Bates Motel premiered last night (Mon. 18th) on A&E!

[scott_of_smeg]

On Demand has commercials? I love DVR

[Haunted hearse]

This would be more closely related if it dealt with a new version of Dracula being one of these new Twilight vamps but thank goodness they didn't go that route!!

Using the category of serial killer (vampire in your example) opens up a whole new ballgame for interpretation of the Norman character (Dracula in your example) and as you say could/would validate any and all versions of the character (lame Twilight vampires in your example).  They are still sticking with an outlined characterization of Norman from both the novel and previous film(s) while adding their own (for better or worse) touches!

Not really anything from the book, which is understandable, because there would be little reason to show the middle aged hermit, living in isolation, and have much viewership.  The Motel in the book and movie was off the beaten path, and the isolation helped Norman maintain the fiction his mother was still alive.  The Bates Motel, in this version doesn't seem all that isolated, and Norman seems to have a lot of human contact.  the Bates Motel from both the book (6 rooms) and the movie (12 rooms), was far more isolated, and what happened to the motel was something like what happened to a lot of motels on Route 66, when it was bypassed for interstate 40.  You can see a lot of closed down motels, when sightseeing down Route 66.  There is the possibility that the Motel may be bypaseed as the series progresses, but again, this is a whole new Psycho, with some of the elements (such as the iconic house) from the Hitchcock film. 

[Haunted hearse]

Yep, it is surprising (or maybe not) the number of shows/movies that are filmed in Canada!!

I don't think the current location, of the Hollywood Bates Mansion, is the greatest for filming either.....

It seems to me, looking at all the wreckage, that they could have filmed it at that location, if they set the series in New Jersey.

[Gillfan]

So much for season 2...

[Haunted hearse]

So much for season 2...

I would love to have salvage rights to the set.  With some of those architectural features, you could build a replica of the bates house to live in. 

[Anton Phibes]

So the show is scrapped 3 episodes in?

[zombiehorror]

From what I'm reading A&E skipped ordering a pilot of this and went straight out of the gate with 10 episodes!  I don't think there is any decision on second season just yet, the set is probably just being secured during hiatus.  It has had fairly decent rating numbers so far!

[aura of foreboding]

From what I'm reading A&E skipped ordering a pilot of this and went straight out of the gate with 10 episodes!  I don't think there is any decision on second season just yet, the set is probably just being secured during hiatus.  It has had fairly decent rating numbers so far!

This is my guess.  The pilot did quite well. 

[Haunted hearse]

By the way, for those who are upset when it came to the canadian Bates house, that they didn't build an entire facade, that's not uncommon.  They still have the Universal Hollywood Bates House, if they wanted to do some pickup shots of the roof, or digitally add it in later.  Even in the original Psycho movie, only the front and a side wall existed.  The rest of the building was built over the years as needed.  When I first saw the set in the late 1960's (on a Universal tram tour), it still didn't have a rear.  In the recent Haunted Mansion film, they built the Gracey mansion facade without a roof.  A baloon was floated over the set, to show what the height of the roof would be when it was digitally added later.  Years ago, in "Mad Mad World", that large condemned building  toward the end was largely a matte painting.  Only the first two stories, and a partial wall representing the rest of the upper floors was built. 

[Street Worm]

So anyway...
I have kind of a school boy crush on Norma 

who, as it turns out, is around 16 years younger then me,
so I'm not sure how that works...

[zombiehorror]

So anyway...
I have kind of a school boy crush on Norma 

who, as it turns out, is around 16 years younger then me,
so I'm not sure how that works...

Apparently for Norma age.....nor relation for that matter.......will play a factor in her love life!!!

[MDG]

I watched the first episode on Amazon the other night. I had the same problem with it that I had with the first ep of American Horror Story, in that the characters themselves aren't particularly interesting and it's just set up so you keep watching to find out the backstory for everything that's hinted at. Not enough for me to invest the time watching.

[aura of foreboding]

Norman went from being a sort of likable, awkward character who you felt incredibly sorry for to a really creepy one who you are scared to death of... in one episode's time. 

[Monsters For Sale]

Norman went from being a sort of likable, awkward character who you felt incredibly sorry for to a really creepy one who you are scared to death of... in one episode's time.

I'm scared to death of his mother - and strangely attracted.

[aura of foreboding]

I'm scared to death of his mother - and strangely attracted.

It's odd.  I always thought Mother was the creepy one until Episode 3.  Then she seemed far less "peculiar" than Norman.