Oh yes, that would both remove the psychiatrist and give Bob & friends something to menace Norma with that's not a repeat of last season's "let's kidnap her son" plot. Mind you, as of now Bob is probably trying to figure out whom she has stashed the USB stick with so he can pounce there before getting rid of Norma herself, and the psychiatrist looks as good a candidate as any if you haven't known Norma for longer than a few weeks and thus don't know he's a new aquaintance she doesn't have a deep connection with.
Re: Norma, sex and commitment: yes, though in terms of backstory, not just on screen show events chronology, there's the 17 years at least she must have been with Sam Bates (i.e. Norman's life span up until Sam's death, assuming Norma got pregnant with Norman shortly after meeting Sam, otherwise the time would be even longer) which is her longest lasting sexual relationship with man to date. It's a pretty safe bet Norman is the reason why it lasted that long (i.e. the "father of my son" factor), though it might also be that Norma was afraid/thought herself incapable of living alone, because until the show era, if you think about it, she never has. She went from her family situation to a brief marriage with John Masset (who can't be that great a guy if Dylan is no longer on speaking terms with him in season 1 and prefers to go Norma for help, whom he's on name calling catastrophic terms at that point) to a long (and abusive) marriage with Sam Bates non stop, and the show era is really the first time in her life she's living as a single woman.
Re: George and Finnegan the psychiatrist, she also slept with both after a fallout with Norman - there's the sex as methadone/confirmation of worth element -, and leaving the morning after also had something of exerting control, though I think one difference between the George and the pyschiatrist situation is that George for her was makebelieve, like someoone out of the old movies she loved to watch in s1 or out of a musical - the handsome rich stranger wooing her. He was an escape mechanism, a fantasy. (And she told him a fairy tale about her backstory, too.) But having sex was the step to having an actual long term relationship, not a fantasy, and I think Norma's outburst at him when he came to the motel about how he wasn't real and had no idea who she really was was the most honest thing she ever said to him, so even if there hadn't been a corresponding Norman kidnapping crisis, imo, she'd have broken the relationship off at that point While the psychiatrist wasn't a fantasy - that was her Portland escape earlier - but he was also methadone and an attempt to unload, and I wouldn't be surprised if the sex hadn't also been at least partly motivated by trying to regain some control. Even drunk and in a breakdown she had to be aware she just told him something enormous, breaking one of her most severe inner rules, but she knew he was attracted to her, so she made him break a rule as well.
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Date: 2015-04-16 05:34 am (UTC)Re: Norma, sex and commitment: yes, though in terms of backstory, not just on screen show events chronology, there's the 17 years at least she must have been with Sam Bates (i.e. Norman's life span up until Sam's death, assuming Norma got pregnant with Norman shortly after meeting Sam, otherwise the time would be even longer) which is her longest lasting sexual relationship with man to date. It's a pretty safe bet Norman is the reason why it lasted that long (i.e. the "father of my son" factor), though it might also be that Norma was afraid/thought herself incapable of living alone, because until the show era, if you think about it, she never has. She went from her family situation to a brief marriage with John Masset (who can't be that great a guy if Dylan is no longer on speaking terms with him in season 1 and prefers to go Norma for help, whom he's on name calling catastrophic terms at that point) to a long (and abusive) marriage with Sam Bates non stop, and the show era is really the first time in her life she's living as a single woman.
Re: George and Finnegan the psychiatrist, she also slept with both after a fallout with Norman - there's the sex as methadone/confirmation of worth element -, and leaving the morning after also had something of exerting control, though I think one difference between the George and the pyschiatrist situation is that George for her was makebelieve, like someoone out of the old movies she loved to watch in s1 or out of a musical - the handsome rich stranger wooing her. He was an escape mechanism, a fantasy. (And she told him a fairy tale about her backstory, too.) But having sex was the step to having an actual long term relationship, not a fantasy, and I think Norma's outburst at him when he came to the motel about how he wasn't real and had no idea who she really was was the most honest thing she ever said to him, so even if there hadn't been a corresponding Norman kidnapping crisis, imo, she'd have broken the relationship off at that point While the psychiatrist wasn't a fantasy - that was her Portland escape earlier - but he was also methadone and an attempt to unload, and I wouldn't be surprised if the sex hadn't also been at least partly motivated by trying to regain some control. Even drunk and in a breakdown she had to be aware she just told him something enormous, breaking one of her most severe inner rules, but she knew he was attracted to her, so she made him break a rule as well.