I reviewed the start of Season 3 here are my thoughts.
1. There are no surprises, just as I thought it would start "loosely" following the Hannibal story (the 3rd book/film) even though it's set before Lecter is caught.
2. I don't understand why Lecter and Du Maurier are posing as husband and wife. I don't think it adds anything to the story.
3. Abigail Hobbs allows herself to be killed by Lecter (in fact so does Graham), the opening to season 3 re-affirms this and this is again just bizarre.
4. Hannibal's motives are less than believable in this series. We've come a very long way from the Hannibal that was described in the novels. And moreover, they should have ignored Hannibal Rising since even Harris seems to agree was a horrible mistake. Just as they should have ignored anything from the Red Dragon film, and specifically I'm taking about Graham being a profiler instead of a forensic investigator and working with Lecter when the book says the meet for the second time in the incident where Graham tries to arrest him (and he doesn't try to do it himself as in that horrible film either, he calls for backup). And he doesn't work it out because there's an open book on the table, he works it out from seeing the titles of books on Hannibal's shelf and remembering "wound man" which is an illustration that appears in at least one of the books on Lecter's shelf, and bears resemblance to one of the victims. See, he works it out forensically - not by profiling!!!
5. Graham is also a very different character to the one in the book because SPOILER: Lecter sends him insane from within his own cell in Red Dragon! He sends Francis Dolarhyde to go kill him for revenge (or perhaps out of spite), and goodbye happy family life for Graham he spends the rest of his days living out of a bottle.
So yeah, all Harris is doing at this point is pissing on his legacy, especially since series three isn't even interesting like the first one was.
1. There are no surprises, just as I thought it would start "loosely" following the Hannibal story (the 3rd book/film) even though it's set before Lecter is caught.
2. I don't understand why Lecter and Du Maurier are posing as husband and wife. I don't think it adds anything to the story.
3. Abigail Hobbs allows herself to be killed by Lecter (in fact so does Graham), the opening to season 3 re-affirms this and this is again just bizarre.
4. Hannibal's motives are less than believable in this series. We've come a very long way from the Hannibal that was described in the novels. And moreover, they should have ignored Hannibal Rising since even Harris seems to agree was a horrible mistake. Just as they should have ignored anything from the Red Dragon film, and specifically I'm taking about Graham being a profiler instead of a forensic investigator and working with Lecter when the book says the meet for the second time in the incident where Graham tries to arrest him (and he doesn't try to do it himself as in that horrible film either, he calls for backup). And he doesn't work it out because there's an open book on the table, he works it out from seeing the titles of books on Hannibal's shelf and remembering "wound man" which is an illustration that appears in at least one of the books on Lecter's shelf, and bears resemblance to one of the victims. See, he works it out forensically - not by profiling!!!
5. Graham is also a very different character to the one in the book because SPOILER: Lecter sends him insane from within his own cell in Red Dragon! He sends Francis Dolarhyde to go kill him for revenge (or perhaps out of spite), and goodbye happy family life for Graham he spends the rest of his days living out of a bottle.
So yeah, all Harris is doing at this point is pissing on his legacy, especially since series three isn't even interesting like the first one was.
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"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
