I adore Hannibal! It's the show I look forward to most each week.
I actually think that a lot of early SPN was remarkably beautiful for its budget, which was probably mostly thanks to the late Kim Manners. Interesting question about the gore--is NBC really that much more liberal in its standards than the CW? They're both networks (in the loosest possible sense when it comes to the CW, but still), and I can think of a handful of moments when SPN went for relatively extreme gore--the cold open of "My Bloody Valentine" sticks out to me. I think it's more an audience issue. My sense is that SPN is a lot more invested in appealing to young girls than Hannibal is.
I'd love to have seen what SPN would have looked like as, say, an FX show. If nothing else, I think it would have benefited immensely (and still would) from cable's 13 episode season orders.
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Date: 2014-05-10 03:00 am (UTC)I actually think that a lot of early SPN was remarkably beautiful for its budget, which was probably mostly thanks to the late Kim Manners. Interesting question about the gore--is NBC really that much more liberal in its standards than the CW? They're both networks (in the loosest possible sense when it comes to the CW, but still), and I can think of a handful of moments when SPN went for relatively extreme gore--the cold open of "My Bloody Valentine" sticks out to me. I think it's more an audience issue. My sense is that SPN is a lot more invested in appealing to young girls than Hannibal is.
I'd love to have seen what SPN would have looked like as, say, an FX show. If nothing else, I think it would have benefited immensely (and still would) from cable's 13 episode season orders.