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[DJ MC]

Poor Sally.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Vox.com: Did Mad Men's series finale actually air in 2014?

 

The Hollywood Reporter: 'Mad Men': Tim Goodman On the Patterns Getting Clearer As the End Nears

 

Variety: ‘Mad Men’ Recap: ‘The Forecast’ Keeps Don, Joan, Betty and Sally Busy (SPOILERS)

[BSLChrisStoner]

Guess this isn't shocking news, but would have thought it would've been in the contract they negotiated.

[DJ MC]

I hate Lou Avery so much. He is the best.

[DJ MC]

Massacre of Glencoe

 

I believe this is what was referred to as the source of Campbell-MacDonald bad blood. "The King ordered it!"--another great job by Pete "King of Exclaimations" Campbell.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Very compelling episodes these last few weeks.

Roger and Peggy.  Ha!

Poor Joan. Though I loved her speech.

Peggy's walk into McCann was great.

[DJ MC]

That scene in Hobart's office, my God.

 

Weiner is just screwing with all of the "someone's jumping out of a window" people now. That whole Roger-Peggy story was full of allusions.

 

Yeah, Peggy walking in is going to be a "deal with it" meme by...probably fifteen minutes ago.

[DJ MC]

Roger's horror-movie organ music, then giving Peggy the tentacle-porn painting from Cooper. I love this show.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Grantland: Mad Men Week 5 Recap

http://grantland.com...n-week-5-recap/

[NewMarketSean]

Good episode. It's episodes like that that make me dread the ending instead of welcoming it.

 

Does Don ever go back to McCann Erickson to even jump out of a window? 

[BSLChrisStoner]

Good episode. It's episodes like that that make me dread the ending instead of welcoming it.

 

Does Don ever go back to McCann Erickson to even jump out of a window? 

 

I don't see suicide in Don's future...  but I do think it's possible that Don kills 'Don'... and attempts to start over somewhere else, as someone else once again.

 

Seemed like a real epiphany that he was just another guy. Think it would be hard for him to go back and just do the job.  But maybe.

[NewMarketSean]

I don't see suicide in Don's future...  but I do think it's possible that Don kills 'Don'... and attempts to start over somewhere else, as someone else once again.

 

Seemed like a real epiphany that he was just another guy. Think it would be hard for him to go back and just do the job.  But maybe.

 

Yeah I agree.

 

But this show could end up anywhere.

[NewMarketSean]

Is Don Draper going to become D.B. Cooper?

 

http://www.thedailyb...-years-ago.html

[Icterus galbula]

Is Don Draper going to become D.B. Cooper?

 

http://www.thedailyb...-years-ago.html

 

 

I like this theory. Maybe the man falling in the credits was actually Don falling to his death from the plane.

 

Reading some of the backstory of DB Cooper on wikipedia there is this nugget:

 

"Schaffner described him as calm, polite, and well-spoken, not at all consistent with the stereotypes (enraged, hardened criminals or "take-me-to-Cuba" political dissidents) popularly associated with air piracy at the time. Tina Mucklow, another flight attendant, agreed. "He wasn't nervous," she told investigators. "He seemed rather nice. He was never cruel or nasty. He was thoughtful and calm all the time."^[21] He ordered a second bourbon and water, paid his drink tab (and insisted Schaffner keep the change),^[1] and offered to request meals for the flight crew during the stop in Seattle.^[22]"

 

Sounds in-character.

[DJ MC]

Is Don Draper going to become D.B. Cooper?

 

http://www.thedailyb...-years-ago.html

 

There's just as good of a chance that Megan gets murdered by the Manson family

[NewMarketSean]

There's just as good of a chance that Megan gets murdered by the Manson family

 

I don't know...this has some serious potential. It's more than just Megan wearing a Sharon Tate t-shirt.

[DJ MC]

I don't know...this has some serious potential. It's more than just Megan wearing a Sharon Tate t-shirt.

 

Except that there's absolutely nothing in the way Weiner has written the series that suggests something that specific and notable as a realistic outcome. Just at the most basic level, the timeline is all wrong and once Weiner has started on a timeline for a season he's never truly veered away from ~one episode per month. But he also has made a point to not involve these people directly in major historical events; more then anything else, they observe and comment, not participate.

 

That's where the comparison to Megan and Manson comes in. There was a lot more to that than just the t-shirt; she was a young, struggling actress moving to LA, living in the hills and making friends with others in a similar position. That would give the idea of her associating with Tate or Manson validity, and the shirt just spurred that thinking further along. Add in how neat the narrative would be with Don losing his wife for real after metaphorically losing here after the move, and it all works. But it didn't happen, because that's not how Weiner writes the show.

[BSLChrisStoner]

EW: Mad Men: The quagmire stares back

http://www.ew.com/ar...ire-stares-back

[DJ MC]

Betty! No!

[DJ MC]

Just found this on Fark: http://www.mediapost...dead-at-88.html

 

Well done, if a bit...unlikely at this point.