r/HannibalTV • u/eldritchpussymaggots • 9h ago
r/HannibalTV • u/K_S_Morgan • Feb 22 '19
Theory - Spoilers A Collection of Some 'Hannibal' Metas/Analysis
I've seen a thread yesterday where OP asked for some analysis on the show but it seems to be deleted now. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to collect some detailed posts/metas on 'Hannibal'. I have some that I personally consider very insightful, as well as some I've written myself, so here they are. Feel free to add some other ones in the comments!
Relationship meta
u/K_S_Morgan's Will and Hannibal's relationship: How Hannigram Became Canon
u/K_S_Morgan's Will’s vs. Hannibal’s Ways of Expressing Love
Hannibalstan's Hannibal loved Will since S1
Hannibalstan's Will Ate Hannibal Alive aka What Are Flashbacks to Gideon About?
EasyStrain2's Hannibal and Will's Conjugal Life & Intimacy Discussion
Uno_nothing's Alana and Hannibal
Uno_nothing's Parallels between the replacement-lives Hannibal and Will tried (covering S3)
K_S_Morgan's Will's Sexuality analysis
K_S_Morgan's Francis' Feelings for Hannibal, Jealousy to Will, and the Way it Shapes His Actions
Will and Hannibal as a family analysis: Is there a child in your life, Will?
Hannibal, Homoeroticism, and When it’s Not Queerbaiting
dsyyoung's Between Iron and Silver: Hannibal's Relationship with Chiyoh
u/eldritchpussymaggots's analysis: A Take on Will and Hannibal's Relationship by a Clinically Recognised Psychopath/Sociopath
General meta
Xenya's Hannibal Murder Map. S1. Real locations of murders
Uno_nothing's Hannibal's and Will's kill lists
u/tanjitophare's Hannibal timeline explained
i_am_curs3d's List of All Episodes' Titles' Meanings
u/Amyy17's Time stamps - Sex Scenes
Xenya's Imagoes in Hannibal
Interior design analysis by beatricenius
Cinematography and Lighting Techniques
Idontfindyouthatinteresting's sexuality and women analysis
Uno_nothing's Morality, Cannibalism, Denial and the big elephant in the room
Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal
The Evil Minds Museum, Exhibit A: Inside the mind of an Alana Bloom hater
Bryan Fuller on Devil's seduction
Art of Hannibal Title (link provided by u/Kolvez)
u/fionaapplespiss's "Hannibal” killers as analogies to Will and Hannibal and their relationship throughout the show
u/K_S_Morgan's Symbolism of Boats in 'Hannibal'
u/ChampionAshley's Kings of Hell – False Devils, Victorious Love, and Nature Incarnate (Nightmare Stag Analysis)
u/greentevil's fashion metas:
Why Hannibal Looks Different in the Pilot
Background to Hannibal’s fashion tastes and why its amazing
Will’s clothes as a metaphor for his person suit
Hannibal’s party clothes and how his uniqueness shines through
22drunkb's Hannibal as a Fairy-Tale
u/LegZealousideal9948's Thematic contrasts between Will's house and Hannibal's house
Characters meta
K_S_Morgan's Hannibal Is Not a Psychopath: Criteria and Examples
K_S_Morgan's The Evolution of Will Graham’s Darkness.
SirIan's Analysis of Will's Moral Conflict
SirIan's Will's True Motivations analysis
Uno_nothing aka Hannibalized's Aestheticism in Hannibal’ philosophy of therapy and this
Blyhannah's Will and Control aka Why Do People See Will as Someone Vulnerable
Worldadjacent's Will’s lack of reconstruction of the Ripper’s crime scenes
Hannibalized's To what extent is Will defined by his empathy? meta
K_S_Morgan's Does Will have an empahy disorder?
K_S_Morgan's Is Will autistic?
Herewegohappiness' Will's possessiveness
Wellntruly's Will's touch issues: Touching in Hannibal with addition.
