I don't know. Like I said I only studied it briefly. That's the pinyin system I was taught. I know there have been others and that other dialects naturally do it differently but I don't know anything about the specifics.

Also, you may feel differently when you finish the season—if you're only on ep 4 there's a lot of stuff to come that will impact the way you see her and his treatment of her.

I reject that idea very strongly. I mean, of course there are women who crush on reprehensible men—imprisoned serial killers, mass murderers, etc. But I don't think the show is doing that at all. If it were, then a) the teenage character becomes vaguely blameworthy in a way that makes me really ill, b) his wife is…

I actually liked the first half in Italy better than this. (I like all of it. But I liked that more.)

The idea of love as a positive and healing experience is really quite modern. A lot of literature until the last couple centuries saw love as basically a kind of mental illness, the kind of weird compulsion that would drive someone to do socially unacceptable and ill-advised things. This show is in a lot of ways like…

Shrug. There was a whole thread in the first half of the season about going to worship at "Primavera" and the nature of inspiration. Will was well aware of all this. Hannibal was almost caught twice because he went to see the painting he loved; it doesn't seem that weird to me that Will might go look at the Blake with…

Okay, I was wondering. I didn't study Mandarin for that long but I was pretty confused when they were saying what it meant, since I definitely recognized it as zhōng.

Oh, of course she couldn't save him, but she didn't have to crush him either. She could have waited for Hannibal do it, or left the room, or a million things other than pull out the ice pick. My point is that regardless of the option to help the wounded bird, crushing it is still a choice (the other option being…

Really? I did not know.

What if…he drew a picture…using the dirt on the outside of the truffles. A masterpiece.

/swoops in from the left

Hannibal absolutely buys his own bullshit.

I disagree with pretty much everything further down in this thread so I'm just replying to you up here. People seem to be assuming that Bedelia as she is in this episode is exactly as she was all along. That the incident with the patient being given to us here is telling us that this is who she's always "really" been…

Chiyoh: Birds eat thousands of snails every day. Some of those snails survive digestion, and they emerge to find they’ve traveled the world.

Oh, at least. He might have become so overcome he'd have to whip up some hors d'oeuvres or draw some more classical fanart on the spot to express the depth of his emotion.

I just left the land of kosher foods, so I had a big honkin' bacon cheeseburger with a couple of porters.

I think Hannibal knew full well Will was going to try to kill him. Even if he didn't, though, he at that time intended to eat his brain. So I assume Hannibal at least was heading for the apartment where that went down. The part I'm not over is that Will apparently was willing to knife Hannibal right there in public.

She should just set it up so he has to go sit in front of a flashing neon sign that says "BOUNDARIES" for an hour once a week.

I mentioned to a friend a while back that Meloni in the wig somehow looks strikingly like Jon Hamm to me, which seems bizarre, but there it is. So I find your confusion somewhat understandable.

I really love her in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, tbh.