HANNIBAL"
"APERITIVO"
06/25/2015 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Thursday) : DR. CHILTON'S RETURN GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED HANNIBAL'S BRUTAL ATTACK -- RAÚL ESPARZA, GINA TORRES, JOE ANDERSON AND KATHERINE ISABELLE GUEST STAR -- After surviving a disfiguring gunshot, Dr. Fredrick Chilton (guest star Raúl Esparza) is now focused on rallying support to capture Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen), using Will (Hugh Dancy) as bait. Jack (Laurence Fishburne) is distracted by Bella's (guest star Gina Torres) failing health, but he implores Will to abandon the risky idea of finding Hannibal. Meanwhile, Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) entertains a different approach, potentially partnering with Mason Verger (guest star Joe Anderson) to utilize his vast resources. Glenn Fleshler also guest stars.
"APERITIVO"
06/25/2015 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Thursday) : DR. CHILTON'S RETURN GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED HANNIBAL'S BRUTAL ATTACK -- RAÚL ESPARZA, GINA TORRES, JOE ANDERSON AND KATHERINE ISABELLE GUEST STAR -- After surviving a disfiguring gunshot, Dr. Fredrick Chilton (guest star Raúl Esparza) is now focused on rallying support to capture Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen), using Will (Hugh Dancy) as bait. Jack (Laurence Fishburne) is distracted by Bella's (guest star Gina Torres) failing health, but he implores Will to abandon the risky idea of finding Hannibal. Meanwhile, Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) entertains a different approach, potentially partnering with Mason Verger (guest star Joe Anderson) to utilize his vast resources. Glenn Fleshler also guest stars.
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For a show about a cannibalistic serial killer, it sure seems afraid to kill off major characters. Has there been even one character who hasn't had a fake-out death? Abigail, Chilton, Freddie, Miriam, Gideon...
ReplyDeleteFor the record; I'm happy that Chilton still lives. I'm not a fan of Alana Bloom surviving the finale, though. Episode 2x07 and the finale were among my favorites because I thought they had shocking death scenes.
Beverly :(
ReplyDeleteWell part of it has to do with the source material. Chiltin in theory should live until either the middle of or the end of season 4! By Episode 8, it should become clearer why...
ReplyDeleteI agree about pretty much nobody major ever really dying. The fakeouts just get annoying after a bit.
ReplyDeleteI really do wish they'd let Alana go quietly off into that good night. I think I wouldn't be so annoyed by her continued existence if Beverly, who was awesome, had lived. I'm interested to see if I'll like Alana any better now that she knows what Hannibal is.
Beverly IMO died because of what she represented. Without being too spoilerish, In Hannibal Rising, Hannibal and Murasaki end up separating because Murasaki feels she has lost the better part of Hannibal forever, as she was trying to help him after a tragedy in order to bring him peace...
ReplyDeleteThe connection to this is that in the second season, 'Bella' is choosing a peaceful death, the acupuncturist Honey Bee Killer (provides peaceful deaths), and the fact that the only Asian character, a medical student like Hannibal, the one who was told to stop her pursuits by a dear friend (Will), just like Murasaki asked Hannibal to stop, is no coincidence. It's why her death is also displayed so much more extreme than everybody else's. It's a reminder of his past, even though this versions will be altered, and the fact that he doesn't really believe in peace, but instead is waging war against 'God' or rather human limitations- In Episode 2.01--Hannibal even mentions some kind of loss he was sharing with Murasaki, that now he shares with Jack Crawford with a special seafood dish!
As for everyone else, if Fuller wants at all to be true to the source material, then some characters should be expected to live, because we are just getting more into the novels and films this year.
Yesssssssss, Chilton is back and using Will as bait to get Hannibal, I love it already.
ReplyDeleteWill be fun to see whom is all working with whom, because it seems like there might be 3 factions going after Hannibal, but would be fun if they are all interconnected to each other without each other knowing it, creating all kinds of shenanigans! XD
ReplyDelete"Goodie, Goodie!"
To people complaining about cheap fake-outs, it would be fake-outs only if it's unexpected that they are alive and it's cheap only if the writers actually thought that it would be unexpected but it really wasn't. It's neither in this case; all these "fake-outs" are expected and even the writers know it.
ReplyDeleteIt all revolves around the actual books where certain characters need to be alive.
ReplyDeleteI get that, and I'm glad these characters still have a role on the show. But as I said in my other post, it gets annoying that they are (in some cases) not mentioning their fates just to surprise us later. Hannibal season 2 was my favorite thing on TV last year, so I'm just hoping they won't do "cheap tricks" all too often. They really don't need to.
ReplyDeleteThey never mentioned Chilton's fate, and they did it on purpose so that we would be surprised. That's the only thing that slightly bothers me about it. It's not a surprise for the writers or even the characters, but we don't hear on the show what really happened from either of them. I mean, Chilton got shot in the face (which was awesome by the way, I mean, holy crap!), it's not like he was shot in the foot and we're left to assume he's still alive.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they will unless it impacts the story in any(good) way.
