Хью Дэнси говорит о символической смерти Уилла:

"In the same way that in the first season I had an image of Will vomiting up an ear to guide me through to the end, this season, it was always the notion of that embrace between Will and Hannibal where Hannibal cuts me open that seemed like the emotional endpoint. The reason for that is there’s no version of the incredibly complicated situation Will was weaving that was going to be a perfect outcome. The version in which Hannibal is apprehended and brought to justice wouldn’t be satisfying to one side of Will, and taking off on the horizon with Hannibal in a buddy-comedy wouldn’t be satisfying to another. So the ending—when Hannibal opens me up with a knife—seemed, in some strange sense, like the perfect consummation and something that was almost, in that moment, desired, in addition to being shocking and potentially deadly. [Will] had built up such a teetering tower of cards, that in the end, the only possible version in his conflicted state that might have worked is that embrace where Will was cut open. It felt like a moment that the clock of destiny was ticking towards from a long, long time back. And the final image that you have in the kitchen of Will lying in the kitchen bleeding out with his breathing slowing and seeing the stag also dying out in front of him seemed like a release. In being gutted by a linoleum knife, that dark image that Hannibal had instilled in him had been freed."
— Hugh Dancy on Will’s metaphoric death in the season 2 finale

Обратите внимание, что Хью называет такой конец облегчением для Уилла. Единственным логическим вариантом. И говорит об умирающем олене, как о тёмном образе, который привил ему Ганнибал и теперь был освобождён.

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www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/23/hugh-...