She does her best to crush Jane like a bug not because Jane has any office or business smarts at all, but because Jane is lovely and willowy and has Joan's own former boy-harem all in a twitter.

She also wanted to crush Jane because Jane didn't play by the rules as set out by Joan. It was a reflection of what's going to be coming with the younger generation rejecting their elders' sense of propriety and rules and "this is how it must be done" and replacing it first with "why?" and then with a more simple "I don't have to do it that way."

Did we ever determine if it was Paul who revealed Joan's age by posting her birth certificate? It would seem one of those details that might come back into play. That maybe it'll be Paul who swoops in to help steer Joan back on course.

Did we ever determine if it was Paul who revealed Joan's age by posting her birth certificate?

I thought it was v. clearly implied that it was, although we never saw his face.

That's what I thought. They always had a very interesting relationship, those two. She challenged him in ways that few others did—he hated that she'd prick holes in the bubbles of his pretensions, but at the same time, I think he respected her for it, albeit grudgingly.

JZ, I love your spicy brains.

JZ, I love your spicy brains.

Don't we all? I don't really have anything to add, but I am Effing determined to watch the finale in real time (as I haven't been able to with any other episodes this season).

Yeah, Joan was not going to break off the marriage from the moment she took his arm. So awful that all of that has to be in her head every step of the way.

When she marries will she quit? I can't imagine the office without her. Although of course, there are major changes afoot at the office regardless.

That's one of the things that's so striking for Joan about Roger, that he was at such a different point in his life with her. And now he was willing to leave his wife and marry his mistress, and it's not Joan anymore.

Wouldn't he be more likely to have a heart attack?

Luckily asshat is a thoracic surgeon.

Uh-oh.

The doctor made noises about her quitting when they were having dinner. I wonder if Joan will try to take back some of the power that she lost by keeping her job.

Betty's "will she or won't she" is driving me nuts.

Interesting.

So, if he wanted Don could walk out and start his own agency.

I have to admit that this didn't end the way I would have thought it would.

And was that Pete sitting by a window with a shotgun?

Do you suppose that they'll totally skip over the assassination and go right to the Beatles?