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Will was practically radiating reaction formation in this scene.

What he feels for Hannibal is so strong and unacceptable to his psyche that he will absolve himself of any wrong doing, subject his traumatized wife and son to even more trauma and toxicity, and leave Hannibal gutted with a farewell message that he belonged in this hamster cage under Jack and Alana’s heel for all of eternity because he said so.

And still yet, Will has this desire to be near him and have him all to himself.

But he would rather keep everyone emotionally hostage and quietly erode and destroy their lives than admit what he feels for Hannibal is real.

He’s hurting people he claims to love and even hurting the person he won’t claim he loves.

I often think if Will counts these two moments as times when he initiated touching Hannibal.

Until killing Dolarhyde, he's never actually, consciously and actively done that. It's always been Hannibal who's touched him, for any reason.

And then come these two scenes: a glass between them, and that's when he goes for it. As if that glass could be a dam for his feelings for Hannibal, not reduced in intensity even after 3 years of separation. A solid object he could use as a substitute for Hannibal's skin but harmless because touching a screen of glass doesn't confirm his feelings but still serves his purpose.

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omg i didn’t realize he walked around Johanna and Corinthian three times before giving them the necklace until I watched this video 😭😭

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I think the reason Armand pursued a relationship with Daniel wasn’t just because he found dissatisfaction with his relationship with Louis, but because he finally found someone who would dare scale his walls and tear off his masks.

Louis calls Armand boring, but Assad confirmed that there’s so much that he keeps hidden and unseen at all times. Things Louis hasn’t seen and no one else has ever seen. And what more, he’s a blank slate with no true identity. It’s what makes him incredibly difficult to manifest and yet Assad does it all so masterfully.

Daniel is not only fascinating, but someone that Armand can’t stop thinking about because of how he dared to oppose him. He likes rebels. He wants to see if Daniel can figure him out, but he’s simultaneously terrified that a mortal man is capable of such things. It’s a nervous mix of curiosity and downright dread. It makes him want to keep coming back to Daniel, but also run away back to Louis so he doesn’t get too close.

Turning Daniel seemed like a decision based on wanting Daniel to chase him this time around now that Armand had no base to go back to in Louis. And since they’re both immortal, there is no time limit now.

They can keep this game going for as long as they need to.

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I feel like it’s a mix of Queen songs that I’m thinking of especially near the end with the chorus. But it sounds like a very specific song I’m trying to remember 🤔

That new song in the trailer sound so damn familiar, but I just can’t put my finger on it… 🤔

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I immediately recognized the Freddie Mercury moves when I saw the strut across the stage.

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truth and reconciliation x

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Sam also made this clear in interviews. That he wished Claudia didn’t die, but she had to because this was Anne’s experience of losing her daughter. It could not be prevented. But she is also a gothic romance writer and knew the rules of the genre.

And so she chose to write a story where Claudia would always die. And where her parents would always grieve her. And even if it was all about the deeply flawed parents, that’s still well within the realm of the gothic genre.

This is what gothic fiction is about. To create fully fleshed out characters who we become attached to and throw them into the incinerator. So we can grieve them, but also remember their story.

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

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You wanna know what’s crazy about this?

Chiyoh used the same tactic to put Hannibal in a cage. Not only that, but she applied additional steps by making her bait bleed. If the lure bleeds and moves about, then the fish will be more inclined to take the bite.

Once Hannibal took the bait, she shot Will and effectively placed him in the cage. She kept her bait and caught her fish, keeping them both alive. Two for one.

Bleeding the bait is utilized mainly in fishing, but can also be used in hunting to lure prey.

Chiyoh is a skilled hunter, but also an extremely effective fisherman. She really is the perfect surrogate sister/daughter.

Su-zakana, Hannibal, season 2, episode 8 / C.J. Tudor - The Gathering

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I mean it’s one of Eric’s iconic stand up routines and catch phrases so why not?

"Blow me" being Vampire Daniel's go-to insult is so great. I hope someone does.

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One thing that does worry me about Lestat’s gripes with the book is about Claudia. He spent decades punishing himself in their old home about what happened to her. Blaming himself over and over that he had failed and killed her.

I’m hoping he doesn’t think that what Louis said during their reunion was a lie, because it mattered so damn much to him. If anything he might overthink it and act out without telling Louis.

But he knows what he knows about Claudia. What he did. What Armand did.

And I’m sure that’s gonna make Louis feel so much worse about it.

