@avclub-94d8526a5fae933806f65b8a0f49301a:disqus It's sort of like what people who hate the Lost ending claim the Lost ending was, except the open endedness and audience baiting was on purpose? (Well, also brought on by budget cuts.)

Great review, my one disagreement is that I think the reveal at the end is pretty fantastic. One of the things I really like about this show is that rather than trying to explain stuff it basically just throws up its hands and says, "Incredibly advanced, godlike aliens, you wouldn't be able to understand it if we told…

For whatever reason, this was the first time I've really paid attention to the love scene. In fact, on first viewing I don't think I was clear that they had slept together. Anyways, it really is fantastic and understated.

A full version of the pulled Hannibal episode (English audio, Korean subtitles) is on the internets.

I was actually Crichton/Gilina my first time through this season. But I did eventually come around on Aeryn/Crichton.

I've read that they lost the original film elements, and the Blu-rays are upscaled TV transfers.

Actually… I don't think there really are any shows like what @avclub-6ee934260c80f2e2f9098dcd3e44c032:disqus is describing. Maybe with stuff that could happen, but they're not very representative of US violent crime either. Even the CBS procedurals are very sensationalized in their own way.

Plus, the other partners seemed uninterested in Jim contributing any capital.

In this podcast Fuller says he's a big fan on Hannibal, both the novel and the film. I'm not familiar with any Lector stuff outside of the film version of The Silence of the Lambs and this series, but based on other people's feelings I'm kind of hoping either they don't get the rights or the show ends before they get…

I'm a bit torn, because on the one hand I don't think this was the right decision for the reasons you articulate, but I can also understand being in Fuller's position and feeling uncomfortable about the material. (This is assuming that the official word is correct and this was all Fuller's decision.)

Here's an interview with David Slade that gets into the show's visual style. In particular there's some interesting stuff near the end about having to shoot digitally.

So what you're asking for is something like a TV version of Memories of Murder? That could be interesting, but I think Hannibal Lector should remain in an entirely different universe than something like that.

Yeah, this is "Marionette" level shit.

So, if I'm interpreting Fuller correctly, the whole episode will be available online, presumably on Hulu and iTunes on Friday?

@avclub-de9878e9d33c60263a094abc94fab3f0:disqus I think it might have been you who brought up SyFy syndicating it, so I'll ask again, where did you read that? Because Google brings up nothing, plus that doesn't make any sense to me considering SyFy is part of NBC/Universal.

I just watched the first web series thing, and Fuller says it will be available "online and in other markets, just not in the United States on NBC." So hopefully that means Hulu and iTunes on Friday.

According to this, Canada is airing the same non-banned one we're getting tomorrow. As I put below, the banned one seems to be coming April 30 to Asia.

Wikipedia says April 30 on AXN Asia (and that appears to be an English language network.)

That link seems to be broken, fyi.

I think there might be some problems with Netflix's strategy, but yeah, I don't think airing them all at once is one of them. The audience feedback delay is so great that even something like Lost killing off Nikki and Paulo wasn't actually done until the 14th episode of the 3rd season. (This might be more of an issue…