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on Electroconvulsive Therapy and how Beth was probably Bipolar.
Originally Posted by Liezl
Thank you and Jebus Chrisp that is a scary thing to do to humans. Scientology is right!
"Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
I totally saw Don's going back to his old ways coming - As that final scene played out, my girlfriend looked at me and said "you called it."
Not nearly enough punches to Pete Campbell's face in that finale.*
*There are never enough.
I thought please don't let Peggy give Don a handy-j in the theater.
I don't hate Pete Campbell as much as everyone else in the world does apparently.
So the marriage between Alexis Bliedel's character and the other guy, am I wrong that that is terrible casting? Beyond not being a match in terms of looks and age, those characters I can't imagine them ever having fallen in love.
yeah, rory and the train guy don't look like they'd ever go out, let alone get married. but when pete campbell is your steamy side-lover, your standards are already pretty low.
this didn't really feel like a finale to me, until don struts away from his wife, giving her what she wanted (or thought she wanted), and then sits in the bar and gets propositioned. possibly for a threesome. the thing is, he's been getting hit on all season, and he's been pretty good about curbing those women without making them feel shitty in the process. and now we'll have a few months (or years?) elapse in the show without ever really knowing how that night turned out. i would've liked something a little more conclusive. but i guess it doesn't matter if season 6 opens with his tongue in some strange lady's mouth.
Maybe due to my optimism (or naivete) I thought it left the question open as to whether Don would succumb or say "Sorry, I'm married." But then, why was he hanging out in the bar alone in the first place. Oh, Don, you cad!
And yes, the cinematic touch of walking away from the commercial set to the bar was awesome. My lovely wife exclaimed "That looks like a scene from Casablanca!" Nicely done.
This episode also had a very obvious "door" theme. So many scenes started and/or ended with doors opening and closing. And of course Peter's illicit love interest talked about wanting to go through a door.
The biggest cliffhanger? What will become of Lane's office? Harry doesn't want it, and neither does Joan. Maybe it will become the Xerox room! And Jimmy Pardo can play the full time Xerox operator!
I thought they were getting a new office! I thought that was the meaning of it when you see all 5 partners in front of the different window panes. Am I wrong?
Eyes are the losers in the skies.
So they are planning to expand the office to go one floor upstairs? Joanie spray paints where the stairs will go and Pete remarks that he will have the same view as Don now. So they are expanding, not moving.
Punching Pete is a theme this season. His worried face during any and all punches makes me laugh.
I think Megan is sincere; she wants to work. She likes being in a national commercial. Stabbing her friend in the back (kind of) is par for the course when you're looking out for Number One.
How has nobody talked about how Peggy is 100% poised to create the name and brand of Virginia Slims and I bet you there's an episode next season about her coming up with the tagline "You've come a long way" and then the tobacco company wants to add the "..., baby" to the end and she tries to fight it but ultimately relents.
#MadMenFanFic
Edit: And yes, they're expanding their office with the floor upstairs. I think the stairs Joan marked on the ground will connect down to the inner lobby between Don and Roger's offices, outside the large conference room.
Last edited by Umlaut; June 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM. Reason: this was really confusing and i edited about 50 times, per usual
Thanks for the screencap. I loved that!
man, jon hamm knows how to stand.
So does Christina.
Meen Bellpeppers : NOBODY BADMOUTHS SORBET IN MY CHAT
Well I think the reason why I was sure is, isn't that scene a complete callback to a first season episode? At least I thought it was.
Plus, Megan's story arc was exactly the way Joan predicted it in the episode when Megan quit. Joan and Peggy are talking and Peggy says she thinks Megan might have had a chance at becoming a great ad writer, but Joan brushes it off, saying that that's not the kind of girl Don marries or something. She even brings up the fact that Betty was a model when she and Don met. I think that last moment, when Don walks away from the set and goes to the bar kind of shows that Megan has pretty much just become the new Betty.
That is kind of the point. She spreads her legs for the first poor sucker she sees. He was at one time that poor sucker. He was just dumb enough to marry her.
His, the husband's, anger isn't just about her cheating on him but that he still cares. Sure sending her for shock treatment seems cruel by our standards, and yes he brags about cheating on her,* but he is still trying to keep a marriage with a bi polar person together. I would have left her. You would have left her. He still tries to keep her. He's a fucking shlub insurance salesman who got one beautiful woman in his life and he's afraid to let her go.
*Who knows how true these boasts are.
Last edited by Americas Team; June 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM.
"Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
I think all that will happen off-screen. All we'll see is an ad for Virginia Slims and someone comment to Don, "Boy, that's a pretty good ad, huh?" And then Don sighs. And maybe a couple episodes later, Peggy drives by in a solid gold Rolls Royce, laughing.
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Watching the season finale, picking up on the little things. Pete's sister-in-law is named Judy. So...it's Trudy and Judy? Pete's father-in-law's a goofball, didn't know it was that much of a goofball.
“We’ve built a bridge of friendship and carried our goats across. Lay them in the grass with me, Jeff! One’s named Petey and one’s named Sweetie!”—Pete Holmes to Jeff Garlin, Doug Loves Movies
I seem to remember another scene with Slattery standing in front of a window...on a chair...naked...on acid!
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