CHILTON, BB, NOOOO. I'm clinging to the belief that he can be brought back. The wound we see was in the cheek, I think? So there's a tiny, tiny, tiny chance that wasn't fatal?

I laughed quite a bit, but at the same time have no idea what the hell I just watched… Hopefully it will make more sense to me once next week's episode has aired?

I really wonder what the HBO CEO of Tits will do to his show.

He's got a new show coming on HBO.

As much as I love the show, I don't think it'll do any better this year than it did last year. Maybe some technical awards if we're lucky, but nothing else. But, hey, The Wire never won an Emmy, so Hannibal will be in good company.

God this fucking song and everything about it is me at age 14 and nothing Rivers or the band will ever do can ruin those first two albums for me and this song most of all.

Soooooooooooooooo happy.

This was a solid start to the season but holy shit the whole fucking Internet is going to be so so so happy next week. EDIT: I say this without specific knowledge. I'm just kind of assuming that it's so close it can't be outside the first 2-3 episodes right?

I'm going off the scene from the movie which I've seen, rather than the book which I haven't read. I can see how you might be right about the book maybe, but that's not the feeling I got from the filmed version. Of course, I have a low opinion of the movie in general so… That might not count for much.

The Krendler scene was more brutal in terms of gore but much much less emotionally affecting/horrifying to me, I think because of how weak the rest of the movie was around it (I haven't read the book). It'd already lost me by then, so that scene just caused eye rolling where in the Gideon scene, I was all OMFG the…

You're right, mirror maybe wasn't the best choice of words. When I talk about him as a cheap knock off, I'm talking more about what Fuller and crew are doing with him in the first season than anything internal to the show. The first episode he shows up in is the Miriam episode after all, and she's kind of a…

He was set up originally as kind of a … vulgar mirror of SotL Lecter, right? So in keeping with that "vulgar imprisoned Lecter" thing it makes total sense to me that he would basically be a dangerous, psychopathic troll. he doesn't have motivations exactly. He's just trying to mess things up for as many people as…

What's worst about this is "producers with the movie rights" = DeLaurentis Co. The same people who are the main reason this marvelous show is happening are why that fucking awful book and movie exist. They told Harris "a movie about young Hannibal is happening whether you're involved or not, so if you want a say, get…

There's stuff in interviews with Fuller about how they were quite ahead of filming in S1 with scripts when they started seeing what was actually being filmed and realized the scripts weren't good enough for these actors/directors/the rest. So they threw a ton out and rewrite a lot. At the time it made me surprised S1…

HOW COULD YOU NOT ASK ABOUT GIDEON EATING HIS OWN LEG (how did they get that past standards and practices) AND THE PARALLELS WITH THE PAUL KRENDLER SCENE IN HANNIBAL (the book/movie).

THIS. FUCKING. SHOW.

Hannibal and his seductive harpsichord tonight. I am not ready.

My favorite detail was that Pierce sent Jeff a "welcome to the [over 40]" club gift.

CANNIBAL PUNS OVER EVERYTHING.

Did you then proceed to practice your spinning kick move for when you have to fight off some coyotes?