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versaphile replied to your post “LEGION Recap: 2x07”

LOL this episode seems to have really thrown you for a loop

I gotta assume you mean how I didn’t even bother trying parcel out several…I guess we could call them developments? Though what exactly was Developed…. I mean this is my point.

Honestly, I just no longer feel compelled to try to seek out cohesion in bad TV writing when it’s just not there. You have Hannibal to thank for this, yet again, because god when I think of how many man-hours I spent trying to come up with an emotionally cogent explanation for, well frankly most of the Season 3 episode ‘Dolce’, but particularly one thing….lord. I mean eventually, collectively, we managed to come up with a few takes that were OKAY, but frankly the strongest explanation was alway the Doylist one: that they just needed to get characters from point A to point B come hell or high wtfuckery, and figured they might as well make a reference to the orig canon on the way. But oh, I tried! We all did! Though even at the time I felt like I was slipping off the edge a bit. I was actually able to watch the new episode with my best friend that week, and I remember asking her something basically to the effect of: has Hannibal finally jumped the shark?

But then the next episode was ‘Digestivo’, arguably the greatest episode that show ever pulled, so just goes to show I guess that you never can know in the moment what stepping stone role your not-good episode might end up playing on the way to something really baller.

*raises a glass* Here’s hoping for you, Legion ‘Chapter 15′

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LEGION Recap: 2x07

I feel like I’m gonna need to balance this one with a loooott of reassurances, because I really don’t want to seem unfavorable toward a show I really love.

I mean Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal on NBC. *taiko drum hit*

I love Hannibal. Ob-vi-ous-ly. I think it was bloody brilliant, pun intended. To this day it’s still the network show that’s really in a class to itself in terms of completeness of artistic vision—in its case, a horny erudite goth art film from the 80s. That show went for it. It was unabashedly poetic, visceral, heady. A serial killer show from a queer auteur that was somehow feverish and languid at once, an operatic homoerotic Grand Guignol black comedy. It was magnificent.

It was also opaque af, often lost in the weeds of its own moral morass, and viciously lonely. On the first watch this was kind of a boon honestly, I was into it, found this an intriguing well to plumb. On the second watch, in all openness I started getting worn down and vaguely demoralized with it all. I think it was genufa who once pointed out that it’s clear Bryan Fuller was writing the show while pretty depressed, particularly the first season. I think that’s sure the hell true. And the thing is, it’s good art, putting out a twisted, mythic deep dive into issues of identity and disability and monstrousness and love is Good Stuff, but oh my GOD everyone on that show is so isolated. Connection is fraught in this world and mostly inadvisable, given what always seems to come of it: loss or betrayal, frequently both at once. These characters can’t trust each other any more than you can trust what you’re seeing on screen, and hahahaha you can’t.

But again, all this isn’t bad! It’s incredible, actually. Everything serves the story, it’s all so intoxicatingly immersive and I love that. I just kinda, got enough of it, by the end. It’s just an issue of taste. (I know.) I ate a lot of it and now my knee-jerk reaction when I see something that looks like another plateful is just, uh—shoot that was one of the best meals of my life, but I…..don’t think I’m that hungry, actually. For this. Right now.

And when the new chapter title card that began this Legion episode read “MORAL PANIC” and I jotted down “lol sounds like Noah Hawley wants to relive the Hannibal fandom circa 2014”, that was, incredibly, before he sat Farouk and David down to have a conversational confrontation at a dark dining table set with bowls of exotic fruit and surrounded by fine art.

So alright, hand me the Ancient Roman ipecac I guess, gotta make room for more of this.

Season 2, Episode 7: ‘Chapter 15’ - Or, the One Where Tarra Barfs Up a Lot of Hannibal Feelings

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[xgraham]

Hannibal walking into Will’s home. Hannibal NBC (2013) - acrylic on wood panel

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[not-my-supervisor]

He really loved that ashtray

Hannibal x Archer

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feminist-lumberjack asked:

Hello! I just read a few of your Hannibal recaps (cause the hot darkness of that damn show sucks me in every so often un/fortunately) and I wanted to say THANK YOU for taking the time and effort to create those posts. They made me laugh consistently and I could not stop myself from whisper-shouting my agreement and appreciation of your analysis and commentary. Anyway, I hope you're well & have a lovely day :)

HahaHAH, making people whisper-shout aloud while reading is always #goals, effing thrilled over here :D

You are very welcome and thank you!!!

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[amatesura]

You’re going to a very dangerous place, so be careful. The thing that slumbers there, it’s not human. You will see a sumptuous banquet, but don’t eat or drink anything. Your life depends on it.

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[strongboyfriends]

it doesn’t matter how many gifs of hannibal you might see, nothing will prepare you for how buckwild this show gets

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Anonymous asked:

OMG DID U SAW THAT NETFLIX REPLIED TO BRYAN FULLER WITH all good things come to those who wait.... WITH A HANNIBAL PIC

Bryan Fuller has joined and then summarily departed three (3) separate television shows in the mere two and a half years since Hannibal ended, and is currently signed on to lead the gay vampire show of his actual childhood dreams, although who knows how long that will last given his love ‘em and leave ‘em MO as of late, anyway: what was true for me at the finale is still true for me now, which is that in fact I do not want more Hannibal, I’ve never wanted more Hannibal, the ending was perfect, and each time B Fulls has gotten involved with yet another project I am comforted by the assurance that this will not come to pass. I mean consider: all the exact things Bryan has said about sincerely wanting to return to this world and how everyone is totally on board it’s just about timing/distributors/the stars being in the right position, he has also been saying about Pushing Daisies since that ended in 2009. This is just how he feels about his dead shows. Hannibal is dead; long live Bryan Fuller forever talking about bringing Hannibal back.

Also I just checked his Twitter and it is clear from context that Netflix was referring to the Parker Posey gif he had requested. Anyway all that still stands.