Slovenly Muse

Well... how long have we had to endure this Lazarus Pit/Bloodlust storyline before the magic flower finally appeared? And the lotus has only just been introduced, who knows how long it will take to actually be used? I think three episodes in a wheelchair is a little soon to be giving up on a cure. This is a pretty great storyline for the Felicity character, and I would be really disappointed if it was already over. Plus, as Racj82 said, this is a readjustment for Felicity, not a life-or-death situation (like Thea's). Thea's problem is magical in nature, and so requires a magic flower to solve. I have a feeling science will come through for Felicity. And, yes, there's the possibility that it will stick, and if it does, I would actually be okay with that. Not because I want Felicity to be in a wheelchair forever, or because consequences are "realistic," but because when people, civilians like Felicity, put themselves in dangerous situations to help others, they can be hurt or killed. Taking that risk, and suffering those consequences, and taking that risk again anyway... that makes Felicity a hero. I don't need or want to watch our heroes working with a safety net, secure in the knowledge that they'll always regain whatever they lose. That's not real sacrifice. It cheapens the serious risks they take. Whether or not this sticks, it has to at least FEEL like it will stick in order to mean anything. I am sure Felicity will walk again, but I hope the show takes its sweet time getting there, and does this right.

Last season, Nyssa was furious at Oliver for killing her father before she could do it herself. Now she's forcing him to do her dirty work? Lame. This is such an obvious case of plotting that serves the story instead of the characters. And what exactly did she say to Tatsu to convince her to hand over the super-secret magic flower? "I will use it to hold the life of Oliver Queen's sister hostage in order to force him to kill my enemy for me?" This is the kind of plot development that only serves to make things unnecessarily harder for everyone, but does not actually make any earthly sense. I love that they got the accessibility issue in the lair figured out, but watching Felicity manoeuver down that ramp made me wonder about the design of the place in general. Why have the computer station raised like that? Why the railing around it? Why the one ramp? History shows that sometimes, when the bad guys find the Arrowlair, you have to be able to GTFO in a hurry. And since Felicity spends the most time there while the others are in the field, I have to wonder how effective that whole design would be if she ever needed to travel between her workstation and the exit in an emergency. I mean, she can't exactly just hop the guardrail and sprint for the door like everyone else. Aiming for that one narrow ramp and steering down it is a cumbersome process. Even taking down the railing (which does zero for safety anyway) so that she could roll off and drop to ground level in a life-or-death situation would be an improvement. I know it's THEIR lair, but that whole area of it is really Felicity's workstation, designed for her ease of use, so maybe it's time for a more practical re-design than just adding one little ramp.

Thanks, paulvdb! I totally missed that! That makes so much more sense.

I mostly really liked this one! I can't lie, Horny Liv's idea to get Ravi and Major to wrestle? Not the worst idea she's ever had! I enjoyed things coming to a head with Peyton and Blaine, and the forward motion on Blaine being identified by the cops. What I didn't really get was the murder mystery storyline. He killed her because she was going to ruin his reputation and he thought she didn't care about him? The fact that she decided to publish under a nom de plume shows that she DID care. So why would they reveal that information to the husband early on, and then later have him act like he doesn't know? Why not save that information to drop on him after his confession? From a story-telling perspective, I mean. I have no problem with them introducing that detail (the nom de plume) like it's a major plot point, but they either dropped it in the wrong place, or didn't follow up on it effectively. MINOR! That was fucking heartbreaking. I understand why Major couldn't take him to a shelter (there might be cameras, someone could identify him later), but couldn't the other bus passengers potentially identify him too? I guess no one pays attention to anyone else on the bus, and there would be enough people around on public transit that when Minor is noticed, someone will be obliged to report it through the proper channels. But still. Ouch. That dog better have a safe and happy home by the time this season ends or I will go Full-On-Zombie-Mode!

