Tippi Blevins

Kill all the school principals you want, Show, but leave the dogs alone!

As soon as I saw the title of this episode I thought, "No way am I watching this live." Any dog would immediately become my favorite character and then I would spend the rest of the episode fretting its demise.

Aw, poor Gates. I liked him way more than Alex. At least Alex was polite enough to give him and Claire some privacy, taking out his ear thing. I hope Noma's wings are growing back and that's why her nubbins hurt. I always enjoy seeing Michael's crochet sweater. My head canon is that he made it himself.

Every time they blink with their nictating membranes or whatever they are, I expect at least one contact lens to pop out like a sales flyer off my windshield when I turn the wipers on.

Are there only 3 hours of daylight? Or are they just all really terrible with time management? Because it seems like they always get caught out in the dark. I'm still baffled as to why Eph is so important that the Master has to concoct plans to kidnap Zach. It's not like Eph is much of a threat. All his plans go to crap before they come to fruition.

Alex's "slight case of gas" reaction to Claire losing the baby was painful. I feel so uninvested in what happens to Alex and he's ostensibly the focus of the show. I really need to know Tom Wisdom's skincare regimen. He looks so dewy fresh all the time!

I thought both she and Travis had bizarrely subtle reactions to Cal coming back to life. "What's going on?" "I don't know." Said with all the shock and horror and confusion of people wondering why a certain brand of mustard was out of stock at the grocery store. They already seem inured to things, especially Madison. By the time she really gets used to the new world order, the sight of a zombie will flat out put her to sleep.

I think if Will had gone along with it, at least before the murder orgy, Hannibal probably would have been suspicious. Then Will would have been suspicious. And then it would end up like a melodramatic opera version of "gay chicken" to see who gives away their true intentions first.

I had forgotten all about Will's henley/vest combo until that fashion retrospective. It's like Han Solo tried to live in a log cabin.

I don't think it's so much that Will feeds Hannibal's ego. If anything, Will has more power to poke holes at his ego and make him feel vulnerable. That's why Hannibal was so mad in last season's finale. He gave Will a "gift" and felt spurned. I think Will makes him feel human, like his sister did, since they kept drawing those parallels earlier in the season. Does this make Hannibal a better person now? Nooo. It makes him more fully actualized. It might make him more evil, even. Because where he would kill for aesthetics, curiosity or convenience before, now he can kill with feeling. He can kill for passion! He can be even more brutal! Getting in touch with his own empathy because of Will, he can be even better at being cruel, if he subscribes to Bedelia's thoughts on the matter.

I want a scene of Eichorst watching makeup tutorials on YouTube and trying to decide if he should go with a "smoky eye" or liquid eyeliner for Kelly.

Oh I forgot my favorite part of the episode! Eph taking his son to a backdoor gun dealer! Face it, Eph, you secretly want your kid gone as much as the rest of us do.

So far, Tobias and Nick are the only ones I care about surviving. Well, and I guess Alicia, too, even though if she keeps walking down the freaking middle of the street with her ear buds in she's going to end up run over like her brother. When Cal died last week, I thought they were carrying on the original's tradition of one black man out, one black man in. I thought that meant the boyfriend would be surviving. Haha I was wrong.

I was cringing the whole time Alicia cleaned up the vomit with her long, long hair practically dangling in it. Then she touched her hair with her barfy gloves. Gah.

Fet said Dutch was helping her find a new place in one of the buildings they already cleared. I don't remember the reason given. She probably wanted to move out of their relatively safe accommodations in order to get away from Zach.

I got the giggle fits when Fet said "schniper attack" and had to pause the episode for 10 minutes before I could continue.

I can understand Madison not wanting to say "well I killed the principal" to Alicia, but say something, for crying out loud. Alicia: Mom what's going on? Madison: ... Alicia: Mom? Madison: .... Alicia: Mom? Madison: .............. Just say, "Some bad things are going down and I'll explain when I can. For now, just stay safe." Quit staring off in dramatic silence like you're waiting for the commercial break!

I'm not especially keen on Fuller's murder/suicide explanation unless he means that Hannibal lets Will murder him? Which I guess isn't exactly the same thing as suicide? Otherwise, if Hannibal had planned to survive the night, it means he had to be dumb enough to pull Will up right next to the edge instead of literally anywhere else on the patio. And Hannibal is usually more meticulous than to do something like that by accident.

I don't know if Will planned for all those guards to die, but he didn't seem especially upset by it, either. I think Francis probably knew the plan was a trap and decided to follow them from the hospital, or somewhere nearby, and just cut out all the middle men. Did Hannibal and Will take the police car all the way to his house? Did they hotwire another car somewhere en route? Because I feel like somebody should have been able to track the missing police car(s) pretty quickly.

Okay, but what happened to the Leeds family dog?! Did Will have time to take to dog home to the rest of his pack? Is it still in a kennel somewhere wondering WTF is going on?

In this interview he specifically says he changed it to not be fan service: http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/bryan-fuller-hannibal-finale-campy-sensual.html The writers and actors tried to make it more overtly sexual and Fuller's the one who scaled back on it. But he has been calling it a love story all along.

Ah, so it was written specifically for this show, and that scene. No wonder it felt so on-the-nose. In a good way, to me, anyway. I've seen the theory floated on tumblr that Will and Hannibal didn't jump off the cliff at all and that's why you don't see them still falling when the camera looks over the edge right after. It's not like it goes from slow motion to regular speed, so it seems like we should still see them on the way to impacting the water. I don't know. I'm perfectly fine with having the ending up in the air, so to speak. If they took the fall, then I think they both meant to die. If it's only a symbolic falling, like the imagery of both Will and Bedelia sinking through miles of water (or blood in Will's case) earlier this season, then I'm fine with that too. I mean, anything's possible. A pig gave birth to a human baby. Chilton survived levels of bodily harm that should have killed him multiple times over. Jack went along with Will's "fake Hannibal escape" plan. I can't begin to predict what's "logical" on this show.

Yes, loved the two flinches when Francis attacked Will. Hannibal, who had no reaction to being stabbed by Mason and barely a reaction to being branded by Cordell, flinches at the sight of Will being hurt. When Will said that line about beef and cows, I was like... Will, you just recently had that conversation with Bedelia. You are not beef to Hannibal. Nobody feels a stab of hunger for a burger and then is satisfied by merely looking at it. Trust me, I've been on 500 diets. It doesn't work.

Fuller's been calling it a "love story" since long before the show even premiered, so I can't see it as "pandering" to any particular fan base. This has been his design all along, more or less. But yeah I don't think Will and Hannibal died. They may have intended to, but the post-credits scene seems to imply that at least one of them is still alive. Bedelia picked up that fork at the end to use as a weapon against whomever had cooked her leg.

Well, holy crap balls. Okay, that Siouxsie song sounded like it should be a James Bond theme. It was amazing. I have to admit I guffawed at Jack's face when he found the ruined escape plan. I mean, come on, Jack. Come on. Well, luckily his murder husband is a doctor, so he'll get stitched up right proper.