#tome-wan is The hannibal ep ever

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the moment in hannibal that hits me hardest is when will’s peaceful happy piano motif (the one that plays when he kisses alana and daydreams about fly fishing) plays after he imagines himself feeding hannibal to the verger pigs

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☕️! Maybe like each season of hannibal? In order of goodness or maybe any favorite episodes, and also, how did you feel about devilman crybaby if you watched it? And the miki's as characters, hopefully these are fun ones!

Thank you for asking <3

I think in order of somewhat objective quality it goes season one -> season 2 -> season 3. In order of my personal preference it goes season 3 -> season 2 -> season 1 lol.

So like, I think season 1 is very consistent tonally which gives it an edge, as well as being seamless plot-wise, and seeding subtle, excellent character stuff. It took me like 4 watches to feel like I fully understood what happened, and I consider that a good thing because it is completely coherent and not contradictory, it's just... unexpected, and effectively obscured. That said, it's my least fave because while it has possibly my favourite ep (Sorbet) it's just not quite gay enough yet.

Season 2 is fantastic but imo stumbles slightly in the second half, it comes too ungrounded and the vibe gets a little weird around the murder furry episodes - which isn't a bad thing on its own, but in comparison to the rest of the season it feels a little out of place. The plot is good but a little shaky and thematically muddy (Will's post-encephalitis clarity vs whats-her-name's brainwashing, the parallels that don't really come to anything and end up contradicted 2 eps later, eg).

On the other hand, dear god do I love Will falling for Hannibal while fantasizing about murdering him, Tome-Wan is incredible, Mizumono is incredible, Chilton is incredible, it's so delightful, so fun, so homoerotic, the second half with Will manipulating Hannibal in contrast to season 1 is *chef kiss* and then in parallel to Hannibal also being unable to follow through properly bc of his feelings...

Season 3 is a fever dream, with incredible highs and a few lows. It no longer even offers the pretense of being grounded, it's just flying off the handle, and it's delightful, I adore it, but yk, it's a little flawed because of it, and the plot details don't always make perfect sense, and the character motivations are sometimes... pretty iffy. Also I have a lot of resentment towards Alana's "bone marrow got into my brain so I'm different now" line because come the fuck on, you don't need an explanation for her character shift - trauma and betrayal is the explanation, it's organic, why would you add that in??? I hate artificial explanations for basic character development sfm lol. But that's minor comparatively.

Season 3 is my favourite because it's a double gay romance, Hannibal and Will are both disasters with and without each other, Hannibal throws away his ideal life to live in prison in the hopes of seeing Will again someday, Will throws away his ideal life to get murdered with Hannibal by the guy who only kills families, all of Digestivo exists, "You're gonna eat him... with my face." It's all so good. High Bedelia, Jack destroying Hannibal, romantic parallels everywhere, "Is Hannibal... in love with me?" Hannibal splitting for the first time when he sics D on Will's family, craving change, "I gave you a child, if you recall," I just. There will never be a show as perfect as this again.

Also my favourite episodes are Sorbet, Tome Wan, and Digestivo.

Sorbet is the perfect Hannibal episode, it's all about how strongly he feels, how emotional he actually is (it opens with him crying at an opera performance hello), how much he loves life, yet how lonely he really is. The Franklyn/Hannibal parallel is my favourite piece of writing ever fuckin put to screen I s2g.

Tome Wan is fantastic, it's the Murder Husbands episode, Will is in control here, and now that he's finally in control and able to get his revenge on Hannibal finally he saves his life instead. It ends with Will literally telling Hannibal to tell Jack he's a serial killer and Hannibal agreeing. That's now Will's - successful til he hangs out with Freddie - plan to catch Hannibal: "Go tell the head of the FBI you're a serial killer and I promise I'll run away with you." "Okay sounds legit."

Digestivo is just incredible. It's so fucking fun, so funny, and it ends with Hannibal - in counterpoint to the book its adapting in which he kidnaps and brainwashes Clarice - tucking Will into bed, trying to turn back time and unkill Abigail while waiting for him to wake up, and then turning himself in and going to jail. Come on. It's perfect.

I'm gonna put the Devilman stuff into a new post so I can at least post this tonight lol. I'll @ you in it.

