I am having Mother Issues as of late, so it took a lot for me to not project that onto the screen and put my fist through the TV, Peggy's mom pissed me off so bad.
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Aims - Sep 08, 2009 2:20:01 pm PDT #3104 of 11998
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sj - Sep 08, 2009 5:03:06 pm PDT #3105 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved how after Peggy's horrible discussion with her horrible mom, the sister said, "Well, that wasn't so bad!"
The mother's "you'll get raped" was so far over the line I don't even think you can see the line from there, but it was nice to see the sister at least trying to be supportive.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2009 5:17:36 pm PDT #3106 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did you see how relatively unflustered Peggy was? She knows how her mother can be and pretty much knew what was coming.
Vortex - Sep 08, 2009 5:34:07 pm PDT #3107 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yes, it smacked of a conversation with my mother. You know that she'll be unhappy so you just ready yourself for whatever random shit that she's going to say to make you as unhappy as she is.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 08, 2009 6:00:50 pm PDT #3108 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My favorite moment in this episode - Don's silent facial gesture to Sally to do what her mother said, which was loaded with sympathy and "I know what you're feeling, but please not now." Very, VERY different than yelling at her cousins the other week.
And that he went in to check on her later that night. If she'd been awake, I suspect there would have been an interesting talk.
Barb - Sep 08, 2009 6:10:20 pm PDT #3109 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
The mother's "you'll get raped" was so far over the line I don't even think you can see the line from there
But again, so, so appropriate for the generation Peggy's mother embodies. The boroughs had very fierce senses of independence and identity, especially Brooklyn, so to Peggy's mother, the idea that her daughter is moving away to Manhattan might as well been as devastating as if she was moving to a foreign country. She sees Peggy pulling away from her and essentially rejecting everything about her upbringing.
Well... and she's a crank who dwells in the Bitter Barn.
ETA: I was wrong about when Brooklyn was incorporated into the City of New York-- it was 1898.
megan walker - Sep 08, 2009 8:14:53 pm PDT #3110 of 11998
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The boroughs had very fierce senses of independence and identity, especially Brooklyn.
Had?
(When people here ask where I used to live I always say Brooklyn. It would never occur to me to say NY.)
Barb - Sep 09, 2009 1:50:44 am PDT #3111 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
::snerk::
Okay, okay... Sorry, says the girl who was born, yet never lived there. Although, you're totally right, megan. When people ask where I was born, I say Manhattan and have never thought twice about it.
Jessica - Sep 09, 2009 3:11:59 am PDT #3112 of 11998
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When people here ask where I used to live I always say Brooklyn. It would never occur to me to say NY.
Definitely. (And I also say I was born in "Manhattan" not NY.)
Jesse - Sep 09, 2009 4:42:14 am PDT #3113 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hell, I moved to Queens five years ago, and will still talk about going to "the City" when I mean Manhattan. It's Different.