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EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Does your wife know you're a whopper gayer for Hannibal?

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Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Vitamin P posted:

At the time lots of us were saying that the end of season 2 would have been a perfect ending to the whole show. I think in a decade or so Hannibal might be better regarded if it had ended there.

It seemed so deliberate and Bedelia was actually so blameless that my first thought was 'wow, hannibal just hosed bedilia'

I'm not clear on this part of the show. Did Hannnibal hypnotize the patient to swallow his own throat

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Steve Yun posted:

I'm not clear on this part of the show. Did Hannnibal hypnotize the patient to swallow his own throat

As is often the case the answer creates more questions.

Also KUNG FU NECK CHOP KNOCK OUT all day baby

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

by Pragmatica

(and can't post for 18 days!)

Steve Yun posted:

I'm not clear on this part of the show. Did Hannnibal hypnotize the patient to swallow his own throat

That's how I read it. Use the guys paranoia/mistrust of psychiatrists and make it a trigger for him to start 'clamming up'. Then send him to Bedelia because apparently she is terrible and will definitely trigger him.

There certainly seems to be a link between 'doesn't like talking to psychiatrists' 'wont take oral meds' and 'gently caress it, subconscious says nothing gets in or out of this throat'.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Vitamin P posted:

That's how I read it. Use the guys paranoia/mistrust of psychiatrists and make it a trigger for him to start 'clamming up'. Then send him to Bedelia because apparently she is terrible and will definitely trigger him.

There certainly seems to be a link between 'doesn't like talking to psychiatrists' 'wont take oral meds' and 'gently caress it, subconscious says nothing gets in or out of this throat'.


Considering what he did to Miriam Lass nothing is beyond Hannibal.

Also that ending was really fricking cool, god drat I love will and his beautiful face.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011

Ekusukariba posted:

Do you happen to have a link to the one where it's Winston's thoughts, like he's telling Will when he gets arrested that Hannibal is the killer and points out Hannibal the Cannibal

Steve Yun posted:

No, it was several pictures of Winston watching Will get driven away in the police car, and he's saying poo poo like

"How did you not know, his name even rhymes with cannibal you idiot"

"Goodbye Will, I won't cry for you, Hannibal's going to lead our pack now and feed us sausages"

It was white lettering

(might've been the same guy)










HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

Steve Yun posted:

It wouldn't work in real life because fists are a lot wider than a balloon animal or esophagus. Not that it matters, the question isn't whether it's realistic, the question is what does it mean.

Bedelia throatfucks a guy to death and we get very graphic images of her fist going down a fleshy tunnel. Once the act is done, she rolls over and collapses next to him like two lovers after climax.

There's been a lot of imagery tying violence and sex together this season, but I'm not sure what point they're trying to make. Like, there's that moment when Hannibal feeds Sogliato's lungs and liver to Mr and Mrs Albizzi, their eyes turn blurry and they moan as if they're reaching orgasm. Is violence like sex? Is murder like rape? I'm scratching my head.

"Will this disturb and unsettle the audience?"

"Pretty sure it will Bryan."

"Do it."

On the other hand, there is le petite mort. Sex and death have always had a poetic connection. And killing in this show has always been portrayed as immensely pleasurable and a life-need like sex and food. It doesn't have to be succulent but by God life is amazig when it is.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013


hahaha amazing

Slamhound
Mar 27, 2010
This seems appropriate.

After all, these forums are a crossroads of countries and continents. Tell me Will, what dark continent do you seek?

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Slamhound posted:

After all, these forums are a crossroads of countries and continents. Tell me Will, what dark continent do you seek?

Whichever one is farthest from you, Dr Lecter.

XboxPants
Jan 30, 2006

Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Slamhound posted:

This seems appropriate.

After all, these forums are a crossroads of countries and continents. Tell me Will, what dark continent do you seek?

My favorite variant of that is the one someone posted of using randomized wikipedia entries, a la:
"Criticism of Coca-Cola has arisen from various groups, concerning a variety of issues, including health effects, environmental issues, and business practices. The Coca-Cola Company, its subsidiaries and products have been subject to sustained criticism by both consumer groups, leftist activists and watchdogs, particularly since the early 2000s. Tell me, Will...what criticism has arisen against you? Is our most sustained criticism, perhaps, from our own selves?"

