Maybe that came after I gave up and skipped to the comments, because I didn't see it. Sigh. I just feel like, especially when the show is made with such care and attention to detail, it deserves sound writing in return.

I don't know if that's the case in the source material either, but since your original comment never specified it was dealing with the source material rather than the show itself I was speaking only about the show, in which I think it's pretty clear.

I mean, writing has two main components: thoughts and craft. If the craft isn't there then it should impact your opinion of the writing. Certainly it has mine. It's even worse because I'm a former copy editor; I've never managed to un-train myself to note and be distracted by this type of error. This time around I…

This episode was full of so many small visual choices that just delighted me. The "Say Ahh!" ad. Hannibal's own knife acting like Will's pendulum. The way they never let you forget the glass of Hannibal's cell by always including (and heightening, I imagine) people's reflections.

I swear I normally try not to mention such things because who wants to be that asshole, but this is the one place where I find myself bringing it up regularly. Spelling, grammar, character names, episode titles…it's just egregious.

I don't know what you're referring to?

Since Abigail went and dug up Nick Boyle, it seems fitting that Hannibal would go dig up her dad for her.

I think they gave us a decent explanation for Reba's openness to him (the absence of pity, a kind of disabled solidarity), but it came after she did a bunch of inexplicable things like get into his car "for his pleasure."

I thought it did. Hannibal is in full-on mind palace mode; he and Will are talking about family; so we run through a quick version of the process of Hannibal "saving" Abigail for Will, to give him the unbroken teacup that would help make the three of them a family.

Not only is Will not autistic, his whole disorder is about heightened EMPATHY. He doesn't enjoy social cues, the artifice entailed, but he understands them perfectly. (As, in fact, do many autistic people. Understanding something and choosing to employ it don't always go together.)

…so does this mean you think trans people can and/or should be "cured," because if so that's real fucked up.

You've seen the "What if Hannibal told cheesy puns" gifsets, right?

That line reminds me of an account of (I think) Shackleton's Arctic expedition; at one point they were all in such a dire state that they kept, essentially, hallucinating that there was one more member of their party than was really there.

I dunno about the stance, but I definitely noticed more than once that his walk looked like Mads' Hannibal's walk always had. Slightly predatory, slightly seductive, dancerly balance. It was like you could see the tailored suit he wasn't wearing.

Price has a long-standing tendency to be more concerned for the non-human participants in a crime than his colleagues want him to be. I still remember his bee dialogue fondly.

I fucking died laughing.

Are all the gay men you know in D/s relationships or what, because it's not like all same-sex relationships have a dominant and submissive partner…

My favorite part about that line is you can interpret it to mean that he has a big dick and she's impressed, or that he doesn't and she used a bigger box than necessary, for which she expects him to be grateful.

Are you kidding? It was like Christmas come early to him.

Sort of, in that it was yet another "we're the same" thing. Hannibal says, "You just came to look at me. Get the old scent again. Why don't you just smell yourself?" I.e., you came to get yourself into the mental state that you associate with me; but I am you and you are me, we are just alike, we are closely…