[San Diego is the ish]

And of course the day I  sit down to write this I have something interesting to talk about-we got thunder and lightning today-some monsoonal weather which is not unusual for here, especially this time of year.So I'm adding it to my list of things that I love about San Diego(also:It's just about cured me of my fear of thunder, so there is that!)

There is so much to like about living here-one of the things that I love-and you can't really get a feeling for it unless you're flying over it in an airplane-is all of the wilderness areas.When you're flying into San Diego you go over a lot of  forest before you get to where there are houses. And you understand why forest fires are such a big deal when they happen. Brush fires, too.

[Random Hannibal thoughts]

*Am I the only one who  totally pictures the Revenge Squad picking  weapons?:P  Will has a taser,Alana has  throwing stars,Jack has brass knuckes, Chilton has a paintball gun and Mason (via Cordell) a baseball bat.

*Me, I am LOVING this season. I think I've said that more than once, and we are only 4(5 as of this week) episodes in. Don't get the hate some major TV websites have WRT the pacing and plot.It's leaving some "fans" of the show cold and it's just odd.

*Will had a nicer hospital room-like a hotel suite, really! than everyone else-maybe he has the next tier of insurance?(I heard a suggestion that  possibly everyone was at the same hospital-a private hospital-that would explain the look of it, very sparse(from what we could see.)

My theory is that Will has quite a bit of money saved up(and maybe he got some "we're sorry" money from the FBI after the Red Dinner. :P) He bought his house "as is" but was up to the challenge of fixing it up.

That also explains why he's able to buy a sailboat and fix it up.

[Blog housekeeping]

It's possible I will be posting twice a day occasionally;I am going to post a Hannibal post  later on today because I have some things I want to talk about but the review posts aren't really the place for it.

One thing I'd like to do more of are topical/in the news posts(I had every intention of posting about Charleston when it happened but never did.)

More restaraunt reviews(I have a particular restaraunt-which is within walking distance of my house!-in mind and will do that soon.)

[I am all for trying something new]

Some people are all up in arms about the Konigsdam. My feeling about this are as follows:

Nobody is forcing you to go on the Konigsdam. And inasmuch as people are entitled to their opinion, it is whinging, for lack of a better term.

Holland America is trying something new,(and it's about damn time!)... it's upsetting some cruisers. But these are the people who favour the older, more classic ships(the same ships that are being sold to other cruise lines, cruise lines who want to take on all of the issues which come with buying older ships from another cruise line.

Here are some of the complaints about Konigsdam from people on the Holland America boards on Cruise Critic(with my opinions in bold)

*Too big of a ship
It is, in fact much smaller than the Royal Caribbean ships.NEXT.

Too crowded
To see renderings of the ship, it looks like the *opposite* is true.

*Not enough bars
Some posters on the Cruise Critic HAL boards are obsessed,obsessed I tell you, with where their next drink is coming from.

*No glass elevators(a feature on all HAL ships).
Really?*that* is a deal breaker for you?

But for all of that, there are plenty of people that want to be one of the first to cruise on her. There was negativity before the Niew Amsterdam and Eurodam, and they are some of the most beloved ships in the Holland America fleet(and I've been on Eurodam so can speak from personal experience!)

Holland America is going for a newer, cleaner look(and more choice of restaraunts, including a Dutch-themed ship and a seafood restaraunt(which I SO would try if I was cruising on Konigsdam!)

Already, there is word of mouth about Konigsdam;I doubt that Holland America is worried about it not selling out.With everything it has going for it, it is going to be very popular.

[So excited! everyone should be able to get married!]

I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the Supreme Court ruling that  same sex marriage is now a right in all 50 states. Yes, it is. And I am so excited. This is a right that people have been fighting for  for a long time now, and now it is The.Law.Of.The.Land. Hells yeah!

People who know me are well aware that I am a supporter of gay rights. I don't like that my gay friends are being discriminated against, but there are still so many places where you have to keep it a secret.  San Diego isn't really like that(though San Diego's politics run towards the more conservative, we have a really great Pride weekend which gets a HUGE turnout every year.I've never gone, but I hear it's fun. I would love to go but I'm not a big fan of crowds(the reason(apart from tickets being so expensive and selling out fast)I don't go to San Diego ComiCon.)

