I guess the difference is that while Sherlock Holmes and such can make pretty big leaps, they at least show you the pieces, how they got there. This is a lot closer to magic. The opening scene of the first episode where he’s walking through the house figuring out where the shooter was when he took the shots was closer to very perceptive detective work, but - and I don’t remember specifics - but it seemed like a lot of the other inferences/discoveries/etc were more or less arbitrary and magic.
I believe they can’t describe it as well on TV as Thomas Harris did in the novel.
Graham can identify with crazies. He spent the night in one of the crime scenes and seeing the same things as the killer could sort of identify with him.
NBC pulls this week’s episode of Hannibal after Boston bombing.
Those stupid fucking overreactions make me lose way more respect for the people making those decisions than airing something that might be vaguely related to a current event would. Hate that shit.
Oh that pisses me off so much! They showed an episode this past Thursday so why pull one next week!? I really hope they at least make it available to watch online.
Mrs Plant (v.3.0) suggests that they want to sell DVDs. 
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I’m done with this show, despite mostly enjoying the new incarnation of Lecter. The 12 year-old they have playing Graham just isn’t believable to me, nor is the woman playing Bloom. I also don’t like Fishbourne as Crawford, who I picture from the books as being much more of a quiet, behind the scenes kind of guy.
It feels like a bad copy of Dexter with a cast drawn from Glee and Twighlight rejects.
This times infinity.
Dancy doesn’t look 12. He looks his age, which is 37.
Dexter isn’t good.
Which Twilight and Glee gave you been watching? None of the cast looks like they’re from there, except maybe that reporter chick?
Would you like a scientifically valid cite that I find the actor playing Graham too young looking to be believable? I’ll get right to work on that.
I simply don’t enjoy Hannibal for the reasons I explained, just as Dexter is not to your liking. That tells tells us something about your taste, but whatever… 
He doesn’t look 37 to me, maybe 27, but I’d have pegged him more like early mid 20’s. Certainly not 12, but come on, exaggerating to make a point is hardly the end of the world.
NBC posted some clips from the pulled episode on Youtube, but only scenes between Will, Hannibal & the Hobbs girl. They cut anything related to the killer of the week & related police investigation.
Now I read that the reason the episode was pulled was because it featured a storyline of kids killing other kids. Which of course is so similar to the Boston bombings… :rolleyes:
NBC is run by a bunch of pussies.
You people must be really old. I’m in my early 20s. Hugh Dancy doesn’t look anywhere near my or my friends’ age.
He looks early 30s at the youngest.
So tonight’s episode, what the fuck? How the hell do you flay your own back and then tie your feet and both your arms to rafters 20 feet off the ground!? Really? That was one terrible denouement, unless it’s revealed in a later episode that someone else killed him, but I didn’t get a sense that’s where they were going at all.
And are we supposed to already be familiar with the crimes of the “Chesapeake Ripper” (AKA Hannibal?) I thought the only murders we know Hannibal committed so far were the two people impaled on the stag heads, but that the police thought they were done by that guy the Hobbs daughter killed? So… what did the Chesapeake Ripper do? I guess that was a plot line introduced in the missing episode. Thanks NBC.
Yeah, I was sitting there looking at my upcoming DVR recordings and just decided, you know what, if NBC/Singer are going to be that way, fuck 'em. I don’t need to keep watching their show anymore at all. And with that I deleted the scheduled recording.
I was on the fence about the show as it was, but I’m sick of this reactionary bullshit.
The show was actually pulled before the bombings, I believe more in reaction to Newtown (dead kids) but then after the bombing they announced the change. But the decision was already made.
Anyone else suspect Will has a brain tumor? Hannibal can smell cancer, as we found out with Jack’s wife (played by Fishbourne’s real life wife), Will’s sleepwalking/headaches/etc, plus Hannibal sniffed him and then immediately asked if his headaches were getting worse. Anyone else with me on this?
How would he smell brain cancer? I can buy smelling lung or skin cancer, dogs do this. Brain cancer for Will would interfere with the theme they are developing that his “profiler” work is highly damaging to just about anybody, but especially somebody as empathic as Will. Also, it appears that Lector is befriending Will by pointing out to him the obvious that the profiler work is going to seriously screw him up. One of the contrasts in the show is how unempathic Jack Crawford is about what he is doing to will. The rest of the FBI crew are pretty cold fishes.
I just got around to watching this episode, and my single biggest question has to do with the (alleged) killer of the week and that ending.
How is that even physically possible for him to have done to himself?
SenorBeef opined last week that he wasn’t happy with how much of the detective work that Will Graham does is tantamount to magic. At the time I argued that this was somewhat necessary for the development of the plot and the character. After this episode with the rib angels, I’m starting to lean in the good Senor’s direction. I just don’t see how the head of the Behavioral Sciences department - an experienced investigator in his own right, one expects - could stumble into a crime scene like this and immediately come to the same conclusion as Will Graham, or, at minimum, accept Will Graham’s conclusion without asking him how the bloody hell a weak, sickly, and likely crotchally-infected man could have built an ad hoc contraption, ‘winged’ and then hoisted himself angelically upon said contraption without at least inspiring a, “Holy shit” from his audience, no matter how personally tortured or jaded it was.
Has Graham even helped solve a crime? It seems like he usually comes up with a bunch of “the killer feels connected to blah blah blah”, and then the CSI people come up with the information that actually get the killer. This episode was the vomit leading to the knowledge the killer was on cancer drugs which let them find him through some sort of Cancer patient database. In the second episode they tracked him through the drug he was administering to his victims. In the first episode it was something about a type of pipe being traced to a construction site (granted in that one Graham at least noticed the worker form with no home address).
Far from being magic, Graham actually seems kinda superfluous.