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potted_music at 01:04pm on 19/10/2015
potted_music at 01:04pm on 19/10/2015Since marina is a pimp extraordinaire, and her Hannibal post is a thing of majestic beauty, I gave up and finally watched Hannibal. (That might have been a mistake, because Mikkelsen looks like Putin and I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to read Hannibal fics without that unwanted thought in mind. Yuck.)
The series is an important lesson in sticking to your guns, genre-wise. S1 tried hard to be a police procedural. As such, it hardly merited more than a B- for effort, but it tried. S2 went for a Gothic something-or-other: the doppelgangers! the madness! the overall aesthetic! man aspiring to godhead/wrestling with god! The master plot of S2, and I'm pretty much quoting verbatim from the various dialogues throughout the season, is god creating man in his image so that there'd be someone to love him; and realizing, once it's too late, that in point of fact, he created him so that he'd have someone to love. *sprinkle with exercises in theodicy to taste* They should have stopped at that, because S3 is a disaster. I think someone grew too enamoured with their sham metaphysics, and the first half of the season, with all their maybe-postmortem-maybe-not adventures, is impossible to watch with a straight face. I mean, I read a long and technical French work on narratology while skipping the convoluted quasi-philosophical dialogues of S3, and lemme tell you, when lit theory is more exhiting than your murder mystery, you are doing something horribly, irreparably wrong.
Once they switched out of the pensieve mode, it was kinda fun though! almost like reading a fic on AO3, and a one that hits a lot of my major kinks to boot. I didn't expect that so many things that I took to be fanon are indeed canon (like, I thought that Murder Husbands was a fandom moniker. Was I ever wrong.)
marina is a pimp extraordinaire, and her Hannibal post is a thing of majestic beauty, I gave up and finally watched Hannibal. (That might have been a mistake, because Mikkelsen looks like Putin and I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to read Hannibal fics without that unwanted thought in mind. Yuck.)The series is an important lesson in sticking to your guns, genre-wise. S1 tried hard to be a police procedural. As such, it hardly merited more than a B- for effort, but it tried. S2 went for a Gothic something-or-other: the doppelgangers! the madness! the overall aesthetic! man aspiring to godhead/wrestling with god! The master plot of S2, and I'm pretty much quoting verbatim from the various dialogues throughout the season, is god creating man in his image so that there'd be someone to love him; and realizing, once it's too late, that in point of fact, he created him so that he'd have someone to love. *sprinkle with exercises in theodicy to taste* They should have stopped at that, because S3 is a disaster. I think someone grew too enamoured with their sham metaphysics, and the first half of the season, with all their maybe-postmortem-maybe-not adventures, is impossible to watch with a straight face. I mean, I read a long and technical French work on narratology while skipping the convoluted quasi-philosophical dialogues of S3, and lemme tell you, when lit theory is more exhiting than your murder mystery, you are doing something horribly, irreparably wrong.
Once they switched out of the pensieve mode, it was kinda fun though! almost like reading a fic on AO3, and a one that hits a lot of my major kinks to boot. I didn't expect that so many things that I took to be fanon are indeed canon (like, I thought that Murder Husbands was a fandom moniker. Was I ever wrong.)
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Also Murder Husbands IS a fandom moniker! :D The creator took it from fandom and put it in the show in S3. He's very, very involved with fandom, and when the show ended basically wrote that the show was his Hannibal fanfic, and it's no different in terms of validity than anyone else's, and he's just so delighted to have been part of this amazing fandom, etc.
(A lot of the second half of S3 in general was, I think, the result of the creator being so close with fandom. Like it wasn't your imagination that it seemed like an AO3 fic, just like he openly incorporated Murder Husbands into it. I'm not saying he used fic as inspiration for scripts, but he definitely let himself go a lot, a LOT more tropey in S3 thanks to fandom's influence and encouragement.