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we always talk about the emotion and motivation behind hannibal gutting will but can we talk about will being gutted? please? because
would your first response to having your abdomen sliced open with a linoleum knife NOT be to double over in pain? instinctively try to cover yourself? i mean it is literally instinct if i were being stabbed my hands would be right there in half a second flat. but
will doesn’t double over or grab himself in pain
he stands up straight
his arms hanging at his sides
until
they’re on hannibal’s shoulder. not his stab wound. hannibal’s shoulder
but the most important thing is that, as he is being gutted, literally as hannibal is working the knife across his abdomen:
he looks hannibal right in the eye. unblinking.
and when hannibal embraces him,
he clutches hannibal back
will stood up straight with his arms at his side and his eyes on hannibal’s as the linoleum knife tore through his intestines
will allowed himself to be gutted
he allowed himself to be gutted. he validated hannibal’s hurt. he is repentant. he knows. he betrayed hannibal - the darkest and most horrible of sins - and this is his penance. he knows how deeply he cut hannibal and knows this is only fair. he deserves this. he feels that he deserves this.
will is as hurt by himself as hannibal. and of course, we focus on hannibal’s reaction, and his heartbreak, because it is so intense and violent and visceral, but will’s heartbreak is just as beautiful
(so try & tell me that will didn’t love hannibal even then. i’ll physically fight you)
"In the end, Will was Hannibal’s man, not Jack’s. He tipped Hannibal off with precisely the same solidarity phone call Hannibal placed to Garrett Jacob Hobbs back in the pilot: “They know.” And in what might actually be the episode’s most surprising moment, Will turns to Hannibal and tearfully tells him, “You were supposed to leave.”"
For a moment, I had the audacity to assume I was over
Mizumono and decided to rewatch it. Boy oh boy, was I wrong! I noticed a few
details that slipped from me the first time, most likely because I was bawling
my eyes out. And I realized that in the very moment giffed above Will
motherloving Graham was about to kiss Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter.
A bit of context for anyone who managed to erase this scene
from their memory (I salute you): Will arrives at Hannibal’s place, sees that
Abigail is alive and Hannibal hasn’t left yet. “You were supposed to leave,” he
says, to which Hannibal replies, “We couldn’t leave without you.” (Read “I
couldn’t live without you.”) Will does a dramatic little turn like the actual
Disney prince that he is to face Hannibal who had successfully managed to creep
up behind him.
Things to notice:
In the first gif, Will’s eyes travel down to Hannibal’s
lips.
In the second gif, he gets one step closer to Hannibal and
his throat trembles softly.
In the third gif, when Hannibal reaches out to touch him, his facial features have already softened, he leans in slightly, and
there’s even the faint twitch of a smile at the corners of his lips.
The way I see it, this is the moment when Will realizes
Hannibal actually cared about him and Abigail. It’s the moment when he realizes
Hannibal risked sparing Abigail’s life (killing her would have been way less
dangerous than keeping her hidden) because he wanted them to leave everything
behind, run away together and live as a family. And in this very second it all
dawns on him; a moment of full understanding as he looks at Hannibal’s dark,
teary eyes and his bloody lips, and suddenly time stops and the world fades
away and it’s just the two of them and the intimate knowledge of a shared consuming passion.
Sadly, time doesn’t stop for Hannibal, as he still remembers Will’s lies and his betrayal. But let’s not get into that.
Now, this may not seem like a lot, but please keep in mind
that this is Will Eyes-Are-Distracting Graham we are talking about and in this
scene he looks like he can’t get enough of Hannibal’s eyes.
Remember how visibly pissed off he was when Jack touched his glasses in season 1, episode 1 and compare it to this scene where he doesn’t protest to suddenly being touched AT ALL.
He doesn’t break eye contact, he doesn’t shy away, he doesn’t pull himself from Hannibal’s touch. For someone who just saw his friend bleeding out in front of the door, came in with a gun (brief note here: I believe the gun was meant for Jack, as he lowered it when he saw Abigail and didn’t put it back on Hannibal, even though he could have), and found out his surrogate daughter was miraculously alive, you’d expect him to flinch, at least, when a bloody cannibal serial killer grabs his face. But no, he doesn’t. Because he has anticipated that sort of touch, and he wants it. He wants to kiss Hannibal Lecter. It’s such an
intense and intimate moment that I get secondhand-embarrassment from Abigail sitting there
and having to watch them.
Am I wrong and reading too much into this? Maybe, but you
never know with a show that keeps getting gayer and gayer. Either way, A++
acting and micro-expressions from Hugh Dancy. Give this man the awards he
deserves already.