Hannibalized's Will Graham’s Person Suit
SirIan's The Different Versions of Hannibal Lecter analysis
Hannibalized's ‘Did you believe you could change me the way I’ve changed you?’ Hannibal’s becoming, Will and Hannibal’s attempts at denial.
Hannibalized's “Tasteless” = rude.. Will Graham’s trouble with taste
Dsyyoung's Hannibal's Compassion
K_S_Morgan's Chiyoh and her personality
Hannibalstan's Will Graham: No Free Will. Behaviorism More is here
Hannibalstan's Will's morality
Hannibalstan's Will Graham the Unreliable Narrator (only part of meta available now, unfortunately)
Alloymiracle's The revelation of Will Graham's standpoint on violence
Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't mind Will killing him from the start
Axmxz's Hannibal as Female Power Fantasy analysis
Alana and mismanagement by Auden93
Divine Punishment inflicted by Will
Power game, Power forces (God, the Dragon, the Devil and the Lamb)
Hannibalstan's Will's vs. Hannibal's view of God
u/metaxtase's Will's coffin birth
u/spinachmanicotti's Did Bedelia's flattery over Will's jealously blind her to how dangerous he was for her?
u/K_S_Morgan's How Will Perceives Grievances: Selfish or Righteous?
u/greentevil's Hannibal’s cannibalism as a compulsion
u/SharonzHere's The profile of Will Graham
u/skatingvampire's The banal evil of Dr Chilton
S1 metas (possible spoilers to other seasons, too, so proceed carefully)
Hannibal's Battlebot's The first scene of E1 never happened
SirIan's Will's Instability at the Beginning of the Show aka Is Will Better With or Without Hannibal.
Uno_nothing's Season 1 - Episode names and murders of the week - symbolic and thematic significance
Uno_nothing's Flow of events from Sorbet to Trou Normand : Introspection, insights, developing relationship and foreshadowing
The meaning of a painting with a dog hanging in Hannibal's kitchen
K_S_Morgan's Why Hannibal Hid Will's Encephalitis
ThePurpleViolin's Parallels between Franklyn and Hannibal
ThePurpleViolin's SpoilersHannibal and “The Rite of Spring” — Victimhood and Empowerment
u/metaxtase's Hannibal's evil villain master plan
Hannibal's plan in S1: Who did he intend to frame?
Xenya's Hannibal planned to frame Will
Hannibalstan's Hannibal planned to frame Chilton
Guyisgame's Hannibal planned to frame Jack
u/metaxtase's Hannibal wanted Will to figure him out
Twitchy_and_fatigued's Georgia Madchen Theory (analysis of her condition)
u/candy-riot's S1: Will and Identity
S2 metas
Will, Alana, and Hannibal: An Attempt to Remember
u/Asherwolfe's Why Beverly wasn't dumb and Hannibal wasn't just lucky
u/Asherwolfe's Chilton as the Ripper - Not as stupid as it seemed?
Uno_nothing's Will's doubts, insecurity and dark prompts - analyzing season 2E-08/09/10 - Early stages of becoming
K_S_Morgan's Will, Hannibal, and Alana in S2: Changing Dynamics, a Sex Scene, and a Gun
Why Hannibal didn't want Will to kill Ingram
K_S_Morgan's Will's Changing Feelings for Hannibal in the Course of S2
ThePurpleViolin's Hannibal and Mahler — an analysis of the use of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in S2E10
Does Alana Have Any Reason To Suspect Hannibal?
Hannibalstan's Aesthetics become Ethics analysis of Will and Hannibal
Hannibalstan's Will and Margot’s Baby arc analysis
Hannibalstan's Whose side is Will in Mizumono?
Hannibalstan's Fostering Codependence: how true is Will's accusation?