ReplyDeleteI can agree with this for people who have not seen the films/read the books, but a lot of people have read the books or seen the films, so in Chiltin's case, I think it would be more disappointing if he wasn't alive, because the expectation for those people is that he should live for a bit.
ReplyDeleteBut I was one of the only people who believed Abigail was alive post season one and everyone told me I was wrong LOL! Even though she was originally only a character mentioned in passing, I saw how Fuller used her and what she represented to other parts of the story that have yet to be told, so I couldn't buy that he would throw her away too quickly.Even now, I still wonder if he'll will mislead us about her death one more time, just for good measure of insanity?!!
However some of these synopsis/press releases are misleading, because there is at least one character that appears in tonight's episode and the character is dead! That's a bonus for a show that can use dreams and extrapolations continuously! No one necessarily disappears from these characters' memory palaces...
Everyone also has to consider Bryan Fuller's style and subject matter in general. In Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies, it was about people who die, can in some way become undead and those works being more dramadies, have something a bit gratuitous about them. I am actually VERY impressed with the way he and his fellow colleagues have honored/used the source material and that for the most part, he has stuck to the lower darker keys on this and has created a world with Hannibal's personal aesthetic the way the films (say for Man Hunter) never really bothered to do!
there is a mistake in the title: in italian is Aperitivo, not Apertivo
ReplyDeleteWell now it's Alana's turn to make a deal with the Devil. Which is weird considering Hannibal fits the Devil more, but oh well expressions.
ReplyDeleteI disagree that it's afraid. (They did kill Beverley off) It just knows not too. Killing off a character is risky and often unnecessary. Should be done with caution, and Hannibal clearly has bigger plans. And the finale and this she has managed to showcase Hannibal sheer power and danger through psychological manipulation and well done moments of near-death. Plus there was no evidence even in that scene that he was dead, same with Alana in 2x13. So it's not like it's a fake out.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE PRESS RELEASE: Yes! definitely have a lot of people telling a lot of people what to do and what not do! LOL! These scenarios should be priceless...
ReplyDeleteAnd they aren't even fake-outs none of the characters ever appear dead just dying and then fates are dangled with ambiguity.
ReplyDeleteTwo seasons from now - Silence of the Lambs is apparently NOT next season.
ReplyDeleteYes. Thank you! I just came across the interview from EW from a a couple of days ago...Originally he was planning SOTL for the beginning of season 4, but apparently he said he's found something else in novels to use as kind of prequel to that.
ReplyDelete"You’ve been trying to obtain the rights to The Silence of the Lambsfor years. Any headway?
Not as of yet. I’ve been out of the country for the better part of the year, so I’m hoping we can sit down and offer up some genuine merit for why the partnership could be mutually beneficial to the respective studios. The way we end season 3, it wouldn’t shift smoothly into theThe Silence of the Lambs story for the beginning of season 4. The plan for season 4 is actually much much more radical. There is a pocket in one of the novels of some really rich interesting character material that I’m inverting and twisting around."
My theory thus far is that he going to use Robert Lecter as an HUGE antagonist. So perhaps he's going to mesh that character into everything, but seemingly SOTL could still be apart of season 4, just not the beginning of.
Interesting - Fuller always calls him Uncle Robertus: but I thought that he is dead in world? Hannibal mentions sitting down for dinner with Lady Murasaki to mourn a loss... But what material is Fuller referring to? I've not read Hannibal Rising so I'm not sure what the potential plot could be (but given Minnesota Shrike got turned into a season long arc, it wouldn't surprise me if details were minimal).
ReplyDeleteYeah. In the novel, Robert comes off as a protagonist trying to help a young traumatized Hannibal, and dies only a few short chapters after he is introduced, but like how Fuller is using Chiyoh by having her take on some of the Murasaki-esque plot (she's an older lady at this point) in the present time to bring the past into the view of the current story, he has also suggested he wanted to have Robert be a character that remained alive. So now that he has used the word "inverting" and "twisted" I am more convinced that he weill become a long term antagonist, instead of a short term protagonist.
ReplyDeleteBut I want to point out, like other novels in the Hannibal series, Thomas Harris had a tendency to mention things in passing, that don't ever get explained or explored to the reader, but Fuller has picked up on some of that already, as this prequel to Red Dragon were things that were mentioned in Red Dragon (Chesapeake ripper, Abigail Hobbs, Jack Crawford being questionable by pushing Will Graham, ect), but he has made a story out of by using a lot of elements and plots from all the novels! In Hannibal Rising, despite that Robert is seen as a protagonist, some of the lines about him infer to criminal activity, such as illegitimately using his brother's title "Count" for years and years...