Reading Harris’ books

When I started joining fandoms I did it for the obvious reasons, ship a pairing, but also for something else.

I understood that with Weiẞ Kreuz.

If you don’t know it, it’s an anime about two groups of killers. Eight guys, four “good” and four “bad”. Very poorly summarized.

Anyway, in my opinion this anime sucks. The plot is hilarious (and it doesn’t mean to be) and the graphic is not very good.

I used to make fun of this as I do with Hannibal, writing about the weird things that happened in the episodes; but the difference was that back then I was serious, in a way, because the problems were real, now my humor is just out of love and I make fun of the show inventing things, not because they are really there.

Well, all that changes if you start reading fanfictions about Weiẞ Kreuz.

The characters are amazing. There are so many possibilities because fans brought to light all those tiny things that in the anime were just hints. The characters’ psychology has been delineated by fan writers. If you don’t know what it is I suggest you to check it out. Even if the anime makes you laugh, you will not be disappointed by the characters, they are great.

And here comes my idea about Hannibal.

Hannibal in the books is not a great character. Not at all.

It’s still better than the others around him, I’m experiencing difficulties to find someone I really like among all of them, but Hannibal is really not that charming.

So, it came Hopkins and gave him life. That was when Hannibal Lecter really started to live.

And that wasn’t enough.

 

Bryan loves Fannibals because he understands perfectly what fandoms does.

The same thing he did.

He took characters that had great potential but were underestimated and gave them their life.

There’s nothing wrong about it.

I don’t think Harris fans should be offended.

It happens sometimes, it happens often, that you have great ideas about plot and situations, but don’t take good care of your characters.

At least that’s my opinion; Harris set up a great world of “good and evil” but he lost many opportunities to explore their minds in all their interesting sides.

Will Graham is so overlooked in Red Dragon and Hannibal is repulsive and squalid as serial killers are in real life. And that would be fair if it wasn’t for that spark he has that can elevate him to something more interesting and Harris didn’t quite explore that. Not as much.

Bryan did.

Reading the books is a fantastic experience for obvious reasons -I mean, Harris invented those characters, all the praise to him for that- but at the same time I turn every page and ask myself

How the fuck Bryan and the other writers did that? How? Just from a line in the book, sometimes just from hints. How?

 

Nothing else. It was just another post about that amazing man. Let him rule the television network around the world.