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hannibal questions! 🍖🔪

@nietzscheantrout @horrorlesbians and @hanniba1 wanted me to answer these hannibal questions and i wrote too much but oh well! thanks to all 3 of you ilu!!!

favorite episode and why: oh we’re just goin straight to the hard questions huh um OKAY so i think i can only do an ep a season - s1: SORBET SUPREMACY! you get to see the exact moment will looks at hannibal and thinks “.........shit. it’s him isn’t it. he’s The One. SHIT.” and that is so important to me - s2: this one is really hard maybe naka-choko? it’s so fucking gay and sexy. but tome-wan... but mizumono............ yeah idk - s3: torn between digestivo and the wrath of the lamb cuz they both hurt SOOO good much; i love will breaking up with hannibal and hannibal manipulating the situation so will can’t leave asldkjansk it’s so toxic we have to stan..... and for twotl i mean do i really have to give a reason every scene LIVES in my mind and it contains my favorite shot in the whole show:

that is LOVE baby! that is DESIRE! that is being ENTHRALLED!!!!

least favorite episode and why: i feel like they’re all so necessary that it’s kind of impossible to say but probably antipasto. i get sick of hannibal and bedelia’s shenanigans really quickly and as much as i hate to admit it... i miss will. i also think it was an extremely weak season opener and i blame it for getting the show canceled sjshshsgsg the resentment...

favorite side character: chiyoh or jimmy or actually wait— RANDALL TIER 🖤

if you could bring back one character who died, who would it be?: RANDALL FUCKING TIER. i want there to be a weird thing with him and hannibal and will going on. but also i love what his death did for will so idfk, other than him it’s gotta be beverly

dish prepared in the show that you would like to try eating/making: i was supposed to make hannibal’s osso bucco recipe like 3 weeks ago but it completely slipped my mind so i guess i’ll get on that my next grocery trip  

which side character would you kill off?: chilton just because for god’s sake just let the man DIE ALREADY poor guy <- i’m taking ava’s answer because YEAH

was there any scene that you didn’t like to look at?: nah. the skin ripping scenes at the beginning of either kaiseki or sakizuki (idk i don’t remember, i hardly watch s2a) are particularly brutal but i tough it out

biggest ship: i mean do i even have to say

why did you start watching hannibal?: my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, and her dad were watching it as it was airing and i was like “oh cool hannibal lecter origin story” but due to inconsistent access to the episodes i would just watch it randomly and that is... not the way to watch hannibal. i gave up around the end of s2 but knew hannigram was It regardless. i decided to watch s3 for the first time earlier this year just to have finished it and was like HOLD UP and did an immediate rewatch that left me... well, how i am now

favorite hannibal fic if you’ve read any?:

oh boy. yall ready for this? all of these can be found on ao3 obviously (i’m so sorry this is so long but i guess i’ve been asked to put together a fic rec anyway)

as soft, as wide as air by blackknightsatellite, the ladders series by emungere, blackbird by emungere, consenting to dream series by emungere, taken for rubies by emungere, at first meeting by emungere, protect me from what i want by @alienfuckeronmain, god of the cold, cold wars by highermagic, the abyss smiled back by highermagic, pomegranate seeds by highermagic, absolute zero by highermagic, in the truly gruesome do we trust by sidnihoudini, TKO by sidnihoudini, oh dear by lunarwench, each according to its kind by chapparral_crown, a flood in our hearts by nanoochka, let me sinful be by darlingred, uncomplicated by stratumgermanitivum & youaremydesign, good bones by @damnslippyplanet​, like they do in babylon by @damnslippyplanet​, your obedient servant by kareliasweet, past our satellites by shotgunsinlace, only the tender meat by isagel, the shape of me will always be you by missdisoriental, a white-walled room by rodabonor, spleen et idéal by rodabonor, the paper doll series by rodabonor, a common point of interest by rodabonor [i do NOT like a/b/o stuff but if i did... it’s this fic], just thought you should know by earthsickwithoutyou, the sacrificial lamb by princesskay, transcendent suffering by itsbeautiful, not something polite by moistdrippings, leave your message after the tone by onewhositswithturtles, holes in the floor of the mind by feverdreamblood, crossing caina by feverdreamblood, the archipelago series by melusine10, but seas between us braid hae roar’d by kareliasweet

have you watched any of the hannibal films?: yeah all of them except manhunter! i grew up watching silence of the lambs because my mom loved it and i went thru a big edward norton phase as a teen so i’ve seen red dragon like 10 times

