#dylemma

I like how we're being all formal with each other now.

Hm! You know, that actually kinda makes sense lol I do talk a big game about loving messed-up ships & then I go & like the ONE healthy & loving & fairly unproblematic pairing on a show about murder & incest xD Like - what's the truth, Rose? xD

Don't get me wrong - I am obsessed with all the toxic fucked up dynamics going on in Bates Motel. Norman & Norma are of course the heart of the show. & tbh Norma/Caleb was a really compelling dynamic that I found super interesting. Norma/Romero...(*prepares to get cancelled by the entire Bates Motel fandom*) ...never really appealed to me that much? I mean...I liked them okay & Romero played his part in the plot well & was an interesting enough character, the way he was repeatedly willing to go the extra mile for Norma, it just wasn't my favorite pairing of the show idk

Dylan was my favorite character. I just found him really compelling because he had such a tragic past. I know that Norma & Norman have a lot of trauma & the show focuses on that a lot, but Dylan was always left in the dust of Norma & Norman's fucked up codependency. He really had no one growing up & he still grew up to be a caring & good person. Then he had to find out that his parents were brother & sister & that his father raped his mother....I remember thinking about what an amazing actor Max Theriot is when he reacted to that. & Emma struggled so much too, I really never thought she would make it to the end both because of her health concerns & the danger of murder always around the corner. Dylan & Emma were two people whose lives looked very hopeless & they found each other & found solace & hope in each other & their happy ending among all the tragedy & horror of the finale felt like a tiny spark of hope for the audience. they just went through so much together & experienced so much trauma & heartbreak & I wanted them to be happy