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i’m watching this god forsaken tv show again. lord help me.
happy 1 year!
ahhhhhhhhhhh thank you for 100!!!!!!!!!!
This may be one of my favorite lines in the show
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Lmao I love sassy Norma
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finished watching bates motel, now I’m truly sad and this is my sad sketch
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Rating Bates Motel Season 1 Episode Titles
There’s a TikTok trend (that I’m sure you’ve seen) where people rate random things on a scale of 1-10, based on how good they are. So I decided to do it with the titles of the season one Bates episodes, based on how much I like them. The ratings have nothing to do with the episodes themselves, just the titles. Lemme know if you want season two.
First You Dream, Then You Die: 11/10- Very creative, very interesting, very original. I liked it so much that I named the blog “firstyoudreamthenyoudie”. Great way to start the show.
Nice Town You Picked, Norma. . .: 10/10- It’s really sarcastic and I’m here for it. It’s also an actual line in the episode.
What’s Wrong With Norman: 1/10- Lame. There is nothing fun or creative about this title and it sounds like a title for an episode of something you’d see on a show for four year olds. Also the title has no question mark in it, so points off for punctuation.
Trust Me: 7/10- Ironic, because like. . .I mean have you watched the show?
Ocean View: 6/10- Gives good vibes, kind of misleading, but it’s nice anyway. Very average.
The Truth: 2/10- Very boring. Literally nothing interesting about it, and kind of a spoiler.
The Man in Number 9: 10/10- Very intriguing and cool. Makes you want to watch it. I very much like this one.
A Boy and His Dog: 5/10- Fine, nothing special about it. Not one that you read and think “hmmm”.
Underwater: 7/10- One word titles are cool and seemingly dangerous, makes you wonder what is actually underwater.
Midnight: 9/10- Curious and mysterious, but the one word title got repetitive, pick either long or short titles for your series, not both.
Overall Score- 6.8/10
-You’ve gotta be kidding me. -My son isn’t going to prison because some rich perverted asshole killed two women. He doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this.
What a love story 😂
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its so difficult for me to understand those who never feel the slightest bit of sympathy for norma and those who blame norma for being a bad mother, for nurturing her child into a serial killer. since the beginning on the series, norma had been a whole person. she has a backstory filled with emotional abuse and neglect at the hands of her awful parents. and emotional and sexual assault at the hands of her brother. and then she gets married to an abusive husband with a son born of incest because of her brother raping her. and another son who blacks out and becomes violent to the point of murder. norman blacked out and murdered her abusive husband/his father and had no idea. and he continues to kill several ppl that come into his life. but that’s just a whole other discussion for a later date. it makes my blood boil when i see ppl want to hate norma and blame her for all norman does. they want to. hate norma for what norman is. in some ways. yes. i can see why we all should give her some blame. because of numerous events in her life, norma’s incredibly broken which doesnt make motherhood too promising for her. i mean. i would argue that the worst thing norma has done has been having a lack of understanding the causes and effects of her actions. and just having a lack of insight in general.
norma feels that nothing outside of her and her care is safe for her and her beloved child. but eventually, she starts to see norman as a threat, to herself and himself. okay and quite honestly. im surprised norma didn’t end up being the damn serial killer given her fucking upbringing and the experiences she faced… anyway. alright norma definitely allowed for levels of intimacy between her and norman that are pretty uncomfortable. and some ppl would say shes reluctant to admit that there is something wrong with her beautiful child. but in my opinion. i believe she was always fully aware of normans troubles and knew that theres was smth wrong with him. but like i said before. she didnt see safety in anything outside herself. bc shes so fucking stubborn! but she truly believed that she was the answer to normans problem and she thought she could help him and protect him. i think it is very harsh for ppl to classify norma and anything she does as a mother as being neglectful. or abusive.,..,. she certainly comes close but. she doesnt cross the line into that territory. and yes. she did tell norman things he shouldnt have to know as her son. like. the situation with her brother. but. if u think about normas role as a mother overall. within the context of her own life experiences. she tries really fucking. hard. to be a the perfect and ideal mother. and i believe her efforts should be applauded considering she had no good mother or father to have as an example for her parenting. this woman did whatever she could to protect her son. and when she realized that she couldnt give him the help he needed,... she sought out help. she went to pineview. she begged dr edwards or whatever to help her son. she did her best to get her son the aid he needed in order to not be a threat to himself, norma and everyone else.
