Hannibal Season 3 Episode 13 Review and Reaction

In the dinner with Bedelia, the table was set for three people. Looking forward to your Hannibal livestream.

Has been so fun watching all your reactions to my favorite show of all time! My feelings on what Will’s character arc ultimately proved to be about have really flipped from the first time I watched. I always enjoyed Will and Hannibal’s dynamic, but going into the show for the first time I really just saw Hannibal as The Villain TM (because he’s Hannibal Lecter, iconic pop-culture villain), and Will as the victim you were supposed to root for to defeat the bad guy — and that position majorly influence my perspective on Will’s journey. After re-watching though, my feelings pretty much immediately shifted, because there is just so much in the narrative that contradicts that classification. I think one of the great triumphs of this show is that they use that initial expectation of Will (Good) vs. Hannibal (Bad) to their advantage, to the point that the ending feels like a tragedy for Will to some people. Seeing the show again though, I end up feeling like instead of Will (Good) vs. Hannibal (Bad), the actual narrative was Change (Good) vs. Stagnation (Bad). Morality aside (because while Will’s internal struggle with morality is important to the practical decisions he makes, I don’t actually feel like a morality debate is important to the emotional core of the show), Hannibal was pretty much the champion of change — even within himself, he embraced change much more easily than Will. And in the end, the narrative kind of proved his perspective on the story correct: that a “tragic” ending for Will would have been returning to normality where he would continue to try to go back in time and ignore his irreversible transformation (a.k.a. exactly what he did in 3x07), and that a Happy EndingTM to Will’s arc is in embracing and acknowledging change and moving forward.

I didn't know how to feel the very first time I watched, but the more I see it, the more beautiful it becomes. They definitely put the end scene so more seasons could be made, but you're totally right.. there are several things that could've happened. Bryan Fuller specifically asked for a love song to be written for that end scene. The lyrics are pretty interesting.

*excited screams* I love your reaction and now I'm sad that it's over :(; but I'm excited for you to do the livestream!!❤ about your thoughts on the end, well... I don't know if this counts as an spoiler, but I don't think so since the show is over 😅, but when Mads and Hugh and Bryan (the showrunner) had been interviewed they had let seen they both lived and in a hypothetical 4th season they would both be on a run. I would recommend you to watch the reunion they had earlier this year on the nerdist yt channel, is really fun and maybe it could clear your thoughts about the ending, and the show in general 😅, I for one hadn't seen any of the source material, so when I watched the series for the first time (that it was this year 😅) I had so many questions that the reunion helped me understand. Oh and on your observation about Chilton incredibly been alive, the actor that played him (Raul Esparza) tells a funny story about that 😄. This was a wonderful ride with you Molly!!! And I'm really, really excited for that stream!