Oh and to ramble on for a bit more (cause why not *g*), I'm not sure that I agree with Bryan Fuller's reasoning on cutting out the "lips lingering on lips". I don't think that a kiss would have felt unauthentic for that particular scene, so I understand Hugh and Mad's impulse to take it to that place. In the final footage you can even sort of see the moment where it looks like Hannibal is thinking of kissing Will, before Will collapses and rests his head on Hannibal's chest.
I mean the scene works for me just as well without the kiss certainly (although I am going to need to see those alternative takes :P ), but I disagree with Bryan Fuller's fears that a kiss would have just been serving the audience and not played with the story that they were telling. I don't think that Hannibal's interest in Will was sexual, but his blood was racing after the killing and feeling so close to Will, I think that a kiss could have very easily fit the intimacy of the scene without being all "Brokeback Mountain" and just about them wanting to screw. In a scene where Hannibal and Will were as intimate as two people could be, then yeah I can see Hannibal giving in to that impulse and Will responding in the moment. I don't necessarily view Hannigram as a sexual ship, but it certainly came across as the writers and actors wanting to portray a gothic romance (Hannibal carrying Will in his arms in 308, their embrace by the cliff etc), so I don't see why it's a kiss in particular that would have been the moment when the show took it too far into the realms of fan fiction. A passionate make-out would have felt like fan-service maybe, but a lingering kiss would have worked with that scene IMO
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I mean the scene works for me just as well without the kiss certainly (although I am going to need to see those alternative takes :P ), but I disagree with Bryan Fuller's fears that a kiss would have just been serving the audience and not played with the story that they were telling. I don't think that Hannibal's interest in Will was sexual, but his blood was racing after the killing and feeling so close to Will, I think that a kiss could have very easily fit the intimacy of the scene without being all "Brokeback Mountain" and just about them wanting to screw. In a scene where Hannibal and Will were as intimate as two people could be, then yeah I can see Hannibal giving in to that impulse and Will responding in the moment. I don't necessarily view Hannigram as a sexual ship, but it certainly came across as the writers and actors wanting to portray a gothic romance (Hannibal carrying Will in his arms in 308, their embrace by the cliff etc), so I don't see why it's a kiss in particular that would have been the moment when the show took it too far into the realms of fan fiction. A passionate make-out would have felt like fan-service maybe, but a lingering kiss would have worked with that scene IMO