If taking Blake as background:
Jack is Urizen,
Hannibal is Hell from "Marriage of Heaven and Hell",
Will is Albion, Lamb & Tyger, and Jesus. And he is the 'Marriage'.

Because it is so much easier to throw around the "abusive" tag and feel self-content that you did your PC duties right for the day.
Also the simplified dynamics of "victim" and "abuser" are that much more comfortable for us now than thinking about personal choices and motivations, especially so in highly stylized…

No no, I despised "The Newsroom" and I still watched so I would have new and new reasons to loathe it every week.

You say that like it's a good thing ("It makes Alana into a killer"). Show had showed us over and over again that the act of killing itself is destructive for the person doing the killing - even if it was justifiable in the eyes of the law purely (Will killing GJH, Chyio killing the Prison Man, Bedelia killing her…

It is not as one-sided as that. Everyone Hannibal "manipulated", that we were shown this far, had some form of darkness in them already (Bedelia, Abigail, Randal Tier, and of course Mason). Will felt good about killing Hobbs at the time when Hannibal was nothing more than a nuisance for him.

After everything Bryan showed us about Will's decisions and actions, I am baffled when people still insist that WIll is some kind of helpless victim of Hannibal's "manipulation" or "abuse".

Hm, not really… He gave her an out (walk away, stay blind), and then told her: "… but if you stay, I will kill you".

That thing was said by a customer support guy, I wouldnt put too much faith in it.

A cello in their throat?

I can totally see this happening - especially with Bryan loving his parallels - since that would give such a horrible and tragic dimension to what Hannibal says to Will in Mizumono, which was already horrible and tragic ("I let you know me, see me"…) while the exact same thing was happening with Will betraying him,…

Him killing Mischa is the only thing that makes sense, in every way: the sublimation of love and forgiveness, the parallel to Will, Hannibal saying "I happened"; Fuller saying he was not gonna go the "Hannibal Rising" route, meaning, he will not find an extrinsic motivation for Hannibal's brand of evil; even…

Dont think it was a coincidence. It was Will's PoV after all, and that is his connection to Hannibal. He sensed something dark pulling him, so antlers come out. It was subtle and brilliant.

My take is that Hanni killed Mischa, ate her; then decided to "frame" the PrisonMan (framing others is his MO, really), achieving double-prisoners in his control, since he was counting on that Chyio will not want to kill the PrisonMan, but will feel obligated to keep watch over him because of what he had supposedly…

Seriously? The Wire gets an A at the first fucking pre-credit segment. The show that went on after that cold opening could not have been bad.

I posted the link in this thread as well, better context here i guess: https://youtu.be/OKY6BGcx37…

Didnt they have a conversation about it in that HBO documentary? Chris Rock, Seinfeld, LCK, & Gervais? here is the link:

First you binge, then you savor :) Watch at least 2+ times :)

I think it is the studio that makes the preview (NBC, I would assume); even worse, the previews are made by the marketing department… so thats why there is usually no respect for subtleties of any kind. Someone correct me if Im wrong please.

What @Itwasreallyfar:disqus is saying is that Bill Fisk is singled out as being the only male that embodies the "stereotypes of conventional masculinity". That sentence quite clearly implies that "stereotypical conventional masculinity" is equal to violence, and abuse we see Bill Fisk do.

Do you even watch SR's shows? I gave up on Grays long long time ago, but watch the two new ones. The death counts are ridiculous, as well as using torture in a more gratuitous way than 24. So, no, its not a gender issue, no matter how TryHard you want it to be.