I loved Hannibal's "drop the mic" reference.
Hannibal (TV series)
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Tried watching Manhunter tonight.
The deja Vu hurt my head.
The deja Vu hurt my head.
Wow, the first half of season 3 and the second half are like different shows. I gave up on episode 4 or 5 and then binge watched the rest thinking I might as well now that the show was cancelled but it was really good. It's the show I signed on for and was surprised they actually did the Red Dragon Story-line finally. And what an ending! Now i'm pissed it was cancelled.
Sadly, it was the cancellation which made the final episodes so good. As good as the series was I often wished it would have shifted to a higher gear, not plodded along stretching the story out so much. A problem absent from the last half of the final season. If the series had run at a faster pace from the start it may have been longer lived.
The cancellation came after those episodes were already made.
Really? I did not know that.
It seemed to me they were episodes written with final closure of the series foremost on the writers minds.
I wonder where it would have gone in another season with Hannibal dead, and all...
It seemed to me they were episodes written with final closure of the series foremost on the writers minds.
I wonder where it would have gone in another season with Hannibal dead, and all...
I just wanted to hear Mags switch to a British accent for no reason.
"Why are you talking like that?"
"Talking like what? Pip pip, cheerio, what?"
Seriously, that should have been the final moment of the series if they had known that the series was done.
The final transformation.
"Why are you talking like that?"
"Talking like what? Pip pip, cheerio, what?"
Seriously, that should have been the final moment of the series if they had known that the series was done.
The final transformation.
It does seem like that doesn't it? I wonder if half way through the production of season 3 they realized they'd messed up a bit with the pace and tried to fix it.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s225/h...ity-and-how-will-became-clarice-starling.html
An alternate take of the last scene had Hannibal and Will almost kissing!
Yup. The show wrapped in April, and the cancellation came in June.
When did Hannibal die?
Hardly conclusive. Especially since the idea wasn't to kill them, only to tease it. According to Fuller, the epilogue teaser was even set after Hannibal survived the fall. He's in the kitchen, supposedly.
Still the best version...
Bryan Fuller had plans for Season 4, so it was not meant to imply that Hannibal and Will were dead. Although, with the show cancelled, one could assume that since we might never see a continuation of the show.
I thought the finale was bloody perfect. I wrote about it at great length. In my mind, it was satisfying in a way in which most series finales are not. Which I thought was ironic given how it was originally not intended to be a series finale - much like every season finale of the show leading up to this. I believe Fuller has mentioned that he always constructed the finales to also act as series finales because he was always afraid the show might get cancelled. It seemed that fear was justified.
I would agree with others that have said the first half of Season 3 was rather lackluster. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the meandering, dream-like and plodding pacing of the Italian chapter. What should have been a cat-and-mouse chase with Will searching the globe for Hannibal turned out to be too slow and meandering for some it appears - which is why I think the show lost as much viewership as it did. I think if the Italian chapter had the kind of suspense, foreboding tension and thrills the Red Dragon storyline did the show might have been renewed for Season 4.
Alas. It sounds like Fuller has learned his lesson as he was recently interviewed for his next show, American Godz, and it sounds like that show won't be making the same mistakes Hannibal did. It's a shame because I feel like Hannibal could have explored some really interesting territory upon reaching the Silence of the Lambs portion of the Hannibal Lecter mythology and could have gone down as the definitive depiction of Hannibal Lecter. Now it seems like it'll go down as a cult classic or fan favorite, but I doubt Fuller's take will be as note-worthy to mainstream audiences as Jonathan Demme's Silence.
However, I do hope Fuller is able to one day continue his version of Hannibal - maybe with a new show, a mini-series or a movie as he postulated when the show was initially cancelled. I'd love to see Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy as Hannibal and Will again, respectively. I'm still hungry for more.
I thought the finale was bloody perfect. I wrote about it at great length. In my mind, it was satisfying in a way in which most series finales are not. Which I thought was ironic given how it was originally not intended to be a series finale - much like every season finale of the show leading up to this. I believe Fuller has mentioned that he always constructed the finales to also act as series finales because he was always afraid the show might get cancelled. It seemed that fear was justified.
I would agree with others that have said the first half of Season 3 was rather lackluster. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the meandering, dream-like and plodding pacing of the Italian chapter. What should have been a cat-and-mouse chase with Will searching the globe for Hannibal turned out to be too slow and meandering for some it appears - which is why I think the show lost as much viewership as it did. I think if the Italian chapter had the kind of suspense, foreboding tension and thrills the Red Dragon storyline did the show might have been renewed for Season 4.
Alas. It sounds like Fuller has learned his lesson as he was recently interviewed for his next show, American Godz, and it sounds like that show won't be making the same mistakes Hannibal did. It's a shame because I feel like Hannibal could have explored some really interesting territory upon reaching the Silence of the Lambs portion of the Hannibal Lecter mythology and could have gone down as the definitive depiction of Hannibal Lecter. Now it seems like it'll go down as a cult classic or fan favorite, but I doubt Fuller's take will be as note-worthy to mainstream audiences as Jonathan Demme's Silence.
However, I do hope Fuller is able to one day continue his version of Hannibal - maybe with a new show, a mini-series or a movie as he postulated when the show was initially cancelled. I'd love to see Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy as Hannibal and Will again, respectively. I'm still hungry for more.
