[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[gabzillaz]

What happened after her death is textbook fridging imo.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch the show, but I need to ask: is this some sort of pun related to Hannibal *literally* putting her/parts of her into a fridge to save for later, or is this something else?

[gabzillaz]

Oh no, I'm talking about her death being more about Will, Jack and Science Bros' pain than Bev herself. And Bryan Fuller saying that she was meant to die in season one and the only reason she didn't was because they audience didn't know her enough then so they needed to develop her more before killing her.

I don't think he saved anything btw, he ate her liver and put the rest on display.

[(Anonymous)]

this is a horror show above all. All the characters who are important are going to die eventually, other than the monster and the virgin (and then eventually one of them will die too).

[gabzillaz]

Yes, I know. Why do people trying to defend it always use this excuse?

The Hannibal fandom was adamant about how this show was "different" from other horror shows, that's probably why people are disappointed that in the end it wasn't.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Aha, thank you. As I said, I don't watch the show, so most of my knowledge comes from FS and random blog articles. I normally wouldn't have asked, but Hannibal is one of the few shows where someone might get actually, literally stored in a refridgerator, so I wanted to clarify.

Re: SA

[logicbutton]

Well, in this case it was also literal.

Re: SA

[gabzillaz]

No problem <3

[(Anonymous)]

But that would have gone down exactly the same way if they'd killed one of the male characters instead. Furthermore, the only way they could have swapped in one of the male characters would have been to give him Beverly's plot points over the past episodes so as to raise his importance to Will and to the audience, and to make it logical for him to have been the one who makes the dangerous decision to go looking for that evidence at that moment.

So in order for it not to have been the WOC character, the show would have had to push its WOC character into the background where she didn't get the major plot developments. And then all the people complaining about "fridging" now would have been complaining instead about casting an Asian woman and then just using her for wallpaper and eye-candy and alleged diversity points. (More reasonably, too, IMO.)

I think people just liked Katz and are latching onto a convenient, if irrational, argument for it being an outrage!! instead of simply a story event that makes us feel bad. If you treat your female characters the same way you treat your male characters, one of the things that means is that they aren't going to get special exemptions from the logic of the plot on account of being women. If you do it any other way you're not being feminist. You're pandering.

[purpleseas]

+1000

[gabzillaz]

No, there were other ways to make this less shitty. Develop both Bev and one of the Science Bros. Is not like that would require much screentime. Make one (or both!) Science Bros female characters too. Instead of making only Alana (stuck as a romantic interest and nobody can convince me she would be doing what she's doing if she was male like the in the books) and Freddie (meant to die horribly) into women, why not genderswap characters that are gonna live?

Bev is dead, Abigail is dead, Miriam is probably dead or worse, Bedelia is gone and if she reappears she'll probably die, Bella is dying, Alana has been reduced to a love interest, Freddie will die horribly. The only female killer who got development was killed, meanwhile two male killers got to live after being shot.

I'm not mad Bev is dead, even if I'll miss her. The problem is HOW it was done.