*Chilton is having dinner at Hannibal's.
*Hannibal:"Deny everything". Sounds about right, LOL
*Will dreaming of a wave(which is a shout-out to the Peter Weir movie The Wave) and the wave washing over him and the totem pole,then his clock and bed start melting.
*Gideon missed his calling as a marriage counselor.
*Blood spreading across the white shirt of one of the guards.
*The scene where Will recreates what happened is mirrored when Will escapes in Ep. 13.This is brutal, but far from the *most* brutal death on the show.
*The trees decorated with organs.. *shudder*
*Chilton doesn't think he's responsible.Alana(quite justifiably) reads him the riot act.
*Will's hallucinations are getting worse-he is sweaty and hallucinates a room full of antlers. Jack is worried, but not worried enough, if you ask me.
*Will is in sessions with Hannibal but Hannibal is just making things worse.
*Gideon is going to go after anyone who he interacted, so Alana is in danger.
*Will doesn't see his fever as a big deal. Yes Will, it *is* a big deal.
*Freddie gets a call from Gideon in her car(I always half expect Gideon to pop up from the back seat).
*Freddie finds Dr. Carruthers..and Gideon.
*Freddie is going to help Gideon(and attempt to piss Hannibal off in the process which it does. Mission accomplished. ;)
*Chilton gets his insides rearranged by Gideon. Freddie is preternatually calm during all of that.
*Will really shouldn't be out and about but he is.And he just gets sicker and sicker over the course of the episode.
*Will sees the Nightmare Stag.
*Will is in Gideon's car;they go to Hannibal's.
*Will's seizure freaks me out-every. time. And Hannibal doesn't seem a bit concerned, either. "It was a mild seizure". Are you freaking kidding me?
*Hannibal sics Gideon on Alana.
*Will looks like death warmed over 2 or 3 times after his seizure.
*Hannibal leaves his keys on the table knowing full well that Will will(heh) take them, and he does.
*Alana has no idea how much danger she's in until she hears the gun go off.
* Will has just enough strength to shoot Gideon and collapse in the snow.
*Chilton is alive. Only just. Hannibal says that Will shouldn't have a gun. Jack disagrees with him. Will has a 105 degree fever.
*I love the quiet moment with Alana sitting by Will's hospital bed and holding his hand. She's there for him, even if he doesn't know it(he looks about unconscious as one person can get.)
*Session with Bedelia..they talk about Will and Hannibal says that he(Will) represents an opportunity for friendship.Boy did that ever backfire on Will. :P
Episode insight:
Wow, so much to comment on here.. First of all, let's talk about Will. I swear to god, the man just John Waynes it for most of the episode(well, until he collapses). More than one person tells Will that he looks ill.
On some level, Will must know that something is wrong...his hallucinations have been ramped up from the previous episode-the dream of the wave, and of his clock and bed melting and being engulfed in water are a good example of this. He looks sick,but apparently doesn't own a mirror or look in one enough to see what he looks like. If I looked like Will did and caught sight of myself in a mirror, I would go to the emergency room so fast it's not even funny.
Hannibal continues to be a stand-up guy[/sarcasm]. He's kinda right about Will not having a gun,though(Will's being able to take Gideon down -even with a raging fever-is amazing. Any other time someone with a gun and 105 degree fever would be a liabillity.)
Meanwhile, Hannibal is just being his usual Hannibal self.Inserting himself where he's not(necessarily) wanted.
Hannibal has all sorts of nefarious designs for Will(ha!) It's obvious from the(shady) way he's acting this episodeActually, it's been obvious for several episodes before this one.. Watching this episode the first time I could not have told you that that "friendship" was going to take the turn that it did.
Quotes:
I see his madness and I want to control it like an oil spill.-Hannibal
Friday, May 8, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
[summer(nearly) doldrums]
Probably the last Cruise Critic post for a while.. it's gone a bit quiet there to be honest..
Though on a sailaway thread a week or so ago they were complaining about another(inferior) cruise line's ship being in the way so that they couldn't see what was being loaded on the ship for dry dock. Really? *everything* related to the cruise ships is *that* interesting? Then again, these are people that hold things like hamburgers(see:The Dive In counter on HAL ships) in high esteem.
Going through the HAL boards you can find plenty of posters dissecting all manner of HAL minutiae.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
[The day got away from me]
Which is why I didn't update. I have got into the (bad)habit of updating the blog late in the day. I think I'm going to *try*(operative word being *try* , LOL) to start blogging early in the morning.
An update on a few things though:
I am going to try to do a Hannibal post every day for the week leading up to the S3 premiere. Not sure what those are going to consist of(actually, I *do* know:one of them is going to be an "alphabet of Hannibal", but the others will be meta posts, perhaps, and my thoughts about S3(predictions and the like.)