I really don't think Rachel turned him in. Then again, if she did, and wanted to clear the air once and for all so that they could really be together... it would go a long way toward explaining why she thought sending HER FATHER into this situation was going to help in any way. I don't think the show will go that way, but I kind of wish they would, because that twist has potential! Now she's not lying to her parents anymore, the "fake lawyer" situation will be resolved one way or the other, after she stands by him "through it all" their relationship will be stronger than ever, and once their house of cards comes down they can actually build something on a real, solid foundation. Plus there would be no reason not to have her dream wedding once the "secret" is resolved by a court of law. This is basically everything Rachel wants. If I thought she was cold-blooded enough to pull it off, I might actually suspect her!

Interesting little interview with Aaron Korsh here about the direction of this half-season, which contains things that are both heartening and dis-heartening about the thought and planning that went into this storyline. (He says some vague things about the upcoming arc, but nothing strong enough to qualify as an actual spoiler, I don't think) What I find MOST heartening, though, is this excerpt, where the interviewer pushes my buttons by calling Anita a "bitch," and Korsh says the exact right thing: Obviously this interview was spoken, because the syntax is pretty fuzzy, but I like that he acknowledges that Mike and Co. are totally guilty, and that the big bad prosecutor trying to make them pay is actually the good guy here. At least he has the perspective that even though Mike and Harvey must win (being the protagonists), that doesn't mean they're in the right, or that they deserve the victory. It makes me feel better about where this is going knowing that the guy in charge hasn't lost his grip on these characters!

Yes, Long John Silver is a fictional character from Treasure Island, but many of the characters (not just Blackbeard) are based on real historical people. Blackbeard, Jack Rackham, Ann Bonny, Hornigold, and now this new governor that Eleanor's thrown in with (I can't remember his name, but my partner, who's a history buff, nearly had a fit when he was introduced), and probably others, were key players in the history of piracy in that era, and whose ultimate fates can be turned up with a little googling, for those inclined to know. Whether the show will stick to the history, or write their own stories for these characters remains to be seen!

Wow, surprised by all the negativity here because I LOVED this ep! I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching Shameless! Yes the pacing, tone and emotional beats will give you whiplash, but that's what makes it so good! I loved it. Fiona finally acknowledging that her own life is a disaster and she's not in a position to try and run anyone else's! But also simultaneously loving Deb and refusing to cut her any slack about her own shitty decisions (Seriously, I don't think Fiona would ever actually cut Deb off, but Deb has not yet internalized that she will be on her own in looking after her child, and if she really wants to keep it, then she really needs to understand what she's getting herself into and not be expecting anyone else to put their life on hold to support her idiocy)! And getting closure with Gus that totally acknowledges that she's the bad guy! And telling Shaun the truth and not letting him give her any shit about it! I just loved everything about her story this week, even though it was rough, it all needed to happen. And Ian finally getting something to do besides wander around like a zombie and waffle on whether or not to take his meds! He has needed a direction for so long, and hopefully this lights a fire under his ass. If he is inspired to become a firefighter, as this latest development seems to suggest, he'll actually have something to work toward! And Lip realizing that Ian's dreams are dead and that he has basically nothing left, and maybe deciding to be there for Ian and show him some support! If these plotlines come together, as I hope they will, then Ian will need to go back to high school or get a GED to move forward, reconnecting him with his siblings in high school, and Lip will become more involved with the family too, moving back toward that interconnected Gallagher dynamic that made the show so much fun in earlier seasons! And Frank finally has something to do this week besides mope creepily about his dead girlfriend! Watching him advise Debbie on which deformities she should try and get her baby to have in order to get the most out of welfare reminded me why this character was on the show in the first place! And Carl selling guns to all the teachers, so that the show can poke fun at the "more guns makes us safer from guns" mentality that is going to get someone killed very soon, in the lighthearted way that only Shameless can pull off! I laughed my ass off at the cafeteria panic scene, not going to lie! The Kev and Vee stuff was "meh," but I'm hanging in there to see how it all turns out. This episode seemed to tick off a lot of boxes for what people have been complaining about the show missing or moving away from over the past couple of seasons. I am very cautiously heartened by the direction things seem to be taking!