So today, Oceanside(the city I live in) had their Fourth Of July parade(yeah, a week early, I'm sure there's a reason behind it.) and they had someone there with a rainbow flag.She was from the North County LGTBTQ resource center. I started talking to her.. anyhow, I wound up walking with the people from the LGBTQ center-I was honoured to be able to walk with them and show my support(and we had a lot of support from people watching the parade-it was more muted in some places but very much present in others.

Of course, the ruling was a topic of conversation..people could not believe the timing of it.And it really is amazing.

And you know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if  that is the theme of San Diego's Pride parade this  year :)

[S3 Ep. 4:Apertivo]

I loveloveloved this episode, for a very many reasons which will be obvious  as you read through the review.

But one thing I have to mention:
I love that they showed characters  taking some time to recover from their injuries(granted, this episode *did* jump around in time,like in one scene Will is in a hospital bed and the next he's in his garage fixing a boat motor. For people who don't understand that, it's called a plot device. I saw criticism of that from a website that is normally very supportive of Hannibal.They're entitled to their opinion but IMO it seemed like they weren't understanding what was going on.

Not sure if it was the structure of this episode, but I was amazed at how fast it went by-I mean, I'm sitting there watching and half an hour has gone by already!

And how about that promo for next week! Shit is going to get real,that is all I have to say about that(I wish it was Thursday already!)

OK, that said, on to the review. If I miss anything out, I'm sorry, but I've been tweeting whilst I watch the show instead of taking notes.

[TV things]

Seriously.. Aquarius got renewed for a second season?Really?As if I needed any more reasons to avoid watching their shows in the fall. As soon as Hannibal is finished on NBC, I won't watch NBC.Ever. I am going to block it on my TV(I've done that before, when the coverage of ebola started to get to much.But I didn't stick with it for very long :P

Bones is going to time jump when it comes back this fall.6 months..and apparently Bones and Booth are going to be living in another town with their kids when a HUGE case at the Jeffersonian  has them going back to DC. Yawn. I haven't been interested in Bones for quite a while.

I dunno, I could do with being addicted to a few less TV shows, and I have dropped some shows because I didn't like where they were going with plots(NCIS is a good example of this.. I had a friend who I would run into at Barnes &Noble sometimes who also was a NCIS fan, and we would talk NCIS. But then I couldn't get to Barnes &Noble so easily and I quit watching the show, so I didn't feel so bad about it.)

[Mentioning a few things that couldn't go elsewhere]

*I will occasionally miss days-that's what happened yesterday..the day just got away from me :)

*Have I talked about the finale of Orphan Black yet?well,I thought it was awesome(I'll be amazed to see if they really did kill off a certain character)

*Summer is here.It's been feeling like it here for the past couple of days.

*No Hannibal news(if there is,I'll blog about it.)

*I have so much stuff for my Cruise Critic post that I have 2 weeks(and possibly 3 if there is an outbreak of drama) worth of posts.

*TV Line had a Blind Item: "I just got 2015-16 season intel that is going to leave a certain fandom shaken, stirred and pissed off".

I don't know why, but the first show that came to mind was Bones. If it's not Bones,I'm wrong, but I feel like we're going to get some sort of news about Bones when they start production again..I'm betting that they are going to announce a final season,possibly at the start of the season or in the middle of the season.

Problem being that they had a season finale which had to serve as a(possible) series finale because they didn't know if they had been picked up or not, and  everything was left very open-ended.So now they're going to have to write around that and explain what happened(but not have it be handwaving which would be lame.)

[What the fuck,NBC?Not like you have much else!]

And I am not going to apologise for the swearing because honestly?it's how I feel right how.
I was all ready to blog about something else, but then *that* news dropped. Yeah, Hannibal got cancelled. I was upset. I called my mom and she was genuinely upset for me, and she doesn't even like the show! Same with my dad-my Fannibal dad -who will be 75 years young next month!

