It is with some amount of trepidation that we begin to think of our own answers to Hannibal Lecter’s question at the end of “…And the Beast from the Sea”: “Don’t you crave change?” In context, Hannibal is passing off Francis Dolarhyde’s inner struggle with the Red Dragon onto Will. But change is pervasive both within Hannibal and outside of it. It seems too obvious to simply say that change is inevitable—that the nature of life revolves around change—so the focus on the process of change might be better looked at in terms of how it affects us, and one entry into that may be to consider how we deal with change at different stages in life. Though change often occurs less frequently as we get older because of the power and comfort of routine, it becomes more emotionally taxing to deal with. Even talking to people only ten years…
Hannibal Season 3 Episode 11 Review: “…And the Beast from the Sea”