I believe that she, too, is insane, so there is no explaining her behavior.
Is it just a general feeling, or do you see that (her being insane) as having been planned by the showrunners? (In other words, do you think clues leading to that conclusion have been planted?)
Just a general feeling. It is equally possible that Lecter messed with her and or the patient as someone mentioned up thread. Perhaps Lecter drove her nuts with things like waking up next to dead bodies. Perhaps she will recover enough to tell Our Heroes where they are.
Makes sense to me.
In a show like this, a lot of characters aren’t going to survive until the end. I’m expect a lot of us have doubts that Bedelia will live through the eras to come (of *Silence of the Lambs *and Hannibal, the novel.)
Maybe she already is. Isn’t that why she keeps going down to the train station and makes sure she’s caught on camera?
Are the plans for this being a prequel still in play?
Because how is Hannibal going to pull this EXACT same scheme between SOTL and Hannibal, especially after you’d think him escaping to Europe and impersonating a professor…
I don’t have a clue.
I don’t think there can be a prequel given the way Hannibal and William met.
I think the writers are taking the good stuff from the books and strining it together with their own story for as long as they can.
I read recently that Bryan Fuller has asked for the rights to the characters from *The Silence of the Lambs *(specifically, Clarice) and is awaiting a decision. Apparently MGM has the rights to that one novel; no doubt it’s all quite complicated what with various deals Harris made with movie companies over the years.
So the teleplays and arcs for season 3 and for season 4, if there is one, will depend on whether or not they can use Clarice.
Like I said they have already fouled up the novels plot, Hannibal at the start of the novel Hannibal is in Italy having killed and impersonated a professor of medieval Italy.
But in the show he has just done this exact same thing almost, and now left a VERY public art piece for the authorities to find. What are the chances the next time he is a fugitive he could pull the exact same scam without being instantly caught?
So at this point no this show can’t be following the book plots.
Hannibal, a television program inspired by the Thomas Harris novels.
:rolleyes:
You know what I meant! 
It can’t be following the book series plot in strict chronological order, but has to be doing what you yourself said which is taking the good parts and making something out of them.
This can’t be the events that lead up to the novel Red Dragon at this point.
Obviously not. Will Graham is asking Dr. Lecter, who he has not met before about a series of murders, sees a picture of “the wound man” and realizes that Lecter is the killer. Lecter attempts to eviscerate Graham at the elevator, is somehow caught and imprisoned.
I am annoyed, but continue to watch.
Fuller is quoted somewhere as saying that they decided to give that plot development to Miriam Lass, so as to be able to explore the dynamic of* ‘Hannibal and Will know each other and work together for a fairly long time before Will starts to suspect that Hannibal is a killer.’* (Not that Fuller put it in those words.)
I have to say that the most recent episode (3:2) left me very impatient with the “no one has urged Will to get a second opinion about his symptoms after the first doctor was murdered” conceit. A story of, say, a homeless guy who has hallucinations for months or years without anyone suggesting medical investigation: sure. In the USA, that happens all the time.
But a guy who teaches at the FBI academy? No one says ‘I know it was upsetting when the first doctor you went to was murdered, but maybe it’s time to get another check-up, since your symptoms seem to be exactly those of encephalitis…??’
Unless Fuller actually IS going for “the entire series is Will’s dying vision” or “the entire series is Will’s Purgatory experience” or some other “it’s not real” wrap-up, the sheer implausibility of Will’s continued failure to seek a diagnosis is…annoying.
Good Lord, don’t even think about that.
Let us hope that it is merely a plot device.
Yes, it would take creativity of a very impressive magnitude, for them to be able to pull off ‘none of it was real’ without inciting mass disgust.
I am basically in love with Will in that familiar “Even though we can’t be together [new clause: what with you not being real and all], I just want you to be happy” kind of way, and I don’t care how this series (or his portion of it) ends SO LONG AS he’s experiencing some measure of peace and has at least the possibility of feeling joy again.
Remember when I said so much about the show makes no sense, yea…
Never before have I seen a show where slash fiction writers aren’t even picking up subtext, but just plain text. Everyone not only seems to fall in love with Hannibal, they see him as a sort of personal god, Hannibal is love, Hannibal is life.
It is reminding me of the nu Doctor Who strangely.
If Hannibal were being played by (say) Jason Alexander, then we wouldn’t be seeing the “Hannibal is love and life” reaction.
Yes, I AM Captain Obvious. But seriously, and without intending to be rude to Mr. Alexander, a lot of the reaction to the character is actually a reaction to the actor --who is, one hears, the biggest star ever in his native Denmark, in a sex-symbol way. Anthony Hopkins, as popular as he is, was never really cast in the bare-chest roles the way Mads Mikkelsen is.
You mean, reminds you of nu Who in that the fanfiction world has lost its collective mind over the character, in the sheer volume of material produced? Or, perhaps, do you mean that the fan-fiction take on the character is inappropriately romantic?