I think you're assigning genuine emotion Hannibal doesn't actually have. When he says he would've liked to "guide, support, and direct a life" he's not talking about raising children; he's literally talking about manipulating an entire life to his own pleasing, to see what happens.

No, Will is not arrested in the books or movies. Red Dragon starts after he puts Hannibal in jail, and requires him to meet with Hannibal for the first time since he figured out he's the Chesapeake Ripper (with the Wound Man moment given to Miriam Lass earlier this season, actually), at which point Hannibal does his…

No, you are dead right.

@avclub-0996138d24bcb03046522564a36fee2b:disqus In the books, Will see the Wound Man, so in the most literal way they already gave Hannibal's discovery to Miriam Lass. But Fuller's been clear enough in his statements to more than infer that Hannibal will end up in jail and Will will still be alive for it. How we get…

Oh, no. She dead. He might have liked or even loved her in his own way, but she knows he's a serial killer now and self preservation above all else.

The first Rolodex of Offense victim was the insurance agent who was "rude" to him in the flashback. They showed that and then assumed we'd assume like incidents with the rest.

I think it's clear they're playing with the empty spaces in Hannibal's backstory, but Fuller has definitely talked about hitting hallmarks of established Lecter canon in later seasons (like going through Red Dragon and a plan to have a not!Clarice Clarice in Season 7 or whatever) so I think we do know, for sure, that…

That last scene was masterful. Truly.

River died at the end of Forest of the Dead in season 4. She tells the Doctor then that they went to the Singing Pillars of Somethingorother (I can't remember) and that he cried and said goodbye. So because he's already witnessed her death at the Library, he knew she was going to die after that night, because at the…

Completely disagree. I like RTD's era much better, even though it has great and obvious weak points. Overall, it is so very much more satisfying.

Totally disagree. The entire mythos of the Doctor as a character is built on every regeneration before him, and in New Who in particular the transition and changes from Ninth to Tenth to Eleventh have left indelible marks. Nine regenerates in a more animated, compassionate, humorous, and emotionally open Ten because…

Go back to that whole little me-me-me monologue. "He left me like a book on a shelf. He doesn't like endings." He left you like a book on a shelf because he had to get out of the library because of the Vashta Nerada and how they were eating everyone. River is dead at the end of the episode; offering her mind up to a…

PLEASE. Like Eleven's run isn't filled with a bunch of stinkers? What bullshit advice.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT START WITH THE 11TH DOCTOR. IT IS TERRIBLE ADVICE.

No, I mean in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, River get saved into a database by a Doctor who has LITERALLY never met her before. His first meeting, her last. So when she says "he left me like a book on a shelf," she's talking about a Doctor who has NO emotional connection to her or history with her AT ALL.…

THAT was the greatest finale of Nu Who? Have you watched Season 1? Or 2?

So basically, just skip to the Moffat era? What terrible advice. Start at season 1, watch, enjoy, deal with the fact that you don't like every episode, and realize that while some of them might be cheesy to look at they're kind of brilliant when you scratch the surface.

I don't get the love for TGITF. I thought it was awful.

What big cliff hanger from the old series got resolved?

You're aware that Moffat said he wasn't going to be looking backwards in the 50th anniversary episode because it's "not a fanfest" and that it will only set up future mysteries?