The reason why it was love at the first sight for hannibal is because Will is just “beautiful” i think we can all agree to that.
And hannibal just loves beauty, he appreciate the beauty in this world, poetry, art, he even turns his victims into something “beautiful” and poetic, and that time when he cried in the opera. Beauty is his weakness and that was Will graham.
I like to think it was love almost before first sight (but boy when he got a look at Will, it was a Done Deal). They don’t show us Jack’s conversation or two with Hannibal about Will that most have happened in Hannibal’s office and perhaps later, when Jack explained to Hannibal that he wanted him to do a psychological profile on Will and why, but can you imagine it? All those details about how Will is this super-prodigy with eidetic memory and huge powers of imagination and how he’s unstable and crazy intelligent and can just make leaps he can’t explain and gets into the minds of killers and there’s something about violence that he innately just gets and he won’t let anyone test him or get close and they have to be oh, so careful with him because we don’t want to break him and there’s just NOTHING on the books like Will Graham, he’s UNIQUE. (Jack Crawford, fisher of men, ladies and gentlemen.)
And just that information was probably enough to hook Hannibal and get him really excited about it, and then he finally gets to drive to Quantico to meet the new specimen, and what does he see but this gorgeous, slim, younger man with curling brown hair and a jawline like nobody’s business and the skies just tumbling from big liquid gray-blue eyes, and Hannibal just so surprised. He would have been like “I’d like to thank God and also Jesus” if he did that kind of thing, but he doesn’t so he just had to settle for “I’m gonna break out that beer I made for Alana finally because she DESERVES IT, OMGGGG.”
and what does he see but this gorgeous, slim, younger man with curling brown hair and a jawline like nobody’s business and the skies just tumbling from big liquid gray-blue eyes, and Hannibal just so surprised. He would have been like “I’d like to thank God and also Jesus” if he did that kind of thing, but he doesn’t so he just had to settle for “I’m gonna break out that beer I made for Alana finally because she DESERVES IT, OMGGGG.”
NBC rejected a scene of bodies being shown splayed open and hung from a ceiling on the show Hannibal because their butts were visible. Executive producer Bryan Fuller suggested, “What if we filled the butt cracks with blood, so we couldn’t see the cracks?” NBC accepted to then show the scene.
Gruesome murder is acceptable, butts are not, I guess