All That Scheming Will And Jack Did In Season 2 To Catch Hannibal When All Will Had To Do Was Break Up

never getting over how absolutely proud this motherfucker looked when will was talking about the chesapeake ripper, that sparkle in his eyes makes me go feral every single time

I love this more than anything 🩵🥹

help I’m not breathing

WE DID IT

days keep happening to me. and nights also. no say in it whatsoever

Assemble morally questionable tableaus of character and eat them

can’t relate when people try to be normal in this fandom. i’m here to lick disturbing concepts off the wet pavement

Guys, I’m actually so nervous. Hannibal is trending daily now, multiple times.

Oh I love this. He looks so wrecked in the second one - in a terrible and utterly glorious way.

It’s vital. It’s horrible and it’s everything.

How Will looks at Molly vs how he looks at Hannibal

Vs

I just love how there's a smile on his face that doesn't reach his eyes. Almost empty, soulless, emotionless, lost. And he really is. In a life he actually never belonged to. An eventually doomed attempt to stick to normalcy.

How he looks at Hannibal. Passion, affection, frustration, rage, determination even. Every single emotion shining through his face. He might be bewildered and in agony, but at least he's alive.

This

so this has probably already been talked about in great detail since the end of the show (hannibal) but I just did a rewatch and I can't shut up about it. the incredible level of subtle details in this show is already insane but I noticed it much clearer in my rewatch during season 3 part two how quickly we see Will change.

during *The Great Red Dragon*, Will is back to mostly his pre-Hannibal self. We see him married with a family out in the country with his dogs and more specifically his clothes (I am going to be very specific about what he wears in this because it's these details that are so subtle but make his change so much more crispy). He's wearing very practical, warm weather clothes, looks like an outdoorsman.

like, reminder that this ↓

is how he shows up to meet Hannibal again for the first time in years. Glasses, coat, clearly clothes he would not think twice about wearing anywhere, kind of like how he dresses in season one. It's also in his expression and his stature (which bless Hugh Dancy for his portrayal of Will because I don't know who else could have done the subtle changes so eloquently)

now let me take you to the episode directly after (And the Woman Clothed with the Sun) he first sees Hannibal and has to come back to talk to him

i'm sorry??? Immediately with the crisp button down, tucked in, with the top buttons undone, hair slicked back, NO GLASSES and look. Look at how he stands and his expression and how comfortable he is, hands in pockets.

okay further evidence. And honestly arguably the scariest piece

it's the dead-eyed stare for me. We all know what happened to Chilton after this, and it's the fact that he knew what he was doing. God, Will was never more like Hannibal than he was at the end of season three. Clothes are not much different on purpose because he's playing the game now.

Sidebar that in almost all the scenes that he's bitchily talking to Bedelia, he's also very well dressed as if he's taking Hannibal's place in his manipulation of her.

By the time we see him in The Wrath of the Lamb, he has already decided that he wants Hannibal back. Vaguely suggesting to Jack to use Hannibal as bait for the Dragon, as if he didn't very well consider all the outcomes would likely lead to Hannibal escaping. The way they're looking conspiratorially at each other in the back of the van. How Will isn't even remotely surprised he walks out unscathed or how he doesn't question letting him drive them to wherever they're going to meet the dragon.

And once they get to the cliffside house, and they get settled and Will?

His shirt is tight, his expression is the SAME as the one Hannibal had in episode ONE season ONE, as he watches Hannibal BLEED OUT and wonders probably what they will do.

There are plenty of ways everyone that worked on this show displayed how Will was changing but I loved how they used his clothes to do it and how Hugh used his expressions to differentiate pre-Hannibal and post-Hannibal Will.

I could write a dissertation on this show it's insane and I will never shut up about my murderous gay husbands.