I completely agree! I think I actually meant to say so in the original post, but probably I forgot.I

I completely agree! I think I actually meant to say so in the original post, but probably I forgot.I’m not sure I’d say “helping” exactly, but certainly he sees what he’s doing as something located in respect and affection; it’s a kind of twisted performative love letter. It’s one reason I love what the show has done with these two so much. You can definitely look at what he said to du Maurier about medicinal madness as one part of his thinking; I think also, in trying to bring Will into his world, he feels he’s liberating him from the restraints of mundanity; possibly that he can relieve Will’s anxiety about getting infected, so to speak, by the killers he contemplates by bringing him close enough into Hannibal’s orbit that he won’t care so much anymore; that he’ll live there, to some degree.So what I’m saying is, he’s taking him to fairyland. Another thing I forgot to mention: In Thomas the Rhymer, when Thomas and the Queen are on their way to fairyland, before they get to the place where she shows him the three roads, they have to wade through knee-high rivers of blood. I don’t think I need to elaborate on the relevance :D -- source link

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