#molly graham

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x06 || 3x11

#hannibal #hannibaledit #tvedit #hannibal lecter #mads mikkelsen #will graham #hugh dancy #hannigram #abel gideon #suzy izzard #molly graham #nina arianda #horroredit #horror #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #murder husbands #hannibal gifs #hannibal 2x06 #hannibal 3x11

[harbingerofsoup]

molly im so sorry you were will graham’s rebound during the off-again phase of his psychosexual relationship with his cannibal psychiatrist, you didn’t deserve that queen

#nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #molly graham #hannigram #none of these words are in the bible

[cheese-rat29]

this poor kid. your dad dies, and your mom remarries. your step-dad is cool! he teaches you how to fish and he brings home a bunch of dogs! fast forward a little bit and it turns out your cool step-dad is locked in a psychosexual viscera-filled chess game with a bisexual cannibal. like what do you even do about that.

#text #text post #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #molly graham #hannibal rewatch #hannibal season 3 #obviously the kid is either gonna go into comedy or a psych ward

[mistikfir]

3x09 "And the Woman Clothed with the Sun..."

#hannibal #hannibaledit #tvedit #nbc hannibal #hugh dancy #nina arianda #will graham #molly graham #And the Woman Clothed with the Sun #is this some kind of secret language of the graham family #or that kind of intimate conversations :) #hannimake #mistikfiredit

[cannibalovers]

we know practically nothing about Will's childhood but we do know that he retracted his balls once carrying a stolen watermelon over a barbed wire ! valuable character arc information

#thinking about will's and molly's balls convo #how come we know nothing about his mom or smth except that she wasn't in will's life but we know THIS #(ok tbh i didnt read much about will or his childhood and didn't read the books #but THIS is canon #that he retracted his fucking BALLS😭 #this show is a joke #nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #molly graham #shitpost #my post

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Okay I need people to look at these two gifs together:

This gif made by @lousolversons

And this gif by @not-psychotic

THAT IS THE SAME SMILE. THAT IS HUGH DANCY'S ROMCOM SMILE AND I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY HUGH PRESENTS IT FOR EACH MOMENT.

First of all, the moment presented in the first gif is why I believe Will did love Molly. Yes, I'm a firm believer that Will still held feelings for Hannibal while he was with Molly, but I don't think she was a placeholder. The way I think Will's love for Hannibal and Molly works at the same time is like when you meet a widower who remarried.

Yes the widower (Will) still loves his first spouse (Hannibal), and it's terrible that they were ripped apart the way they were, but he can eventually move on. And he loves his new spouse (Molly), but there will always be a part of his heart that belongs to his first spouse. Except in the case of this analogy Hannibal isn't actually dead and he will come back.

And I mean, honestly, if the love of your life died and came back completely in one piece and still loved you after years of separation, what would you do? Would you tell them to move on because you've found someone else that you love almost as much as you loved them? Or would you discard your new spouse for the one you had always imagined you'd stay with? It's a really difficult decision.

But anyway I do wanna analyze these smiles. Obviously in the second gif Will is smiling at Hannibal, but in the first gif, Will is smiling at Jack while talking about Molly. They're the same smile but they're also so different.

In the first gif, the "romcomness" of the smile almost feels exaggerated. It's the way he smiled and kind of laughed but especially it's the way he broke eye contact. He breaks eye contact but the smile stays. It says "Molly and I can't see each other completely, but I'm happy enough." It reads as coy in a way we know Will Graham is not. It's a performance, but it's a performance based on a truth.

On the other hand, in the second gif, Will's smile is there but more subdued. Of course it could be just that he's tired and/or in pain as he's obviously injured, but to me it's lesser because it's just him and Hannibal. He doesn't need to wear his mask for Jack or for Molly or for anyone else. And he keeps eye contact with Hannibal even as his smile falls away because he and Hannibal can see each other. They accept the good (the smile) and the bad (the loss of the smile) in each other but that's okay for them because they're true to each other like they are to no one else.

The way Will smiles at Hannibal in the second gif is so much more intimate than the way he smiled about Molly in the second gif, and I can't help but wonder: if we got more scenes where Will and Molly were interacting face to face (because let's be honest there's not many), would Will smile the same way he did in the second gif? Would he even smile at her the same way he does talking about her in the first gif, or is that just him trying to appear like the happy/satisfied husband in front of company? I know Will loved Hannibal, and I know Will loved Molly, but these two gifs side by side just confirm for me that what he felt for Hannibal was so much more impactful for Will than his love for Molly.

#god bless hugh dancy's acting abilities #also god bless molly foster for putting up with all of this nonsense #hannibal #hannibal analysis #hannibal meta #hannibal gifs #hugh dancy #hugh dancy's romcom smile #will graham #molly graham #hannibal lecter #hannibal season 3

[bloodaria]

other people have pointed out that hannibal’s seaside house was supposed to represent will’s “boat on the sea” which will tells hannibal makes him feel safe in Œuf, but i haven’t seen much comparison of it with re: molly’s cabin and how they differ.

