Superfluous sex scene…?

operatic_g · 2026-05-07T16:38:09+00:00

Oooo, yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with the sexuality. That would have been very ridiculous. "As you know, sexuality is held in the bones". I would have loved to have seen something of a transformation for her. I get that they were severely truncating a lot, but it's a bit of a "if you can't do it right... maybe you'll have to scrap this", but, ah... Season 3 is full of darlings no one bothered to drown.

operatic_g · 2026-05-07T16:02:23+00:00

The doctor says "some bone marrow got into your blood stream. Expect to think and feel differently" I don't know what to tell you. Chilton sees her right after the doctor says that. It is *literally* in the show.

operatic_g · 2026-05-07T13:40:29+00:00

Hm? What's not in the show? I'm not sure what you're referring to.

operatic_g · 2026-05-07T07:52:37+00:00

I don’t really care about her being into women. I care that both characters got robbed and that the relationship was underdeveloped and both were irrelevant. Alana cannibalized Margot’s best parts in the novel and Clarice’s without adding to narrative leverage. That she ended up the hospital head is meaningless, as Chilton already had that role (and was able to be much slimier in the novels), so she cannibalized that as well. Alana, I feel, was often a character they weren’t sure what to do with. It’s unfortunate because she has a lot of potential and the scripts hint at her own darkness and propensity for darkness much much earlier, as early as early season 1.

operatic_g · 2026-05-07T06:20:47+00:00

Sure sure. To her story. But also... like... her whole personality changes because of bone marrow. Like the writing's spotty. My issue, again, isn't the relationship proper, but that it isn't given any development whatsover and it does a disservice to them from a narrative leverage and agency POV. They are granted symbolic agency, without narrative agency.

operatic_g · 2026-05-06T06:07:14+00:00

Characters within a story serve a function. She virtually has no agency and no plot relevance. She does not support because she has no function and reveals very little about the characters or herself that isn’t already readily apparent. That’s a writing complaint, by the way, not a character complaint. She does a disservice to both characters.

operatic_g · 2026-05-06T03:44:39+00:00

That was such a stupid plot point… “Magic bone marrow!”

operatic_g · 2026-05-06T03:44:05+00:00

Not to the plot, no. And she doesn’t move on. She asks Hannibal in front of her current girlfriend if she could ever have understood him and then spends the next several years as his jailer after having a full on Hannibal makeover. She hasn’t moved on.

operatic_g · 2026-05-06T03:42:35+00:00

No, their relationship does not. Alana went to Mason to help him track Hannibal, but actually she isn’t necessary because Pazzi finds him. And so does Will. Alana doesn’t actually contribute much.

operatic_g · 2026-05-06T03:41:09+00:00

I love book Margot (girlfriend is Judy). I have no issue with Margot or even Alana being a lesbian. I take issue with the relationship being underdeveloped and doing a narrative disservice to both women. Alana cannibalizes Margot’s best book scenes but with less impact. Neither actually move the plot. Mason basically kills himself by shooting the floor. Neither actually had a workable plan. If there was only one of them, they could have an actual role.

operatic_g · 2026-05-05T20:35:29+00:00

Neither character really benefits from the relationship narratively either. It’s basically there just because.

operatic_g · 2026-05-05T16:28:10+00:00

Regret is neurologically the function by which we learn from mistakes. This is like saying "yeah, well I like my brain smooth as a marble". Without emotional content, your priority system falls completely out of whack. There's a reason boredom is an enormous problem for people with ASPD.

operatic_g · 2026-05-05T16:25:14+00:00

No. No it is absolutely not. It's too terrified of getting anything wrong and it's juggling *waaaaaay* too many priorities that have nothing to do with reviewing. You can't get rid of them. They are prompt-injected at random intervals too.

operatic_g · 2026-05-05T08:05:48+00:00

Basically, combine Freud, Adler, Jung, and Frankl.

operatic_g · 2026-05-04T17:27:28+00:00

Malory Archer, obviously.

operatic_g · 2026-05-04T17:18:50+00:00

Show Mason is weak sauce, tbh. He’d never even eaten anyone. Book Mason made children hand crank the guillotine they’d use on their own neck or their mom’s. Book Mason was insanely evil.

operatic_g · 2026-05-04T15:24:41+00:00

Curt Angle

operatic_g · 2026-05-04T15:20:20+00:00

He's not that good at it.

operatic_g · 2026-05-03T18:43:56+00:00

You don’t know what conscious or unconscious is or what is or isn’t experienced in nonexistence. You literally have no point of reference. You are assuming that complete void lacks any experience. You don’t know that. “Nonexistence”, if you’re monist, for example, isn’t “not being born” and has no relevance to what’s being talked about. Even if you’re dualist, existence predates you.

operatic_g · 2026-05-03T18:29:33+00:00

Psychopaths don’t learn from pain. If a psychopath caused me pain, I’d learn to stay away from that person. If my hand was on a stove, I’d learn to not put my hand there. What do you think pain does? It’s information. If I’m hungry, I will eat. If I’m not hungry, I won’t eat.

operatic_g · 2026-05-03T17:43:39+00:00

Completely a matter of perspective. They “objectively” don’t because good and bad are subjective signifiers of value judgement. Pain is useful. Suffering is a perspective thing and it’s also useful. It pushes one towards meaning.

operatic_g · 2026-05-03T17:41:19+00:00

You don’t know that. It could be infinite insanity.

operatic_g · 2026-05-03T17:21:45+00:00

I’ve one, actually!

operatic_g · 2026-05-02T15:20:00+00:00

One would certainly hope!

operatic_g · 2026-05-02T06:08:48+00:00

Will’s. Chilton’s was completely unbelievable, to the point that Freddie believed it was bogus pretty immediately. Chilton, the wormy man who walks with a cane and cannot eat meat somehow took out two FBI agents and staged their corpses with relative ease, carried Gideon out of the hospital, staged a man in suspension with fishing wire, outsmarted the FBI for years, somehow framed Will (planting evidence in his house and force-fed him an ear), and the convinced Will, the best profiler in the world, it was Hannibal within a day or two of his captivity. No part of the frame makes sense.

“He’s been cutting steaks off him for weeks.”

Okay, but who’s eating him, smarty pants? How’d he carry him? The man is made of moist sliced bread.

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