one way or another, be it your own hands or the hand of God

[minttown1]

Just a random thought on Hannibal episodes 1 through 5: We don't know at this point that Hannibal is killing and eating people. We assume, based on the source material, but in these first five episodes all we know is that he seems to be making a lot of cannibalism puns, that he is particular about his food, and that he had that brief image (not necessarily a memory) of hunting a man in the woods that one time someone asked him about the source of the meal. That last one is pretty damning, except that this is basically a show about how we all have horrible, fleeting violent thoughts, because it is a soothing show like that. Hell, Will actually says it aloud to his students in the first episode. So Hannibal very well could have just had a very morbid thought while thinking about his totally ethically butchered rabbit.

...Okay, I knoooooow that Hannibal is in fact a cannibalistic serial killer. But I still don't want him to be and I am pouting about it at the moment, that's all. :( I am just saying, if I never watched another second of the show, I could still pretend.

We all know that's not gonna happen, though. :P

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[garnettrees.livejournal.com]

...Okay, I knoooooow that Hannibal is in fact a cannibalistic serial killer. But I still don't want him to be and I am pouting about it at the moment, that's all. :(
I know! Will and Abigail are such endearing/emotive characters that you want Hannibal to be good, for their sake, if not for his own. Then they could be one trauma-knit family of very talented individuals with non-traditional morality. *sigh* Episode Six definitely puts the kibosh on this, but it's nice to pretend. After we finish the season, I'll have to share a fic I found where Will wakes up in a world where Hannibal _isn't_ a serial killer. And he's really confused, poor puppy.

in these first five episodes all we know is that he seems to be making a lot of cannibalism puns
It's funny, but those puns almost make the audience cringe more than actual scenes of Hannibal killing. ^_^ He's the only character who could accomplish that.

*hugs*
-Meredith