There isn’t. I have no idea what **Sherred **is going on about. There is zero chance of anything supernatural being introduced about Hannibal’s background. I find it amusing that I actually have to say that and that someone seriously wrote that as a possibility. :dubious:
I’m not a fan of supernatural stories myself.
On the positive side: Bryan Fuller isn’t one of those hack writers of stories in which every Big Reveal is about some new mythic being showing up (‘ooo, he’s a Menehune and she’s a Silkie? cool!!’) I’ve quite liked his series Dead Like Me and also Pushing Daisies; in those, he sets up one supernatural element and then works out the logical implications of that element, with no further ante-upping.
But it’s difficult to imagine that he would have been attracted to material in which he wouldn’t be able to bring in an other-worldly component–material in which he’d be stuck with nothing but the human mind as it reacts to other human minds.
It’s never been his thing, really.
I hope you’re right.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Og hates me, and after this thread I am terribly afraid that this series will end like *Battlestar Galactica.
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I just binge-watched the whole series.
I feel like I should hate it.
I agree with many of the observations above.
At this point it can’t be a prequel, it’s a reimagining. …and why would we want to see another version of these familiar (just slightly tweaked) characters, in a familiar (just slightly tweaked) setting?
Aren’t four books and five films enough?
The new Dr. Lecter is simply magic. The risks he takes are nonsensical. Has he ever been in error about anything? It’s all just preposterous.
The murders are the most horrific ever depicted. The crime scenes are ghoulishly constructed solely to shock.
…but I don’t hate it. In fact I really like it. In fact, I agree that it’s the best drama currently airing (until tomorrow).
It is a triumph of style over substance. I have never seen a bloke woven into a tree in a more beautiful fashion.
But I do wonder where it’s all going. Given what Wil knows, what Crawford found at the end of the last episode, and what we saw in the flash forward, how can it continue past this season?
I hope that despite the prequil you mention, Lecter will flee with a great deal of money, and the program can begin a season on the Red Dragon.
I disliked the film Silence of the Lambs, but the actors who portrayed Lecter in Manhunter and the new Red Dragon did very, very well.
I am obviously out of synch. I hope Lecter is caught and they begin a Red Dragon season.
Agreed. Although it seems at least possible that whatever random science-y bits of tree residue and single-celled organisms led Jack Crawford to investigate that building at the end of the most recent episode was in fact a mistake as opposed to part of some insane super-deep plan.
I thought the first season was very good, but if anything it’s been even better this season. Just a gorgeous and unique show, but also full of lots of actual plot developments.
Jack having found a live victim, Lecter is surely screwed at this point, though as I said, I believe that he will escape.
From what I’ve read, that is the plan.
Kewl!
A Red Dragon season would have to resolve the problem created by thirty-three years of technological advances in the way that families
[SPOILER] create ‘family movies.’ So much of that plot hung on the cleverness of Graham in seeing that the families weren’t being chosen at random for slaughter by the Tooth Fairy–but instead were all patrons of a particular 8mm film-developing lab.
What would be the equivalent, today?
It has to be something visual if the story is to preserve the titillation of the killer being attracted to the young mothers. But where are images seen only by employees of some company, anymore?
Something like a series of private corporate e-newsletters, perhaps–central displays of photos and videos, several dozen of which the killer happens to be the web-builder of…? But that seems dull and uninteresting. And how could realizing that a site is the connecting factor be made to seem like a “bolt of genius” from Will Graham?[/SPOILER]
I’m very intrigued to learn how the writers will work out this problem.
In the version with Anthony Hopkins, the families sent video tapes to the same company that put them on DVDs with titles, pictures, fades and stuff. Of course that could be done on the home PC, but it is conceivable that some businesses still do it today. Will’s “genius” is an empathy for the killer. Anyone would have seen the clue that both families sent their movies/tapes to the same company.
Thanks for that, carnivorousplant. I admit to watching both the 2001 film of the book Hannibal and the 2002 version of Red Dragon with only half an eye; I’d become disenchanted with the franchise after reading the 1999 book.
As you say, there are surely some businesses today that take in people’s tapes to transfer to DVD, and that would serve the TV series as a plot device, too. Even so, it wouldn’t be surprising if Fuller wants to go for something new; I’d almost expect that to be the case.
Yes, the film Silence of the Lambs fellated with great allacrity.
Lecter kept a paper clip inside an ink pen tube inside his cheek for weeks to pick the lock of handcuffs. He would not have needed to amputate his hand. If I could not find an actress willing to be “turned” by Lecter, I would not have made the movie.
The films are essentially over; I hope the books are not.
You’re talking about Hannibal (the movie), though, right? Not Silence of the Lambs.
Yep, that’s Miriam Lass, who is the “Clarice Starling”-like FBI trainee who Crawford assigned to the Ripper case and who figured out Lector’s secret in a flashback during in Season 1. Her severed arm was found at the observatory in “real time” during Season 1.
And also, the Crawford/Lector fight we saw at the start of the season suggest Lector’s running out of time… Bryan Fuller says his plan is for Red Dragon to be Season 4, so we’ve got a full season before that to get Lector comfortable in the basement of the hospital.
You do know that Hopkins was Lecter in both SOTL & the new RD, right?
Brian Cox in Manhunter.
Well, we could find out that he destroyed her mind, and she’s of no use whatsoever in helping to catch him.
But at this point, I think it’s moot. Jack knows Lector’s the guy. Or if he isn’t certain, he’s certainly suspicious enough that he’s not going to let it go.
In any event, Will Graham as been found innocent, so if he’s still adamant that it was Lector, how can you refute that? Especially given his track record?
Then there’s the fact that Abel Gideon just vanished, shortly after conversation between him and Will was recorded in which Will predicted that Lector would kill him. That, and the head of the prison also believes Lector did it. At this point, anyone who didn’t make Lector suspect #1 would be guilty of professional misconduct.
Yes, they were both very good. Cox looked like the Devil himself, and Hopkins was of course, excellent.