(will’s house as shown in Œuf)

(the seaside house in the wrath of the lamb)

as we can see, hannibal’s seaside house had huge windows and let in a lot of natural light and was brightly lit up in the dark, just like wolf trap.

(molly’s cabin in the great red dragon)

now compare that to molly’s cabin - molly’s cabin had an overarching roof which made it dark even in the daytime, the windows are small, the space is lit up by low wattage bulbs which don’t give out much light, and she keeps the windows closed with dark curtains. i think this is supposed to represent that molly wasn’t will’s “boat on the sea”, that she couldn’t be his anchor.

later, we see will drinking in ‘the great red dragon’, and then call someone (presumably molly) but the phone keeps on ringing without anyone picking up.

will’s mind is then filled with crime scene photos. and - who does he ask to see? hannibal.

now in the next episode, molly does pick up, but when will puts down the phone and goes to sleep, he has a nightmare and hallucinates his face falling apart in the mirror. molly was a brief respite, but she couldn’t truly keep the darkness at bay.

the truth is apparent - despite all the time spent together with molly and all the time spent apart from hannibal, hannibal is still who will thinks of as his safe space, who he feels at home with. not because hannibal keeps the darkness at bay, but because he taught him not to fear it and to find the beauty in it.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal meta #will graham #hannibal lecter #molly graham #long post #pls like and suscribe

[pesky--dust]

I write about it very often in my tags, so I decided to make a post out of it actually.

Imagine being Molly Foster-Graham.

Your first husband dies of cancer when your son is six. You still love him and miss him, but you decide to try to get your life back together, because you have a child, right?

Here is a delated scene from the script (which is also partially a scene from the book):

I believe that in the book it is clearer, but it's not really that Will or Molly loved each other very much. For Molly it was rather a marriage to feel less alone and was born out of convenience for both of them.

But I will stand by this: Poor Molly.

Yes, it happens that women marry closeted gays without even knowing it, but there is a difference between this and the fact that it turns out that your husband is not only a closeted gay, but also has murderous and cannibalistic tendencies, and, on top of that, has a so-called "murder husband", who currently is in an institution for the criminally insane and is so possessive of your husband that he sends another murderer to kill you and your child. You barely make it out alive and your husband still chooses the guy who put you in danger.

Traumatic. Both for Molly and for Wally. This poor boy went in his eleven-year-old life through like... A LOT.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #molly graham #wally graham #poor molly #hannibal script #pesky--dust thoughts

[carrythatwayt]

My Queens ver. 1 Ver. 2

#i love them all so much #even the ones i “hate” i secretly love #this was too long and i had to split them up #ladies of hannibal #beverly katz #abigail hobbs #molly graham #bedelia du maurier #bella crawford #chiyoh #hannibal text posts #hannibal memes #hannibal nbc #i had no tumblr for 4 days and this is what happened

[rocktheholygrail]

3x06 || 3x09

how will graham talks to the love of his life who gutted him and left him bleeding out on the kitchen floor vs. how he talks to his wife

#just...'good night molly' :/ #will please xD #hannibal #hannibaledit #tvedit #hannibal lecter #mads mikkelsen #will graham #hugh dancy #hannigram #molly graham #nina arianda #horroredit #horror #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #murder husbands #hannibal gifs #hannibal 3x06 #hannibal 3x09

[prisonhannibal]

will has enough money but he’s not hannibal lecter rich

#will graham #nbc hannibal #freddie lounds #tattlecrime #molly graham #txt

[death-by-sc0tland]

i don’t understand people that hate on molly cause if that whole sequence of her escaping from the red dragon didn’t make you stan her with your whole being then idk what to tell you

#it’s not her fault that will chose her as his rebound smh #hannibal #molly graham

[mistikfir]

3x09 “…and the Woman Clothed with the Sun”

#hannibal #hannibaledit #tvedit #nbc hannibal #hugh dancy #nina arianda #will graham #molly graham #and the Woman Clothed with the Sun #hannimake #mistikfiredit

[cannibalovers]

#idk im bored #i THINK thats all of them. oh right the girl that got caught in fire as well #but ok too many options already i fear #as much as i love margot or bev i gotta pick chiyoh i fear #nbc hannibal #bella crawford #abigail hobbs #alana bloom #margot verger #chiyoh #bedelia du maurier #freddie lounds #beverly katz #miriam lass #molly graham #reba mcclane #poll

[threadsoflacee]

i wish we got more molly and will scenes. they have such a good chemistry together. the few scenes we have of them awkwardly trying to talk about their feelings and will unable to reach out and molly reassuring him however she can are so bittersweet. in the script theres WAY more small gestures of love between the two of them like will crying in her hands or kissing her face and molly complimenting him about his progress or calling him hotshot and sweet lol. i am one of those people that truly believe will loved molly !!!!!! of COURSE he didnt love her as passionately and as maddeningly as he loved hannibal. but i feel like he felt safe around her and found his sense of normalcy and soothing and secure environment that hannibal could have but never gave him. he needed that after so many years fighting for his life and everyone else’s. god i WISH we got to see those kisses or those tears from will crying at his own guilt for putting his wife and son in danger even with hannibal being out of his life. ( also molly is so pretty and they look so good together. and i love their little house.)