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That new song in the trailer sound so damn familiar, but I just can’t put my finger on it… 🤔

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if i had a nickel for every time sam reid played a blond bisexual who had a mental breakdown in front of the camera while wearing messed up makeup, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

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I’m quite sure that Chiyoh would use some kind of allegory to animal mating rituals in conversations with Will and Hannibal about their relationship. Mostly Will.

Whether it be black widows and praying mantises eating their mate after copulation or cranes mating for life or some weird ass analogy of how animals have expectations and difficulties with sex and courtship…she’ll probably say it.

She’s just a keeper trying her best to make sure these two work out in her own weird little way. And weird animal sex talk is definitely on the table.

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Well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

Louis has always had a sense of entitlement where he wants things to go a certain way and when they don’t, he gets rather passive aggressive (or aggressive) about it when he’s the one who contributed to or caused the issue. Daniel warned him of what could happen and Louis knew what kind of journalist he was. But he’s the one who called Daniel over to do it like he used to pay whores to listen to him. Whatever came out of that pillow talk was going into the book.

Daniel got his $10 million and “vampire rumspringa” and Louis got a face full of disappointment and Lestat’s wrath.

But they both have to admit that it’s kinda funny. Well…until it’s not I guess.

"I didn't like me in it" is so funny like the layers!! On the one hand I'm like you invited Daniel Molloy to write your book so what did you expect? this book is your story as told by you, retold through Daniel's own bias and you know your boy. it was bound to be more cut-to-the-chase and judgmental than you may like. sexy claudia halloween costumes – once it's out there, it's out there. Louis doesn't like himself in it, doesn't like how selfish and passive Daniel painted him as but that's the story you told him. imagine you're a character in a book and you don't like yourself. like damn.

(also his selfishness? that's a feature not a bug my dude)

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“I’m not fortune’s fool, I’m yours” is honestly a very strange thing for Will to say, because if this were S1-2, it would’ve absolutely been correct. But by S3, it’s no longer the case, because he knows how Hannibal operates.

Dolarhyde’s attack on Molly and Wally was something that was completely preventable and Hannibal gave Will multiple chances to make that decision. Will didn’t take those chances as if he was daring for him to do it. And when he did, he whined about it and confronted Hannibal on it.

What’s more remarkable is he paints the story to Bedelia as if this had come out of left field and he was helpless in preventing it. She’s under the impression that this was an act of territorial aggression on the relationship that had been meticulously preplanned by Hannibal as a means to control Will. That Hannibal had taken Will’s family away from him. On the contrary, Hannibal is not concerned about that at all. At least not any longer. He’s more interested in his actions of autonomy in the clear presence of opportunity. Will practically gave his family for to him to take.

Maybe he was curious to see what would happen. Or maybe it’s the fact that all Gods require sacrifices.

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It’s funny because the version of Louis in the book is exactly as Daniel saw Louis in Dubai. He was passive. He was selfish (he even admitted that to Lestat). He wanted to do his best to depict this story as accurate as possible, because that’s what journalists do. And he wanted Louis to like it. He wasn’t being an asshole and purposely made Louis look bad.

But there’s some cognitive dissonance, because even if Louis didn’t mean to present himself that way, he did. And now Lestat thinks that Louis did this on purpose and he’s making a huge stink out of it.

You see people, this is why when you hire someone to ghost write a biography about you, you read it before it’s published. But way too late for this now. It’s out there…

Cue Revenge Rockstat

"I didn't like me in it" is so funny like the layers!! On the one hand I'm like you invited Daniel Molloy to write your book so what did you expect? this book is your story as told by you, retold through Daniel's own bias and you know your boy. it was bound to be more cut-to-the-chase and judgmental than you may like. sexy claudia halloween costumes – once it's out there, it's out there. Louis doesn't like himself in it, doesn't like how selfish and passive Daniel painted him as but that's the story you told him. imagine you're a character in a book and you don't like yourself. like damn.

(also his selfishness? that's a feature not a bug my dude)

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We only see so little of Nicki, because no shocker here, it’s Armand’s memories (or rather his lies). Rolin really wanted to keep working on Nicki’s story, so I’m sure we’ll see a more accurate depiction of him in Lestat’s story. He’s not just a cameo. He was a full blown lover.

show-only fans of nicky are so confusing to me. in the book he had a whole life and personality. what has show nicky done besides call armand a racial slur and get kidnapped