"Hannibal" season 3 finale episode is the last of the NBC horror series.
Despite all the good reviews for the show starring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, the network decided to not continue on it anymore.
Even though "Hannibal" season 3 finale satisfied most of the viewers, based on Facebook and Twitter reactions, there is still one question lingering.
(Spoiler alert)
Hannibal and Will Graham worked together to take down Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage). They satisfyingly won and at the end of the episode, they agreed to jump down the cliff.
Hannibal has this intricate liking of Will Graham. Even Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) who did not really get too lucky in the finale thinks they are lovers.
What are they, really? Are they in love with each other?
Series creator Bryan Fuller said it is a sad love story for both parties and them jumping off the cliff is their way of ending it.
"I think that's what motivates the leap, is his realization that Hannibal was right all along. As beautiful as that felt to him, he understands that it is a place that who he is will not survive in, and so his option is essentially to pull the plug on the whole story, and that's the only way he's going to win himself back," Fuller said in an interview with Variety shortly after the airing of "Hannibal" series finale.
"It's a sad gesture in so many ways, and it brings an interesting question to the strength of friendships. In my personal experience, I would say I've experienced more hurtful betrayals by friends than I have lovers, and friendships I've had in my life have been every bit as intense as relationships I've had that have been sexual"
Fuller also emphasized their romance on the epic song "Love Cry" in the last few minutes of "Hannibal" season 3 finale saying this piece somehow represents the (love)-story of Will and Dr. Lecter.
"We talked about the love story, that it was a love story between Will and Hannibal and the song should be a love theme, and she wrote 'Love Crime.' It's exactly what the sequence needed, and it was one of those where I had said to Brian Reitzell when I finally finished editing the episode, I was like, 'this ending, it's yours to save, because I think it needs to be better and we really need you to put your magic on it.' And he was like, 'well, I just got the Siouxsie Sioux song...' And we had a listening party over at David Slade's house; David and his wife Erica and Brian Reitzell and I were just sitting there, and everyone just kept pointing to their forearms because they were getting goosepimples and chills from hearing it."
