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Mad Men
Topic Started: Jan 25 2013, 11:26 AM (11,075 Views)
weaver
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Well that "ground control to Major Tom" was pretty ominous. It's clear Don can't stay at McCann even though Hobart is treating him best. Did he imply that he bought the agency to get Don? So where is Don going? I'm convinced he'll end up OK, but damned if I know where.

Loved the Peggy and Joan scenes this week. Peggy will knock them dead and be able to handle situations Joan can't handle. She'll end up on top, maybe at another agency. Great scene of her coming into McCann with her boxes and Bert's painting.

Roger has no place at McCann. He's on the retirement home floor. So does he just hang on.

January Jones was really good in that short scene. She's improved a lot.

Nice to see Bert again.

Did Diana's ex have to be so creepy?

One show left and then a two hour finale, right?
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IcyAll
May 4 2015, 04:15 AM
This episode has left me feeling very unsettled. I'm pissed as hell about Joan, Roger helping that ass send her off. Hate watching male chauvinism as if it's entertainment. Peggy did look super cool walking into McCann.
Loved Peggy walking in. The rest? I feel unsettled, too- and lost. Is it an episode and then a finale, or just one more episode?
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May 4 2015, 06:54 AM
IcyAll
May 4 2015, 04:15 AM
This episode has left me feeling very unsettled. I'm pissed as hell about Joan, Roger helping that ass send her off. Hate watching male chauvinism as if it's entertainment. Peggy did look super cool walking into McCann.
Loved Peggy walking in. The rest? I feel unsettled, too- and lost. Is it an episode and then a finale, or just one more episode?
I think one episode then the two hour finale.

Week by week they are getting their goodbye scenes, so sad. I'll miss these characters so much.

I think for Joan it was a realistic conclusion for 1970. If she stayed and fought for the full money, they'd make her life miserable. Peggy has more steel, and probably more talent. She'll fight her way to the top, either there or elsewhere.

That McCann guy is a good actor.

I can't see Don ending up on the West Coast, but I can't see him on the East Coast either. Where is he going to be? I guess he has enough money for life so he can do what he wants, even after giving Megan $1mil.
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He was a major player in the agency that they sold, so he got a lot more, even up front, than Joan did. She got $500,000 -- which is a LOT of money for 1970. I'm sure he got multiple millions.

I do think they bought SC just for Don … big mistake. Which I LOVE.
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May 4 2015, 12:11 PM
He was a major player in the agency that they sold, so he got a lot more, even up front, than Joan did. She got $500,000 -- which is a LOT of money for 1970. I'm sure he got multiple millions.

I do think they bought SC just for Don … big mistake. Which I LOVE.
It was kind of telling that Sally didn't even want to wait for Don to drive her up to Farmington. And he really doesn't seem to see the other two kids. So he's free to go where he wants.

I guess I thought that he'd come to a place of thinking in which Diana was no longer a solution to any problem of his. Guess not. Now after seeing her daughter and father, is he done with that dream? I hope so.
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May 4 2015, 01:04 PM
IcyAll
May 4 2015, 12:11 PM
He was a major player in the agency that they sold, so he got a lot more, even up front, than Joan did. She got $500,000 -- which is a LOT of money for 1970. I'm sure he got multiple millions.

I do think they bought SC just for Don … big mistake. Which I LOVE.
It was kind of telling that Sally didn't even want to wait for Don to drive her up to Farmington. And he really doesn't seem to see the other two kids. So he's free to go where he wants.

I guess I thought that he'd come to a place of thinking in which Diana was no longer a solution to any problem of his. Guess not. Now after seeing her daughter and father, is he done with that dream? I hope so.
Too Diana-centric for me; with so few episodes left. Would rather see more Sally!
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I was just as disappointed as Don when Sally wasn't there.

It was nice to see Don and Betty alone, though. There is still a bit of a bond there. Does anyone think she can really be a psychologist? She didn't seem to have much of a read on people.
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I nearly hated it the first time I watched, but then I watched again. ;)

I love it now.

There are some great reviews out there, really fun, I'm still reading!

I don't think Don is dying. He's free from ground control, and off flying solo on his own. Probably of to find "his people" as Betty's dad said. Now? That's Anna's niece and her baby, and I don't think it will be romantic. She's one of the very, very few who actually KNOWS Dick Whitman.

My two happiest moments were Peggy strutting in, and Don grabbing his lunch and going "On The Road" while Ted smiled. Oh! And Burt! Oh! And everything that was Roger and Peggy alone in the office.
Edited by Mariah, May 4 2015, 11:09 PM.
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It made me laugh when Don tried to open the window at McCann and found it couldn't open. I think it was a little joke of Weiner's because so many people think Don will throw himself out the window.


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Is that what happened? I was confused. I thought he was listening to the wind blow and trying to figure out where it was coming from … which, come to think of it, is another metaphor! that Weiner!
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Could have been anything. I'd have to rewatch the scene but that was my take at the time. Don's trapped and he can't get out, but of course he did and he is on his way.......somewhere.

I remember when I worked at Lever House. It was my first time in a building with windows you could not open. Beautiful building. We had elevator operators too with white gloves. The building looks the same now, but I'm sure the elevator operators are long gone, as is the outdoor lunch place we had on the second (cafeteria) floor.
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I took it the way you did Icy. The window was leaky.

Among the reviewers, some saw it like weaver, some like you and me. All that whistling to me meant "shoddy." He was in a "shoddy" building, cramped, ugly, and even the windows weren't "right."

Also of course the whole jumping thing tease.
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I think Joan will take her money and open her own female staffed agency. She'll also take all of her clients with her, like Avon. And when McCann threatens her she'll tell them she'd rather spend the money on attorneys. I'm not sure if Peggy will go with her or fight her way to the top at McCann.

I hate the whole Diana storyline. It's like it's out of left field and every time they spend any time on her I find myself just wishing they'd get to whatever is next.
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She has a non compete for 4-5 years, and I don't think she cares about advertising.

She should open something to do with personnel. A temp agency, or headhunter thing for full time. She excels at that.
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I feel like watching Lost Horizon again. I think I rented it a zillion years ago when we used tapes, and I was able to see all the old 30's and 40's movies. There was a little video rental store on my corner. I remember loving the movie. Always loved Jane Wyatt.
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