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Bates Motel is Excellent Entertainment For a Former Psycho fan

posted 5 years ago by Kresnik (10)
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I had this series for more than two years waiting on my NetFlix queue and only decided to watch it as soon as I noticed that Netflix was about to pull it.

I always loved Psycho, and it was one of my top three horror sagas during my teen years and early twenties.

I loved it as a retelling of the Psycho story and don’t have anything negative to whine against it.

That they made it with a contemporary setting was great, even if making it in the 1960s could have been well done and believable.

I think it’s a drama/horror/coming of age tale, showing a young Norman Bates that we never get to see in the Psycho movies.

What I don’t get are those that say that the subplots were too generic and not satisfactory. I personally liked them and wanted them to run their course.

This proves something very true when audiences are involved:

When you create something for a mass market, you can’t satisfy everyone all the time.

For me, the script was sober, but when it came for it to deliver it was pure value. My moment of the script was when Norma tells James the story of “The Giving Tree”.

All in all, a very entertaining but very sad horror drama.

Sorry if you see this comment as egoic, but imagine watching Bates Motel soon after losing your pet as I did.

I am three months into the grieving process after losing my friend with whom I had shared the last twelve years.

And what to say of the other unjust deaths, if you like Norman Bates for his psychopathy I’m sad to tell you, you need help.

I didn’t know what to feel, but certainly, it wasn’t the pity that a person mentally busticated as he should inspire.

Those crude, uncalled for murders and the relation with Norma are a heady reptilian subtext. If you know what I mean. Do you?

[–] Moonglum9 (11267) 5 years ago

Yes this was a very good show.

As for your question about knowing what a heady reptilian subtext is, I assume you're speaking of some sort of hydra or gorgon.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Shame you didn’t stick around for further discussion OP, I thought that was a very observant and thoughtful post on what is one of my all time favourite television shows. In relation to what others feel for the character of Norman, my personal reaction was a mix of horror, frustration, repulsion and ultimately in his final moments, deep sorrow. I was surprised at how sad the final episode made me, it definitely effected me on a level that I wasn’t expecting.

If you ever pop back in to check replies, I’d also like to offer my deepest sympathies for the loss of your pet. People can be somewhat dismissive about the deep grief you can feel when you lose an animal companion, but I for one know exactly the pain you are describing and it’s a hard road to go down. I hope you have got to the stage where the pain has numbed and you can enjoy the good memories.

[–] Kresnik (10) 3 years ago

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Whoever you were, if you ever read this, thanks a lot for your compassion, and yeah, I finally got over it. Today, 20-21 months in, it doesn't hurt anymore, I just remember her how she was when she was healthy.

And yes, the final moments when Norman becomes Norma, they hit you like a ton of bricks.

Moonglum9:

Sorry to reply to you more than a year later. Haven't you read or watched anything about reptilians from Alpha Draconis? It's a long story, but what I meant was actually 'incest overtones'. I just wanted to use the euphemism of calling a thing by another word, but if you know about how, allegedly, the reptos of Alpha Draconis supposedly are, then you should have gotten the meaning.