I get that a lot of remakes/reboots want to change things up from the original so they can try to add in some new twists and surprises rather than making a carbon copy of the source material. One of the few exceptions, ironically, was the 1998 remake of Psycho, so I understand and have been 100% behind the series changing things up here and there to tell a slightly different story than what we've been given by the franchise so far. But while there were new characters added in and a lot of sidetracking for the sake of making an ongoing drama series, the series always felt like it was still heading in a direction that would ultimately lead up to the events in the movie. I had really hoped that the one thing they wouldn't change would be the Marion Crane storyline. If the whole series lead us up to Marion's arrival at the motel, that would have made a great series finale. Instead they decided to stick it in mid season to give the series its own ending. This I could also live with. But really there was absolutely no reason to change Marion's arc at all other than some writer deciding to mix things up a bit, which was frankly unnecessary. It's iconic and there was absolutely no reason to change the outcome. Honestly it severely detracts from an otherwise brilliant and compelling series.
