thez wrote:Originally Abigail was supposed to be Will's prize for killing Jack Crawford. Crackpot psychologist would probably say Hannibal would try to associate Will's killing of Jack with the great feeling of seeing Abigail, and so erase any possible guilt that may come up. After all, killing Jack would have been different from killing the other two - one was self-defense, the other was self-preservation/hate.
I guess that makes sense as an interpretation, but anything that requires the audience to come up with an interpretation like this that basically could have filled an entire episode just isn't good writing to me. Too many blanks to fill in, even if you can make it add up to something that makes sense in the end.
It also bugs me how the Verger storyline ended up not going anywhere but giving Verger the chewed-off face. It was a huge plotline this episode, and then it just sort of abruptly ends before the season's over, turning out to have been nothing more than an "origin story" for a major character. Course I'm mostly just disappointed because it was so good while it lasted.
As I'm typing this up, I'm also kind of realizing that most of this stuff just bugs me because I'm holding the show to a higher standard now that it's managed to be more than "Mads Mikkelsen and some cool set designs", the TV series.