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you know what scares me most?
you remember that story Hugh told at SDCC about them finding a bottle of wine on-set, on the last day of shooting the finale, and him and Mads (and I think Richard) just sitting down together, while the sun was in danger of coming up, and having a glass of wine?
I’m scared I’m going to know exactly what he meant...
liljat replied to your post “What do you think about Chilton saying that Will put his hand on him...”
In the book Francis wanted to kill Hannibal toward the end b/c he interpreted Hannibal telling him to "kill them all" was motivated by Hannibal fearing Will. I also believe he wanted to use Hannibal for his becoming or something.
Maybe that’s it, then; maybe, when Francis said he wanted to watch Hannibal meld with the strength of the Dragon, that melding would require Hannibal to be dead at the time? He’d be killing him to gift the Dragon to him, because he esteems him so much, not because he feels betrayed/angered by him?
*sudden panic attack*
what if will just fucking asks him if it’s true
what if he just fucking comes right out and totally fucking asks him??
*hyperventilates*
Hey! I’d like to hear your thoughts on the following theory concerning the Wrath of the Lamb. It came to me because of a comment Hugh Dancy made on how there would be a sort of return to season 1. So what I imagine is this: Will and Hannibal kill Dolarhyde together and become murder husbands. But instead of running away together,(this story line having already being done) Hannibal fakes his death, not Francis, after the show down with the dragon. (cont
(2/2) Will pretend he was on the side of the law all along, and would still be working for the FBI after that, but Hanni lives hidden with him and they murder happily at night. That way Will take Hannibal’s place at the beginning of the story and the other characters are still relevant to the plot.
It’s funny how, after all the switcheroos they’ve been pulling this season with handing off canon events to the wrong characters, everyone seems to be assuming (me included) that someone other than Francis is going to fake his own death. I can certainly see it as a possibility.
God. Imagine the lengths a Hannibal Lecter could go to to fake his own death. Hey this must be his body, look, we found this big patch of skin with a Verger Meat brand burn-mark on it. >_<
And now I’m envisaging a Halloween style final shot of, ‘hey, where’d Lecter’s body go…?’
I'm here dear to request some of your brilliant Hannibal meta. There was so much to talk about in last nights episode. However, I'd love your thoughts regarding the everything that happened to Fredrick and Will's involvement with it. In his conversation with Bedelia he seemed fine with what had happened. Do you think this might be alluding to a dark-er!Will, a Will that could possibly live/hunt beside Hannibal? How do you think this will play into the upcoming finale?
*brilliant meta?! :-S oh, crikey… no pressure then!* ^_^’ well, here goes…
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From the second the cogs started turning on that plan I was asking myself
does Will know he’s doing this?
He was just so cold and calm. As smooth and calculating as the man who plonked a bag full of groceries down on Hannibal Lecter’s counter and asked him to guess what the mystery meat was.
( It’s no coincidence that the shot we saw of Will, while he was imagining himself striking the match that set Chilton alight, was from that very same Longpig Dinner. Exchanging one Freddie for another. )
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Regardless of whether he did or didn’t know, though, you know what I found most chilling?
He suggested Alana, first.
(Seconds after seeing a vision of her as the Dragon’s next victim.)
So was part of him… on some level… trying to set her up, too?
Either way, he would’ve been pleasing Hannibal.
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But, y’know, I don’t think Will was conscious of what he was doing at the time.
That knowledge was buried deep.
The difference is now he knows it’s there.
If he unearths that side of himself again, he won’t be able to claim unconsciousness. It will be active and deliberate participation.
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I wouldn’t say he’s fine with this new truth he has discovered about himself. It’s more that he just accepts it; grimly, the way he accepts Hannibal for who he is - because it is what it is, and he can’t change it.
I thought he seemed genuinely upset by the hell he had raised - that video from the Dragon hit him like the sky fell on him - but crucially, he accepted culpability.
