Cleolinda everywhere

To begin, Miss Freddie has posted her interview with director/producer David Slade (pictured here with her business card. Nor is he the only one...). She was, in fact, my date to the Pannibal last night, in the sense that we sat on Skype all night on the other side of the country and laughed our asses off. ppyajunebug was actually there, liveblogging under her "pannibal" tag on Tumblr with a number of pictures and short video clips on Vine, because she is awesome. Herewith, various things I collected over the course of the evening:

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@cleolinda: I'm not even watching Sharknado, I'm just having fun imagining what it must be like based on everyone's tweets.


@DamonLindelof: Watching this rolling Ferris wheel made me finally realize Charlize EASILY could've run in another direction. #LiveTweetingSharknado

‏@AaronStarmer: I'm sorry but one sharknado doesn't prove global warming. You need a sustained pattern of shark and/or manatee related weather events.

@jellinfelon: At the end of the movie the sharknado sucks all the sharks back up and puts them back in the sea. Turns out they were only loan sharks


‏@cleolinda: Tsharknami... RT @RHelmsBooks: Sequel ideas: Sharkicane, Sharkalanche, Sharkano...

@DSylvan: Sharkquake! Because of the Plate Sharktonics!

@Metafrantic: If there isn't a band named The Sharktonics within a week, there's something wrong with the world.

@cleolinda: Sharkmageddon? wait, they may have done that already RT @RHelmsBooks: SHARKPOCALYPSE, you guys.

@cleolinda: THIS HAS TO BE THE SEQUEL RT @albedo777: Aftershark.


@moirarogersbree: OMG THE SHARK IS CLIMBING A ROPE *FLAIL DIE*

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Before we get started, pick your poison and go get a refill. Get a lot of refills.

( Leave me here to die )

( Vague spoilers for season two )

( Wrap up: season one spoilers only )

I can already tell we're not going to have enough room in the finale recap for all the extraneous bits, so let's just go ahead and have a linkspam now. Also, if you would like to do a recap reread before the finale tomorrow night (I'm going to, but then, that's more of a "recapper continuity" thing for me), episode one, "Apéritif," is here, and you ought to be able to hit "Continue" at the bottom of each one.

(There are no finale spoilers here. A couple of later episodes get discussed in some depth, however; if you're not caught up with the season or you're in a different region, be advised.)

FIRSTLY. Miss Freddie at tattle-crime.com on Tumblr has posted an excellent interview with Bryan Fuller--full of potential spoilers for the future, but no concrete spoilers for the finale (other than something about the music, IIRC). He does address the Ravenstag symbolism, though, and drops an interesting tidbit about where they nearly went with the Crawford casting. Honestly, I skimmed the interview a bit because I was spoiler-shy, so I can't promise it's entirely safe, but it didn't tell me anything I desperately did not want to know in advance, so. Also, watching fans flail with joy in the reblogs over "Never say never" gives me life. I mean that sincerely.

Also, I was going to say, "Once you've nabbed ~Our Lord and Master,~ there's not really anywhere to go but down," but Freddie's lined up a number of big-name interviews since then, so maybe I'll just sit over here and be impressed with myself instead:


@Tattle_Crime: Official announcement #Fannibals! Yours truly is pleased to announce a post-finale interview with the lovely @cleolinda! #Hannibal

@cleolinda: I mean, you try to turn down an interview with Miss Freddie/ @Tattle_Crime --she was already in the bushes anyway.

@Tattle_Crime: I REALLY like your azaleas by the way!

@cleolinda: We actually have azaleas. o_O


By the way, everybody dust off your riot gear because there will be a Hannibal panel at SDCC: "The panelists will include Fuller, Hugh Dancy ('Will Graham'), David Slade (executive producer/director) and Martha De Laurentiis (executive producer). Fuller tells me they’ll be showing a sizzle reel highlighting what occurred in Hannibal: Season 1, followed by a Q&A about what to expect in Season 2 of the critically acclaimed series." If you go and manage to get in and live to tell the tale, I want ALL THE REPORTS from this.

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Oh by the way once again SPOILER POLICY FOR COMMENTS. Short version: MY FINALE INNOCENCE IS PRECIOUS TO ME. RUIN IT AND I WILL sigh and get over it SMITE YOU.

Y'all know I adore this show, right? You know I love shaking my fist and throwing things at the villainous villainy that is the reason we are all actually here? I just want to be clear about that before I start yelling my head off.


( Disturbing content, Eddie Izzard, Gillian Anderson, RAGE )

@cleolinda: what what RT @emokidsloveme: cc: @spookychan RT @televisionary: It’s official: NBC has renewed Hannibal for a second season of 13 episodes.

@cleolinda: *SNOOPY DANCE* RT @EW: 'Hannibal' renewed for second course

@emokidsloveme: I know, it's because I like glitter. RT @cleolinda: @emokidsloveme You have truly been the herald of joyous news today.

@BryanFuller: #HANNIBAL SEASON 2 IS OFFICIAL! Thank you for supporting the show! #FEEDYOURFEAR


@MartianBethany: @cleolinda *screams* UNCLE DAVID BOWIE, CLEO!

@JazminLabrada: @cleolinda WE WILL BE GETTING BOWIE AND TENNANT AND LEE PACE!!!

OR SO WE HAVE BEEN PROMISED


@cleolinda: *entering 2nd half hour of Snoopy dancing*


@winston_graham: @BryanFuller @DAVID_A_SLADE @neoprod @NBCHannibal THANK YOU HUMANS. THIS BEST TREAT EVER

@winston_graham: I'M SO HAPPY I'M GOING TO BARK "HANNIBAL HAS BEEN RENEWED" AT EVERY CAR THAT PASSES BY FOR 2 HOURS

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:


( Disturbing content, Gillian Anderson, kiss kiss fight fight )

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.

( Moar, including Spock vs. Spock )


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 things )

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

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.

( Yeah, pretty disturbing content )

( Red Dragon, teal deer )

@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.

( Fewer disturbing images than usual, more Gina Torres )