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
It's almost like when researchers decided to have the chatbots Eliza (modeled somewhat after a psychiatrist) and Parry (a paranoid schizophrenic) and let them converse with no interaction.

Hell swapping out the names and you have a scene.

quote:


HANNIBAL: Would you like to discuss your nerves?

WILL: I guess so.

HANNIBAL: What does that suggest to you?

WILL: What are you getting at?

HANNIBAL: What answer would please you most?

WILL: It's not a matter or like or dislike.

HANNIBAL: What else would you like to discuss?

WILL: I am getting tired of answering the same questions over and over.

HANNIBAL: What resemblance do you see?

WILL: Why do you need to know that?

HANNIBAL: What do you think?

WILL: I don't understand your motives.

HANNIBAL: Why don't you understand my motives?

Plus the amusing re-do's of scenes in an updated context smacks of sly winks, like Hannibal tapping the phone "just slide that cursor down to G".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuD9_Axxp1o

BogDew fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Aug 8, 2015

CHiRAL
Mar 28, 2010

Anus.

Slamhound posted:

This seems appropriate.

After all, these forums are a crossroads of countries and continents. Tell me Will, what dark continent do you seek?

So no one's gonna link this? :haw:

XboxPants
Jan 30, 2006

Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

CHiRAL posted:

So no one's gonna link this? :haw:

I feel like that stag would make great avatar fodder.

n3wt
Dec 22, 2005
Rutina Westley is still built from her character's story arc in True Blood where she felt so used and abused by everyone (with good reason) and considering suicide, she ran away from her hometown and taught herself to be a MMA cage fighter. It was a good way of her reclaiming her self esteem and feeling less powerless in a world full of magicals. Shame that the show liked to screw her over at every occasion so that didn't last.

editing to unspoil:
If Dolarhyde wasn't batshit insane, I'd be all over that.
Seriously, his idea of a first date is take her to meet and touch and hug a frickin tiger!!!
Then he's cool with her preparing drinks in his house, no big deal, you're blind but I trust you.
Upper body like a greek god. Him carrying her to the bedroom was so sexy yet scary.
This show sure knows how to make you have contradictory thoughts:
This is hot, isn't he lovely being all in love, seeing her as the woman clothed in the sun like a goddess // HEY this is not hot at all, argh he's a creep, run Reba run! He's a biter! He will probably have to kill you now (his woman clothed in sun) to complete his becoming.

His reaction when she touches the tiger's teeth was magnificent: fear, lust, some sort of transcendant "I'm the tiger" thing, complete and utter fascination. I half expected him to start yowling.
The person who said this was the episode of D creaming himself was SO on point: Reba touching tiger teeth, Reba touching his lips and just kissing them no revulsion whatsoever, when she touches his thighs, seeing the painting, smelling the painting, eating the painting.
So many O faces, so very few of them not utterly creeptastic.

I liked that they showed that Will is physically no match for Dolarhyde. The movies were less on the nose about the fact that he's strong enough to throw a man across the room and the two Wills looked less weedy compared to the two Ds.


So we got to Red Dragon from a tree carving of a chinese symbol meaning to hit the mark or to attain.... it also just happens to be on a mahjong tile that's incorrectly called "red dragon" in english which could mean all sorts of things in chinese culture:
he could have been born in 1976 which was a fire dragon zodiac year,
he could believe he's the solar deity torch dragon,
he could be a marksman because the symbol means to hit your target or win and the so-called dragon tiles are archery tiles in the original chinese,
but Will goes with the tenous at best Red Dragon connection due to the beastly nature of the crimes...
and Hannibal goes straight to the William Blake painting which is a pretty *massive* clue right there.
Will and Jack better be right back asking Lecter how he came to that amazingly precise conclusion because holy leaps of logic! At first he deflects to the chinese symbol then boom Great red Drrraaguhn.
If they'd passed via William Blake's apocalyptic vision being currently on display in Bmore then I might have bought it.
Finding a Chinese symbol that could mean heart or hit the target would have normal cops looking at completly different leads.