Kinda related: They are going to showing ads for Hannibal during primetime tonight so you can guess where I'm going to be. :)
*And*.. my Art and Making of Hannibal book finally came yesterday and.. it's amazing. It is worth every damn cent.Seriously.
Secondly, I had talked about doing more creative writing posts, and it looks like that is probably going to happen-It's getting dead at Cruise Critic what with the end of Caribbean cruise season(though we may see some drama with the Alaskan cruise season..we'll see.)
An update on a few things though:
I am going to try to do a Hannibal post every day for the week leading up to the S3 premiere. Not sure what those are going to consist of(actually, I *do* know:one of them is going to be an "alphabet of Hannibal", but the others will be meta posts, perhaps, and my thoughts about S3(predictions and the like.)
Kinda related: They are going to showing ads for Hannibal during primetime tonight so you can guess where I'm going to be. :)
*And*.. my Art and Making of Hannibal book finally came yesterday and.. it's amazing. It is worth every damn cent.Seriously.
Secondly, I had talked about doing more creative writing posts, and it looks like that is probably going to happen-It's getting dead at Cruise Critic what with the end of Caribbean cruise season(though we may see some drama with the Alaskan cruise season..we'll see.)
Monday, May 4, 2015
[Gonna do these every so often]
What I'm reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke. I'm not very far into it but am enjoying it very much.
What I'm listening to: I love this band called St. Motel. They've got kind of a retro, Franz Ferdinand thing going with their sound.
What I'm learning: OK, this is an interesting one. I was in a lot of pain the other day, and couldn't sleep. But I found that if I cleared/opened my mind, I relaxed, and relieved my pain(well, it was down to a manageable level anyhow.)
The other thing is: I am rethinking the Panama Canal cruise. I still think it would be a lot of fun and I *would* like to do it at some point, but there was a package deal in the most recent coupon book that my parents got from Costco. 5 days in Puerto Rico, 500-something dollars per person. And nice hotels, too. I don't think airfare is included(didn't look at the small print which you should do, BTW!) but I'm sure you can find good deals from San Diego to San Juan.
Of all the places we've visited, Puerto Rico is one of the places that made the most impression on me.
What I'm listening to: I love this band called St. Motel. They've got kind of a retro, Franz Ferdinand thing going with their sound.
What I'm learning: OK, this is an interesting one. I was in a lot of pain the other day, and couldn't sleep. But I found that if I cleared/opened my mind, I relaxed, and relieved my pain(well, it was down to a manageable level anyhow.)
The other thing is: I am rethinking the Panama Canal cruise. I still think it would be a lot of fun and I *would* like to do it at some point, but there was a package deal in the most recent coupon book that my parents got from Costco. 5 days in Puerto Rico, 500-something dollars per person. And nice hotels, too. I don't think airfare is included(didn't look at the small print which you should do, BTW!) but I'm sure you can find good deals from San Diego to San Juan.
Of all the places we've visited, Puerto Rico is one of the places that made the most impression on me.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
[So the royal baby is here..]
And what a baby she is, too! Now, I'm waiting to see what they named her-Charlotte and Alice seem to be the odds on favourites, closely followed by Victoria and Elizabeth, with Diana in there as one of her middle names.
I went to bed late Friday night thinking "oh, it'll be a while before the baby is born". Well, I have a TV in my bedroom,and I left it on(on CNN). Well, I woke up about 4:30 a.m. my time Saturday morning, and Kate Middleton had had the baby already!
Then, she leaves the hospital with Unnamed Princess(LOL)later on the same day. I'm thinking she must have had a really easy labour if it went that quickly and they're allowing her to leave the hospital so soon!
Also, can we talk about the fact that the baby is a girl? People were really rooting for her to have a girl-and I agree. Now they have one of each(Kate Middleton's uncles has claimed that they want to have lots of kids-especially if they had a boy. Is that still the case even though the baby is a girl? The current Queen had four chidren; going back a bit further Queen Victoria had 9 kids..I doubt that's going to be the case with Kate and William; Kate is such a fashion plate(it rhymes!) I can't wait to see the sort of outfits that her daughter wears.
With George being close in age to the new baby, it'll be interesting to see if they're close,or if there is a bit of sibling rivalry because of it.
I went to bed late Friday night thinking "oh, it'll be a while before the baby is born". Well, I have a TV in my bedroom,and I left it on(on CNN). Well, I woke up about 4:30 a.m. my time Saturday morning, and Kate Middleton had had the baby already!
