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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Bates Motel Apr 29, 2014 19:22:05 GMT Post by Anna on Apr 29, 2014 19:22:05 GMT Come on someone else must be watching Norman and Norma! I adore this show, really love the dynamics between Norman and Norma... And the Sheriff is funny as hell, though I guess the best character out of them all is my ickle Dylan! Coming up to the last episode in season two next week I believe, I'm a episode behind (well it only showed in the US last night anyway!) but don't want the series to end! It's so cute, and I'm not sure it is the right word to be using for a show about a psychopathic killer. But it is!
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Amanda Join a Fellowship... Hi there :) Posts: 1,739 Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Who is YOUR Doctor?: 9 (Christopher Eccleston 05) Current F1 Driver?: Jenson Button	Bates Motel May 1, 2014 14:40:32 GMT Post by Amanda on May 1, 2014 14:40:32 GMT I watch Bates Motel, they are truly a town full of strange people. I like that it isn't so in your face that Norman is a psycho or that it doesn't have to foreshadow the future all the time. It is nice to have "adventures" as it were with them. Learning to love the characters and their little quirks without banging on about what they will be and what happens. You CARE for Norman, you CARE for Norma, you know what happens to both and yet it doesn't cloud your judgement, there is a bit of you hoping and wishing that this "prequel" will be an alternative reality where they both end up fine. You know it won't happen but you hope that it will because you've been given a chance to love them all. It is a wonderful little show. I haven't seen any of season two though, not sure how far through it UK TV is but I've taped it to watch it all in one go else it would drive me insane!
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Rick Staff Posts: 379	Bates Motel May 1, 2014 18:14:56 GMT Post by Rick on May 1, 2014 18:14:56 GMT The show does have a very charismatic cast. They play their parts really well. I'm surprised that it was one of the shows that didn't slump in the second series. I thought this one would end up the one with a weak season two but it seems that Hannibal is the one with the weak season two. I won't say anything out of tags for your own good Amanda but this is the first time I've heard of you not watching someone because waiting a week would drive you crazy. How far through are you Anna?
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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Bates Motel May 2, 2014 13:02:56 GMT Post by Anna on May 2, 2014 13:02:56 GMT I'm pretty near the end of Season Two. In fact I think I've missed this weeks episode and that is it, maybe one other one. I've kept up to date with it, caught up with season one just before season two and only not up to date right now because I watch it with my mum. I mean I can't say anything about how I felt season two would play out because I started watching it the second I finished watching Season one but I think overall the direction and characters are just easier to work with then in Hannibal. Hannibal wants to be the intelligent drama and it worked in season one but now they aren't too sure where the focus should be and they are TRYING to be smart instead of being smart. Bates Motel doesn't need to do that because it doesn't need to be intelligent. It is the origins of one of the most popular and well loved horror franchise's and it plays on what everyone loved about Psycho. Mainly the fact that Norman is just batshit crazy but likeable! I think if they got one character wrong in Bates Motel it would have all crumbled, you HAVE to like them because every bloody character is crazy and all of them are up to something weird!
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Lucius Join a Fellowship... Posts: 1,502	Bates Motel May 8, 2014 13:53:06 GMT Post by Lucius on May 8, 2014 13:53:06 GMT Freddy Highmore (I think that's his name) is wonderful in it. I can't help but think he must have studied Psycho to death and back because he plays Norman so well. I love the take on it and my favourite thing ever is that Norma and Norman seem so cast out of time. They look like they belong to the period that the original Psycho movie belonged too, they don't look like modern people, and that is where their innocence stems from. They have old fashioned values. It is a nice show. Easy to watch. It probably is a lot easier to make then a lot of other things as well because they aren't caught up with the history of their source material and just seem to be making a fun show for people to watch. Only seen the first few of season two which don't seem as good as season one and have way too much Bradley in them. Hoping she dies off soon.
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Amanda Join a Fellowship... Hi there :) Posts: 1,739 Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Who is YOUR Doctor?: 9 (Christopher Eccleston 05) Current F1 Driver?: Jenson Button	Bates Motel May 8, 2014 16:04:35 GMT Post by Amanda on May 8, 2014 16:04:35 GMT I just love the characters a lot and I don't like cliffhangers when it means that someone like these lot could be in danger. Anyway it is much more fun just binge watching Bates Motel. Its great fun!
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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Bates Motel May 14, 2014 19:03:02 GMT Post by Anna on May 14, 2014 19:03:02 GMT Thinking about what Hannibal will do in Season Three has made me wondered what they'll do with Bates Motel. Not really sure what direction they'll go in. I really want to see Alex and Norma getting along together more, maybe have them in a situation that will need them to work together. I mean now she's made a powerful enemy it would be nice to see Alex "protecting" her. Also I'd love to see more Dylan in the family moments, more drama between the three of them and him coming to be part of it all. It would make a really interesting story when what happens... Happens if you have Dylan there as well. I'd also like something big happening with Emma, now she's left the business I don't want her to fizzle out. Confronting the family and maybe being the sad death? Though I've always thought there would be way more to her story because its obvious that Norman loves her deeply in some way hence protecting her.
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