So this show has a character who literally drinks the tears of children. On any other show, that would seem like a step too far.
Yes, on this show, it didn't seem quite bad-ass enough. Thicker bodily fluids would be necessary to make par.
Great AV Club spoilers. And yes, the first was like, "Srsly?" Pretty much that was meant as a reveal to the audience, not to the character in question -- because if Crawford was smart, I don't think he should have shown his hand yet. Not unless he MEANS for Hannibal to sniff out that something is up.
EDIT: Oh. Johnny already openly spoilered that. But he and I agree on the point. I'm happy Bloom is finally getting her head in the game on this, I've wanted to slap her around a lot this season already... and I've been feeling for quite some time they've been running a game on Hannibal to try to see how far he'll extend himself... but it's a very dangerous game to play. And I don't think they should let more people in on that than they have to.
I'm feeling sick and pissed off about the situation with Margo -- I'll be angry a long time. Mason, that fucker; I wanted so bad to see him take that drop into the pigpen. I'm gonna guess that Hannibal will have to be the cause of whatever takes Mason out of the current picture, to motivate his hatred of Hannibal that drives the later storyline.
edit: also, I DON'T find it hard to believe Will can dupe Dr. Lecter, as he is his nemesis (though he doesn't realize yet). The reason Hannibal is so obsessed with him.
I think, while they're "soul kin" in some ways and both are extremely insightful, Hannibal cannot read Will as much as it has taken Will a long time to get some kind of grasp on Hannibal. Will is far more empathic, he sees symbolic essence of people and merges with them (so to speak) when he perceives how things happened; his internal landscape is more surreal emotionally. Hannibal actually seems to logic through a lot and imposes himself on people versus really being "inside" of them; in fact, they are inside of HIM (bad joke, but you get the point -- Hannibal cannot afford to do something so vulnerable as 'step into the shoes of another'). That difference means while they're both very insightful, they each have a kind of smokescreen into which they cannot see clearly. The enigma is the point of attraction for each to the other. As long as it took Will to get a grasp of Hannibal being a cannibal and killer, it will take hannibal awhile to catch on that Will is gaming him.
I don't think the ruse can go on much longer, though. Their dance cannot remain stagnant, and at some point soon, the dance will demand that Will do something he cannot allow himself to do, and Hannibal will smell it.
EDIT: It's five minutes later and still -- FUCK MASON VERGER. I hate him so much. I hate him as much as I hated that blonde you-know-who!!! I can't believe he did that, his depravity knows no bounds.