I was actually on Twitter when the news dropped. I didn't believe it until several people associated with the show confirmed it.

On the plus side though, there is a very strong possibility Hannibal will be picked up by someone-whether it be Netflix or Hulu or whoever(Netflix or one of the pay cable channels like HBO seem to be the favourites right now.) Fannibals will do everything they can-tweet and email people who like the show especially-to try and get them to support Hannibal-it's surprising how many celebrity Fannibals there are-Jordan Gavrais from Orphan Black tweeted that he's a fan recently, and then just today tweeted about the cancellation too.

Can I just say: I have made So.Many.  friends because of this show, and I would hate it if that went away.This fandom feels more like a family than any fandom I have been in. The cast also feels like a family-mind you this is a cast and crew who are on social media interacting with fans. Sure, other show's casts and crews are on social media, but it just doesn't..searches for a word and settles on "ring as true" as  it does with the Hannibal cast and crew.

NBC are really fucking themselves over  by cancelling Hannibal-they really do not realise what they are losing by cancelling Hannibal-Hannibal is a show that is not afraid to take risks, and NBC really were taking a risk in the first place by airing it. NBC could use a lot more risky shows..they play things way too safe.

Now,NBC're  going to coast along on the few "successful" shows they have, and hope that some of their new shows are going to be successful in the fall(not fucking likely.. most of those shows will get one or two episodes before they're cancelled.)

I seriously doubt that NBC are paying attention to what's being posted/tweeted about them,but I hope if they are, they feel really fucking stupid about canceling Hannibal.That won't uncancel Hannibal but it's something.

The ultimate irony would be Hannibal being a HUGE hit with whoever picks it up and NBC  face-fuckingpalming that they cancelled it.

[Cruise Critic is flatlining r/n *clear*!]

*Carnival Corp. is  building several new mega-ships for their Aida line(part of the Carnival umbrella along with several others)

Cue the usual comments about floating condos. *eyeroll*

Holland America is probably going to wind up having to have at least one other ship bigger than the Konigsdam, to keep up with the Joneses(read:inferior cruise lines) since they are selling several of their smaller, older ships(sloppy seconds) to lines like P&O.

*Ship's officers are no longer allowed to go to meet and greets because of people hassling them with petty issues.

Which  ties into something else that was mentioned:

There are some people that expect certain things and to be acknowledged by crew members every time they are onboard a HAL ship.There are certainly people who flaunt their relationships with the crew and have to mention it every chance that they get.

[Mish and indeed mosh]

*I had the best-if not potent-drink-vodka and Cointreau and not much else. I didn't finish it.

*We went to Anthony's for lunch(which I blogged about a while back-the port authority wants to get rid of it and put something more chi chi in there..however I haven't really heard anything else about it so there  must have been a lot of push-back about that..it's s a San Diego institution and it would be sorely missed if were closed and replaced with something else.

*Gonna have a chilled out Father's Day-go to Denny's for breakfast and dad wants coffee when we get home so I will do that.Apart from that,listening to The Dinner Party Show which Bryan Fuller is going to be on(again!)

[S3 Ep 3:Secondo]

The ratings were not great(initially) but went up a little(some websites and a few..fans is the wrong word for them since they only seem to shit-talk the show,want to believe that that is not the case.) Things moved along much more this episode but I loved it,I just loved it anyways(Yes, I know,I have kind of  hard time being objective about the show. I know this! ;) )

Now that I'm rambled a bit,I'll talk about the show(and about the previews for next week a bit at the end.)

[It's been busy!]

Sorry for the lack of blog yesterday but it got late..but it wasn't that I didn't have anything to say-I sure did! time just got away from me, you know?

I am going to make this a blog housekeeping post:I decided that I am going to start going to some of the new restaraunts in town-really wanted to try a place that is within walking distance of my house.I might do a "state of the restaraunts" post about what's new and good(or not) in my neighbourhood. A favourite restaraunt has changed hands(again) and it'll be interesting to see if that affects anything.

Another thing that I am going to do is a sort of meta post about Hannibal.Not sure if I will do it on the same day as one of  my reviews or not..and I might wait until I've seen a few more episodes to do so.

