Alana have you noticed how Hannibal’s cell is a mirror image of your
office, and he even looks like a Man In A White Coat and stuff like
that? And that your jacket looks like a prison uniform?
Wow, I never realised this. So many thoughts now. How Alana is herself imprisoned in the BSHCI because she cannot trust someone else to hold the keys to Hannibal’s cell. Those two really need each other. And once Hannibal is gone, Alana is forced from this place as well if she wants to survive…
Yes, I believe that after Mizumono, in some way, Alana tried to become like Hannibal, to catch him. More or less what Will did. But Will had it in his nature, Alana not so much.
I think she then kept that style and her new character because she believed it was simpler to control Hannibal and talk to him like that. I hear fear every time she speaks to him, even if she tries to conceal that. Even if Hannibal is locked and tied up.
That fear might come from the fact that she knows how toxic he is to her “goodness” – IMHO though, she never was a nice doctor, she was good mannered but so convinced of her own opinion (which she never questioned) that she hurt people like Will who was in need of real trust, friendship and psychiatrical help.
Alana was the one to bring Hannibal into the story. And no matter how perfect his person suit, she, as a psychiatrist herself, must have felt something about him was fishy. We were told that the whole psychiatric circle of Baltimore/Washington knew each other and they talked about their cases. Will and Margot were not Hannibal’s first fun he had with aggressive impulses. There was Randall Tier and Jame Gumb and probably all kind of other patients Hannibal found interresting. He is not a forensic psychiatrist by chance, but because the criminal mind is of interest for him. So yes, I blame it on Alana that she was so closed to the idea that something might not be okay with Hannibal that she brought him in to help Will.
And she was there when the monster showed his face, she was crippled and psychologically damaged. And still she cannot understand that her own opinion is not always the best: once she didn’t look close enough and the next time she look even though Hannibal told her not, both times the wrong decision and now: beware of the consequences.
In fact she was so convinced of her own opinions (like Jack) that she was astonished to know that Will was right. And I don’t think she was sad because Hannibal was what he was, she was sad because she had been fooled.
I’m full of unpopular opinions, but this is my best one. I don’t like Alana a bit. The more I watch Hannibal and talk about the show, the more I dislike her.
I mean… She’s a great character, as Jack is, just on the bad side. There are so many characters in this tv show which are more on the bad side than the actual bad ones.
My opinion and my impressions as I always specify. @whimsy-by-joja
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