#the ethical core has given way to self-important and shallow aesthetic mimicry of actual activism

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K so in s3e2 ("Primavera") Will's looking around the chapel and says "elegance is more important than suffering. That is his design." Abigail asks if he's talkin bout God or Hannibal and Will deflects

(I think Will was talkin bout both)

In the previous ep, Hannibal's watching Bedelia draw her bath in their luxuriously decked out apartment and he flippantly tells her "ethics become aesthetics"

.... These feel like the same sentiment said different ways. Idk. Can someone smarter than me confirm??

#my theme senses are tingling but it's too fuzzy idgi #hannibal #ok the 'ethics become aesthetics' stuck in my brain bc i hate how right that sometimes is #like the whole thing with glittery hello kitty acab memes and performative activism as a whole #the ethical core has given way to self-important and shallow aesthetic mimicry of actual activism #so fuck there's some ugly truth to that statement #but idk enough about god/religious studies to tell how serious will is being #having recently read chunks of the bible for class ... my take on god is that he's usually trying his best? he's decisive? i Don't love #every action god takes but i don't get the sense that god's just doing stuff for the aesthetic or for elegance's sake #so then will is being tongue and cheek #unless he's not bc if he's also talking about hannibal ... whuch i think he is ... then yeah hannibal is super meticulous with his designs #and Hannibal plays god with ppl's lives #so what is will making a pun??? #idk man pls help me