#will graham #hannibal lecter #hannibal #molly graham #also about the fact that will didnt say i love you back to molly after she told him. #ive seen ppl say that was the proof he doesnt love her. ?!??!?!!!!! #i havent told my mom or my brother i love her in ten years. #but i do the dishes for my mom and save up to buy snacks for my brother and play games with him and lets my mom dye my hair herself. #will went all the way to stopping the dragon to make sure his family was safe and people r saying he doesnt love them #cmon guys. plzzzz. use ur brainmeats ! #and you seem to forget will was abused by hannibal. and will is a very introverted private person with a lot of trauma and trust issues #give him a break for not saying i love you back to his wife when he went back to the fbi after 3 years of peace to protect his family #but im still a hannigram truther forever

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

So I saw these gifs from Dolce, and it made me realize that Hannibal was still wearing his wedding ring from his "marriage" with Bedelia while he's killing Will and I had a flurry of thoughts about the implications of their rings in season 3.

Hannibal could've taken it off right after he and Bedelia said their goodbyes, but that would've ruined the façade when he went out. And he didn't really have a way of knowing Will was going to meet him in the art gallery. He could've assumed that after his altercation with Jack, Will would not be far behind, but he didn't know when specifically it would be, so the idea of him taking it off before Will gets to the art gallery isn't really plausible.

But he had that heartfelt (in their own way) conversation with Will in the gallery, picked him up out of the street after he was shot, tended to his wounds, drugged him, probably bathed him or at the very least redressed him, made him soup, and fed him with the intention of it being Will's last meal, where Hannibal would finally express the true extent of his love for him by killing and cannibalizing him, and he wore his wedding ring that ties him to Bedelia through all of it.

How fucked up is that, that even in that moment where (once more through violence) Hannibal is finally allowing Will (as drugged as he is) to see all of his cards, he still can't be bothered to entirely remove his person suit even when they're the only two people in the room?

Do you think that's part of why Will is so bitchy to Bedelia? Because he's not completely unaware while Hannibal is doing all of this to him, and with that shred of awareness, maybe he remembered that detail just like he remembered things after his encephalitis was treated. And he's jealous. He's angry, at himself for ruining what could've been if he hadn't lied all those years ago, and at Bedelia, for stealing the position next to Hannibal, the love and time and companionship she got to share with Hannibal that should've belonged to Will. He's angry that even in that moment where he was barely lucid, it was his, it was theirs, and other people (Bedelia, Jack, Mason, Alana) still couldn't keep their mark off that moment.

Do you think that's part of why Will is wearing his wedding ring at the cliffside? Will's intentions are all jumbled at this point. With him telling Bedelia he doesn't intend for Hannibal to be caught a second time, and him telling Jack that Dr. Lecter is just bait for the Dragon, and when Hannibal asks Will if he intends to watch the Dragon kill him, Will's response is "I intend to watch him change you" it seems pretty clear that Will intends for Francis and Hannibal to murder each other and for him to walk away and go back to his (boring, fake, necessary) picket-fence life with his wife and child and all their dogs. But then you throw in the wrench of "Is Hannibal in love with me?" and "I'd pack my bags if I were you, Bedelia. Meat's back on the menu" and "Name the bait on your hook after someone you cherished" versus "Hannibal would be the best bait."

I don't think Will truly made his decision about what he wanted to happen, or what he thought should happen, until he was standing on the bluff that afternoon before the fight with Francis. I think he wore the ring up until that point because he was unsure if he'd be going back to Molly or not, but also, much like Hannibal in the art gallery, marital status at that point was irrelevant; it was about the façade. And I think Will kept it on that day, and into the evening and during the fight with the Dragon because he was still hurt and jealous and angry and vindictive, and he wanted Hannibal to be unsure.

He remembered that moment, that near death of his at Hannibal's hands, that couldn't be wholly, intimately theirs because of that band of metal on Hannibal's finger, and now he finds himself on another precipice of life and death, except it's Hannibal's mortality at risk, with Will sending him to a sacrificial altar, and Will wants him to worry, that Will is going to deny them both their greatest fantasies, death at each other's own hands, not by proxy or fate or accident, because maybe, just maybe, he's going to go back to Molly.

I think in both cases, the rings signify power over the other, but also the endless pursuit of the one they love while being terrified to reach out and thusly resigning themselves to a safety net, a loving wife, a façade.

#hannibal analysis #hannigram #hannibal lecter #will graham #bedelia du maurier #molly graham #dolce #twotl #hannibal season 3