Bumping this thread to say, hellloooooo, anybody watch the finale??
I cried. I don’t even know who or what I was crying for, specifically – everyone, I guess.
That was some crazy shit!
Can’t wait to see what they do next season. I assume most of the season will involve them trying to hunt down Hannibal.
It was insane. I knew Abigail was going to show up at the end because her death was never confirmed.
Is Gillian Anderson’s character going to turn out to be Hannibals sister!
So, of all the people laying dying on the floor, how many of them do you think will survive the start of the next season? It looked to me like Abigail was toast, but if the paramedics got there fast enough the other three could probably be saved. Will looked perhaps the worst off, but they can’t kill him off, can they? And Jack Crawford is a major figure in the later Hannibal works, so it would be a pretty big change to the canon to kill him off. So I’m guessing at least those two pull through.
I just love the game that was being played between them all. The fact that they all knew the game was on made it more of a chess match than a manhunt. And then Gillian Anderson pops up at the end, showing us that Hannibal was playing the game on a whole other level. Very cool.
Contract negotiations may hold the key to answering that question…
A lot of people on the AV Club seem to think that Alanna will survive, but be paralyzed. Which will potentially actually give her character something to do.
I think the Gillian Anderson thing came a little TOO much out of left field. Was she secretly on Hannibal’s team all along? Or is she going along with someone she knows is super-dangerous because he got to her and has brainwashed her? Or is she somehow just a fascinated observer or something?
But this show is good enough that I have faith they will make it make sense.
Hannibal turned Gillian and Anabell in the show as he turned Clarice Starling in the novels.
I just saw it tonight, and I am pissed that Lector escaped. I had hoped that he would be captured, and the show would proceed to The Red Dragon next season. I fear other are annoyed, the ratings will fall, and it be canceled.
I dunno. I really liked the finale. It was shocking as hell, but in a way that didn’t feel contrived. We’ve known since the start of the season that Jack and Hannibal were going to face off; we just didn’t know how many people would get caught up in it.
I admit I got to the last 10 minutes and thought, “You know, someone said this was supposed to be the bloodiest episode of Hannibal ever, and I just don’t see it”. Little did I know that most of the blood is in the last 10 minutes. :eek:
I think Alana may be dead. I feel bad for her - She really had no idea she was sleeping with a murderer. You can see during the episode how badly this knowledge has shaken her.
I’m done with Abigail. First it seems like her father was manipulating her into helping with his murders, then we find out she had a much more active role. Then we think she’s dead. Now we find out she’s alive, and pushes someone who could have actually helped her out the window. Even if Abigail survives, I’m not sure how useful she’s going to be.
You would think Jack would survive, but if Fuller is not following canon all that closely, Jack is not essential to the story.
Will is going to almost certainly survive. Someone has to go after Hannibal!
Not sure what Bedelia is doing with Hannibal. The idea that Hannibal “turned” her like he did with Clarice is an interesting one.
Only have to wait like 10 more months for next season! 
Have you read the novels?
If Hannibal could turn Clarice (done by some male serial killers, studied by Thomas Harris, it would be quite easy for him to turn a patient and another psychiatrist. Was “Gillian” a psychiatrist or a psychologist?
Gillian, aka Bedelia, is a psychiatrist. My impression is that he may not have “turned” her as much as she just gave up trying to escape him.
Abigail pushed Alana out the window because she had been turned by Hannibal. It wasn’t a choice on her part.
I dunno, I feel like a big step was made. Up until now, Hannibal was a murderer but the authorities didn’t know it, and their struggle was to figure out who the murderer was. Things have now radically changed… they know he’s a murderer, and their struggle will be to find/catch him.
If a bunch of killing had happened and then some stupid reset switch had been hit and everyone STILL didn’t know he was a murderer that would have been vastly more irritating.
I so wanted Hannibal to get his comeuppance, and I so do not want to see Alana, Jack, or Will die, and I feel so bad for Abigail…
but the concluding moments were just perfect, especially Gillian Anderson’s final smile.
I will definitely be back. I so hate this incarnation of Hannibal Lecter but I love to see how he works!
Altho I’m still upset over Beverley Katz. (She looks like a friend of mine & the episode where her body is found actually gave me nightmares.)
Good point, but I can’t see Jack’s boss admitting that she was wrong, nor Jack and Will leaving for France in pursuit.
Abigale’s wounds are certainly fatal. Alana’s are not necessarily fatal. Jack has lost too much blood to realistically live through it. Will has also lost a lot of blood, and his wounds would be really difficult to treat. It would be a shame to lose Fishburne as a cast member.
I truly hate the FBI assistant director woman. She is an idiot of the highest order who should have been all over Jack Crawford and never let him out of her sight the minute she found out she was wrong about Will Graham.
Wait, you think that she STILL will not admit that Hannibal is a killer? After 4 people are found dead or super-seriously injured at his house?
I thought it was quite well done and rather daring, particularly for a network TV drama. I hadn’t even considered the possibility that any of the victims would survive until I read some recaps and speculation on the next season. I know it would be a major diversion from the novels, but the impact would be a lot more profound to me if everyone dies. I guess that’s unlikely, though.
One of the themes of the novels is the bosses being assholes.
And she seems to pretty much be an asshole.
:rolleyes:
She will berate Jack for going to Lector’s house and causing four people to be seriously injured or killed, rather than being a good boy and staying at home.
Not sure I agree with that. Jack and Will’s plan for catching Hannibal WAS in fact completely insane and almost certainly totally illegal. Remember, she hasn’t been watching the show, she doesn’t know what we know. She’s trying to act in a basically reasonable way… it’s not her fault that in this particular situation unreason is what is called for.
Certainly we’ve seen nothing from her to indicate that she is one of those people who is so invested in bureaucratic ass-covering that she’ll just ignore plain truths if she doesn’t want to see them, or anything of that sort.
This is the big question about her character. She pressures Will into confessing under threat of death penalty, and never really cared that all the evidence was circumstantial and Will had no surgical skills to pull off most of the murders. She doesn’t supervise Jack or she would have known what was going on. In the first hours after she read’s Jack’s file, she concludes that Jack and Will must be stopped, not Hannibal. Will she continue to think that after a few days of reflection? If so, she’s a bureaucratic ass-coverer, if not, then a sane by the book not-paying attention boss.
Will and Jack’s plan is way out there, but I don’t see it as illegal entrapment.