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Whovian, Sherlockian, Trekkie member of the Cumbercollective. Desperate writer, avid daydreamer and closet romantic. This post is half delightful randomness and half manifestations of my personal manaquarium.
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-hannibal in his plastic suit at a crime scene
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i feel like there's a bit of a tendency in leftist circles to do the same thing conservatives do, and pine for an imaginary time period that never existed. except instead of like, ancient rome, or the 50s, a lot of people are weirdly fixated on like...the middle ages? or the hunter-gatherer days? or pirates? like people will try to be anti-capitalist and say "oh medieval peasants had better lives than we do" or "humans used to all live in small communities that took care of each other" and like. idk man id rather have vaccines and the ability to leave your abuser and the right to vote.
it's tempting to think that since things are bad, they must be uniquely bad. but there is no utopia in the past that we need to return to, no garden of eden we were cast out of with the advent of. idk the industrial revolution or whatever. we need to create a better future, not despair about an imagined past.
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My sarcasm aside, I do think Alana Bloom was a well-written character. And one thing I think was so important was that her actions in season 2 made sense. Her believing in/siding with Hannibal and his subsequent betrayal of her sadly made a lot of sense and wasn't a case of "oh my god, how can she be so STUPID??"
Like, they knew each other for so long! Long before she met Will! Hannibal was even one of her mentors! She had so much trust in him, and he was very VERY good at hiding his true nature, ("in your defense, I worked very hard to blind you") so why the hell would she suspect him? It just makes the betrayal all the more heartbreaking because Alana was doing things for the right intentions and did have almost-full faith in him. But in the end, that.. well.. kicked her out the window.
And as for her season 3 transformation, where her morals certainly turned a lot more grey, that made perfect sense too. First of all, it's Hannibal. Questionable/grey morals is a character necessity for the entire franchise regardless of books, films, or shows. Secondly, frankly, if she had stayed as she was in seasons 1-2 (which I did love, btw - I was right there with her screaming at Jack for putting Will out there) and went right back to being "...nah, I still believe and trust Hannibal" after EVERYTHING that happened in the past season, that'd be lazy, underwhelming, insulting writing. (I mean, who was she, Belle French? No.)
So, I'm not going to say the writing for female characters in this show was perfect. But I do think the writing for Alana and her character development over the series was extremely well-done. And she got a lot more than other shows would've given her.
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man i know i talk a lot about about relating to ancient artifacts but really is there anything more beautiful or relatable than the sleeping lady of malta. we don't really know what she means. is she a goddess? does she represent death? is she truly just asleep? but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, because she looks exactly like me drunkenly lying on the couch eating tortilla chips while i watch reruns of diners drive-ins and dives
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Just remembered that Will Graham was canonically a professor and-
What was that even LIKE???
Picture the scene: youre a bright-eyed prospective FBI agent who needs to take this class for a credit and you roll up to see a man who looks like he slept in a dumpster teaching your class.
Ok fine you can deal with that.
Next thing you learn is that he has the social skills of a ground-nesting chipmunk and the class has realized he tolerates you all only because you sit fifty feet away from him.
Fine. Cool. Sure.
Maybe the class starts trying to win him over. Maybe they leave him an apple as a joke and he goes on a fifteen minute rant about how many apples will kill you. The class realizes they can get him to talk about certain things:
Government Officials (Derogatory), Dogs, Knives, Dogs, Guns, Dogs, Kraft Mac and Cheese, Silly String (Derogatory)…
They get him a murder mystery book for his birthday and he spends the next class period talking about why it was wrong and who REALLY did it.
The class does some research, apparently he’s wired up in a weirder way than the class thought. That’s fine, you all like him in a “teacher who hates everyone kind of way”
Then he starts rambling about murders as if he WAS THERE AND DID IT, zones out, regularly gets interrupted by random people and then vanishes off the face of the earth only to reappear as a “murder husband” a few months later.
Good for him, you all knew only a bisexual could be that much of a flaming wreak.
The class is Professor Grahams biggest supporters, they cheer when he gets out of prison and keep up with the news as best they can.
Because goddamnit he’s their WEIRDO and good fucking batshit crazy teachers are SO hard to find
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Hannibal switching to Will's chaotic attack style by biting Dolarhyde the way Will bit Cordell and Will switching to Hannibal's calculated attack style by gutting Dolarhyde the way Hannibal gutted him will never NOT get me.
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As much as I'd like a Hannibal s4 I don't think I'm ready for the new generation to learn about Hannigram and call it idk a proship or problematic. They will never understand Hannibal opening Will's skull as one of the deepest love metaphors 😔
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Hannibal can be terribly comforting and reassuring. It’s simultaneously alluring and disconcerting. Hannibal Lecter is an iceberg.
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These two are amazing!
@x-heesy 💃🏻🕺🏻 Friday vibes!
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I know I'm posting a lot, but I just got the image of Robin giving Steve away at his wedding and then officiating.
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no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched
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