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Don't come off as a lesbian especially given her first seal act was with Will but all of that aside, just drop the ****** storyline.I'm still viewing him as an incest pedo rapist along with being a sadist.We finally met Michael Pitt's Mason Verger in this episode. How did you approach creating that character?
Fuller: We wanted him to be the Joker to Hannibal Lecter's Batman. With Michael Pitt, I found his take on Mason to be charming and despicable, and yet I liked him as a person. And I needed to like Mason in order to write him because I didn't want to necessarily write the character in the book who raped his sister repeatedly her entire life. I can't get excited about sitting down and writing that character if that's the core of him. So, we changed his pedophilia and serial raping into a general sadism and curiosity of mankind that could more closely parallel Hannibal's curiosity with mankind. Mason is constantly introducing choices for the people that he manipulates that hold a little more curiosity. He loves to push buttons and see how people will react to various stimuli in their lives.
@ not having the stomach to write Mason cuz of his actions but you writing Hannibal with not problems cuz you can rationalize what he does as "curiosity of mankind" The Joker to his Batman is a bit of a stretch too.
I believe I read in an interview that they really changed the incest/rape angle because in the books he inferred that this abuse caused her to become a tranvestite. Back in the 80s & 90s it was acceptable to think that abuse caused homosexuality or transsexuality. Now that we know better, it's wise to avoid those GLAAD problems. She can simply be a lesbian that was treated badly and wants a baby boy for an heir.
Either way it shouldn't change Mason being a pedo rapist.