Hannibal totally did the phototherapy mindfuck he did with Miriam and Will on Bedelia's patient : choke on your tongue when you feel trapped.
Hannibal sniffed out that Du Maurier had that 'crush the weak' primal instinct, I wonder if he'd sent other patients before that one and her training overrode the instinct. Maybe he knew that something about that patient would totally set her off. She seems to have accepted her inhumane self quite nicely, probably Hannibals teaching at work there.


Will must be wondering about the ratio of psychopaths amongst psychiatrists after Hannibal, Chilton and now Du Maurier.I really hope that the Bedelia conversation means that we'll get a scene where Will gets to talk with D about his childhood and use his remaining empathy but it has definitely opened the door to Will stone cold "crushing" D instead of empathising with him and giving us a "Will is now a cold blooded killer and isn't Hannibal proud of his becoming!" downer ending.
After season 2, I can completely believe Fuller is going to rip our hearts out (in such a sublime way we'll almost want to thank him for the pain of course)


Adding that it's medically impossible to fist someone that far down their throat, there are vocal chords and other things in the way and the oesophagus and bronches are way too thin. If you can choke on a penny then there's no way a woman's fist however small is going down there. I think she imagined what happened in a way more vivid way than what actually occurred, possibly Hannibal induced that imagery there by making her remember the events differently.


I bring gifs:
Vhoom vhoom
Stag

n3wt fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Aug 9, 2015

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

The show will end with Hannibal eating himself. Eventually he will morph into ouroboros.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

n3wt posted:



So we got to Red Dragon from a tree carving of a chinese symbol meaning to hit the mark or to attain.... it also just happens to be on a mahjong tile that's incorrectly called "red dragon" in english which could mean all sorts of things in chinese culture:
he could have been born in 1976 which was a fire dragon zodiac year,
he could believe he's the solar deity torch dragon,
he could be a marksman because the symbol means to hit your target or win and the so-called dragon tiles are archery tiles in the original chinese,

I think in Chinese the character literally means "the center" or "the middle", because the Chinese word for China is 中国, "the central country."

n3wt
Dec 22, 2005
Collection of D's O faces from this episode:
edited to unspoiler:
I'm a greeeeat rrhed drraghun!

OMG teeth touching must not yowl!

Shes touching my face!

She touched my dragon

She really touched my dragon

You are magnificent, My woman clothed in sun


Mmm fingers!

I luv you drrraguhn, you smell tasty

n3wt fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 9, 2015

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
I also like this one:












"j'ai passé une charge de merde d'argent sur vous maintenant etre mon amant" is supposed to mean "I spent a poo poo load of money on you, now be my lover" but I guess the creator used Google translate?

n3wt
Dec 22, 2005

FourLeaf posted:

"j'ai passé une charge de merde d'argent sur vous maintenant etre mon amant" is supposed to mean "I spent a poo poo load of money on you, now be my lover" but I guess the creator used Google translate?
It translates to "I just passed a load of silver poo poo on you now to being my lover".
Google translate has a dirty mind.

Or maybe Hannibal only shits colonic sculpted Fabergé eggs and replicas of Saint Peter's Basilica and the occasional stag statue.

n3wt fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Aug 8, 2015

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
Can't these fancy show runners just ask actual native speakers to translate this poo poo? They're not hard to find.

Riled Shareef
Dec 19, 2013
Is this season just going to end with Hannibal flat out winning again? Some people mentioned getting tired of it and I think I'm in that camp. There has almost never been a moment in the show where it wasn't "Hannibal knows all, everything that is happening is happening because Hannibal wants it that way, you can't catch Hannibal." Even his imprisonment still feels like he's winning - he wanted it, after all. Will had him legitimately fooled for about... 3 episodes in season 2? If S3 ends with Hannibal busting out and Will's new family getting brutally murdered or something along those lines... I mean, what makes the show's plot compelling in that case? I really do love it, but after the Italy arc and Hannibal really not taking much more than a Jack beatdown and a Verger branding, I'm beginning to get a bit lukewarm. Anyone else feeling that? Still am enthralled by the cinematography / performances / direction.

