Bates Motel Polls

[amensisterfriend]

Here's the place where we can ask each other random questions, ranging from opinions (what's your very favorite episode so far?") to predictions ("how many people do you think Norman will have killed by the end of the series?!")

 

I'll kick us off! Who do you expect---not want, EXPECT---to be the next character killed off?

 

A. Dylan

B. Emma

C. Romero

D. Someone not mentioned 

[Avaleigh]

I have to go with someone not mentioned.

My guess on next kill is someone in the drug plot. Either that or we'll see the Ted Chaough actor kill someone.

I feel like I'd have a better time predicting where the show will go with Norman if I knew how many seasons the showrunners would ideally like to have.

If the plan is say six seasons then I'd predict Norma's death happening at the end of season five.

[JenE4]

D. Another high-end escort.

Interesting that the hunting club also has sex parties...and Annika was shot. (I don't think they said how the other one was killed, but I dozed off.) So I think they are hunting the prostitutes.

[amensisterfriend]

I'm thinking Caleb might not be long for this world either, but maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part :) 

 

Of the three characters I mentioned above, which (if any!), do you see surviving the series? 

[JenE4]

I'm thinking Caleb might not be long for this world either, but maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part :)

Of the three characters I mentioned above, which (if any!), do you see surviving the series?

Now that you mention it, I don't think any of those three can survive. NOT a spoiler but just speculation that IF the series ends with Norman killing Norma and becoming Mother, then the other three would already have to be out of the picture or they would have picked up on Norma being dead.

[amensisterfriend]

I have this sinking feeling that, of those three, my beloved Emma will be next, followed by Romero and then Dylan towards the very end of the series. That's based on absolutely nothing other than my random guess! 

[queenanne]

Now that you mention it, I don't think any of those three can survive. NOT a spoiler but just speculation that IF the series ends with Norman killing Norma and becoming Mother, then the other three would already have to be out of the picture or they would have picked up on Norma being dead.

 

I should think in order to get us to the point of the movies, the whole town would have to be dead, at least tumbleweed-dead if not murder-dead.  (I've done a lot of thinking about this, heh.)  It's gonna be a challenge either way, but yeah, we need some situation where basically no non-guests think about or go near Norma(n).

[turbogirlnyc]

D. Caleb

Could be wishful thinking on my part though.

[Avaleigh]

I should think in order to get us to the point of the movies, the whole town would have to be dead, at least tumbleweed-dead if not murder-dead.  (I've done a lot of thinking about this, heh.)  It's gonna be a challenge either way, but yeah, we need some situation where basically no non-guests think about or go near Norma(n).

Am I wrong in thinking that Norman would only pretend that his mother was alive with out of town people who were staying at the motel? It's been awhile since I've seen Psycho but I was under the impression that Norman would acknowledge that his mother was in fact dead on the occasions where he was forced to interact with long time residents of the town who know what the deal is. That's why the guy who is explaining what happened back in the day to Mrs Bates and her new husband doesn't seem to have any idea that Norman has been living in a fantasy world where his mother is still alive. Am I totally misremembering this? 

 

The reason I ask is because I can totally envision a season where Norma is present but only in Norman's mind and how he'd play it one way in front of people who know the truth (the truth that Norma's dead not that Norman killed her) and the outsiders who are just coming by to stay at the motel. 

[green]

D. A Red Shirt from the latest subplot that involves either hookers/call girls or "Weed!" (the endless subplot who can't be decriminalized away for some unknown reason).  Too early for a major contract actor to go away.

[queenanne]

Am I wrong in thinking that Norman would only pretend that his mother was alive with out of town people who were staying at the motel? It's been awhile since I've seen Psycho but I was under the impression that Norman would acknowledge that his mother was in fact dead on the occasions where he was forced to interact with long time residents of the town who know what the deal is. That's why the guy who is explaining what happened back in the day to Mrs Bates and her new husband doesn't seem to have any idea that Norman has been living in a fantasy world where his mother is still alive. Am I totally misremembering this? 

 

The reason I ask is because I can totally envision a season where Norma is present but only in Norman's mind and how he'd play it one way in front of people who know the truth (the truth that Norma's dead not that Norman killed her) and the outsiders who are just coming by to stay at the motel. 

Oh, that's a great question, but it seems like that might be risky because the Bates Motel isn't exactly crammed for amenities; in fact, I'm not even sure I've seen a vending machine (?).  In which case any outsiders would be hauling ass into town for all their meals, etc., and too many chances for them to slip up, or the townspeople.  "So, what do you think of that old battle-axe, Norma?"  It could be sustained for a season or year though, I agree, if fraught with peril of discovery for Norman, I'm just too easily assuming that we'll get to see glimpses of whatever we're told is the town's current state in "Psycho".  (Just checked Wikipedia and FWIW, the local sheriff, surname not given, is the one to apprise the family of Janet Leigh's character that Norma has been dead for 10 years by that time.)  I've always just assumed the sheriff is farther away than he in fact might be and that the town is deader than it perhaps is, also.