US: Hannibal

NBC are cowards, they've decided to drop one of the episodes just because it has child killers in it :( One part of the quote below doesn't bode well for future writing of the show.

NBC has made the decision to skip an episode of their new Hannibal Lecter drama. The episode, one out of Hannibal’s its 13-episode order, is titled “Ceuf”, and was originally scheduled to premiere next Thursday. The decision to put the episode on the back-burner indefinitely came a few hours before the Boston Marathon bombing and has no connection to last week’s violence and tragedy.

According to NBC’s official description, in the episode “Ceuf”, “a string of family murders takes place and Will (Hugh Dancy) determines they were conducted by each of the families’ missing children, who were abducted and brainwashed into killing their old families for their sinister “new family.” The episode has been pulled because of its sensitive nature and the meaning it may hold to those who were affected by the school shooting in Newtown in December.

“Ceuf” was written and filmed long before the Newtown tragedy, says Hannibal writer and executive producer Bryan Fuller. “Whenever you [write] a story and look at the sensational aspects of storytelling, you think, ‘This is interesting metaphorically, and this is interesting as social commentary,” says Fuller, adding that he “didn’t want to have anyone come to the show and have a negative experience.”

NBC will be airing the next episode in line, “Coquilles”, instead of “Ceuf” this coming Thursday. Do you think NBC made the right decision in pulling the episode from the schedule?

http://www.tvrage.com/news/6250/nbc-drops-episode-of-hannibal-featuring-children-turned-killers
 
Hmm that really sucks, especially considering is show doesn't seem to be following a strictly procedural episode arc, so they're going to be skipping character development by doing this :(
 
It actually wasn't NBC's idea, the creator of the show requested they not air it because he doesn't want people to feel uncomfortable watching the show, which is a BS reason in my opinion.

It will apparently still be airing elsewhere so you should be able to watch it.
 
I'm enjoying this so far. However, the longer it goes, the longer I feel Hannibal, as Hannibal, is both misused and underused. What's more it feels unnecessary. I like Hannibal's dark and disturbed vibe, which is a bit more refreshing that all of the typical quirky, psychotic procedurals on TV at the moment but it's quite clear that Hannibal, the super clever man eater as we know him from cinema, is not the focus or main character and brings very little to the procedural aspect of things.

When I saw first few episodes of "Elementary" I quickly arrived at the conclusion that the show could quite easily do without calling Sherlock's character "Sherlock". In fact considering success of British "Sherlock" on US TV, the decision felt forced and odd, as the jump-to-conclusion-over-nothing and it-is-what-I-say-it-is Dr.House like figure from the show bares little if any resemblance to original deductive Holmes from books. It's quite clearly just an excuse for Holmes to have Simon Cowell's rudeness in accent adding immediate "Lie To Me" like "Houseness" about him. "Elementary" could instead just opt for turning Holmes into yet another quirky, semi psychotic monk/mentalist/psych/lie to me/perception guy.

In similar way "Hannibal"'s Hannibal doesn't quite fit the persona from Thomas Harris' novels. Harris' Hannibal would have no reason and no interest helping some random mentally disturbed redneck. Not that it matters much, since in "Hannibal" titular individual is neither a lead, nor even second strings. At best, he's a member of background ensemble, most of the time far behind others, including Fishburn's Crawford. And the true lead character of Will Graham does not really need either Hannibal or Thomas Harris' universe to be yet another quirky, semi psychotic monk/mentalist/psych/lie to me/perception guy on TV.
 
tbh it just needs hannibal as himself as main character. he is kinda sidelined maybe that's to make you focus on him being clever even more and hidden away .

quite enjoying it but could do with few tweaks to make it come alive.
 
They're turning the pulled episode into webisodes but with the child killer parts removed :|

NBC has now elected to make an abridged version of "Ceuf" available as a series of "webisodes" that will serve to bridge the gap between episode three and this Thursday's episode five. These installments will obviously not include the child-related violence that caused the episode to be yanked, but will instead focus on character development and dialog scenes involving Hannibal and the character of Abigail Hobbs (played by Kacey Rohl)
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I've seen the full episode 4, and to be honest...I didn't see why NBC had to cannibalise (their word not mine) the episode.

Haven't seen episode 5 yet, but will watch it today or tomorrow.

Quite liking it so far :)
 
Episode 4 was really tame compared to other episodes, not graphic at all and it's ridiculous that they pulled it.
 
It certainly seems promising, I liked the first episode but that's as far as I've got yet. If you could have had anyone to play a young Hannibal Lector who would it have been? I personally would pick Michael Fassbender, think he'd make a great young Hannibal.
 
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