Then, she leaves the hospital with Unnamed Princess(LOL)later on the same day. I'm thinking she must have had a really easy labour if it went that quickly and they're allowing her to leave the hospital so soon!
Also, can we talk about the fact that the baby is a girl? People were really rooting for her to have a girl-and I agree. Now they have one of each(Kate Middleton's uncles has claimed that they want to have lots of kids-especially if they had a boy. Is that still the case even though the baby is a girl? The current Queen had four chidren; going back a bit further Queen Victoria had 9 kids..I doubt that's going to be the case with Kate and William; Kate is such a fashion plate(it rhymes!) I can't wait to see the sort of outfits that her daughter wears.
With George being close in age to the new baby, it'll be interesting to see if they're close,or if there is a bit of sibling rivalry because of it.
Friday, May 1, 2015
[S1 Ep10:Buffet Froid]
*Beth Lebeau comes home to a big,empty house.There's a leak in the roof so she has to check it out(is that how Georgia got in the house?)
*Beth goes back to bed(or tries to) and gets pulled under the the bed. This scene legit scares the shit out of me.Every.Time.
*Will in a session with Hannibal who is such a gaslighter.
*Will,that's an odd clock(as an aside:I love Will's "why?" when Hannibal asks him to draw a clock.
*Will's been fishin..turns out it is a hallucination and he thinks that he contaminated the crime scene.
*Beth's house looks a little like Will's-they both live in larg(ish) homes out in the middle of nowhere.Coincidence?
*Will is pretty broken at this point and it doesn't get much better for him.
*They find tissue from the killer, but can't make sense of it(more about that in a minute!)
*Hannigram scene with Hannibal, Will, and a ladder. :)
*Finally Will is going to see a doctor- Sutcliffe, a neurologist.Problem is, he's a friend of Hannibal's.And yeah, Hannibal does ask Sutcliffe to lie to Will and say that there is nothing wrong with him.And Sutcliffe totally does.
*Hannibal lies to Jack about what's going on .That should come as no surprise, though.
*Will goes back to Beth Lebeau's and sees someone and pulls off her skin before she escapes. He loses time, and calls Bev because he's not entirely sure what happened.
*Jack *did* push Will over the edge, and Will, in the condition he was in, was ill suited to deal with it.
*Will draws another odd clock.
*Hannibal suggests that maybe the woman has Cotard's syndrome, where people think they are dead.
*They find out that the woman's name is Georgia Madchen.Her mom fills them in-she has been dealing with mental illness long-term.
*"You didn't kill Miriam Lass. The Chesapeake Ripper did", ah yes, but.. :)
*Hannibal has Sutcliffe over for dinner and serves Iberico "ham".
*Hannibal, Will is your friend, but you say only to do things when it's absolutely ncessary?You really *are* an asshole.
*Will is having another brain scan. Will goes to Sutcliffe's office but there is blood on the door handle.That's not good.
*Dr. Sutcliffe has been turned into Dr. Pez Head.
*"A habit of collecting strays". Will, did you just admit that you're a dog hoarder? LOL.
*Georgia is under Will's bed.
*Georgia is in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Hannibal is hoping that she won't remember anything.Of course.He's more "worried" about Will.
*Flashback to Georgia walking in on Hannibal cutting up Dr. Sutcliffe's face; she can't see his face but he hands the scissors he's using to her so she can finish the job.
Episode insight:
A couple episodes after this one, Hannibal tells Bedelia, I see his(Will's ) madness and I want to control it like a oil spill.
Control.And manipulation.They are a HUGE part of this episode. Then in S2 Bedelia says(about Hannibal's methods) "It's coersion". Gee, you think?
He does so to Dr. Sutcliffe, who is clearly uncomfortable lying to a patient about their illness.
His unwillingness to go along with the plan got Dr. Sutcliffe killed, of course.After the second scan he must have seen that Will was getting *worse*.
This episode is all about the things we hide and the lies we tell and how we hurt the ones we love.
Hannibal has been manipulating people his entire life(we don't know his backstory in this version so have to guess)-but he uses manipulation as a coping mechanism and a life skill.
There are a lot of paralells between Will's grasp(or lack thereof) sanity and Georgia's..except Georgia's is much more long-term. I think on some level she must have picked up on Will's ability to empathise (even with brain inflammation!) which is why she went to his house.
Speaking of Will.. things just keep going downhill from this episode on and don't get much better until the middle of S2 and then Mizumono happens.
