That wasn't date rape. They had consensual sex and then he gave her something so she'd sleep through the night.

I'm a writer who works video editors, and it's common to use the word "film" interchangeably with digital. It's easier to describe it that way than saying a gig of video data, which no one gets.

From everything I've read, I don't get the feeling AT ALL that he's sexist or puts down women.

Human prosciutto roses, bitches!

And in the famous fight scene—-when he just leaps over the counter? I was like…whoa. Who can do that, other than my cat? He was a gymnast, then a professional dancer for years who studied with Martha Graham in NY. You can see in how he moves—so elegant. Le sigh.

Awww, you're not alone. I did the same thing. And the result is now I have to get therapy for my obsessive crush on Mads M. I need to get a life, and a non-imaginary, non-people-eating boyfriend.

THIS. I haven't read the books, but I've been trying to articulate what you did so well here. I have always felt that his human "normal" face isn't an act. It coexists with this dark, monstrous side. Both sides are always present, and he can switch from one to the other, depending on the situation. The reason the…

And I loved how Jack knew the name of every single rare flower on the councilman's body!

Well, the ray of hope is that It's the one show that isn't just based on ratings. NBC doesn't produce or finance it, so it costs nothing for them to air. It's critically acclaimed and prestigious for them. It's doing really well internationally, and it has a very strong fanbase. And various cable networks are very…

I love how Hannibal seduced Alana to get an alibi, but SHE kissed him first. He made it look like she seduced him.

Hannibal probably just brought out his hypno-strobe machine and brainwashed her. What if the twist is that this wasn't Hannibal at all and another killer put her there? It seems so "banal" and sloppy—holding a girl captive in a well. That's what ordinary serial killers do—not Hannibal. I think he would consider it…

Alana is so insipid. I think they're writing her that way to make her disposable. You know what I'd really like to see? Hannibal meet his female match. I'd love to see him get involved with a woman who is as powerful and manipulative as he is, who has the ability to catch him off balance. I know it's not true to…

Re the cooking: you know the scenes where Hannibal does the Benihaha trick? Where he throws the egg up in the air and halves it with a spatula? I figured it must have taken dozens of takes to get it right. But nope, Mads did it the first take. When someone said they didn't believe it, he did it again. He says he…

So why did Hannibal leave Miriam Lass alive? And that he left her down in a well seems sloppy. It's not like him. It's kind of beneath him. It's not art. It's what an ordinary serial killer would do. I wonder if we're going to find out that she escaped from him somehow, and he's not the one who put her in the well.

I think he's the trickster more in terms of what he does with his murders, and the sleight of hand he did with framing Will. Also, I just said that because it made me laugh to think of Hannibal and Bugs Bunny in the same breath!

What Cuniraya wrote is more how Mads Mikkelsen sees the role. In his interviews, he says that Hannibal is not a textbook psychopath. That he does have human qualities, and empathy. He has his own kind of love for Will and Alana. But he has the capacity to switch it on and off for his own survival. So his "hobby" is…

"Funerals make me want to have sex," says no one ever during pillow talk. Is Alana secretly twisted? God, I hope so.

Or the Trickster, like Bugs Bunny.

I go into my Mads mind palace, and completely separate him from Hannibal so I don't feel like a total perv.

Loving Raul more and more. Chilton was hysterical tonight!