This show, yet again, has created a situation where a
simple answer doesn’t exist. Stories
with this level of writing are my favorite, because they give you a character that
you root for, but you know you shouldn’t.
And then you have to look inside yourself and come up with how you feel
about it. Genius. If you haven’t seen Hannibal, go watch it
now. I’m serious. The episodes are online (except for the first
three) at www.nbc.com/hannibal. Go.
Watch. Then come back. If you haven’t seen this episode I’m going to
delve right into spoiler territory so turn back if you don’t want the surprise
ruined. For everyone that is still
reading. Here…We…GO!
Holy mother-flippin’ crap balls, Abigail Hobbs helped her
father kill the other girls. She would
approach the future-victims and becomes friends with them to lure these young
girls into her father’s trap. Now,
because society frowns upon assisting in murder just as much as the actual act
of taking another human’s life, we shouldn’t feel sympathy for Abigail. She made her bed, let her sleep in it,
right? Well, what if you knew that her
father killed all these girls so he wouldn’t have to kill her. Messed up, right? She helped her father kill, mount, stuff into
pillows, and eat girls so she could survive.
How can you not feel bad for her?
Think about what she’s going through.
She has survivor’s guilt, having dreams of the other girls telling her
that they could’ve lived if she had died.
On top of that, she is faced with the reality that her own father wanted
to kill her. Why? What is it about her that made her father
want to kill her? She’s only, what,
eighteen I think they said? She is just
becoming an adult and having to deal with all of these things. On top of that she’s haunted by Nicolas, who
she killed in self defense, and the media who are stirring up the belief that she’s
just like her dad. She’s dealing with so
much that an unstable character steals your heart. Fantastic.
Eventually, Will Graham figures out that she killed
Nicolas and Hannibal Lecter helped her hide the body, but he is stuck in a
catch twenty-two. If he goes to Crawford
and tells him of Abigail’s crime the media will have all the proof they need to
start a feeding frenzy on Abigail, slandering her as a serial killer because
her dad was one. So he enters into a
secret with Hannibal and Abigail, because he feels responsible for her well
being since he basically orphaned her, that will eventually come to a head, I’m
sure.
Meanwhile, the killer of the week was interesting. An old man who kills fifteen people then erects
a human totem pole out of their body parts has got my attention instantly. I really enjoy the duel storytelling of this
series. The killer of the week gives an
interesting mystery to be solved (which is important to this franchise
considering the two good books out of the series are based on a mystery) while
sending Will Graham further down the crazy road, which needs to happen for the story
to go further. Then, while they are
solving that mystery, they deal with character problems like Abigail’s secret
about killing Nicolas or Will’s lapses of time and hallucinations. This structure gives each episode a clear
ending while allowing the character driven pieces to move more organically.
In an otherwise great episode, there is one
lapse of logic that I can't pass up. How did that old man erect that
totem pole all by himself? One, that's a gigantic tree trunk he used as a
base to attach everything to, and two, all of those bodies on that gigantic
tree trunk are going to be heavy as shit. Unless he's being assisted by
Dwayne Johnson, I don't think the old man could do it.
That being said, I cannot wait until next week’s episode. I’m seriously in love with this show.
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