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Re: Hannibal

Postby Jack Road » Sun May 25, 2014 1:24 am

Sorry mate, this show is idling in my player until I can tear away from all the other shows. Keeping up with it though, looks good.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:54 pm

So I just started watching the show yesterday. It's pretty good so far. My only complaint is that the writers seem to be grasping at straws with the killers of the week. It's a bit unconvincing with how some of the killers are even able to live a double life at all, especially the guy in episode 2. Other than that, it's a pretty good show.
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Re: Hannibal

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Re: Hannibal

Postby Australia » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:19 am

I just finished the show. I'm a big fan of Silence and thought the other movies were fairly forgettable and as someone who's sick of police procedurals, I wasn't sure whether to give the show a chance but I'm hooked. There's not many psychological thrillers on television and this is done well. I thought maybe they were going to go the antihero route like Dexter but they made Hannibal a collosal douchebag, which is great.

Dr Bloom was really familiar to me and it took me a few episodes to click that she was in Wonderfalls, which is kind of fitting, considering her character was most likely insane.

I've been hoping the show reverses the norm, i.e. instead of a hero defeating a new villain every season, it's a villain destroying a new person's life per arc. As for the last episode...

Spoiler: show
That kind of implies that will happen. Hannibal will probably not be back at the FBI helping out anymore, so it'll be onto a new victim. While I thought season 2 raised the stakes (and fatalities), there were a couple of things I found irritating. Giving Hannibal a love interest felt forced. I saw him as fairly asexual in the first season, murder being his orgasm, if that analogy makes any kind of sense. But instead of eating Dr Bloom, he starts, well, pun's obvious so I'll move on. I get that it started as an alibi and to mess with Will, but after the first night, it just felt like an unnecessary way to make Hannibal look innocent. "I have a girlfriend, therefore I can't be serving you Beverly's innards."

I also had the Simpsonic moment of "Isn't anyboody in this dad-gummed cemetery dead?" particularly when they ressurected Abigail for forty seconds only to kill her again for the imagery. Having said that, Jesus Christ, that was an ending. Bodies dropping in every room of Hannibal's house. Pretty dark end of an arc.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby Jack Road » Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:48 pm

Finally started to watch it. I love it. Interesting thing I noticed.

First the intro to Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, directed by Fincher.



Second the Hannibal intro, directed with what AV Club calls "Fincher sensibilities"



This, the Constantine intro.

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Re: Hannibal

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Re: Hannibal

Postby KleinerKiller » Sun May 24, 2015 2:09 am

I've finally started watching this after two years of ambivalence, partially because of random curiosity (I'd heard Francis Dolarhyde would be in the upcoming season, and I like Francis Dolarhyde) and partially in desperation to fill the void left by The Following's cancellation. In the span of two days, I've binged up to S2 EP5.

It's... really good. Great, even. Magnificent at its best points. I love Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, I love Mads Mikkelsen's Lecter even more than Anthony Hopkins's, I love the supporting cast, I love the killers-of-the-week, and I LOVED the first season finale. I can't believe it took me this long when everyone else was ranting and raving about these things.

I just wish I hadn't already spoiled every beat of what's supposed to be the show's equivalent of the Red Wedding in the second season finale. Fucking TV Tropes.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby CarrieVS » Sun May 24, 2015 1:17 pm

TVTropes will ruin your life.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby skrotkanon » Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:31 pm

Only two days to go! Season 3 will be awesome, I can feel it in my bones!
Mads Mikkelsen in a leather outfit, dayum!
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Re: Hannibal

Postby LaChaise » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:38 pm

I watched the new season's first episode, is it just me or did they finally go full arthouse on us?

I'm not complaining, mind you, I like it a lot. But this combined with the various flashbacks made it a bit confusing and hard to follow. I'm still not sure I got everything right.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby skrotkanon » Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:52 pm

That reminds me I should rewatch the thing...

I thought it was all I had waited for. Creepy, gorgeous and funny, often in the same scene!
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Re: Hannibal

Postby skrotkanon » Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:49 pm

Holy fuck, episode 3 was amazing!
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Re: Hannibal

Postby Jack Road » Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:56 am

Season Two Spoilers
So I am well into Season Two now, and it is awesome as always, but I do have some major complaints at this point.

Will Graham switched fast didn't he? Also they just seemed to shoehorn Margot in, that seemed a bit abrupt. At this point, why is anyone in the FBI eating Hannibal's food? Why is a former suspect and someone declared not guilty on a technicality allowed to still advise the FBI? Why would an esteemed psychologist and former friend/romantic interest of someone who basically shouted "Hannibal is evil" date Hannibal? How does nobody notice that previously troublesome people vanish around Hannibal and Graham inc.? How does Will Graham manage to live in Wolf Creek, VA, a place with a median income of 100k a year, with 7+ dogs, without any apparent source of income? Why are advisers to the FBI interrogating suspects before the FBI does? When are those two forensic medical examiners just going to fuck already?


God I love this show though.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby KleinerKiller » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:29 am

And NBC's announced that they're fucking canceling it.

It seems like every time I get into a show that's midway through its intended run, the network execs can it. You should all be thankful that I didn't catch Breaking Bad in its run and I've never actively watched Game Of Thrones.
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Re: Hannibal

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:32 am

KleinerKiller wrote:And NBC's announced that they're fucking canceling it.

It seems like every time I get into a show that's midway through its intended run, the network execs can it. You should all be thankful that I didn't catch Breaking Bad in its run and I've never actively watched Game Of Thrones.

Do us a favor and never watch Better Call Saul.
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