have you read the thomas harris books?: no and i’m not going to lmao #fakefan

favorite murder tableau: if we’re talking just hannibal’s- the judge. if we’re talking Murder Bad But Kinda Pretty like in general probably the mushroom people or the totem

favorite blood spill: will imagining hannibal while he beats randall to death or The Gutting of Will Graham

what’re some of your headcanons?: - will is good at shibari (backed up in canon: his fishing knots, the firefly man’s full body hishi karada harness) - hannibal rarely listens to modern, non-classical music but he’s a björk fan and he saw one of her chapel performances during the vespertine era and was Moved - will listens to classic rock (zeppelin, the doors, pink floyd) with some classic country (patsy, merle, johnny) and blues (billie, muddy, bessie) thrown in. he’s also a sucker for early/mid-90s college rock/alternative/grunge - will plays the piano (because of the piano in his living room) and the harmonica (because he’s country white trash); he’s kind of shit tho - hannibal fell for will somewhere between “my thoughts are often not tasty” and “you won’t like me when i’m psychoanalyzed” (love at first sight! at last sight! at ever and ever sight!!!) - will’s circumcised, hannibal isn’t 🤪 - hannibal’s a gemini!!!! adaptable, creative, intelligent, outgoing, impulsive, etc - will’s an aquarius!!!!! analytical, a loner, temperamental, unique, compassionate, etc - will’s mom was jewish go read my fic about it https://archiveofourown.org/works/26774326 - hannibal is an agender man (tbh i think of this as canon, it’s just unstated/undefined) - hannibal can speak russian, spanish, and a teensy bit of portuguese in addition to the other languages we know he speaks (lithuanian, english, french, italian, japanese) - will speaks limited amounts of french; he learned it as a kid in louisiana - ED TW will sometimes has a Difficult relationship with food due to food instability by the way of poverty as a kid and goes through periods where it’s hard to keep himself fed, but hannibal is so good for him in that way because he keeps him from going hungry 😓 (yes this is me projecting but also it makes SENSE) - hannibal typically bottoms but THEY DEFINITELY ARE BOTH VERS and will never stops being surprised by how much he loves catching a dick. every time is like religious experience. okay? okay - they’re also both very kinky and switches but tbh.... will was made to Dom hannibal like that’s the reason he exists he could drag that old bitch around by a leash and hannibal would be in heaven HANNIBAL WOULD CALL HIM SIR - the first time they have sex hannibal comes like immediately but he isn’t embarrassed because he’s hannibal fucking lecter and hannibal lecter doesn’t get embarrassed - i have a hc for their favorite sex positions but i’m not gonna put that here because i don’t want yall calling me crazy any more than you probably already do but if you wanna know just DM me all i do is think about them fucking it’s a curse - okay no more dirty stuff abigail called hannibal “dad” on more than one occasion and it was half-joking but it also felt comfortable to her; she never thought to call will “dad” because he’s a weirdo and never knew her as much as he knew his idea of her - hannibal taught her to play piano at the cliff house - beverly is pansexual!!! - brian and jimmy kissed one time when they were drunk and they NEVER talk about it EVER - chiyoh is straight probably. i know, i know, everyone says she’s a lesbian and if she’s a lesbian to you that’s awesome! she’s a lesbian! but idk i just think she’s SO fucking straight and tbh i mourn bc that’s my wife. she could MAYBE be bicurious... - chiyoh is non-monogamous and doesn’t do serious relationships, she doesn’t like the idea of being tied to one person ever since she left the lecter castle - she helped hannibal and will escape after The Fall; she told hannibal she would continue to watch over him and i think she did, she got them a boat and got them the fuck out of there - MOLLY IS DOING SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT WILL. SHE’S SO GLAD SHE GOT OUT OF THAT WHEN SHE DID. she has a good, long talk with alana and finds out all the shit about him and hannibal that will never told her (and it was a lot), gets drunk and burns all his shit, and then washes her hands of the whole thing; moves to a different state, gets a girlfriend, and never thinks about will again

okay i’m capping it there or i’m never gonna stop!! i’m not tagging anyone cuz i think everyone has done this by now lmao but if you’re a mutual who hasn’t and you want to just do it and say i tagged you!! mwah!!!!

