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I thought breaking someone's neck would kill that person.
I should try it on someone.
I should try it on someone.
On his precision, cunning, control, expertise:
It's so perfect that he chooses a scalpel up his sleeve, just in case, when Mason comes for therapy. That is Hannibal. A fucking scalpel.
Hannibal while eating with Crawford: "Whomever is pursuing whom in this moment.....I intend to eat them."
nyuck nyuck
Yeah, I know. Only fucking Hannibal would have a razor-sharp scalpel there. Always be prepared, you know.
And yeah, that was the capstone line to that whole loaded discussion. Just hilarious.
RE: Breaking necks.
Breaking a neck doesn't actually kill anyone. You're just breaking vertebrae -- the ring of bones that protects your spinal column.
Once you break the neck, there is nothing there to protect the fragile nerves, which can be easily severed or damaged or squeezed by pressure from the inflammation created by breaking the bone.
That is what people die of, depending on which vertebrae have been damaged. The higher up the damage occurs, the more you move from losing voluntary movements (limbs, etc.) to involuntary (breathing, heartbeat, etc.)
RE: Breaking necks.
Breaking a neck doesn't actually kill anyone. You're just breaking vertebrae -- the ring of bones that protects your spinal column.
Once you break the neck, there is nothing there to protect the fragile nerves, which can be easily severed or damaged or squeezed by pressure from the inflammation created by breaking the bone.
That is what people die of, depending on which vertebrae have been damaged. The higher up the damage occurs, the more you move from losing voluntary movements (limbs, etc.) to involuntary (breathing, heartbeat, etc.)
I don't have the source right on me, but from what I understand, you can ABSOLUTELY kill someone that way, but it would take a very strong person with knowledge required to know right where to grip/push and twist. It can be done, but takes a LOT of torque. It's a myth that it's a myth. Oh yeah, I was reading about it in a Jiu Jitsu forum.
Well, I'm not sure how that changes what I said. Until you damage the nerves, you're just breaking bone, like breaking a leg. So you break the bones so that the nerves can then be damaged.
But I agree it takes more specialized ability. The way they show it in the movies all the time -- grabbing someone and just twisting/snapping their neckbones -- isn't as easy to do as they pretend.
EDIT: Yeah, what you said in your edit. You can do it if you know how and are precise... but the movies make it look cheesy-easy.
Here Hannibal does have precise knowledge. He broke Mason's neck at just the right place to make him a paraplegic. I guess he didn't actually want to kill him, but did want to disable him?
This is why strangulation murders are so bad. you can shoot someone in the head in less than a second of rage or fear, and you can't take it back. But to kill someone through manual strangulation, you have to really want them to die. You don't "suffocate someone" by accident.
I don't think Hannibal will cannibalize [Dr. Bloom] or anything, I just think she's in for a well-earned "I told you so."
"And, oh, Dr. Bloom? You got a call back from the lab.... you're pregnant."
Wouldn't that be Rosemary's Baby?
Well, I love the fact my son's coming to visit tonight through Sunday and then I'll see the rest of my kids as well...
... but it means I need to postpone watching the season finale of Hannibal until MONDAY. Yikes and awaaaaaay!
A few observations:
Huge Spoilers
For a show that doesn't have that many action sequences, when they happen they are WICKED.
Move your fucking ASS Alana!!!!
OMFG Alana, you are a fucking idiot, you don't check your gun for fucking BULLETS!!???? (sadly, this is believable)
Hey uh, responders, backup, could you like, get over to Hannibal's house please? Aaanny minute now.
Hannibal is a bad man.
Why was I not that surprised to see Abigail alive? Well, I know, she was Hannibal's Misha, and Will's surrogate daughter.
EPIC Finale.
What gets out blood?