What an almost-super-great episode! The build-up to the final twist was awesome, but the conclusion? Kind of puzzling. So, this grifter who's never met Mina and doesn't know anything about her was able to find her, when the fed working himself to the bone on her case never thought to check out that sex offender on her route home? And on finding Mina, this grifter attacked her and cut off her hair, and got away undetected, so that she could pretend it was HER hair? And then killed the fed who was figuring her out? If she was willing to kill, why not kill Mina to ensure she'd never be found? And why try to snow Holmes with all that obvious "THEY did it," and "daddy touched me" stuff that she knew wouldn't hold up to investigation? And if the parents weren't trying to cover up their own crime, why didn't they have any doubt that the imposter was their daughter? And did no one in that family leave a single particle of DNA in their entire mansion that could be tested, even when taken by surprise? I feel like this episode started with a situation that didn't make sense, and then introduced a series of twists that began to explain it better and better, and just when it almost all made sense in an awesome way, the last twist reverted the whole thing back to square one and nothing made sense anymore! Also, I want Kitty to come back and beat the hell out of this Cassie girl. I would pay money for that.

All very good points here. I don't know how I felt about this episode. It was all about delving deeper into this awful relationship Brian has with Morra, so I was all primed to love it from the start, but... something didn't work for me. Mostly, I think it's just completely unbelievable to think of Brian actually murdering a person, so there never seemed to be much tension on that front. Piper's death was obviously faked, so that kind of bugged me. Despite not totally loving the episode as a whole, there were definitely some great things. I love that Brian respects Rebecca's intelligence enough to find it plausible that she might figure out his entire deal with Sands within five seconds of seeing them in a room together. That scene with everyone in Brian's head telling him what to do, and Jason refusing to wear the cardigan, and then his dad dropping some wisdom. That was lovely. I loved Morra noticing that he was about to be shot, and then calculating the best way to play it for political advantage. That guy may not be full-on evil, but he is not a good guy anymore. I don't know that I believe he killed Piper's boyfriend though. Either he lied to Brian in that roundabout "technically I didn't kill him... I had Sands do it!" kind of way, or Sands may be working behind his back. Or there are other players we don't know about yet. On that note, I really am wondering about Sands. I'm with sjohnson in wondering whether or not Sands is a user. Because he seems to be the go-to guy for Morra's sketchiest tasks. We've seen him commit murder before (he planted that bomb), but is he acting on Morra's behalf, or behind his back? If Sands is a user, he could well be acting on his own, and Piper's boyfriend could just be another loose end Sands prefers to tie up rather... definitively. But if Sands isn't on NZT, I find it hard to believe that he could kill people without Morra's knowledge when the victims are people closely tied to Morra, and therefore likely to make Morra himself wonder about it. And if it's not NZT, then what is Sands getting out of being Morra's stooge? Is he a hired hand, or a true believer? In any case, I'll be interested to see how this plays out.

Of all the segments that Stephen has done since taking over The Late Show, I have to say that "Bedtime Stories" is my absolute favourite. Like, I get ridiculously excited whenever he has an author on, because they might do a bedtime story. It allows talented authors the chance to show off what they do best (which doesn't often happen on late night), and it allows Stephen to look like a totally adorable goofball in his jammies. Everyone's a winner! (He had spaceship sheets this week! Spaceship sheets!)

