I broke down and bootlegged the Canadian copy of the final Hannibal. It aired, I think, last night there and airs tomorrow here in the US.
Anyone else see it? Like it? Thoughts?
I’ll wait for the next post to discuss spoilers.
Well, I can live with it as a finale, that is for sure.
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I did not for a second believe Francis died in the opening. I knew he swapped out a body.
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As soon as the cliff appeared, I kept saying, “Push Hannibal off it!”
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Looks like Will is massively scarred from that face. If the show was to come back, I bet they “Tyrion” that bad boy down to a minor scar.
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I thought Will or Hannibal was going to push the other off. I did not realize Will was going to “jump” with both of them. Well done, show.
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What was the final scene of Bedelia supposed to mean? Is that to suggest Hannibal is alive or are we to believe something else? I did not like the final scene.
Anyway, I thought it was just fine and really works well. It brings the show to a close.
No one?
I’ve been watching since the beginning. The finale was amazing. Perfect.
If Will and Hannibal show up on Netflix strolling out of the surf dangling seaweed I will be furious. Not killing Chilton was bad enough.
Bedelia was waiting to surprise Hannibal with his favorite dish. Will would have been his +1.
Yup, it was an (almost) perfect ending to a perfect series.
Really, I just wish that, in the wake of the early cancellation, Bryan Fuller & co. would’ve removed the tagline at the end with Bedelia about to eat her leg. That just stupidly sets up a storyline that we’ll never see resolved.
Remove that, however, and there’s a lot of closure in this finale.
I hope in the coming years that Fuller opens up about where Season 4 would have gone & who was about to join Bedelia at the dinner table.
I absolutely loved the ending with Bedelia. I think it can be taken two ways. One, she went batshit crazy waiting for Hannibal to come get her and she cut her own leg off. Or two, Hannibal and Will survived the fall and they did this to her. Since Fuller is saying now that the show might continue as a feature length film, this leaves the door open to continue the story.
Well since the characters on this show possess Magical Healing Powers, the fall probably didn’t kill them.
I thought the finale was nothing special and the tag with Bedelia was just dumb. I hated that the show moved back to the pretentiousness of the first half of the season. So many times all I was thinking was “Just shut up already! And Bedelia speak faster dammit!”
The show was never based on gritty realism, obviously. It’s supposed to be like a dream.
I honestly can’t understand how anyone didn’t love the ending. I thought it was perfect.
Sorry, late to the thread, late to the party…
I absolutely loved the finale. It just wrapped things up so perfectly. I won’t say I’m happy about Will dying (I’m very fond of the character), but I see how it had to be done. Rarely have I seen a major character death that didn’t seem like a major “eff you” to the audience, or a blatant attempt to jerk the viewers around emotionally.
I interpreted the end scene with Bedelia as her waiting for Hannibal and Will to return to have dinner. I believe that after Dolarhyde ambushed the police escort and allowed Will and Hannibal to escape, Hannibal and Will got hold of Bedelia. Hannibal (with Will observing, if not outright participating?) then cooked Bedelia’s leg and was about ready to serve it for dinner when Dolarhyde shot him through the window.
The “funny” thing is that I’m sure Will and/or Hannibal would have had to go grocery shopping at some point. I don’t think most people just have the kind of ingredients that Hannibal would prefer in their pantries. Can you imagine that grocery trip? “Now, Will, take notice. This is an excellent wine to pair with the leg of a very attractive lady who looks no older than her 30s.”
I was so glad that Reba survived. The finale was the first time I was truly afraid of Dolarhyde. Well, I was scared of him when he went after Will’s family too. But I suppose that’s because we care about Reba and Will’s family, as opposed to the rest of the Dragon’s victims we barely knew.
Crap, I forgot about Chilton. No one deserves what he got. :eek:
I’m just fine with ending the series right here. 
mage-girl: interesting thought on Bedelia! That didn’t occur to me. My first thought was that this scene was way in the future and Bedelia went nuts and did this to herself. But in interviews with Fuller, he says that someone did this to her and that season 4 would have shown what got her in that position.
My first reaction was that Bedelia did that to herself, but according to Fuller (in his interview with Alan Sepinwall), that’s not the case:
Ninja’d! But I’ve got a link. 
I took it as Hannibal came back to cook and eat her. She said that he’d not want to kill her unless he got to eat her…
When they fell off the cliff, I assumed they lived. After the mass survival of the last series, I don’t expect anyone to die.
Only thing which kind of disturbed me was the utter ludicrousness of the setup to get the Red Dragon. Ok, so Hannibal escapes so Red Dragon gets him. Right. So those 8 to 10 dead FBI agents were perfectly acceptable collateral…
I agree, that was the only part I didn’t like as well. Obviously releasing Hannibal into police custody was not going to go well. But Will didn’t care and that’s part of the point I guess…