[Creative writing..with a bit of a twist!]

I am going to talk about fanfic. Have I written fanfic?oh yeah,I have.I have written fanfic for shows that nobody else remembers, sprawling things which filled up several notebooks. I also really like to write new characters and incorporate them into the story.

Have I written less than perfect fanfiction?Sure!I've had my fanfic called "shitty" and you know what?It really doesn't bother me at all.

I'm kinda private about my fanfic..I think I would have to do a lot of editing before I would think about putting it on someplace like Archive Of Our Own(I'm kind of a perfectionist that way, I guess..).I really like Archive, and Fanfiction.net less so(there are fics for shows that haven't been on the air  for years...some of them better than others.

Would I write Hannibal fanfiction?I  have..I've got a ton of ideas up here *taps head* for plot ideas..I kinda want to write a kid!Will fic, I have a great idea for a back story fic with Will and his dad..or a post-S3 fic,possibly.We'll have to see how the S3 finale plays out.

 I also like hospital fics, so I think it would be cool to write a fic with what happened with Will when he was in the hospital after he was stabbed..I kinda think it wasn't as easy as the doctors patching him up..there was a reason that it took him 8 months to recover.

[Kinda boring..same old same old TBH]

*Quibbling about dress codes.

*Carnival(which owns HAL) is limiting the amount of soda people can bring on board and the people on the Cruise Critic HAL(Holland America) boards are worried it's coming to HAL.OTOH it's not the problem on HAL that it is on Carnival, so..

*No more 1-day cruises(so no one-day cruises  for the Konigsdam so people can check her out..it's likely they'll have her docked someplace and people in the travel/cruise buisness can do tours of her.

*Several posters were talking about  crew members that they didn't like in code.Fortunately it got shut down pretty quickly.

[Restaraunt review..haven't done one for a while!]

We went to a place called Urban Pi the other day. It's design-your-own pizza(this is your design..could not resist making a Hannibal joke.Not even sorry. ;) ) They have the pizza dough on wooden boards and you just order a pizza and add whatever you want on it.

I had a margherita pizza(red sauce,mozzarella and basil and roma tomatoes.) I could have gotten anything else I wanted on there-I think the next time I go,I'll load it up a lot more. They also have salads, and mac and cheese(which was REALLY good, I tried it!) and dessert.

One of the interesting things is that they have fountain drinks made with cane sugar-the cola is good, albeit not particularly sweet. they also had a ginger soda(which was good but burned my throat) ,root beer, and a blueberry soda(which I tried-I liked it but I suspect it's the sort of thing you'll only like if you like blueberries which I definitely do!)

[S3, Ep 2:Primavera]

This is going to go under a cut because it's a little long and also because there may be some people who haven't seen it(in Europe, mostly.)

The ratings:again, not great.Abysmal, actually. Not going to play fan excuse bingo here.Not at all.

A great subtitle for this episode would be "What we talk about when we talk about God", because there is a lot of talk about God, and believing in God.We've seen that before, in Season One. "Killing must feel good to God too.He does it all the time."

Bryan Fuller's Catholic upbringing shows in this episode..I was raised Catholic myself and certainly  got enough of that dogma myself.

The imagery with the saints, and with the churches is very evocative(the early promos had a very cinematic feel, and it has been the case for the first few episodes of S3.Very much so.Especially WRT to severa; scenes in this episode(more about that in a minute, though!)

Some people have been a bit impatient with wanting to find our what happened to the people who were at the Red Dinner. It's been too slow of a roll-out. But I have to say: I really do get  why they're doing it this way.

Alright, now that I've rambled a bit, my actual thoughts on the episode:

[Some shows(not talking about Hannibal here obviously)do not know/realise..]

When they have jumped the shark. The two recent examples are The Simpsons and Bones.

Supposedly on the upcoming season of The Simpsons Marge and Homer are going to separate.Wait, what?Where the hell did this come from?I mean, they have had plenty of marital issues in the past and something is SO major that it causes them to separate?It just doesn't make any sort of sense.

