determined to know the chesapeake ripper, gideon. now is your opportunity"). i imagine that will and hannibal would do the same thing to bedelia. explaining their life together post-cliff, which what was supposed to happen post-mizumono, to bedelia who was in will's place, living a life that wasn't hers to live.

even further, i noticed that the painting changes in the room bedelia is in from the last time we see her in TWOTL (when will tells her his plan to fake hannibals escape) to the post-credit scene, which indicates that time has passed. so, they didnt instantly go to kill bedelia after the cliff. this time between the cliff and the post-credit scene could be the story of will and hannibal's life together that they explain to bedelia

so, bedelia gets the same treatment as gideon. they both get to see how it feels to (literally) have a part of them, their identity, their lives, taken from them. as they learn about the life they were stealing from the person whose life they were stealing. the divine punishment of a sinner mirrors the sin being punished.

[kingocats]

Water as death and rebirth in film and literature

Margaret Atwood The Penelopiad/ The Shawshank Redemption/ Kahlil Gibran/ Hannibal NBC/ William Blake The Marriage of Heaven & Hell/ The Shape of Water/ Henry David Thoreau/ Mad Max: Fury Road/ Friedrich Nietzsche/ Big Fish/ JRR Tolkien The Silmarillion/ Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring/ Hermann Hesse Siddhartha/ Blade Runner

[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.

[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

[suchawrathfullamb]

naaah but why is there something blurred in the file name? why why why no way like seriously why. it has to be something relevant cause they've left everything else. see this is what I am saying THERE IS UNRELEASED FOOTAGE THESE MFS KISSED