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hannibal related questions

thanks @acheforyou​ for tagging me! here is amie’s post if you would like to read, she has great answers. 

favorite episode and why:  at the risk of sounding like everyone ever, i have to go with mizumono. as much as i love so many others (twotl, controno for the jack/hannibal rematch, dolce, digestivo, suzakana, tome wan, naka choko to name a few!) the impact of mizumono stayed with me, touched me on another level, it lives in my brain rent free and i think abt it daily. for so many reasons but a few would be the almost hard to look at heartbreak on hannibal’s face before he guts will, the way will accepts this as penance, these lines of dialogue:

(the rest is under the cut for length’s sake) 

the build up from the beginning to the final moment of the episode felt like a tumble into an abyss, i regard it as one of my favorite episodes of tv ever. i’m so glad i got to binge the show in totality bc if i had to wait a year to see who survived/what happened after mizumono i would’ve gone apeshit.

least favorite episode and why: hm. i think s1 is the weakest of the three, not to say that i didn’t enjoy it but having the story as a completed whole i can see where s1 is the prototype for the complexity to come. it’s hard to choose one for this as i’ve found something to enjoy in each ep, no matter how weak!

favorite main character: definitely will graham. i’m ill for him endlessly and the fact that he probably uses stinky 3 in 1 body and hair soap makes me love him more. 

if you could bring back one character who died, who would it be? bev and abigail equally, you can’t make me choose. 

dish prepared in the show that you would like to try eating/making: sanguinaccio dolce, i’m not a huge meat eater so nothing else has rly appealed to me that much but i am very curious abt this dessert. 

which side character would you kill off: this question made me realize that every character i wanted to die in hannibal did die (and ones i didn’t want to die, horribly) so i will have to agree with amie here and say mason verger deserves another death, just as a treat.

was there any scene that you didn’t like to watch? hmm… any scene with mason and alana interacting bc he was always so disgusting to her it made my skin crawl. for a show that arguably lacks sexually-driven violence towards women, having mason say anything ever felt much more infuriating and i think that’s the point. any scene with dolarhyde and reba made me uncomfy as hell, which i also thought was the point but just seeing how sweet reba was and knowing what kind of person dolarhyde rly was! the sex scene with them? i could not. shutting my eyes. honestly francis in general was hard to watch, i was just feeling very tense whenever he was onscreen, so kudos to richard armitage for playing that role so well.

biggest ship: i’m basic, the murder husbands have my ass but i’ve been thinking a lot abt bedelia/chiyoh! and marlana ofc. 

why did you start watching hannibal? i was aware of the show when it was airing bc i was on tumblr, i think it’s hard not to be aware of hannibal on here. i knew i would become obsessed with it but i didn’t have cable tv and i didn’t want to stream it illegally, plus i was in my senior year of high school and was trying to focus on college applications at the time so i postponed the hyper-fixation i knew i was in for a while. i forgot about it, saw it on netflix, binged it immediately and now i’m here, thinking of nothing but this show all day every day. 

favorite hannibal fic if you’ve read any? i’m new to hannibal fic so i actually am in the middle of my first post-fall longfic atm, i’ll have to get back to you on this one bc i haven’t read anything else to definitively make a statement on a fave. 

have you watched any of the hannibal films? when i was younger like 6 or 7 i watched the silence of the lambs, it was part of the handful of movies that got me into horror when i definitely shouldn’t have been watching stuff like that but i was a precocious child, what can i say, and then a few years later i watched the hannibal rising film with gaspard ulliel during a brief stint as a fan of his. that’s all, but i would like to rewatch/watch all of them someday. 

have you read the thomas harris books? i recently picked them up so i could do so, but knowing they’re homophobic and transphobic has set my excitement off a bit. i would still like to get thru them if not just to know the source text, i just struggle reading things that make me angry like that, but horror is horror so i know i’ll survive. not a thomas harris book but i’m in the middle of an essay collection on nbc hannibal right now and enjoying it immensely, it’s called becoming: genre, queerness, and transformation in nbc’s hannibal. i would highly recommend! 

favorite murder tableau: i have to agree with amie again and go with the angel maker! if not that, i thought the “secondo” firefly will made was beautiful.

favorite blood spill: the absolute carnage that is the finale’s red dragon showdown. the transformation by blood ritual of it all, oof. 

what’re some of your headcanons? to refrain from writing any more of a novel than i already have, i will just say that bev is a lesbian. thank you for coming to my ted talk. 

if anyone hasn’t been tagged and wants to do this, feel free and pls tag me so i can read! @knifehorror​, @bedeliasbird​ & @nonbinarywillgraham​ perhaps? only if you want to, of course.