Hughmoris
Apr 21, 2007
Let's go to the abyss!

Riled Shareef posted:

Is this season just going to end with Hannibal flat out winning again? Some people mentioned getting tired of it and I think I'm in that camp. There has almost never been a moment in the show where it wasn't "Hannibal knows all, everything that is happening is happening because Hannibal wants it that way, you can't catch Hannibal." Even his imprisonment still feels like he's winning - he wanted it, after all. Will had him legitimately fooled for about... 3 episodes in season 2? If S3 ends with Hannibal busting out and Will's new family getting brutally murdered or something along those lines... I mean, what makes the show's plot compelling in that case? I really do love it, but after the Italy arc and Hannibal really not taking much more than a Jack beatdown and a Verger branding, I'm beginning to get a bit lukewarm. Anyone else feeling that? Still am enthralled by the cinematography / performances / direction.

I'm with you. The show is beautiful, the characters compelling but the story and plot are definitely weak and have been all season.

Invalid Validation
Jan 13, 2008

This might come as a shock to you but Hannibal always wins. This isn't exactly new to this show.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
watching the Saturday episode and does Dolarhyde let out a little puff of smoke?

Gravitee
Nov 20, 2003

I just put money in the Magic Fingers!
I wanna touch a tiger. How does the serial killer get a hookup and I don't?

A Tin Of Beans
Nov 25, 2013

I'm kind of enjoying not knowing jack poo poo about book canon because it allows me to be perpetually terrified for this cool blind lady without knowing just how dead she's gonna get.

Mike Danger
Feb 17, 2012
"He sends me greeting cards on Christian holidays and my birthday. And he always includes a recipe." Holy poo poo, what a line

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Weird seeing Bedelia back after marathoning The Fall.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Bedelia, are you looking for replicants?

Are YOU a replicant? Show's only been on for three years, it's quite possible...

A Tin Of Beans
Nov 25, 2013

Bedelia shoving her hand down Sylar's throat :catstare: (I am too lazy to look up his name and am fully aware how dated this reference point is, whatever)

This show had a mechafurry and a corpse mosaic and regularly features a nightmare stag man and yet I am still regularly driven to say "WHAT THE gently caress."

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
Bedelia speaks in such an annoyingly oblique way that I barely understood what she was trying to say to Will. Please help.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Okay give Bedelia her own show. I still don't understand what's going on in her head.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer

FourLeaf posted:

Bedelia speaks in such an annoyingly oblique way that I barely understood what she was trying to say to Will. Please help.

I think she's positing herself as someone who doesn't have the empathy for acts of extreme cruelty, whereas Will does.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Maxwell Lord posted:

Okay give Bedelia her own show. I still don't understand what's going on in her head.

She crazy. It's awesome.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Yeah, but she's remarkably good at concealing the specific brand of crazy that's in her. Compared to her Hannibal is like an open book- he reveals plenty about what he thinks about the world, the people in it, God, etc.

CeeJee
Dec 4, 2001
Oven Wrangler

FourLeaf posted:

Bedelia speaks in such an annoyingly oblique way that I barely understood what she was trying to say to Will. Please help.

She's channeling GLaDOS and it's amazing.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011


:lol:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

♪ Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination. ♪
I love that in the episode with the psychotic bodybuilder who thinks he's the GREAT RED DRAGON and literally ate a painting, he still had a run for his money in the crazy stakes with Bedelia.

"I would want to crush it. I wouldn't of course. But I'd want to. Maybe YOU should crush something helpless the next time you see it :stare:"

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Gravitee
Nov 20, 2003

I just put money in the Magic Fingers!

Jerusalem posted:

"I would want to crush it. I wouldn't of course. But I'd want to. Maybe YOU should crush something helpless the next time you see it :stare:"

Bryan Fuller also said on Twitter last night that that quote is borrowed heavily from something Jodie Foster actually said. WTF Jodie Foster...

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