A review.

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Since I was viewing Hannibal, the last section, while imbibing, and had other things on my mind, I was pretty sure this wasn't the same as the movie version.  So I watched again, part of the last season, so far, in any case.  It does seem, this time around, as if Hannibal is... similar to the one in the movies.  Perhaps there is a bit more practicality to the notion.  Sometimes killing isn't intended but there isn't an option.  There is the notion that he does find and kill other psychopaths, which he does.  And there is the idea I expressed recently, regarding those in charge being forms of psychopaths.  However, the line is so thin that I believe it to be too tenuous.  I am siding with my initial understanding, just a bit more thinly.  Everything he does, however, isn't exactly about him.  He has a plan, and there is a plan.  It seems he is more trying to align with some overall plan.  I suppose you might call this his faith.

I will not continue with the series.  He is a dragon, but a secular one.  He has faith, but it too is secular.  He is willing to do what it takes, and is interesting in forming others like himself into what he thinks they could be.  Not for his plan, but for his faith.  This is not interesting to me.  There is no means to or for salvation.  He is merely lost.  He is not a confused savior, he isn't trying to do good, he is merely going with the flow as he sees it.  He has surrendered.  As I said, you cannot surrender to yourself.  He obviously has not surrendered to good, even darkly.  He is merely feral, if brilliantly.  Perhaps more Hollywood atheist-superman chic than brilliant?  I'm on the fence on that aspect.  I will finish the series, as some of the shows were not completely seen.

I am not sure if the show's director ruined the notion, or if I mistook the movies.  I may have to appraise the discrepancy at some point.  For now, after watching the last of the series, I am done with the review.  There really are monsters out there, looking out for people, willing and able to do what has to be done and take the risks that go with it.  Some, many perhaps, have gone to their graves with secrets, to spare the living, perhaps even the dead, knowledge that is best unspoken.  There are some who function every day.  They are real.  This show simply isn't depicting one of them.  I am now unsure if the movies did either.  The idea is their, the style is wrong.  Well, and he seems willing and able to kill anyone, that part is selfish.  It doesn't fit either.

Ah, bedtime.  Perhaps a bit of reading first.  Good night.