I've watched The Simpsons for years and years(going back to when they were on the Tracey Ullman Show).I am going to confess something. There were quite a few episodes last season that I didn't watch, or I half-watched them because they just weren't interesting to me.

There are a lot of Simpsons fans who have felt that way for a while-and maybe I  just didn't want to admit that it'd jumped the shark. But now, with  this news, I feel like I don't need to feel bad about it anymore.

The other show that is like that is Bones. It used to be such a good show, but it's descended into melodrama and confusing plots(last year's season finale was a low-Hannibal's aired the same week-and was much more coherent(and watchable-albeit tragic.)

Judging by what I've read, Bones' finale leaves everything up in the air-two characters are(possibly) leaving the country, and another is separated.They filmed it before they knew if they were renewed for another season thus the..final feeling of the episode. It's just not what I want to watch.

Frankly, I am really amazed that Bones got renewed for another year..they have been scraping the bottom of the barrel for a couple of years, and the conspiracy  storyline, and gambling storyline are just more proof of it. Plus,they killed off a very popular character, which did not go over well with fans of the show.

I'll always be a little pressed that Bones got an additional 3 years while House got cancelled/decided to end. I don't know how good a 9th season of House would have been-I have seen a speculative review of a 9th season premiere that read like bad fanfic so maybe it's not such a bad thing?

[Well we're certainly not starving!]

My brother and his wife and my nephew are in town so that means a lot of good meals.Tonight, for instance we had a chicken tortilla casserole(a longtime favourite of the family) and not one but two desserts(a cake and  caramel pecan bars which were SO sweet but so delicious!)

Then tomorrow, my mom, sister-in-law and I are going to go out for breakfast at a new coffee place around the corner. Then in the evening we're going out for Mexican food(at one of my favourite restaraunts, TBH)

Yesterday my dad and I went to Costco and bought a heat and eat pizza and it was good, albeit rich(it was a meat  lovers-with pepperoni, sausage and salami. I should have just had one slice.As plain as it is, if I had to do it over, I would get a cheese pizza(my 14-year old nephew's preferred pizza)

(When I make pizza at home I usually make either cheese pizza or margherita(cheese, red sauce-I use marinara instead of crappy pizza sauce) and basil.)

[6 months with an iphone]

And I am doing pretty well with it.I kinda wonder why I didn't give in to the smart phone thing a lot sooner, to be honest!

My mom and I do Meals On Wheels, and I can't even tell you how many times I have used the GPS and it has saved my life.

I liked the phone I had before, but it was a budget one, and it was fine, but dealing with tech support was a pain in the ass.I am now with  T Mobile and honestly I can't find any fault with their service-though when I'm on the bus and am looking at the reception on my phone I can certainly tell where T Mobile's cell phone towers are!

[creative writing prompt]

Today's prompt is:Write about someone  who does everything by the book

I'm going to draw on personal experience for this one!I worked in the kitchen of a military school.Twice. And you want to talk about "it has to be perfect OR ELSE". Oh man..I mean,I  don't mind cutting vegetables, but when you've got someone watching what you're doing over your shoulder..I can't cut vegetables uniformly.Never have been able to. That was the wrong job to give me!

If you're thinking about opening a restaraunt/working at a restaraunt I'd suggest working in the kitchen of a military school for a while.It's quite the dose of reality.It's hard work-the kitchen I worked in, we were required to wear long pants, and there was not even enough air conditioning.Add into that all of the cooking that was going on..it was HOT.

We did get lunch for free though-and it was really good.

[Not even sure where to start]

Because there is a shit-ton this week-and there probably won't be another one for a bit the ways things are going.So let's get started, shall we?

*Cheerleaders do not try to spin positive posts but will seldom accept anything negative about their beloved cruise line.This is an issue on each cruise line's board.
(Yeah, but it's a lightning rod on the HAL boards)

They'll say "our cabins have always been fine"
(which discounts the experiences of, and is a slap in the face of anyone who has had issues)

There are a couple of posters that will beat you into a pulp and harass you 'till you give up.I thought that type of behavior was not allowed but some posters are golden.
(Yes, yes they are.)

