Oh, okay, I see what you mean now. I thought the show mixed things up a bit, since I think in the book Molly killed Dolarhyde? So the confrontation at Molly and Will's went totally differently, and then after that it was anyone's guess. But yeah, besides that, it pretty much followed right along.
Whereas with the material from the Hannibal book, that got used up along, part in S2 and part in S3, and of course it got remixed by default because they didn't have the rights to Clarice. I think another reason they used up the book in the way they did was because they were never guaranteed another season so they wanted to use as much as the story as possible (and good thing too, lol) even if it chronologically came later in the books.
All that said, Red Dragon on the show was probably my least favorite part? lol. Besides the finale, of course, but the actual parts about Dolarhyde I didn't care about. And I feel weird saying this, because it's weird to say that I don't want them to follow the books, but I feel like the show had become almost such its own thing by that point that returning to the strict story line of the first book (which was in season 3 here, but which was the starting point in the books) was kind of a weird disconnect? Like you say, that story line was super popular one in fandom, but if you look back at my original S3 posts, I was kind of meh about a lot of it. And sorry, I really do not care about Francis at all. I know a huge part of the books is focusing on the two killers, but that was never what the show was.
All this kind of makes me a little apprehensive about any SotL story, because I would much rather the show continue to do its own thing than feel like it NOW has to adhere strictly to the source material. Most comments of Fuller's about a potential S4 has been about exploring Will and Hannibal's relationship deeper than ever before (Argentina-influenced, I'm hoping) but there were a few comments right after cancellation about just skipping ahead to SotL when Hannibal is in jail again and doing flashbacks, and that's just a massive DNW for me. That's the first time I've ever had DNW when any potential future story lines for this show were mentioned, but that's one. I just hope that the time in between cancellation and a potential S4 doesn't make Fuller change his mind about what was obviously his plan had S4 gone straight ahead. S4 needs to be about Hannibal and Will, and then S5 can be SotL. While we're on the topic, I'm also weirdly worried about SotL whenever it happens, because the show has been so focused on Hannibal and Will and now Hannibal/Will, so how do you bring Clarice into that? More to the point, how do you bring Clarice into that when most of her story has already been given to Will?
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Date: 2016-07-27 08:32 am (UTC)Whereas with the material from the Hannibal book, that got used up along, part in S2 and part in S3, and of course it got remixed by default because they didn't have the rights to Clarice. I think another reason they used up the book in the way they did was because they were never guaranteed another season so they wanted to use as much as the story as possible (and good thing too, lol) even if it chronologically came later in the books.
All that said, Red Dragon on the show was probably my least favorite part? lol. Besides the finale, of course, but the actual parts about Dolarhyde I didn't care about. And I feel weird saying this, because it's weird to say that I don't want them to follow the books, but I feel like the show had become almost such its own thing by that point that returning to the strict story line of the first book (which was in season 3 here, but which was the starting point in the books) was kind of a weird disconnect? Like you say, that story line was super popular one in fandom, but if you look back at my original S3 posts, I was kind of meh about a lot of it. And sorry, I really do not care about Francis at all. I know a huge part of the books is focusing on the two killers, but that was never what the show was.
All this kind of makes me a little apprehensive about any SotL story, because I would much rather the show continue to do its own thing than feel like it NOW has to adhere strictly to the source material. Most comments of Fuller's about a potential S4 has been about exploring Will and Hannibal's relationship deeper than ever before (Argentina-influenced, I'm hoping) but there were a few comments right after cancellation about just skipping ahead to SotL when Hannibal is in jail again and doing flashbacks, and that's just a massive DNW for me. That's the first time I've ever had DNW when any potential future story lines for this show were mentioned, but that's one. I just hope that the time in between cancellation and a potential S4 doesn't make Fuller change his mind about what was obviously his plan had S4 gone straight ahead. S4 needs to be about Hannibal and Will, and then S5 can be SotL. While we're on the topic, I'm also weirdly worried about SotL whenever it happens, because the show has been so focused on Hannibal and Will and now Hannibal/Will, so how do you bring Clarice into that? More to the point, how do you bring Clarice into that when most of her story has already been given to Will?