I'm pretty certain that the reason Pitt couldn't do it is because the Hannibal schedule slipped and he had conflicts when they needed him.

With Hannibal cancelled, I cannot get this scene from Amadeus out of my head:

Is one of his dogs named "Precious"?

That's funny, because I posted on another board in response to someone complaining about how shows should be "nicer" on TV without the violence, a new version of a Hannibal script, which would begin:

I was beginning to wonder if Fuller's huge twist would be that Will would become Buffalo Bill.

Everyone should!

When you're a cannibal, every fight is a food fight.

I really like Joe Anderson, but unfortunately, he's taken on a bit of a southern accent that Mason didn't have. (Pitt's from Jersey.) I'd be curious to theoretically match their performances side by side to see if Pitt could have made anything more out of this part.

Maybe the OP didn't believe their chemistry onscreen as a husband and wife? (read ironically)

Today's topic, linguistics. I find it interesting that in the English language, almost all of the words come from either German or Latin. However, the word window, German: das Fenster, Italian: la Finestra, the words are similar to each other but completely different from English. However, being thrown from a…

I don't like the word pretentious, because I see it as meaning "trying to be something you are not." I think this show is mostly succeeding.

I'm thinking that he is nobody, recalling Will and Hannibal's conversation:

Glass and shattered glass was a continual theme in this episode, along with the snails.

I would imagine you could just stick the ice in a blender and get mostly the same result.

He can taste those meaty, leading man parts in his mouth!

Yes, pheasant. Plus when she stabbed the prisoner in the neck with the bone, the blood spurted through the bone, which suggests a hollow bone like a bird bone.

Well, bacon, ham and pork chops all come from the same animal (a wonderful, magical animal), and they taste very different from each other. You can also buy turkey bacon or sausage, and beef or chicken hot dogs, so a lot of it has to do with preparation and spices.

There was a theory going around that Inspector Pazzi was all Will's imagination. After all, nobody else interacted with him the whole episode. His first meeting with Will, when the camera moved to show him sitting on the bench next to Will at the police station, not making an entrance, reminded me of Dr. Malcolm…

I thought this episode was actually a pickup in pace over the first two. It seemed to me that Will and Hannibal's stories each progressed as far together in this one episode as they did alone in the other two. Also, the two story-lines provided for an interesting contrast to each other. You had Hannibal and Bedelia…

Quite some memory you've got there. I just checked it out on Netflix. You're right. In Irresistible, Donnie Pfaster drew her bath while she was tied up in the corner, and asked "Is your hair normal or dry?" Then Scully tried to run away and the FBI caught up. In Orison, Pfaster had her tied up near the tub, still…