Dread Posted August 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 ^Stavros summing up most of my thoughts about this season in far nicer terms than I can put it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 There's too much in it I like for me to call it terrible, but it's easily the most flawed season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Thanks Des. It was reading this thread and your thoughts that made me want to catch up, Red Dragon is the strongest source material and i wanted to see how they approached it. I think you liked the first and second seasons more than I did, the battle for substance has always been struggling with the shows desire to display abnormal psychology through artistic means. I watched it and enjoyed the atmosphere, but I always had problems with the codependent aspect of Graham and Lecter, they almost take that awful Hannibal turn of making him an antihero. Graham is too obsessed with the game, it makes him and pretty much every character unsympathetic when they know who and what Hannibal is and do so little to stop him. The tragic, brutal, violent way he caught Hannibal in the books, with almost that element of chance, it's so much scarier and more effective. That's why their reunion in Red Dragon is so powerful, because it's the first conversation of this new dynamic. The TV just gave us another conversation like we've had for a season and a half and expected it to be powerful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 I'm admittedly coming at this from the POV of someone who only knows the Lecter mythos as cliffnotes (only recently saw Silence for the first time, have not read or seen anything else), but I like what we've been seeing so far. Yes, this season is definitely on the weaker end of the show so far, but I like the shift away from the psychopath of the week format. wrt this episode, I viewed that first conversation more as them picking up from where they left off, rather than being this massive this is the first time we've talked in years kind of thing? the big reunion for me this season was back in 3.6, not 3.8/9, but ymmv. I also really like that Lecter was mischa-ing Abigail too. I also suspect that Des and I, except for a few things, are naturally supposed to be diametrically the opposite of the other at any given time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Which is why you two need to get working on that "Drunk Hannah and Drunk Desmond Shoot the Shit" segment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 If he's got the time, once my life settles some, I'm game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 This week's episode is one of the best of the entire series. I love Red Dragon and this episode both adapts and adds to the novel in very interesting ways. They even use the art-film bullshit to great effect as well. Also, there are very few women on earth as sexy as Gillian Anderson. Holy crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Interesting diversion from canon and Hannibal references both films slyly in this episode. For an ep where so much happened, it still felt like kind of a nothing story-beat-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted August 23, 2015 Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm willing to accept this version of Will because of the two seasons of prologue, but I do prefer the Will that's more in control and the similarities to Hannibal are at the edges. The scene with Dolarhyde and Chilton before Reba showed up had the best performance by Armitage so far. I liked the Chilton swerve and the use of the fountain, though I thought Raul Esparza was pretty hammy and I usually love his performances. I hate the wings and tail every time they show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 Y'see, the wings and tail are the only fantasy element I do like about this season. The latest episode was okay. That's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 Regardless of the problems this season had, the final shot of Hannibal is a fantastic note for the show to end on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 I was hoping for the finale to lift the show out of the shitter, but I was unimpressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Watched the last two episodes on Tuesday. It was intense, insane, and I loved the ride. Like I've been saying, I like what we've got, but if they decide to pick up S4 with that final image, I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 By final image are we talkign about Gillian Anderson sitting at the table? Because I don't necessarily think that actually happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. The three places and the deliberate callbacks on the oyster fork and clearly drugged to the gills Bedelia make me think it happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Because it's as of now the series finale, I'm taking that extra room for interpretation to say it's a hallucination or she somehow cut off and baked her own leg. Either way, it represents the mark Hannibal has left behind. For me, Will killed himself and Hannibal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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