I'm gonna toot a rather long #BeethovenInBatesMotel rant, so buckle yo seatbelts.
I'm watching the first episode of Bates Motel, wondering if Norman really waited at a school bus stop for a half an hour listening to Beethoven's 3rd symphony, since the shot has him listening to the finale.
Like, come on, Bates Motel. Be reasonable here. There is no reason to casually listen to just the finale of Beethoven's 3rd symphony. It's ridiculous.
Even if he was listening to a "Greatest Hits" thing, no record company in their right mind would put just the finale of Beethoven's third symphony in a "Greatest Hits" thing, let alone at the very beginning of the album.
And EVEN IF this kid was listening to just the finale (weirdo), it was far enough along in that shot that he was still waiting for the school bus for several minutes (it's that big dramatic "hey I'm in G minor for eight bars" bit, you know what I mean, where the first violins are all cool, the other strings are chugging around, and the flutes get to practice their scales with unrealistic intensity).
#BeethovenInBatesMotel (conclusion)
And still, a car full of stereotypical party girls gets to him before the bus is anywhere close to the stop, when, if anything, they should be LATER than the bus. Why? Plot convenience. Why even bother at this point?
Seriously, if Bates Motel arbitrarily wanted to get cred with classical music nerds with this scene, they completely messed it up. They'd better get their frigging act together.