The cheerleaders have gotten threads that disagree with them closed, which just goes to show how much sway certain posters really *do* have.

*Hal "experts" get on my last nerve. Yes, we know, talking about outside websites and the like is a huge no-no but you don't have to mention it multiple times in the same thread.They jump all over new posters especially-and then snipe at the people who say that that is the sort of thing that scares off new posters(well, it's true!)

WRT the outside website thing too: could they have explained why they did what they did better?Yes.Same with the wine policy.But there was plenty of warning, but not enough for some people, and then there were miscommunications about when it was going to start.Thing is,people knew about that and were kinda in denial about it.They feel like they should be able to bring as much booze as they want on a cruise-but the whole reason that that policy was implemented was because people were bringing cases and cases of wine.Whut?I mean, you're only going on a week long cruise and you need  *that* much wine? I think that's called alcoholism, actually. I don't even care if that comes off as shaming, either.

Yes, HAL's wine selection isn't great, but you have to bring like 2 or 3 cases of wine? SMH.Add to that the way that some cruisers brag about how many drinks they order a day.

*HAL is getting more relaxed about formal nights, according to some comments on the HAL boards...the crew wants guests to enjoy themselves..the cheerleaders are more concerned about this than HAL is(of course..)Someone made the comment about how a lot of the people on the HAL boards are old times who cling to old traditions.
(Ain't that the truth..they want to recreate Titanic on every cruise.That and the "tux and gowns only" mentality. How soon before steamer trunks make a comeback with some HAL cruisers?)

*The lady whose kids got hassled on the Panama cruise posted a picture of the people around the pool-one of the people was the one who hassled her kids so she blurred out the faces of everyone in the picture..except she did a shitty job.

Well, at least she did..unlike the person who posted  pictures of people that they thought were not dressed appropriately on formal night without the faces blurred out(and got ripped a new asshole for it.)

Plus, she mentioned the fact her kids got hassled by other posters..constantly.Like I said when that post was live..it's a cry for attention.

*The  latest thing is "would you cancel a cruise if  you didn't like the captain/cruise director?" Really?Seriously, is this freaking high school? I am dealing with that right now so it hits home..but y'all are grown-ass men and women.I don't get it.

[Both a housekeeping and odds and ends post]

First of all some blog housekeeping:

Hannibal posts will be Friday, after the ratings are posted.

Cruise Critic posts may be on a break for a while as things have really calmed down(apart from some minor dress code threads..This week's Cruise Critic post is an omnibus and is more than a little all over the place.
**********************
Now, to the odds and ends:

*Remember how I said that the pet store at the mall closed?well, it didn't. It just reopened with another name.SMH here.Well, it doesn't smell that bad anymore..maybe one of the conditions of their reopening is that they cleaned the place up,IDK.

*Only two more episodes of Orphan Black left. It's one of the things that has been keeping me sane whilst I was waiting for S3 of Hannibal.

*Finally finished Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell(side note:there is going to be a mini series of Jonathan Strange starting next Saturday on BBCAmerica. I finished the book just in time then!).It was the kind of book I really didn't want to finish(and unusually for me it took a month-and that's with me taking it everywhere I go,too!

[S3 Ep 1:Antipasto]

It feels strange-but right-to type that!

So this review is going to be a bit free-form, less structured than the ones I was doing before.

Before I start:The ratings were not very good. Hoping that changes.
****

So..Oh my goodness. So much to love about this episode-I was actually OK with the time jumps(though I think I have permanently gone off of snails..) to explain what was going on-though I can't wait for the later episode where we see Bedelia's patient(played by Zachary Quinto) alive.

Will Graham's name was mentioned, more than once. I'm also very curious to get the flashbacks with what happened to the people at the Red Dinner right after Hannibal left(we sort of got that with a scene where Hannibal is at Bedelia's house washing the blood off of him from the Red Dinner, and it seemed like a lot more than it was(though some of the blood was probably Hannibal's own blood.) Obviously Bedelia knows that something happened, and she asks Hannibal about it.

