During my writing retreat up north last week, we actually did have a teensy bit of 4G at times. And during one of those times, Bronwyn Green found the most distressing news:
I’m die hard fangurl of Thomas Harris’s novels and the movies of them, but Hannibal is some next level slash-fanfic and I can’t get enough of it. And while Netflix and Amazon are apparently both courting the idea of picking up the show, in those first dark hours, I did not take the news of the cancellation well at all:
FOR THE RECORD my feet were only that dirty because I’d just been outside shoeless, walking in pine sap.
After a while, my friends became concerned about me. They possibly also wanted me to wash my feet, which smelled strongly of Christmas tree.
But I wouldn’t get up. I just laid there, softly weeping at the unfairness of a world that would cancel not just Hannibal, but Covington Cross, The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr., The Mindy Project, and Futurama that one time.
Eventually they thought they could tempt me off the floor with promises of cookies and milk…
But they had to build a special straw to get me to go for it.
It is my hope that eventually, Hannibal will also be given cookies and milk on the floor, in the form of a new life on Amazon or Netflix.
Stay tuned this week for another Grey recap and probably more about my upper peninsula adventures.
I know that feel. Tumblr is really rallying on Twitter to get it out there (I think another trend is happening to night) and Fuller says it’s “50/50” pickup option with Amazon, so I think we may have hope! I didn’t even get too upset when I first heard of the cancellation because I was 99.9% sure it’ll have life elsewhere. It has to. If that doesn’t happen, color me well and truly devastated.
Also, The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. was the shit. Gone but not forgotten~
I’m always late to the good shows–I thought Hannibal sounded interesting, but I haven’t watched it. (I’m only just starting Orange is the New Black right now!) So your tale of woe has me intrigued. It’s going on my list, thank you! (If that’s not a crass thing to say when you’re still reeling from the shock…)
The fact that you’re a fan of Hannibal just made me fall 1000% more in stalkery-awe with you! It’s a truly brilliant, unique show, so naturally it got cancelled!
(Btw I will totally understand if your next book features an incredibly attractive Danish guy haha)
Yup, that’s almost exactly how I reacted after I raged for a wee bit.
There are days where I wish that I just loved what was very popular, but I’ve never been that lucky. Plus loving Fuller’s shows has historically meant loving a show with your entire heart and then having it ripped out, dragged along some glass shards before it’s completely out, and then having a gallon of lemon juice dumped over the wound. So painful.
I love Briscoe County Jr. I’m a Hannibal purist so a lot about the show bothered me but that’s okay I would watch Mads in anything
NOOO!!!! You had to mention Convington Cross and rip the scab right off that trauma. I’m STILL not over that one, 20 years later *sob* pass the milk and cookies
I have been meaning to watch Hannibal but never get around to it, but I was devastated when the Mindy Project got canceled and that was saved by hulu, so hopefully Hannibal will be saved, too!
Jenny! Don’t forget to unsticky your hiatus announcement! Also, I wish I had that straw for all my floor-milk drinking needs.
Unrelated to Hannibal (I’m very sorry for your loss!) but I found you on Buzzfeed today:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/fifty-shades-of-shade#.keN1XvYyD
More excellent tweets here: http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/fifty-shades-of-grey-author-eljames-twitter-live-chat-backfires-massively-20150630-gi10z6.html
LOL! Love it!
I feel your pain: Pushing Daisies, Freaks and geeks, Dollhouse…
My favorite part of all of this is when you laid on the floor and said, “This is where I live now.”
Also, I feel like my bendy straw game was on point.
A new company called tvtibi is also in talks to pick it up!
That’s the problem with modern day network companies. They cancel the good shows (The Glades, Perception, Dresden Files, etc. in my book), but the crap is left to further rot the IQ of the general populace.
I swore so bad I now need to learn a second language to continue swearing. I want my slashy Hannibal back!
[…] There was some bad news…some people couldn’t make it up there this year, and one of the few texts I was able to receive was about the cancelation of Hannibal. *weeps bitter tears* Jess and I ate our feelings and this is how Jen handled the news. […]
Oh, that’s brilliant! Funniest set of pictures I’ve seen in a long time. I actually hooted with laughter and woke my cat up.