A bit from Bryan Fuller's interview on how much Jack knew in S2 about Will
S3 meta
Pre S3 meta. The BAU is the real Murder Family: Hannibal and Bateson’s Double Bind
Symbolism of Hannibal's Valentine
Hannibalstan's Contorno Parallels
Hannibalstan's Paintings in Dolce behind Will and Hannibal: Meaning
Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't plan to kill Will in Dolce
K_S_Morgan's Will's emotional journey in S3
Mads and Hugh's interview: Why Hannibal frames Will and why Will abandons Molly and Walter
SirIan's Hannibal, Molly, and Will's Dogs analysis
EasyStrain's Analysis of the Meetings, Molly and Dragon aka Will's Plan Throughout The Second Half of S3
K_S_Morgan's Short Love=God/Religion: S3 parallels analysis
Uno_nothing's "Compassionate toward a cow" and Will's thoughts about watching Hannibal die, his final transformation
SirIan's and K_S_Morgan's Will as the Lamb of God: Meaning
Hannibalstan's The Structure of Hannibal Finales: No Contradictions aka the faked Fall in TWOTL
‘Hannibal’ Finale: A Planned Fake-Out Or Murder/Suicide?
TWOTL Fall didn't really happen
u/Asherwolfe's Will's Becoming - S2 and S3: Parallels
Hannibal 3.01 - 3.03 - Source Material, Pop Cultural References, Theories & Observations
u/ChampionAshley's Little Words that Say So Much (3x12's Bedelia and Will exchange analysis)
Post-canon metas
Will and Hannibal's future house design analysis
Will, Hannibal, and Real Family
Discussion of Will and Hannibal's life post-canon based on Bryan Fuller's hints
Metas & discussions on specific episodes
Wellntruly's S1 E7: enthusiastic reflection, some analysis, and mirroring
Analysis of E1 of S3: Antipasto: Hannibal’s Perfect Break from the Mainstream by Liz Baessler
Analysis of E2 of S3: Primavera: Coming to Terms with Divinity in Hannibal by Liz Baessler
Analysis of E3 of S3: Secondo: Transformation and Influence in Hannibal by Liz Baessler
Analysis of E4 of S3: Aperitivo: A New Kind of Persuasion in Hannibal by Liz Baessler
Analysis of E13 of S3 (finale): The Wrath of the Lamb by Liz Baessler
And these are just some interesting moments from the scripts that didn't get into the show. S1, S2, S3.
r/HannibalTV • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago
Weekly Off Topic Chat - Mondays
These threads will be for posting your non-Hannibal stuff. Antler decor, pets, how you did on your test, whatever. I'll try to post a new one on Mondays.
To that end, I've enabled pictures in the thread. Have fun!
r/HannibalTV • u/Pristine_Specific_21 • 12h ago
Petitioning for Season 4
I have no clue how to do this
but I just want to do something!!!
Like if it's ever going to happen it needs to happen soon
So today I sent Netflix the above using this link
https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest
They have been known to bring back other series from the dead so maybe I can start sending this every day to bring it to someone's attention 😅
Was also going to look if such as thing as sending a letter or something to Amazon/other places is possible
Write an email or letter saying I will be their faithful lifelong subscriber if they do this one thing
Just something, anything really and if enough of us do this maybe some producer will catch on
Give us a movie at least 🥲
r/HannibalTV • u/Minimum_Line_8063 • 2h ago
BECOMING...
Did any of you read this book? Comments?
r/HannibalTV • u/Latter-Foundation-29 • 7h ago
Discussion - Spoilers Hannibal yelling
Is the man even capable?
r/HannibalTV • u/SoggyGround6420 • 9h ago
S1 Spoilers Sprig of zest
"Which is why youre here, to prove that sprig of zest you feel is from saving abigail, not from killing her dad"
Rewatching, idk this weirdly got me 🤭.
Highly doubt it was intended to be taken like that, but Hannibal is very subtly punny and has inside jokes to himself- throughout the show.
All im saying is; theres other ways to word things, not 'youre here because youre zesty' haha.
Gosh this show is beautiful and layered
r/HannibalTV • u/MacabreMagpie • 14h ago
Will Graham commission for a friend from around 2019.
