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Bates Motel and Hannibal
April 9, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Both shows are about serial killers, one about a serial killer in his teen years before he was a killer, and one about a serial killer in action, undetected even though he is working with an expert on serial killers.
So, my impressions of Bates Motel so far: I like it, and it's interesting, but it seems really stupid that the show is modern instead of set in whatever era Norman Bates actually would've grown up in. It's less effective this way.
My impressions of Hannibal so far: The gifted prodigy imagining himself as the killer is a cliche. A lot of the stuff Hannibal did in the first episode didn't make any sense. Why warn another serial killer he was about to get caught? Why stay in the hospital with the killer's intended victim overnight? Are we supposed to believe that Hannibal has empathy? I don't understand. The show has potential, I'm just skeptical based on the pilot.
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RE: Bates Motel and Hannibal
April 10, 2013 at 4:40 am
Seriously there's a TV series called Hannibal? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard - didn't they learn their lesson when they remade Manhunter into that fucking awful movie? Or even worse, when Harris wrote "Hannibal Rising" and created the worst imaginable plot line, contradicting his character? Did they find an actor with six fingers to play Hannibal this time? If you ever watch the movie Hannibal - and I dare say noithing against the great Sir Ridley Scott - in it Verger gives Starling an X-ray which makes no sense in the movie, but in the book it's from the surgery Hannibal has to remove the extra digits on his hands.
Why warn another serial killer? Haha, sounds stupid enough to me. Hannibal tries to get serial killers to kill for him - that's his MO. He doesn't give a sahit if they get caught...
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RE: Bates Motel and Hannibal
April 10, 2013 at 10:37 am
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I read Hannibal rising ages ago, he does(did?) have empathy, eh I didn't think it was that bad Daniel. I don't remember anything about another serial killer being warned. Yeah that doesn't sound like him.
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