In this episode, it's clear that Bedelia is scared-and wants to leave. I increasingly-watching the episode-thought that she had been subjected to some sort of hypnosis in order for Hannibal to be able to get her to go with him. But she has moments of..searches for a word and settles on "lucidity" where she realises "Oh shit,I gotta get out of here".But Hannibal's not going to let that happen.

We get a Will doppleganger, Anthony Dimmond. From the start, it's obvious that he is doomed(and yes, by the end of the episode, he is dead.. and put on display.)

The first bit of the episode takes place in Paris, and then moves to Florence. This is TV show as travelogue(it  *definitely* made me want to go to Florence!)We get food/cooking porn almost right out of the gate(one of the big reasons that I watch this show,TBH) but several of them were equal parts "that looks so good!" and nausea inducing(see my earlier comment about the snails.)

 Bedelia goes to a store a couple of times in this episode and buys a VERY expensive bottle of wine and truffles(?). Being on the run hasn't changed Hannibal's tastes-and in fact I'd guess that one of the reasons that he picked Florence(apart from that he had probably,at a guess, been there before, and the other being that it being Florence there are so many good ingredients are readily available at hand for him to cook with.

One of the most striking scenes(and there were a few in this episode) was the scene  with Hannibal lecturing on Dante, and a picture of the devil is superimposed over his face. Seriously... It is one of the most nightmare-fuel inducing things I have ever seen on this show and this is Hannibal we're talking about!

 It's eerily similar to a similar scene in  Ridley Scott's Hannibal(I think they may have even used some of the same pictures,too)

Hannibal has always been very cinematic, but that has been taken to a whole new level in S3....especially a scene with Bedelia  in the bath(and I want that bath so bad!I can't even imagine how expensive it might be!)

I couldn't believe how fast it went-I blinked and we were already halfway through it! There was so much going on I'm pretty sure I missed some stuff but yeah.. 10 plus out of 10.(Am I biased?probably.LOL).Can't wait for next week, which is very Will-centric(yay!)

[Premiere Day! at long freaking last!]

Season 3 predictions:

OK, well, I am going to put  most of this under a cut as it's speculation and a zillion other things;I may   do another post on this after I've gotten to watch a couple of episodes;however this is a show that can be hella twisty and hella dark( Mizumono,much?!) so I could be completely wrong about anything that is past the cut.

But I  have to say:This is  a day that I've been looking forwards to for a very long time(a year plus!) and us Fannibals are going to enjoy it together-we've been blowing  up Twitter for the past few days-it's crazy today(and with good reason, of course!)

So now to the rest of the post:

[Countdown to Hannibal, Day 7]

A assortment of random questions :)

1)Most "did they really just do that?" moment?
Jack:What am I about to put in my mouth? Hannibal: Rabbit. Jack: He should have hopped faster. *cut to a terrified man running through the woods* ROFL.


2)How has Hannibal changed your life?
I have met so many great people because of this show,especially on Twitter. Fannibals are amazing people. I love that the Hannibal fandom is so chill.We've been brought together by this amazing TV show.


3)Your dream Hannibal merch?
I think the shirts are good enough but..plates with a Hannibal theme(deer  as an example)maybe?


4)What Hannibal quote(s) do you use in real life?
"Yes,I think is the answer to that" and "You heard me..USED to" get adapted for everyday use.

[Countdown to Hannibal,Day 6]

Something you never noticed 'till recently:

How *angry* the lyrics of Piangero(the song in the opera scene in Sorbet) are:I was curious, so I looked them up: Cleopatra is talking about haunting everyone who has wronged her..from the afterlife. Yikes.

As one comment I read said.... If you didn't know any better you would think this is a love song!

[Countdown to Hannibal, Day 5]

Which ship do you ship the most?

Hannigram.I'm chill about it, though. I've been in other fandoms where shipping ruined  it for me..but I get that not everyone ships Hannigram.

This fandom does have the best shipping names though: Katz and Dogs(Beverly and Will) Hannidelia(Hannibal and Bedelia) Preller(Price and Zeller) and Willana(Will and Alana) among others.