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Hannibal S3 |OT| Man Destroys God. Hannibal Eats Man. Hannibal Inherits The Earth.

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SCHUEY F1

Unconfirmed Member
Rewatching the first episode of S3 on Blu Ray, soooooo good. The music in that episode is fantastic and different than a lot of the episodes in the series.


Edit : the episodes also has some amazing shots and transitions.
 
Monocle

Monocle

Member
God damn, that surprise guest commentator for Episode 2.
I love Patton Oswalt. I could hardly believe that was him crashing the commentary, lol.
Completely out of nowhere.

BTW, Gillian Anderson is magnificent. What a rare joy to hear that woman talk about threesomes, the world of fanart, and her costars doing the big nasty. Everyone listen to the Episode 1 commentary right now, it's amazing.

BBboy20 said:
Holy shit, they're legit as fuck just for getting Hannibal and Americans that high up.

Also: I feel shameful I have not gotten season 3 yet.
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No kidding!
 
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-griffy-

Banned
Saw Bryan Fuller tweet this out, thought it was pretty cool and fun:
Visiting Hannibal Locations in Florence, Italy
My trip to Florence, Italy was another great reminder of what a brilliant concept film tourism is. We got to see all the great sights, but also had some lovely, fun encounters with the locals while running around looking for the locations used while filming the third season of NBC’s Hannibal.

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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
I wasn't super happy with season three as it went on, but man, they really stuck the landing. I hope they do more one day.
 
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nib95

Banned
So I bought the Blu-ray Collection on one of Amazon's Black Friday deals. Wasn't as keen on Season 1 (though the ending was fantastic), but Season 2, and now Season 3, just wow. Incredible stuff. It also has a uniqueness to it that I've not really seen or experienced elsewhere, even within the thriller or horror genres, or past Hannibal movies for that matter. The finale was just immense. Beautiful, gripping, powerful, ending in an almost perfect way.

I really do hope we get another season, not because the show itself needs one from a narrative perspective, but for my own selfish desire in simply wanting more Hannibal esque entertainment. Whilst a more resolute and obvious ending would be ideal, Season 3's finale still works perfectly well as a series finale.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Finally getting around to season 3.

A place was made for you, Abigail, in this world.

It was the only place I could make for you.
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. That fucking WRITING. Mah gawd.
 
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direct_quote

Member
Well I picked up season 3 and watched it, I would say I liked Season 2 better (but season 3 is still good). I'm dissapointed that one of the only shows I started watching gets cancelled.. Here's hoping that S4 gets picked up by someone...
 
Monocle

Monocle

Member
direct_quote said:
Well I picked up season 3 and watched it, I would say I liked Season 2 better (but season 3 is still good). I'm dissapointed that one of the only shows I started watching gets cancelled.. Here's hoping that S4 gets picked up by someone...
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Fuller said in a recent interview that he wants to do S4 in two years. All of the key people seem to be on board. I haven't given up hope yet.
 
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Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I finally found the time to watch the third season once and for all.

I'm still in shock.

After watching the entire season over the course of the past couple of weeks, I'm fully convinced that Hannibal has never been more Hannibal. Surely enough, the first half of the season delved into the onyric to the point it almost turned into an exercise in navel gazing, but Fuller was just developing a TV monster behind its artsy-fartsy facade. The tearful return of Abigail, Margot's scheming, Mason's sick return, the food porn... Everything was great, but I just couldn't be ready for the second half of it.

Let's just start saying that Fuller did an inspired choice when he picked Richard Armitage to play Dolarhyde. His physicality was amazing, and so was his acting. I wasn't familiar with the character (Manhunter is also on my backlog), but I absolutely loved how imposing, menacing and just plainly deranged he was. And then there's Rutina Wesley being downright exquisite in every scene. Such a great pick. Not only those two saved what was looking like a fairly bizarre if highly entertaining season, but elevated it like I couldn't expect.

And then there's the rest. Alana embracing the powersuit after giving herself to the vadge (those suits!), Bedelia on some next-level Victorian acting, that GORGEOUS scene at the zoo, Hannibal sharing his best lines yet (oh my God at that finger wagging quip), fucking Chilton surviving like the cockroach that he is (it stands to the everlasting credit of Hannibal that no other TV show has had more fake-outs in so few episodes, yet every single one had me grasping the living room's pillows), the glorious writing...

The finale itself was an actual piece of art. Fuller giving the fannibals a collective heart attack by embracing the murder husband notion, the incredible Hannibal-Will tag team, that insane scene after the credits (Gillian Anderson's game was off the charts and she didn't even say a single word)... Just everything.

I'm content. This may have been the last season of Hannibal, but just like I said a few days ago at The Knick's OT, I'm happy. I feel like I shouldn't even ask for more. I don't care if some plotlines weren't resolved nor if we never knew why Bedelia was hiding her fork at the end of the finale. I'm just happy that I had the opportunity to watch one of the most unique, tense and artistic thrillers ever developed for any medium.

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It's been such an amazing trip, HanniGAF. See you at the TV-Trek OT.
 
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Bobby Roberts

Banned
Funky Papa said:
I'm content. This may have been the last season of Hannibal, but just like I said a few days ago at The Knick's OT, I'm happy. I feel like I shouldn't even ask for more. I don't care if some plotlines weren't resolved nor if we never knew why Bedelia was hiding her fork at the end of the finale. I'm just happy that I had the opportunity to watch one of the most unique, tense and artistic thrillers ever developed for any medium.
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CreeperBlocks said:
See you guys in FullerTrekGAF OT.
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Oh you fucking know it.
 