I had a lot of love for this episode, but I have to say, I'm not feeling the rage on Brian's dad. Yes, the friend he enlisted will probably bite them in the ass, but overall Dad was absolutely right! Regardless of whether or not Brian is having fun or wants to stop what he's doing, the FBI is deliberately feeding him a daily dose of a drug that is proven to have devastating and fatal consequences to anyone who uses it, and they are pressuring him into staying. And someone who doesn't know Naz and what she's done for Brian would be absolutely correct to assume that if things went wrong, everyone above him in the FBI would cover their own asses, leaving the civilian consultant to twist. Yes, Brian wants to be there, and yes, Rebecca would totally support him if he really did want out. And yes, the team would completely have his back if things went pear-shaped. But from an outsider's perspective, his dad is not wrong! Brian IS in a dangerous and unfair situation from which he needs to be rescued, it's just not the FBI that has the gun to his head: It's Morra. Morra, who makes Brian's very survival dependent on the serum he provides, who makes demands of him and holds his family's lives hostage to ensure compliance. Not to mention who once withheld the serum long enough to prove to Brian that he could very easily torture him into betraying his allies, simply by doing nothing. Dad is totally right to want to give Brian an exit strategy, he just doesn't understand the situation well enough to know that there's nothing he can do about it but make things worse. I'm glad he gave Naz that little reality check. I think she needed it. I think they all do. Doesn't mean they're absolutely wrong and they should stop, just that in all the fun and wacky adventures they have, it's easy to forget that they're playing with someone's life. That's what I really like about this show. It has an enormous amount of fun, but even through all the talking sock puppets and vines of kittens, they never lose sight of the real danger and stakes of Brian's situation. The balance is what makes the show so compelling! Is it? I thought Elementary's version of Anonymous was "Everyone." I could be wrong, because I tend to watch that show with half my brain, but I remember being really confused every once in a while by sentences like, "Well, I asked Everyone for help with this, and they said..." before remembering that it was a hacker collective, and not just every single person on Earth, which seemed like an unrealistic amount of investigative effort.

That Quantico song is genius and ALMOST makes me want to watch the show!

Yeesh. I don't know how to feel about this episode. It had its moments, and the little glimpse we got of Trubel at the end will keep me watching next week, but honestly, this is unravelling and not in a good way. The "Lost Boys" definitely reached too far for Peter Pan. It's one thing to be a poor, homeless orphan, abandoned and alone apart from your band of ragamuffins, but it's quite another to abduct a woman from a supermarket, keep her tied up in your forest abode for TWO YEARS (probably while she resisted, cursed you, and tried to escape the whole time) in order to force her to be your "mother" and then act like when she falls into the deadly trap you've set up, it's HER fault. That is really and truly sick, moving into the territory of actual evil. Obviously these kids need more help than just foster homes can provide. If they had even had some sort of reason for why they NEEDED a "mother" (like, if they were a kind of wessen that fed on maternal energy or something), it would have made more sense, but just running around abducting any woman who was nice to them and telling her if she didn't love them they'd hurt her... for no other reason than they wanted a mother, that pretty much killed any sympathy I had for their being abandoned. Being wessen is no excuse for being a monster. This, though, is actually something that makes sense to me. If becoming a Hexenbiest made Juliette evil, then it stands to reason that all the evil things Adalind did were because SHE was a Hexenbiest at the time. If Juliette could be a good person turned evil by Hexenbiest magic, then it actually does stand to reason that Adalind, losing her power and becoming human again, could shed that evil and discover that without all that corrupting power she actually is a good person. It's like, the redemption arc they could have applied to Juliette, they decided to apply to Adalind instead, turning the evil Hexenbiest good again by taking away her powers. So, by the show's logic, Adalind the HUMAN can't be blamed for the awful stuff she did as a Hexenbiest any more than Juliette can be blamed for the awful stuff SHE did when she became a Hexenbiest. And I think they're leaning on this idea pretty hard to get us to swallow this Nick/Adalind stuff. Since the writers (and Nick) seem to be indicating that this powerless human Adalind is not the same person (not possessed by the same willingness/desire to do evil) as former Hexenbiest Adalind, and Adalind herself has said that she doesn't want to become a Hexenbiest again because she doesn't like herself when she's a Hexenbiest, it actually does make her redemption arc legitimate. Unfortunately, it's not enough for ME to get past what she's done, and I can't believe it's enough for Nick either.

