You Need To Start Fucking Killing Off The White Dicks

[redbrunja]

Stop killing the ladies, writers.

If my tumblr dash can be trusted, it looks like Beverly over on Hannibal just died.

I just can not.

Back when Abigail Hobbs died, someone commented that killing teenage girls was, basically, the cheapest, laziest storytelling move a writer can make, and you know what? It is.

I am just so fucking tired of ladies being expendable and vehicles for man-pain and treated as replaceable.

It especially grates with Beverly because I was reading an article with Brian Fuller, who basically said that Abigail Hobbes had been killed off because if they'd killed who they originally intended, there wouldn't have been enough audience investment in the character. And then Fuller refused to say more, because he "might still kill them off."

And I knew, I fucking knew, he was talking about Beverly. And I think her increased role this season has been almost solely so her death hurts more.

FYI Teen Wolf Spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

I was yelling at Beverly to get the hell out of there when she was searching Hannibal's place. :-( AFAIK, there isn't a body yet? I don't see how she could possibly be alive if Hannibal is back to his serene, people-eating self in the next episode, but there may be a chance she's locked up in his basement or something? IDK. (I'm still not convinced Abigail is dead. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but Hannibal did seem terribly fond of her, and there was no body there either.)

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

P.S.: SO GLAD Bedelia got away.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

:-( AFAIK, there isn't a body yet? I don't see how she could possibly be alive if Hannibal is back to his serene, people-eating self in the next episode, but there may be a chance she's locked up in his basement or something? IDK. (I'm still not convinced Abigail is dead. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but Hannibal did seem terribly fond of her, and there was no body there either.)

Well, quotes from the writers say she's dead-dead, and are talking about how her body is going to be displayed next episode, so.

And I wouldn't put it past the writers to back track and bring Abigail back - especially if they're hearing reactions that are anything like what I've been hearing - but it would have DEFINITELY been a ret-con, considering that Fuller has stated MULIPLE places that Abigail is dead.