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Bobby Roberts

Banned
Monocle said:
There's a tiny corner in my mind that's absolutely certain Fuller's Hannibal will return in some form.
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It was in this thread that I basically called the roadmap for him getting to Star Trek, so it makes sense that I call the Hannibal "Silence of the Lambs" miniseries to be a Netflix thing (4 episodes, like the Gilmore Girls revival) in five years, after the third season of the Star Trek show, after Fuller's handed over the reins of that show to Michael Rymer.
 
B

BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
This was probably the most satisfying ending to a show that didn't actually finish.
 
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Psychoward

Banned
finally finished the 3rd season after stopping halfway through because of boredom annnnnnd... still unimpressed really. Huge step down from 1 and 2 in almost every conceivable way imo.

should have ended at the season 2 finale. The amount of fakeout deaths in this season were absurd, Chiyoh's motivations were just all over the place, the incredibly robotic acting from everyone involved, the boring pretentious of every single slo-mo shot especially apparent in the first half, the tumblerization of the finale... ugh
 
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TheOddOne

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- The Hill: Did pirates kill ‘Hannibal’? (From Hannibal's producer Martha De Laurentiis)
There is a perception that producers, of all people, are not harmed by the for-profit theft of films and television programs. This is simply not true. In fact, it is producers such as myself who directly witness the effects of piracy on a production’s bottom line. I am at the front lines, making sure budgets are met and that thousands of crew members get paid for their hard work.
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I have experienced this firsthand. When NBC decided not to renew “Hannibal” for a fourth season — a show on which I served as executive producer — it wasn’t much of a leap to connect its fate with the fact that the show was ranked as the fifth-most illegally downloaded show in 2013. When nearly one-third of the audience for “Hannibal” is coming from pirated sites — despite the fact that a legitimate download for each episode was available the following day — you don’t have to know calculus to do the math. If a show is stolen, it makes it difficult, if not impossible, to fairly compensate a crew and keep a series in production.
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Did pirates kill “Hannibal”? Unfortunately, that is a cliffhanger that might last for a while. With more than 2 million viewers watching our show illegally, it’s hard not to think online pirates were, at the very least, partly responsible for hundreds of crew members losing their jobs and millions of fans — who watched the show legitimately — mourning the loss of a beloved program.

As I said, this isn’t just about me. This is about the livelihoods of thousands upon thousands of hardworking people who help enrich the lives of millions of fans of films and TV shows. When the plundering is done, even the pirates will have nothing left to watch, let alone steal. That is a dark future I will do my best — as a producer and a fan — to make sure never arrives at a laptop near you.
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Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
TheOddOne said:
- The Hill: Did pirates kill ‘Hannibal’? (From Hannibal's producer Martha De Laurentiis)
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On that account, I should be said that Hannibal's international distribution was hit and miss.

AXN Spain did a wonderful job bringing the episodes as fast as they could and they even enlisted chef José Andrés for the promos (hell, they went as far as to put the first episodes of the first season on frigging YouTube to build up hype) but that's a premium channel and nearly nobody knows about it :(

I feel like the show could have benefited from a bigger push in order to broadcast it on some more mainstream channels, but at the same time Hannibal was probably way too slow and grotesque for most European networks.
 
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-griffy-

Banned
wenis said:
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Finally hung it up.
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I actually just got around to framing and hanging my Mondo poster too:
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Gotta give a shout out and public thank-you to Anton Sugar, cause the day this poster went on sale I had my phone all logged in to the Mondo site ready to go. Then I get called into a meeting and right then is when stuff went on sale, and by the time I realized it was sold out already. Anton pm'd me and had ordered the vinyl and poster both, and offered to sell me the poster for cost (since he already had the stag poster). After making certain he was absolutely cool with that, we did it, swapped Paypal money and Mondo shipped it straight to me! Incredibly generous, and testament to how cool our little Hannibal-GAF community is.
 
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TheOddOne

Member
- Express: 'We have more stories' Mads Mikkelsen confirms Hannibal is likely to return.
Nonetheless, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Mikkelsen has revealed that the story is far from over - and that there is hope for a reboot yet. When asked whether the series still has the potential to be picked up by another network, the actor revealed that the ball is firmly in show creator Bryan Fuller's court.

"It all depends on Bryan. He is the key, the base, the heart," Mikkelsen said. "We will wait and see what happens next in his career. But we all know that we can easily pick this up in two or three years, there are breaks in the stories. We could pick it up, say, four years later. If Bryan is up for it, we will all go for it."
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"We were very close to solving the rights issues," Mikkelsen explained. "Silence of the Lambs was coming up around the corner, and it's such a beautiful story with great characters."
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There is truly an air of remorse from the actor, who clearly feels that it is an opportunity lost, just as the fans do.

"We are all angry. We were p****d. It's madness," the Danish actor said of the cancellation. "And season four was actually the one we thought we'd definitely get. Seasons two and three were on the verge. We didn't know whether Hannibal would be renewed. But by the time we got to season four we thought it was a definite. We were very surprised at the decision.

"We were happy to be able to do it for as long as we did. However, we felt there were more stories. We thought we ended the show in a great way, but we had more to tell."
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