I was absolutely speechless at the ending, I had to just sit there stunned for a bit
I am torn between "Bedelia grabs the fork to defend herself" and "Bedelia sets a table for three but nobody shows up to eat her leg". I can't decide. It's like one of those optical illusions that jumps from one to the other.
My interpretation is that she set up the extra place settings and had the fork ready because she had convinced herself that Hannibal was coming for her (she was already clearly very freaked out and unlike her usual controlled self in her conversation with Will about it), I could see that final scene as her having snapped as she looked so out of it. Although there is the argument that maybe she had simply been drugged by Hannibal and Will, but I would have expected a little more tension from her if that were the case, instead she seemed oddly accepting? But then another thing is that I don't think that Will was that far gone that he would have started eating people with Hannibal? I've seen some talk about him embracing evil with Hannibal, and true that he did kill for the first time without it being self-defence, but I still don't see anything inherently evil in him planning to take out a bad guy and a threat? Yeah he learned to appreciate the ~beauty~ of the kill with Hannibal, but IMO it's a stretch to then assume that him and Hannibal would going to become serial killers as a pair. I guess that I just can't believe that Will would ever be that far gone, so it's a little bit puzzling to me that so many people are taking that scene as Will's becoming exactly like Hannibal, even though it's not like they ate the red dragon together or anything like that! Again though it will be interesting to hear what Bryan Fuller intended for the fourth season, maybe it really would have been Hannigram as murder husbands, who knows! I just know that I need all the fic and all the fan video's after that finale *g*
And thanks for that link, I'll check it out :) I agree that the different scheduling didn't help, but it was frustrating trying to google 313 discussion of Hannibal and not knowing where to find anything. We always hear that Hannibal fandom is so huge because of tumblr, so you'd think that it would be easy to find lots of interesting and in-depth meta after the finale, and I have found some to be fair, but the discussion there is just so all over the place. What I wouldn't give for a LJ comm with handy links :sighs:
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Date: 2015-08-29 12:05 pm (UTC)I am torn between "Bedelia grabs the fork to defend herself" and "Bedelia sets a table for three but nobody shows up to eat her leg". I can't decide. It's like one of those optical illusions that jumps from one to the other.
My interpretation is that she set up the extra place settings and had the fork ready because she had convinced herself that Hannibal was coming for her (she was already clearly very freaked out and unlike her usual controlled self in her conversation with Will about it), I could see that final scene as her having snapped as she looked so out of it. Although there is the argument that maybe she had simply been drugged by Hannibal and Will, but I would have expected a little more tension from her if that were the case, instead she seemed oddly accepting? But then another thing is that I don't think that Will was that far gone that he would have started eating people with Hannibal? I've seen some talk about him embracing evil with Hannibal, and true that he did kill for the first time without it being self-defence, but I still don't see anything inherently evil in him planning to take out a bad guy and a threat? Yeah he learned to appreciate the ~beauty~ of the kill with Hannibal, but IMO it's a stretch to then assume that him and Hannibal would going to become serial killers as a pair. I guess that I just can't believe that Will would ever be that far gone, so it's a little bit puzzling to me that so many people are taking that scene as Will's becoming exactly like Hannibal, even though it's not like they ate the red dragon together or anything like that! Again though it will be interesting to hear what Bryan Fuller intended for the fourth season, maybe it really would have been Hannigram as murder husbands, who knows! I just know that I need all the fic and all the fan video's after that finale *g*
And thanks for that link, I'll check it out :) I agree that the different scheduling didn't help, but it was frustrating trying to google 313 discussion of Hannibal and not knowing where to find anything. We always hear that Hannibal fandom is so huge because of tumblr, so you'd think that it would be easy to find lots of interesting and in-depth meta after the finale, and I have found some to be fair, but the discussion there is just so all over the place. What I wouldn't give for a LJ comm with handy links :sighs: