Ladies of Hannibal

Naka-Choko

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Hannibal 3x10 - “And the Woman Clothed in Sun”

Will is a wet little man who could break in any minute, Hannibal is just there being the literal definition of Mansplain Manipulate Manslaughter, Jack just wants to catch killers doesn't care who he has to drag in the process. And Alana is just there being the normal one, bless her soul. Lmfao. Loving this group dinamic.

He gave you a chance to take it all back and you just kept lying. No one had to die. It’s hard to grasp what would’ve happened, what could’ve happened, and in some other world did happen.

Do you see now?

the aggregate popularity of the "lesbian who sleeps with a man For Reasons" trope is appalling, and that's what makes it viciously funny that this show turned around and went "and it really was just for Reasons and neither of them caught feelings about it and neither of them ended up particularly happy about it and it was kind of shitty for everyone involved"

after hearing on the episode commentaries about the kind of romantic-subplot bullshit some of the other voices in the writers room were pushing for, i actually give Fuller and his specifically gay perspective on this 100% credit for the decision to do the trope but pointedly remove almost all of what straight dudes get out of this fantasy. "but he still got to sleep with her" yeah and when he found out about the Reasons it killed the appeal stone dead.

"fuck the way men always seem to get more interiority and emotional development" can be true At The Same Time As "it IS a reversal of stereotypes for the dudes to have a relationship that's emotional and sensual while the girls are just here to Fuck," especially when the yonic-kaleidoscopes sex scene is like. the opposite of titillating. the only gaze that scene is for is the gaze of someone who's on a LOT of fucking drugs.

but yeah the show is quite capable of implying a lot of character work in not a lot of screentime, so it IS a disappointing omission that we never really get Margot or Alana's feelings about either the hookup or the subsequent marriage of convenience, especially when they'd both be bringing a lot of baggage to it

like seriously, ~uwu soft wlw~ headcanons about how healing this relationship is for them are all well and good and consistent with what we're shown, but we're also shown two fucked-up damaged people having trauma at each other without gloves on, and i specifically want Alana's POV on sex where she's secretly being used vs. sex where she's being used overtly with a win-win proposition attached.