I have been re-watching the Hannibal TV series, and I cannot express strongly enough how much I hate Alana Bloom in the third season.
She spends most of the third season strutting about in ridiculous pantsuits with big shoulders. The Beetlejuice jacket is by far the most ridiculous, but the shoulder pads are ever-present. She engages in conspiracy to commit premeditated murder, and then she murders a man with her own hands. Later, like the petty bitch she has become, she lords her power over Hannibal in her psychiatric hospital, threatening to take away the only thing he cares about, his dignity. And then she does that.
One of the really confusing and infuriating things about hating Alana Bloom is that any time you hate a female character, people view this as misogyny. For example, a quick Google search of "hate Alana Bloom" yields this quote: "If you hate Alana Bloom, then seriously, enjoy your little waltz with misogyny." Lucky for me, I don't really care if all of womankind thinks I'm a misogynist. I'm perfectly happy to state the truth and let them bitch about me.
Incident to the feminists' hatred for people who hate Alana Bloom is their strident insistence that she is a "strong" female character. Another thing that popped up in a Google search was this poor guy backpedaling:
I didn’t actually think she’s a dumb whore. I typed those words and wasn’t calling her promiscuous ...I just made up some reason why she’s promiscuous when she isn’t. She’s not a dumb whore. She’s a very smart and reasonable woman and she is in no way promiscuous. I didn’t want to admit that I didn’t have a good reason to hate her...She’s a good example of a strong female character.
That's just sad. If you think she's a dumb whore, then stand by your words. I for one don't think she's a dumb whore. I think she's a common, petty, murderous, loathsome bitch. She's definitely not strong. She gets wafted about like a leaf. After getting pushed out a window, her whole personality changes. A strong person's personality doesn't change based on circumstances. They endure.
As I have mentioned before, there are plenty of strong female characters on TV. See Buffy, Xena, or even on the same show Jack's wife Bella, played by Gina Torres. Gina Torres can't help but play a strong woman in anything she does.
But Alana just being a loathsome bitch in shoulder pads isn't quite reason enough for me to hate her like I do. Ultimately, it's because a creature like her should never have power over someone like Hannibal. And seeing him caged with her holding the key is an abomination. She is beneath him. And again, to the strident feminists, it's not because she's a woman. It's because she is petty and small. She is stupider, and lesser in every way. She momentarily holds borrowed power over Hannibal when in the natural order of things he is superior.
So, yes, I wish the series had ended with Hannibal eating Alana Bloom rather than Dr. Du Maurier.
I think it's okay to hate or loathe her or something, but don't forget, that Hannibal choose prison with his own free Will. (haha, Will, best pun evaaa)
ReplyDeleteAnd you see how concious and still afraid she is of him. Like she said to Will 'There are only five doors. And i have the keys'. She is not dumb anymore. She knows very well, what Hannibal is capable of. Thats why she is observating him. Threating him. Fleeing, the moment he left prison.
I read a fanfiction where she is waking up from nightmares of Hannibal killing her family.
And i think thats whats made her whole behaviour clear: She has something to loose. A wife she shares trauma with and a son. A beautiful innocent little boy born in that nightmare her life was made into. Maybe her biggest fear is loosing her son.
When it comes to superior and not superior, maybe you should love Hannibal a little less. He is a psychpathic, sadistic serial killer with a god complex.
Everyone can kill someone. It's very easy. All you need is a weapon and a occasion. So Hannibal is not almighty, strong and intelligent, of course, but not a god, just a killer.
So, when this man in his 50ies goes after a woman who learnd to shoot, is rich and can pay the best people to protect herself and her family, has maybe 100 of safe houses...no Hannibal is not superior.
And calling her a stupid, dumb whore or sth is mysoginist, because it's no constructive or reasonable critism.
A whore is a bad word for a woman who sells her body. Alana doesn't prostitute herself, nor is she overly sexual. She is not stupid, she studied and became a well known psychiatrist. You can call her naive or dumb for not seeing Hannibals true self, but no one has, not even Will at first.
You know what i mean? There are plenty of. reasons for not liking Alana, but putting her down by calling her a whore is just sexist. And not very smart.
Calling Hannibal superior also.
It’s a good thing this article doesn’t say the writer believes she’s a dumb whore. I believe she’s dumb and annoying. Acting like she’s right about everything and is confident but she’s mainly wrong… about everything. The only thing she did that was good was the clock situation with Will Graham. She dumb, egotistical, and arrogant. I disagree with the article, Alana shouldn’t have made it to season three and Will should have just watched her die with a smug “I told you.” Look on his face. She is not a representation of strong women and she will never be. By far, she’s the worst character I’ve ever seen on a tv show.
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