This is brutality that even Game of Thrones has difficulty aspiring to - by the end of Mizumono, the vast majority of this series' principal cast members are lying in pools of their own blood in or around Doctor Lecter's house, gasping for air. Are any of them going to make it? This is the question that is most pertinent to any fan discussion of this episode, hands down. All in all, this is an impossible question to definitively answer before the outset of season three (provided casting doesn't leak if Kacey Rohl has been promoted to the principal cast, or the rest have been demoted to guest stars). There are compelling reasons for each of them to stay alive - Will Graham bears the emotional core of the show, so he likely will survive, Jack Crawford is a key figure in both Thomas Harris' Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, so his chances are good. However, this is also a series that took Fredrick Chilton, one of the key figures from Silence of the Lambs, and shot him through the head. Bryan Fuller is not beyond changing the source material to suit his narrative purposes. Hell, even though Chilton was shot, Fuller's since given cryptic hints about Serpico surviving a face-shot. Despite the frustrating lack of closure, one cannot deny the effectiveness of the open ending. This question will continue to be discussed from now until next year, serving to build the anticipation for season three and excitement for what is to come.
Self-evidently a man who writes for the Internet, Robert also writes films, plays, teleplays, and short stories when he's not working on a movie set somewhere. He lives somewhere behind the Hollywood sign.
