It's still a bit hard to take in. The fact that Hannibal is in a dream at the end. Just pure speculation. Maybe he went to see Dr. Maurier and killed her, while fantasizing going away with her, fancy style.
At the end, I was right about two things.
First, Alana Bloom get more air time than a few of the previous episodes combined, and her encounter with Dr. Lecter had lured out Abigail, who I assume was living in a dungeon somewhere Hannibal had prepared for her, and that Hannibal had been readying her state of mind for psych-manipulation.
Second, Jack didn't die. He survived Hannibal alright. Though the recovery is not going to be easy.
Ever since I've finished reading Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lamb, I can't help notice how ingenious the writing staff of the show are. They had incorporated the world and characters written by Thomas Harris and presented them in a way that's most suitable for Television development. The story may vary her and there, but it's essentially the same, taken from the same root, sending the same message.
To conclude, Season 2 goes something like this:
Jack tried to prove that Will is guilty --> Jack tried to prove Hannibal is guilty --> Jack stabbed by Hannibal
Alternatively:
Hannibal framed Will --> Hannibal unframed Will --> Hannibal cut Will
I'd say the season finale is indeed the most gruesome and exciting ending for a TV show I haven't seen for quite a while. The last one begin Heroes.
The way Hannibal plays with Will and Jack, that he knows everything, that he's in control, gives him the power to frighten even the strongest heart. Hannibal is a monster. He couldn't bare to push Alana Bloom into the edge of desperation, but he could imagine her suffering just as well as being there. He toyed Alana by sending his patron, Abigail to do his bad deed, and that gives him the satisfaction, maybe even better than eating her meat. Hannibal couldn't let Jack go away unharmed without a feast. So feast he did. He made a killing to justify the dinner.
Jack had been pushed into the corner as well. He walked right into the trap for the hunters, and he knew he had been strangled by the snake up to his neck. And the only way he knows how to escape from the situation, is by brute force. He cut his tongue to save himself, not literally of course. Is just that he lies to achieve what Will meant to achieve makes him even less of a man. He's broken. Bella is going away, and things in the bureau is not what it used to be. Jack is playing his last chip. All in.
Will, playing undercover certainly gives him no such thrill. His actions and words undergoes the mighty scanner of Dr. Lecter, and he plays too safe, too calm, too cooperative. Jack pushed him too far. And Will himself didn't know the boundary. He was in Hannibal just as Hannibal was in him. He didn't dream of Hannibal, he didn't dream of Alana, he dreamed of the monster of himself. The worst person we knew is ourselves. We are capable of all the bad deeds and unconventional thoughts, that we, as human being, should cease to exist (sounds like True Detective dude).
Alana, Alana, Alana. She's so beautiful that I couldn't bare hearing her dying moan. I wonder how many takes they took to complete that shot of her drowning into the darkness. Dark liquid engulfed her naked body, that must be really unpleasant. Alana had the courage to face the monster, but she didn't have the preparation. It was blind rage that drove her to the monster. Blind. Hannibal told her to be blind. Maybe Alana will return on Season 3, BLINDE. (Please don't, I did rather see her die and come out as a spirit or some kind, than look into her soulless, or ripped out eye sockets. Because, god, Caroline Dhavernas has such attractive blue eyes.)
Abigail, the twisted girl. People had long been speculating about her chance of still being alive, and man did they placed a long bet. Though Abigail was featured in some earlier episodes this season as Will's fishing mate, her chance of coming out alive was still a X factor.
But now that all the fun had been released by the mad in-house psychiatrist, what's to expect? (X files crossover please, since David Duchovny is no longer Hank Moody in Californication anymore.)
From the book, Red Dragon. Will was contacted by Jack to solve a case, sometimes after Hannibal was locked in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. However, based on how the show is killing right now, nothing is for certain, except it will return as a killer show again, that's for sure.
I like what they did with the camera and the post production, the effect of the lights, rain, and blood. It's so dark with fluidity, so smooth with transparency. By combining music with the action, Hannibal has inherited the thrill and horror as seen from its predecessors. It's not what I would expect to see in a TV show, because it offers more than visual excitement, but provoking thoughts that hindered us until now.
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