Wow, I dunno guys. I watch a lot of superhero shows, and to be honest it's mostly out of habit. This is actually the first superhero show in a LONG time that I actually really find myself enjoying! Even The Flash, which I think is very well done, I will start, and then end up drifting off and doing something else, only watching with one eye. I don't have any COMPLAINTS about the show, it just doesn't quite grab me for some reason. I do the same with Arrow, Agents of Shield, iZombie, and, for a little while, Gotham. I consider them "background" shows for getting other things done. I kind of plan to do the same thing for Supergirl, but once it starts I find that I am totally engrossed! I don't know what it is. Superman is even my least-favourite hero, so I had no plans to even watch the show until I found a few good reviews of the pilot and decided to give it a shot. I'm loving this show! I find Kara very likeable. I find her allies interesting. I actually really like Calista Flockhart's character, and don't find her one-note at all. I also like how so far the show isn't terribly formulaic. I suppose it is, when you break it down, but it builds nicely on what it's done, and it just doesn't feel like it's doing the same thing over and over again. It feels like an ongoing struggle, rather than a repetitive villain of the week story. (That may change over time, but so far it has got me!) And I like the way that belief in Supergirl, in her capability and her heroism, seems to be contagious among the characters in a very energizing way as she is finding her place in the world. Like everyone is still figuring everything out, but you just know they're all on the right track. The only thing that takes me out of it sometimes is the fight mechanics. Isn't Supergirl/Superman supposed to have super speed, like Flash-style speed? She sure just stands there and takes a lot of hits that she should be easily able to avoid. And I'm talking about physical punches, not just weapon blasts that might hit someone else if she ducks them. The show seems to really focus on Kara winning fights through determination and brute force, when speed is more realistic and would make more sense, if that's a tool at her disposal. Especially against a non-Kryptonian villain like Reactron, who has super strength from a suit, but human limitations in other areas, such as speed. But I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, because I find the show so wildly entertaining otherwise! Despite myself, I am in!

Ok, so, there's this very weird, dark local theatre troupe in my town that puts on cabaret/variety style shows a few times a year. A while ago, their Halloween show was hosted by an actor in character as Andrew Lloyd Webber, who sneered at and condescended to the audience, and bragged about his fame and fortune all night while introducing the acts, and was basically unbearable (in a good way). At the end of the show, it was revealed that Nosferatu, the inarticulate, revolting, blood-sucking, slobbering monster who lived in ALW's basement was the actual author of all his works, and ALW was just an asshole. This news story just brought that whole show back to me, and it is glorious!

I can understand all the hate towards Betsy Ross, and really, she hasn't delivered too much to be happy about, but I'm actually really on board with the concept here. I mean, Katrina failed as a character because the writers tried to make her a kick-ass hero AND a dangerous villain. And failed miserably. In trying to have her do both, she came across as totally ineffectual in all areas. She wasn't all in, no matter what she was doing. As Ron Swanson wisely said, "Don't half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing." In killing her off, the show now seems to be trying to replace her with an actually believably evil witch to carry that aspect of her story, AND an ally (and love interest? I guess?) for Crane who actually has the potential to get shit done. Thereby filling the Katrina-shaped hole with two new characters who can actually DO what Katrina just couldn't, in each of her dual purposes on the show. Betsy hasn't impressed so far, but I'm not willing to write off her character just yet, just because the actress isn't clicking. This is only episode two, and we don't yet have an idea of what function her character will play in the overall narrative (it kind of feels now like they're buying time until we get to that), so I'll be curious to see what happens with her. I don't want to approach her pessimistically, because after going to the extreme of killing off Katrina and basically crashing and burning the whole show to hit the reset button at the end of last season, I kind of feel like the writers have probably put some more thought into how to NOT make a character into a total disaster and maybe have come into this season with a plan that shows they've learned from their mistakes. I know it doesn't look like it NOW, but I like to stay optimistic! I'm actually pretty happy with the way the season is going so far in every other aspect, so I'm willing to put in some time to see what the grand plan is for Betsy Ross.

