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They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

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Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

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I feel that this is not the case in this scene. I see it as Hannibal letting chance decide if Bella should die - letting chance decide if her wish for a peaceful ending should be granted. The truly ‘evil’ option in this scene is saving her - it’s forcing her to suffer a slow, agonizing death. A death that she clearly wanted to avoid.

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literally hours later:

fundamentally vile. there's just no words to speak of how evil this is. like i said, the palestinians will celebrate a ceasefire but the war is never over.

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Maddie betrays Caitlyn Scene.

She's surrounded by enemy troops on a butcher's block, alone, and her only weapon is a snatched old timey rifle that will only offer her one clear shot before anybody can close the distance.

She can't defend herself *and* kill Ambessa, so she bets everything on the second. If she pulls it off she'll behead the invasion, which is great for PiltiZaun - but she'll be dead within seconds.

We all know this is absolute bullshit bc we’ve literally seen him delight in his wickedness over & over again. When he’s winning, he delights! But he’s so stuck in the zero-sum game mindset, desperately trying get the upper hand over Hannibal in a forceful, satisfying way.

From the beginning of Season 2, Will’s been in denial about the extent of the power he holds over Hannibal, because to do so would mean acknowledging that Hannibal actually loves him & wants a life with him. He’s been actively fighting against that truth in his mind. So, he clings to the idea of the zero-sum game.

In TWotL, he tells Hannibal that his rejection was specifically designed to manipulate Hannibal into surrendering, which I believe was the truth. He assumed that would be enough to win the war between them, finally giving Will the power.

But then we see that he is not happy when Hannibal actually does it, which implies that he didn’t really believe it’d work.

When it did, Will had to face the uncomfortable realization that it wasn’t what he actually wanted. It didn’t feel like a win when Hannibal conceded, giving up that which Will believed was most important to him: his freedom. Since Will’s presence in Hannibal’s life was more important than Hannibal’s freedom, that left very little room for Will’s continued denial of his own power. Hannibal freely offered up the power that Will had been trying to take, and it was clearly very unsatisfying despite it being what Will thought he wanted.

Will had always insisted that a big part of Hannibal’ s motivation for their “game” was his own amusement. Anytime Hannibal’s behavior made Will suspect a softer motivation, he’d have an argument with his subconscious, insisting that wasn’t the case. He was always so sure that Hannibal was enjoying himself.

Of course, we know that to be categorically false. Han spent all of S3 absolutely miserable over everything that happened w Will & Abigail, to the point of nearly committing suicide-by-Jack. Hannibal has been trying like hell to end the war he started when he framed Will so that he wouldn’t have to kill him. From the beginning of 2a, the only actual enjoyment Han got was when it seemed like his efforts to repair things w Will were actually working.

Will needed to believe that Hannibal’s motivations with him were much darker than they were so that he could hold on to his willpower to resist joining him. By surrendering, Will was finally forced to confront the possibility that he may have been wrong, which was terrifying for him. It explains why he jumped into a marriage with his rebound to try like hell to prove to himself that he could manage a semblance of genuine happiness in a life without Hannibal. If he couldn’t, he’d have to actually face the fact that he’d spent over 18 months fighting a war against his soulmate & the love of his life that only existed within his own mind. The real war was being fought with himself.

Once we get to 3b, Will’s veneer of domestication starts to unravel REALLY quickly after he finally gets the courage to face the truth of how badly he’d hurt Hannibal. By the time we get to TWotL, he’s fully committed to using the Dragon as an opportunity to finally gain the upper hand in a way that’s actually satisfying for him, whether that’s by letting Hannibal get killed or by killing the Dragon with Hannibal.