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That was beaaauuutiful!

posted 7 years ago by Lucas (24)
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Fucking stunningly written episode.

Yes it was!

You think so?! I thought it was a real "Bates and switch" tee hee. Seriously , though, I hated the switch and hated Rihhana or however, you spell it. She ruined the ep and atmosphere for me. Vera and Freddie, as usual, were stunning.

[–] Lucas (24) 7 years ago

The switch with the shower scene adds sooo much more to the characters and seamlessly ties together a long running arc and makes the symbolism behind the whole thing mean so much more than JUST doing the same thing again because it happened in the movie.

[–] lennonforever (2453) 7 years ago

I just disagree. I felt duped for the first time with this show. Why the need to change how the story was written by Bloch? Yes the movie changed that but I wanted it to be faithful to the film premise.

SPOILERS

When she got in the shower and behaved as Janet Leigh did then BAMM!! WTF! I was angry and felt manipulated for a gimmicky twist just because the writers thought it would be "different". Not nice.