@thewilliamsdroid on insta for more Hannibal fanart.
r/HannibalTV • u/Ryan_H_99 • 14h ago
Memes/Fan Art How could spiderman eavesdrop on the family outing!?
r/HannibalTV • u/a-star-danced • 1d ago
Memes/Fan Art will graham motivating me to practice my realism
i just miss him lots
r/HannibalTV • u/SoggyGround6420 • 1d ago
Memes/Fan Art If theres chicken in this imma kiss you
This audio clip from GMM was unhinged though. (Artist on ig should be too screen)
r/HannibalTV • u/purpleplumas • 1d ago
S3 Spoilers So it turns out that cutting and peeling faces is just standard face lift procedure?????
I'm sure this is obvious/known to plenty of people, but I thought they just made it up when Mason was paying to have Will's face literally taken off and stitched on him.
I'm watching Plastic Beauty on Netflix (I'm not finished so please no spoilers), and they show a face-lift operation in detail and now I'm a bit traumatized.
People agree to that??? I'd rather chain-smoke cigarettes everyday and die 20 years earlier.
I do realize that TV dramas are not meant to give technical insights into surgical procedures, and I'm sure that Hannibal takes artistic liberties with what is medically accurate. (Probably PB too to a lesser degree).
It's just my TIL of the day that getting your face ripped off by a doctor is indeed a thing for people who are not violent psychopaths.
r/HannibalTV • u/clockcy • 1d ago
Memes/Fan Art This edit of the Wendigo/Ravenstag and Will is so meaningful to me.
It really captures the essence of Will's fascination with Hannibal's dark side and his own emerging darkness, and how he's drawn to their bond yet trying to break free of it as he throws away the gun to "intimately" kill the Wendigo's illusion. And the antlers growing out of his back! So much delicious symbolism.
The edit's not mine, all credits to @/lesbiansformoony on tt.
r/HannibalTV • u/clockcy • 23h ago
S3 Spoilers Would Will have gone looking for Hannibal inevitably after Digestivo if Hannibal hadn't surrendered?
I'm really curious, it's only cause Hannibal surrendered and Will finding an excuse 3 years later to visit Hannibal in his cell where he knew he'd find him (as Hannibal had intended) that they met again. I wonder whether Will would've given up his pretense for craving and pursuing a "normal" life and eventually went looking for Hannibal again.
r/HannibalTV • u/nyli7163 • 1d ago
What does this remind you of?
I saw this on social media and knew just the place for it. “Mincing with intent to dazzle” is my new favorite description for Will.
r/HannibalTV • u/GodsGiftToNothing • 1d ago
Discussion - Spoilers Anyone else catch Bryan Fuller in Carrie?
I won’t say when, but he’s there with Don Mancini (Chucky creator). Flanagan is apparently a fan, and because I’m ancient, I remember loving Fuller’s version of Carrie from a million years ago with Angela Bettis and Katharine Isabelle (Bettis made an appearance in Hannibal as well). Flanagan giving a cameo to Fuller, is kind of an interesting co-sign. It’s interesting to see support popping up for Fuller, that could possibly lead to more Hannibal. Apparently it’s been in the top ten on Netflix, and done well globally as well. Whatever happens, I wish the best for Fuller and his Isle of Incredible Actors/Directors/and all around amazing crew. It’s nice to see good people, get good things.
r/HannibalTV • u/keythemsnake • 1d ago
No Spoilers Watching Hannibal almost for the first time
I've started watching Hannibal again, I just saw the first season when it first came out (I was like 13/14 years old) and I remembered things but I didn't remember the series.
At work I said "this is my design" as a joke bc it's the one thing that always stuck with me and my friend there was like "we need to watch it".
So yeah, rewatching it but it feels like the first time because I don't remember many things! I'm enjoying it so much! I'm already on chapter 9 and I started 2 days ago. New obsession I guess?
Also took these screenshots, THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACHOTHER they're in love.
Feel free to talk about the first season without spoilers pls!