Will tries to explain what is going on to the *one* person who totally should understand and Hannibal just makes it worse
Quotes:
I feel like I'm fading.-Will
What do you smell on me?-Dr. Sutcliffe Opportunity.-Hannibal
It's 7:16 P.M, I'm in Baltimore, Maryland.My name is Will Graham.-Will
*Beth goes back to bed(or tries to) and gets pulled under the the bed. This scene legit scares the shit out of me.Every.Time.
*Will in a session with Hannibal who is such a gaslighter.
*Will,that's an odd clock(as an aside:I love Will's "why?" when Hannibal asks him to draw a clock.
*Will's been fishin..turns out it is a hallucination and he thinks that he contaminated the crime scene.
*Beth's house looks a little like Will's-they both live in larg(ish) homes out in the middle of nowhere.Coincidence?
*Will is pretty broken at this point and it doesn't get much better for him.
*They find tissue from the killer, but can't make sense of it(more about that in a minute!)
*Hannigram scene with Hannibal, Will, and a ladder. :)
*Finally Will is going to see a doctor- Sutcliffe, a neurologist.Problem is, he's a friend of Hannibal's.And yeah, Hannibal does ask Sutcliffe to lie to Will and say that there is nothing wrong with him.And Sutcliffe totally does.
*Hannibal lies to Jack about what's going on .That should come as no surprise, though.
*Will goes back to Beth Lebeau's and sees someone and pulls off her skin before she escapes. He loses time, and calls Bev because he's not entirely sure what happened.
*Jack *did* push Will over the edge, and Will, in the condition he was in, was ill suited to deal with it.
*Will draws another odd clock.
*Hannibal suggests that maybe the woman has Cotard's syndrome, where people think they are dead.
*They find out that the woman's name is Georgia Madchen.Her mom fills them in-she has been dealing with mental illness long-term.
*"You didn't kill Miriam Lass. The Chesapeake Ripper did", ah yes, but.. :)
*Hannibal has Sutcliffe over for dinner and serves Iberico "ham".
*Hannibal, Will is your friend, but you say only to do things when it's absolutely ncessary?You really *are* an asshole.
*Will is having another brain scan. Will goes to Sutcliffe's office but there is blood on the door handle.That's not good.
*Dr. Sutcliffe has been turned into Dr. Pez Head.
*"A habit of collecting strays". Will, did you just admit that you're a dog hoarder? LOL.
*Georgia is under Will's bed.
*Georgia is in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Hannibal is hoping that she won't remember anything.Of course.He's more "worried" about Will.
*Flashback to Georgia walking in on Hannibal cutting up Dr. Sutcliffe's face; she can't see his face but he hands the scissors he's using to her so she can finish the job.
Episode insight:
A couple episodes after this one, Hannibal tells Bedelia, I see his(Will's ) madness and I want to control it like a oil spill.
Control.And manipulation.They are a HUGE part of this episode. Then in S2 Bedelia says(about Hannibal's methods) "It's coersion". Gee, you think?
He does so to Dr. Sutcliffe, who is clearly uncomfortable lying to a patient about their illness.
His unwillingness to go along with the plan got Dr. Sutcliffe killed, of course.After the second scan he must have seen that Will was getting *worse*.
This episode is all about the things we hide and the lies we tell and how we hurt the ones we love.
Hannibal has been manipulating people his entire life(we don't know his backstory in this version so have to guess)-but he uses manipulation as a coping mechanism and a life skill.
There are a lot of paralells between Will's grasp(or lack thereof) sanity and Georgia's..except Georgia's is much more long-term. I think on some level she must have picked up on Will's ability to empathise (even with brain inflammation!) which is why she went to his house.
Speaking of Will.. things just keep going downhill from this episode on and don't get much better until the middle of S2 and then Mizumono happens.
Will tries to explain what is going on to the *one* person who totally should understand and Hannibal just makes it worse
Quotes:
I feel like I'm fading.-Will
What do you smell on me?-Dr. Sutcliffe Opportunity.-Hannibal
It's 7:16 P.M, I'm in Baltimore, Maryland.My name is Will Graham.-Will
[Hanninews post..if we keep getting these spoilers the way..]
We have,then I may be doing 2 Hannibal posts(1 news/spoiler post, one S1 review post)a week until the premiere.
Here's a few things we learned:
Abigail is in ep. 2-we'll find out what happened to her and there will be a moment where you think "is that really happening?"
Alana is going to turn to a dangerous and unexpected ally and is going to have a relationship that raises eyebrows. Now I *really* can't wait for it to be June 4th!
Here's a few things we learned:
Abigail is in ep. 2-we'll find out what happened to her and there will be a moment where you think "is that really happening?"
Alana is going to turn to a dangerous and unexpected ally and is going to have a relationship that raises eyebrows. Now I *really* can't wait for it to be June 4th!
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