Hey! Jumping in here to say that I'm hearing what you're saying. While I was really happy that John tackled this topic, the thing that I noticed that was glaringly absent from it were the people affected. Normally, he shares stories of people who have been really hurt or let down by the system he is discussing, and does his best to not only describe the suffering that is occurring as a result of this system, but to put a human face on that suffering. All through the segment I kept waiting to hear from people who deal with mental illness (either themselves or someone close to them) and were not being served by the system. I think it really would have helped the piece to gel if he had included clips showing either people's real frustration at not having access to what they need, or their relief when the scant services do come through for them. I understand that people may not feel comfortable talking about this kind of thing on television given the social stigma attached, but surely there could have been a way to do more to bring some heart to this piece, alongside its statistics and very important information.

I don't know. HAVE they stopped trying to make her a sympathetic character? I mean, she's running with legit psychos who are throwing people off roofs, trying to light cheerleaders on fire, and mass-murdering an entire police station... and her entire role in this whole scheme was to... make a phone call and walk down an alley. The other woman was sidelined too, but she still took a life, earning herself some villain cred. Babs even looked a bit affected by Jim getting beat up. Sure, she is totally crazy. But is this really "evil?" Is this a path of no return? As was noted upthead, the writers changed her story by changing her entire character, and yet it still doesn't feel like they're really committing to this new direction. Who knows what she'll be doing next? If/when she actually does kill Leslie, maybe I'll believe it. At this point, I call weaksauce. And overall, the female characters did not fare well this episode. Even the ones who actually DID something! Seems like Gotham has not even tried to address those issues from the first season, and it's even more glaring without Fish. I mean, I'm not necessarily one to condemn a show as misogynistic solely for trying to set a busload of cheerleaders on fire, or IMMEDIATELY murdering the only female character who actually has agency and DOES things in order to pointlessly motivate a male character to do something he was obviously going to do anyway... I just wish these kinds of things were balanced out by the presence of women who are not just bystanders in other people's stories, but who actually mean something to the narrative. It's getting really tiring, and I thought for sure I had kicked this show to the curb after last season's terrible finale, but my very complicated feelings about Cameron Monaghan brought me back, and now I'm stuck! Fix it, Gotham! You can do better than this!

I've seen The Salvation, because it had both Mads and Eva Green (the stars of both my favourite horror shows (Eva is in Penny Dreadful), so how could they not be great together?). They both gave spectacular performances, of course! Eva Green was especially well-cast, since her character is mute and a LOT depends upon the subtlety of her facial acting. The movie itself is a very rote Western. Stylish and well-acted, but there's not much to it. Mads' character's wife/family is raped/murdered and he kills the culprits in revenge, and then the culprits' family of thugs comes after HIM for revenge, and there's some Wild West shootout action. The story doesn't ever really surprise you or do the unexpected. Also, it loses major points for doing that thing I hate where someone gets shot in the head, and all that happens is they get literally just a small red circle on their forehead, when in reality their brains would be scattered all over the sand. That said, pretty much everything I didn't enjoy about it is related to personal taste, rather than quality. Overall, it is very well done. If you love a good Western, you'll love it. If you're watching mostly for Mads, you'll love it. If you like Eva Green, you'll love her performance. If you like Jeffery Dean Morgan, he plays the bad guy pretty well. If you prefer deep, twisty, psychologically and emotionally complex stories (and let's face it, we're in the Hannibal forum here), then you might find it a bit too straightforward to be really satisfying. I don't think I can sum it up any better than that!

"City in Georgia" should be all anyone would need to get it, but he didn't even say that! Her refusal to guess and his inability to give the most obvious/helpful clue possible made it a team effort in stupidity.