He’s progressed from the man we saw three years ago; the one who manipulated Chiyoh into killing but then said ‘I didn’t want this-’ as if he genuinely believed that he wasn’t at all responsible for Grutas’s death. Not so any more. To borrow Hannibal’s phrase, he is not wearing moral dignity pants.
Just… normal pants?
Ahem.
Anyway, the point is: he is facing facts.
I mean, literally, he looked Chilton in the face.
He forced himself to confront the horrible pain he had caused, and he already knew (by then) that his actions could be construed as harmful, so he went in to that hospital room knowing what Chilton was going to accuse him of. But he went in anyway, he sucked it up.
Also, even though Will has never liked Chilton, he was kind enough to give him back a sliver of dignity by letting him accuse him (which is why, I think, he was still willing to co-operate. A stroke of luck, or a further manipulation on Will’s part? I don’t know. Maybe both.)
But these are not the actions of a man who just said ‘fuck it, let him burn.’
Part of Will wanted this, part of him didn’t.
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More interesting than what Will did, though, is why he did it.
He surrendered to Curiosity.
In the Hannibal universe, Curiosity is a dark, dangerous, destructive, seductive force. It’s the ultimate source of Temptation, fulfilled only when a question that you secretly ask yourself is answered.
In this episode Will opened up a whole new avenue of questions which he has yet to explore.
The last time he indulged his curiosity like this, he was telling himself it was all an act. When he told Mason Verger that Hannibal wanted to kill him, it wasn’t because he was really curious what would happen (he kidded himself). He was just playing a role!
At the time, he hadn’t realised the truth yet: that the darkness in him really was there, that he really did want to run away with Hannibal.
He was of the Devil’s Party and didn’t know it, because he lacked a Chiyoh or a Bedelia to state the bleedin’ obvious tell him.
But he can’t delude himself any more!
If he indulges that dangerous curiosity now, he can’t kid himself that it’s for any reason other than to satisfy himself. It’s the difference between stumbling blindly into Hell or knocking on the damn door.
And curiosity is such a cold, impersonal motivator. It’s much more psychopathic than putting someone in harm’s way because you have a grudge against them. You could understand that. (This is, after all, why Hannibal was so hard to See.)
Typically for Will, you can’t narrow down his motivations to any single source. Instead you’ve got this mix of personal and divine retribution, compassion (for Hannibal; Will has less reason to wish Chilton ill on his own account), and cold curiosity.
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So, you’re asking how this all plays into the finale?
Well, plot-events aside, there are several new character truths that we have to take us into the finale.
Will is guilty of participation
Will knows he is guilty
if he participates again it will therefore be active and deliberate
Will is curious [ read: tempted by darkness ]
Will knows Hannibal is in love with him; he is Beloved of the Devil.
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How all these factors interact is what interests me.
Will is feeling and indulging in curiosity (Danger point #1).
Danger point #2: despite knowing Hannibal as well as he does, Will has just found out something new about Hannibal.
That has to change things. It’s made Hannibal interesting again. It makes Will curious about him again.
Like Eve and the apple, Curiosity leaves him open to suggestion, to Temptation. But unlike Eve, Will knows what he’s getting himself in for. He knows he is being tempted. Whatever he gets himself into, he’s going into it with eyes open.
Once upon a time, he pretended to be a version of himself who could live with, hunt with, be like Hannibal, before he had genuinely, organically wrought that transformation in himself.
Even if he had run away with Hannibal, then, from the very beginning their life together would have been a lie.
If he runs away with Hannibal now, it will be real.
If he is changed, it will be by his own design.
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About wounded birds...
*note to self before I fall asleep*
Bedelia framed the crush/help choice as if it’s always a simple either/or, bad/good. But sometimes, crushing the bird is actually the kindest thing to do; it’s cruelty and compassion.
Francis is a tortured man tempted to give in to the dark part of his nature simply because he just doesn’t want to hurt any more.
Will can empathise with that struggle.
If the Lamb becomes a Lion and Will kills him...
What if it’s out of pity?
What if it’s not the Dragon he slays but the wounded bird?
What if it’s murder and mercy?