i would find it absolutely ridiculous if u didnt feel an iota a sympathy for norma in that moment in 401. she even explained herself in that moment with dr edwards. she realized that she couldnt control what she thought she could. and that she was afraid of going to the doctors bc she thought they could take him away from her. and i believe that she didnt want him taken away bc he was the last bit of love she had left in her life. she had no one. she loved norman so passionately bc they were all each other ever had. its just. in that fucking moment with dr edwards. norma was showing so much of herself. so much honesty. which is smth she tends not to do. and she was revealing in that moment that literally. like all parents. she didnt really know… exactly what she was doing. she was just hoping that what she thought was best,.,. was good. and she had a moment of great fear that what she was doing was hurting her child. and she wanted to do smth else to change and make it better for both of them. all norma has ever had is good intentions. love makes u do crazy things. and she did crazy things out of the sometimes dangerous love she had for her child. but she cant take full blame for what norman is and became. being the parent of a psychopath is not gonna be fucking easy and a literal cake walk with a manual on how to succeed. all norma fucking wanted was a normal life for her and her son. and normal life that she never got to have throughout her childhood. and teenage years. and into her married life with both of her husbands.
she could never catch a fucking break. and she never did. she never. fucking. did. shitty childhood, 2 shitty marriages, a kid who resulted from being raped by her brother, a kid that was more than just mentally unstable. and her own mental wellbeing never treated was just. the fucking cherry on top. and even after she dies she didn’t even get peace until after norman died, considering he was lugging her dead body around. when ppl talk about norma, her mental health is not often in the conversation. but quite honestly. norma's entire mental state had to have been absolutely exhausting for her. she needed serious help. and she needed it well before norman even came into the her life. i think the only time she realized that… this isnt how normal people live. is when she was with alex... alex gave her a real glimpse into a type of normalcy she had never experienced. honestly. i would like to believe she eventually would have gone into therapy had she survived. and even if norman had stayed at the live-in hospital and didnt try to kill her, she and alex were not going to magically start living a beautiful, good life. she was going to need some serious therapy herself. and i just know she wouldnt bring herself to do that all by herself. i think if anyone could help her decide to help herself... that person would without and doubt be alex. norma truly was beaten down by life at every corner. anyone in her shoes with that kind of history and mental wellbeing would be in an unbelievable amount of pain on the inside. when thinking about how this all plays into her relationship with norman... i just think she loved norman to the best of her ability. but it was from a perspective warped by extreme mental illness, fatigue and injury of her own. to add to this exhausting amount of mental turmoil, came her exhausting love for norman. god i love this woman so much. she is everything to me.
This hit me so damn hard. People ask why I love this show so much and the reason is above. Vera Farmiga portrays Norma so brilliantly and I couldn't think of anyone else who could do it better.
Romanticizing the relationship she and Norman had is unhealthy yes, but she loved her son so much she would do anything to keep him safe. Norma Bates is a fucking warrior- fictional character or not.
Wow. Amazingly said. Thank you.
Vera Farmiga is hilarious
I fucking love Vera Farmiga lmao. She’s so entertaining to watch not only in like movies and TV, but her interviews are so wild. Like in half of them, she’s very calm and collected and gives really thoughtful and interesting answers. And in the other half of them, she’s just bouncing off the fucking walls acting like a maniac. And quite frankly I love the crackhead energy she exudes. She tells these crazy stories about like how she blew up a sheep, and how there was a guy selling meat past expiry date out of a hearse in her neighborhood. You just watch it the whole time like “what in gods name am I even watching?” But honestly, if you need to laugh. . .I recommend.
Here you go:
Alex: I just came over to see if you were OK.
Norma: I'm fine, why wouldn't I be fine?
Alex: Just, like, everything about your life and who you are as a person.
Why have we been so asleep on Vera Farmiga’s career?
Seriously. She’s so freaking talented and amazing in like everything she’s in, and you’ve probably seen her in something.
And don’t forget that she’s gorgeous.
I mean like. . .look at her.
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