Jack turns the page on a Tom Clancy book, punches Hannibal. Reads another page, turns it, punches Hannibal.

Or he was too good, and he settled any challenges in one round.

*scrounging on ground for big enough rock*

That's the distinction. Consensual sex is okay, as long as it drives the plot forward. Sexual violence is banned.

Boo!

I think the one key difference is that Will + Hannibal could have become one person, joined in a mutual and lusting hunt. I think Bedelia + Hannibal never could have become that, despite Hannibal welcoming her participation in the events. She is too guarded, too scared of Hannibal's malice to do so. Maybe she's more…

That's a situation where a "big personality star" giving you notes would have greatly improved the movie, unlike say, Will Smith trying to change Django Unchained.

You never did eat human brains again after that fateful day.

Nope. Worked for me.

One of those things that I think could have been solved by being on Netflix, where run-times can flex to be anywhere between 50 minutes and 90.

As per representation, many lesbians might prefer that depiction in this show over the "lipstick lesbianism" of Margot & Alana. They're both so traditionally feminine I could see some lesbians giving Fuller crap for it.

Pazzi wasn't a super interesting character to me, though, and I think Fuller visually told his story well in the truncated time space.

I'm relieved I'm watching these on NBC.com (commercial free, too? Weird.) and am missing the next-week-ons.

Hannibal the movie and Hannibal the show is the best argument for artistic freedom in adaptations I could possibly come up with.

I've always kind of liked the Hannibal movie as an absurd & insane play on giallos and slasher movies (though not legitimately good) and Fuller seems to be taking everything I liked about the movie and co-opting it and making it better.

Republican Congressman indeed. The immediate follow-up after justifying why he sterilized her was his justification of trying to keep the family together.

It's a clever way to continue the franchise, I agree.

I'm a decently big defender of it, and have watched it a handful of times. It's no masterpiece but it's got some really compelling sequences, the lab one occupying top of the list.

It's the concept made whole.

To be fair, wasn't that the second half of the Grindhouse experience if you saw it in theaters?