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@cleolinda: THEY'RE BASICALLY STAMPING OUT THE PORN YOU GUYS. Also not allowing crossovers.

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I saw Star Trek Into Darkness Sunday afternoon but haven't said anything about it because... I just really had no urge to talk about it at all. This perplexes me. I've seen a few episodes of the original series and Next Generation, so I have a decent background on it without being married to canon. I loved the first new movie. I like J.J. Abrams movies generally, lens flares and all. I felt a reasonable amount of enjoyment while I was watching this one. All I could say when I walked out was, "That was... a whole lotta movie." I really cannot understand why.

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To begin: The problem with "I just really want to be your friend," the kind of philosophical rambling you have come to expect from Cleolinda Industries; I am officially threatening NBC with my wrath. Also, here's some fan street art that turned out really, really well.

Also, yes. Korea is very, very excited about this show.

@particle_p: We need to make screencaps of this right away.

@it_grrl: Right? I need gifs of Sparkly Dreamboat HAN-ni-bal!

@cleolinda: I THOUGHT I WASN'T A TWILIGHT BLOGGER ANYMORE! D: D: D:


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So basically I'm dying of a sinus infection that's settled into my chest over here, which adds an extra layer of grossness to the proceedings in my head. My head, which is full of blarg.


@cleolinda: Recap gifs! Bless. RT @yesiac: came across this on Tumblr...it sounded familiar. and then I saw the caption. http://vorobey008.tumblr.com/post/49890541704/from-cleolindas-recaps

@cleolinda: On a day when I am dying of blarg, that is truly heartwarming. And blargwarming.


@eruvadhril: "It's probably people." RT @NBCHannibal: Give us three words to describe #Hannibal thus far...


@NoelCT: Even all of his fruits and vegetables are probably fertilized with people. Likely took a few extra notes from mushroom man.

@cleolinda: I'm pretty sure he's got a whole Cannibal Martha Stewart thing going in the backyard, yeah.

@Ceilidhann: I would watch the Lecter version of Martha Stewart. Pretty table decorations & how to use up all your victims.

@NoelCT: Suddenly imagining Hannibal being a Martha Stewart fan and getting personal revenge when her show was cancelled last year.

@cleolinda: Not to mention the prison correspondence.

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Let's have a quick linkspam.


@scott_tobias: R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen. A true movie magician, and a master of wondrous, tactile effects that no combination of ones and zeroes can match.

@jenyamato: Here's a little Ray Harryhausen celebration I put together back in 2011, for his 91st birthday.

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I was going to save all this and put it in front of the next recap, but then there was too much. Speaking of the next episode,

@BryanFuller: .@GillianA MAKES A RETURN TO AMERICAN TELEVISION THIS WEEK ON #HANNIBAL THURSDAY 1OPM pic.twitter.com/NJx0KGiJHW

you might want to write that down on your calendar, if relevant to your interests. (Speaking of whom, my new favorite Tumblr. "face of trying to imagine the trouble mulder’s gotten himself into in 36 hours alone and getting a little overwhelmed by one’s own imagination.")


@particle_p: @cleolinda I almost bought this on the basis of the title. twitpic.com/coztt7





‏@cleolinda: I love how concerned that one llama looks.

@Jurisfiction16: I would love to see Hannibal's soulful sketches of Clarice holding a fully-grown llama in her lap.

Maybe it can be a petite lap llama?


I don't know how one of the show's editors found me, but here's an interesting bit of information: ( Spoiler for the end of previous episode, a few other thingsCollapse )

And also I have a sore throat and am going to lie back down again, the end. *capeswoosh*

As you may recall, I did The Avengers in Fifteen Minutes last summer. Yeah. There will be no Iron Man 3 in any number of minutes. The parts that were good were too funny to do anything with and there were no parts that were bad. There is no foothold for me as a parodist here (or maybe I'm just tapped out from the Hannibal recaps, who knows). There was basically nothing I did not like about this movie. I mean, there might have been some things that were stronger than others, if you can remind me of anything--this ain't gonna be deep; more of a discussion prompt than anything.

THINGS I LIKED (ALL THE THINGS)

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OH MY SHIT

YOU GUYS

WHAT JUST HAPPENED


This episode is a thing of beauty and delight once you realize what they're doing. But since I'm largely staying away from spoilers, I didn't know, and thus I spent much of it shouting at the TV in a fit of fangirl pique. Bear with me, then.

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AT SOME POINT I WILL WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN CANNIBALS, DAMN.

(How about vampyres? You guys like vampyres?)

So they just put "Ceuf" (yes, they confirmed that's what it's called; they call the shots and I accept their reality) up for purchase on iTunes and Amazon. (I just broke down and got a season pass on iTunes, because whatever. The show's earned my money, and it turns out there was enough in the tip jar to cover it, so everybody wins.) Apparently there are a few changes to the scenes we did see, and now I also have captioning, so... I'm gonna recap what we didn't get and then I'm going to recap the previous recap as necessary. BWONNNNNNNG.

I also reread Red Dragon the other night for the first time in about twenty years, so I'll put some thoughts on that at the end. So between that and the magic I'm about to drop on you, this is going to be sort of a grab-bag entry.

>> Filed Under: Things I Know Are Relevant to Your Interests: David Tennant nearly got the title role but might play another killer next season.

>> Filed Under: Things I Do Not Even Know How to Handle: Bryan Fuller Wants David Bowie As Hannibal’s Uncle.

LISTEN TO ME, NBC. YOU CAN'T CANCEL THIS SHOW. YOU CAN'T TELL ME I COULD LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE DAVID BOWIE PLAYED HANNIBAL LECTER'S UNCLE AND THEN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. YOU CAN'T. TAKE MY MONEY.

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Welp, if any of y'all are reading the recaps instead of watching the show, or before watching the show to know when to scream and cover your eyes, this is the recap for you.

As a side note, if you enjoyed the recaps enough to read them a second time, sometimes I go back and link to conversations we end up having in the comments, because God knows I can't catch everything that's going on by myself. Sometimes those conversations are more interesting than anything in the recaps themselves, so I highly recommend browsing those if you are so inclined.

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@TheAVClub: That pulled episode of Hannibal is now a series on the Internet, where no one is ever offended.

So, as previously discussed, they've decided to pull episode #4, "Ceuf," due to not feeling that great in retrospect about a storyline where Molly Shannon convinces kids to kill other kids. Actually, I'm a little confused about the title here, because Wikipedia gives the episode title as "Œuf," but all the official sites refer to it as "Ceuf," and... I'm not sure that's actually a word? But oeuf is? French for "egg," fitting in with the "French terms for food" theme, and pronounced a bit like "uhff," and relevant to the theme of children? So... I'm going with French Food Word in my heart, until someone can explain what's going on there. Although now I can't see it as anything but "oof," as in, "Well, now we're just gonna have to watch parts of it online and figure out what the fuck is going on for ourselves, oof." What they've done for us is pulled out the overarching, non-Killer of the Week developments and "cannibalized" (sigh) the rest into "webisodes." There are six of them, and they are... something else.

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