Peeayebee, that's my impression too. The contestants always look quite heavily styled, including the civilians, so I suspect the show has a stylist doing the civilians up to the nines to get them camera ready, and the celebs are encouraged to dress as they would for a talk-show. Because really, that's what it is. They're making an appearance to promote themselves and their personal brand, and looking "sloppy" or "unattractive" (by Hollywood standards) might damage that brand. They probably have agents, stylists, etc pushing them to look as "attractive" as possible to advance themselves in the public eye, and to prioritize that over playing well, because, well, that's not what's going to get them cast in the next blockbuster. Unfortunately.

I have mad sympathy for Jenna Elfman's total inability to answer that Raspberry Beret question. I've never heard of that song! Until the answer flashed up on the screen, I had no earthly idea that there was a song, popular or otherwise, with the title "Raspberry Beret." I'm assuming Jenna didn't either, because otherwise it would have been impossible not say the answer out loud and not recognize it. I'd call a moment of stupidity being a situation where the person knows the answer, but is unable to either get to it or lead anther person to it effectively (i.e., poorly interpreting or giving clues), such as Michelle Trachtenberg's REFUSAL TO GUESS "Atlanta" because she was in the mindset of "I don't know anything about the show, therefore I can't know words." That said, Jenna did have some truly stupid moments as things went on. Overall, I found this episode really lackluster. The pacing was weird, the games weren't fun, and there wasn't really anyone to root for. I DO think there was alcohol (Seth Green was drinking something clear with limes in it (maybe water, maybe a G&T?), but someone else (Jonas?) had what looked like a beer in hand at one point), but no one really seemed to be having fun. The whole episode just kind of fizzled for me.

Bedelia said that Will's plan was going to end in all their deaths. I think we're supposed to interpret that final moment as a sign that Hannibal survived, the rest of the books play out as canon (you can see how Clarice could easily step in next season to replace Will in dealing with Hannibal, either because he's dead or truly too damaged to return), and at some point in the future, either before his recapture before Silence of the Lambs or after his escape in SoTL, Hannibal catches up with Bedelia and proves her right. Alana is probably also on the menu, wherever she and her family fled to. Hannibal keeps his promises. My impression is that Will was the one who toppled them over the cliff. Hannibal might have been expecting it, but he didn't initiate it. That's not his MO, it's not the way he would have wanted to kill Will (no theatricality, no cannibalism). But it's exactly the way Will would have wanted that night to end. He said he was going to kill Hannibal and he did, including the part of Hannibal that was awakening within himself. Hannibal saw that cliff differently than Will. For Hannibal, it represented something like immortality. That the land itself crumbled away to be forgotten while he lived and persevered, god-like. Will is the one who would have wanted to BE forgotten. Washed away, like the thing he had become never existed. With no evidence to go on but my own interpretation, I believe that fall was Will's design.

YOU GUYS! MURDER HUSBANDS! MURDER HUSBANDS IS CANON! I loved it. I loved it so much. While I also preferred the feeling I was left with BEFORE the post-credits scene, I appreciate that IF there were to be a season 4, some hint that at least one of them had survived was going to be necessary to keep the audience on the hook. But wow. That was really the only possible ending for those two characters, who were so entangled that they could never let each other go and never cut each other off. Will wanted to kill Hannibal, but he could never live with the person he'd become in order to do it. It was perfect. Wrath of the Lamb, indeed. And the Dragon. Yes! So much better than the book. He faked his death, escaped the law, but was played so expertly by both Will and Hannibal that he just couldn't make his getaway. He wasn't driven by his own need for power or revenge, he was drawn by a set of murder husbands into a deadly trap. Will holding that wineglass like he didn't have a care in the world... that hurt. And like Bedelia also discovered the hard way, when the worm turns and instinct kicks in, all the things you never wanted to acknowledge about yourself come bursting out into the light. All plans are realized. All conclusions reached. And the loose ends? Only certainties that haven't yet occurred. God damn, I'm going to miss this show. There's never been anything like it.