I was also very drunk at like 4 am or something, which is the problem with a Saturday night airtime.

Did a lot of people have pent up frustration that they were waiting to let out when it was over, or something? It's crazy to me that this week of all weeks the comments overall seem to be the most negative I've ever seen. I loved the episode and I consider myself still in commemoration mode for a truly incredible…

You think Gilgamesh and Enkidu is 100% platonic?

It is her house. The light thing in the ceiling is the same as the room where she does therapy.

Boy, you said it.

Ugh, I'm so sorry.

Close. I went to a preppy high school. Multiple popped collars were a daily reality. In the 2000s this was happening.

I'm not saying she hasn't changed at all. I'm just saying that I see more of a rebalancing of elements of her personality than a total transformation or "loss" of her warmth and care for others (which is what I think people mean when they refer to her "soul"). And I think that rebalancing is partly because of all the…

Pazzi! (Sounds like patsy. Very easy to remember when you think of it like that.)

That ain't how it works for me, but you do you.

>:(

I scrolled through your comment history and this thread and didn't find it :( Feel like tossing me a link?

He engaged in a practice explicitly considered unethical in his profession (psychic driving) and used it on a patient who, we can gather from some of his later statements, he knew full well was not the Ripper, solely to convince him he was the Ripper so that he could say he had the Ripper. And then, when his…

I'm struggling with the right word, because I also don't think his appeal derives from sympathy - think of how funny it was when he asked if he was Hannibal's nemesis. If you're really on his side it shouldn't be funny. I think he's something more like the show's Clown or Fool in the formal sense.

Sometimes I feel like people are overstating the degree to which Alana lost her soul. I mean, she definitely has to some extent ("You have to evolve"), but I feel like also she's just transferred so much of that warm, protective energy to her new family and away from Will that it's less evident now. She's always had a…

I think it depends probably whether her license is still valid, which I think it could be? But it also varies by state and all that, and while I could probably figure it out I don't feel like spending quite that much time googling this.

Oh, god, what I would do for a couples session.

Well, doing it this way was her suggestion. ("We should talk." "You'll have to make an appointment.")

I mean, they're conversations taking place under cover of the pretense of therapy, but I don't think either participant thinks that's what they're engaging in.

She isn't, really. She retired from practice before the first season even started. She only saw Hannibal because he insisted on it. She's seeing Will now not as a therapist, really, but so they can speak frankly with one another about the situation.