Absolutely bonkers shit that legitimately happens in NBC Hannibal (an incomplete list):

Some more from the replies and tags:

"Jensen, Jensen look at the camera for me" 🎥

Somebody has to remind Jensen the camera's not on his husband's face 😂

Cockles ❤

Here is a wonderful interview with Bryan Fuller discussing the fact that Will and Hannibal are in fact in love, that is not platonic, and why he decided to take their love from subtext to direct text:

He also discusses that the open ending was meant to tell everyone that Hannibal survived, and the place-mats being set for three people meant that Will did too. Which we all already know because we know the characters so well. But I know some people still waver on what they believe went down:

It also addresses the amount of bisexual representation within the show. I was literally talking the other day about how I love the portrayal of bisexuality in this show because it is true to real life. There’s no internal struggle, no conflict, no need for discussion, because in real life that’s not how bisexuality works. When two people connect, they feel it, and float together naturally without a word because it has always been in their nature. So my bisexual ass is living for this validation and accurate representation (also thank you Bryan Fuller for defending bisexuality from the biphobes of the world):

You know what I don’t get?  When fanfic authors apologize for long chapters.  It’s like?  You gave me bonus content, for free, and you’re sorry about it?  Bruh.  I have already named my firstborn after you.  Dude.

You know what else I don’t get?  When they apologize for short updates.  It’s like: look at these new words I gave you!  Sorry I didn’t give you even more free words.  Bro, that’s at least two words that I did not have yesterday.  For free.  Dude.  Thank you.

And another thing: when people drop out of nowhere with a surprise update and then apologize for it taking a while.  Like, dude, I wasn’t expecting anything, and you gave me words.  I thought this fic was abandoned, but wait: there’s more.  You just popped in and reminded me that this is a Good Fic that I should probably reread.  You made my goshdarn day.

Basically fanfic writers are under no obligation to publish anything so when they do update it’s always a net positive because the story is longer now, and I have something to read, so thank you so much to everyone who writes fic at whatever pace or quantity they want.

You wouldn’t publish anything about me, would you, Dr. Lecter?

I have just at this moment decided that post-fall (like, years post fall, when Hannibal’s gotten at least enough chill about Will that he can occasionally bear to be doing something other than staring heart-eyes at him), Hannibal does in fact write an article or twelve about Will’s gorgeous brain. He doesn’t quite know how to arrange for them to be published posthumously, but he’ll figure something out.

(Some day, decades down the road, if they do make their way to journals for publication after the Murder Husbands die peaceful old-age deaths goddamnit, some poor editor gets stuck with the job of cleaning them up for publication. She gets really tired of deleting the words “beautiful” and “remarkable” and debates with herself internally for quite a while about whether to leave in the section on empathy and sexual response as it’s rather…explicit.)

Ok but while I’m cool with y'all doing y'all Imma talk about my personal headcanons here for a lil minute. 

Personally I can’t stand Hannibal being written fic wise as hyper controlling and dominating over Will, like requiring his servitude and obedience or whatever. It just real rustles my jimmies cause the way I see Hannibal’s regard for Will, it’s his desire that they be equals. 

He doesn’t see Will as less than him, as some empty puppet that he can control, he wants Will to realise his potential within himself and act on that potential in partnership with him. 

Hannibal sees himself as the catalyst for Will’s becoming. 

Hannibal is the stray ember that sparked the wildfire in Will. 

Will is truly one of the few if only people Hannibal cannot successfully read and or manipulate which is why Will is so fascinating and beautiful to him, he’s a challenge, ever changing and fluid, elusive difficult for Hannibal to fully grasp in his resplendent entirety. 

‘Hannibal: I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches, follows its own nature and is beyond me.’

He wants Will to come to him and to love him entirely of his own volition, which is why he gave himself up to Jack, so Will would know where he was when he was ready to embrace his becoming and Hannibal fully. Their relationship is one of shared power and ultimate partnership - a Bonnie and Cylde, Thelma and Louise, Us vs Them dynamic. As the only two people who fully know and see the other, they are bound together in isolation against the world. 

‘Can’t live with him, can’t live without him’ as Bedelia so astutely put it to Will. Not in the simple definition of physical life and death but in the more abstract sense of self - if we are not known and seen do we exist ? 

Possibly getting a little too existential for what was meant to be a lil meta rant but I firmly believe that Will without Hannibal is not Will - he is only a superficially constructed person suit version of Will , the loving father and husband who plays at simple domesticity. 

He is not SEEN. 

Hannibal without Will is an empty shell of the operatic glory he is in his presence. He thrives off Will’s company and wilts to ash in his absence. No one has seen Hannibal to his core, no one has seen the real Hannibal, except Will. ( Bedelia had a glimpse but she doesn’t possess Will’s advantage of knowing so implicitly and she doesn’t truly see in the way that Will does. ) 

Wrapping this ramble fest up I just can’t buy into the cold and dominating Hannibal trope because Hannibal is never less in control than when he’s with Will. 

Will makes him irrational and jealous and heartbroken and passionate and makes him FEEL and Hannibal loves him for it, is in love with him for it because for the first time in his life he is implicitly known and seen.

Do you ache for him?

For me, these two scenes effectively sum up just how alone Hannibal and Will are without each other. We see Will desperately attempting to focus all his attention on fixing a boat motor, a problem we heard Hannibal refer to as ‘easy’ to solve in season one. The simplicity of this creates a stark contrast in relation to Will’s current state of mind regarding his feelings for Hannibal, confirmed through the series of flashbacks we see. Will is not entirely haunted by the fact that Hannibal gutted him; he is haunted by the fact that Hannibal left him. We see flashbacks of Hannibal holding Will, followed by Will falling to the ground and Hannibal bending over him. These are not the typical flashbacks generally associated with people suffering from post-traumatic stress; these flashbacks are rooted in Will’s heartbreak over the fact that Hannibal left him.

In relation to Hannibal, we see him sat in a chair, pensive as he stares ahead. This in itself is unusual as we usually see Hannibal busying himself with something or other. Again this serves to elucidate just how barren his existence is without Will. This also confirms how much Will has changed him, given that the Hannibal we met in season one was entirely self-reliant and self-serving. I believe there was a void in Hannibal’s life, an ache he couldn’t quite identify or pin point. Will filled that void. Independence and the isolation associated with it was something Hannibal was used to and previously drew comfort from. Now there is no comfort in his isolation. He and Will quickly realise and accept just how empty, how devoid of purpose their lives are without each other, testament of the vicious mutual co-dependency they each fostered.

2x07 “Yakimono” | 3x04 “Aperitivo

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