What a super tense episode of MM that was.
No kidding. I kept waiting for the teacher in the car situation to somehow interrupt their discussion, but I also figured she was too smart to go up to the house.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Frankenbuddha - Oct 25, 2009 6:08:27 pm PDT #3470 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2009 6:08:49 pm PDT #3471 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that she didn't want him to feel bad.
I guess it was how she framed it--that she was too bright to have expected him home. No, you were dumb enough to expect him. Don't big yourself up.
Lee - Oct 25, 2009 6:18:33 pm PDT #3472 of 11998
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I read that the way Vortex did as well--a white lie so he didn't feel so bad.
Consuela - Oct 25, 2009 6:55:30 pm PDT #3473 of 11998
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
a white lie so he didn't feel so bad.
Yeah but she got him back by feeding his dinner to the dog. (Who should really not be fed at the table, much less on the table, but whatever. Dogs in Hollywood are not like real dogs--they never get catastrophic diarrhea at 3 am and poop all over the living room carpet.)
The guy who plays Caffrey is disturbingly pretty.
Consuela - Oct 25, 2009 6:57:04 pm PDT #3474 of 11998
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And OMG Mark Shepherd AGAIN.
He's EVERYWHERE.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2009 7:05:18 pm PDT #3475 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, she didn't really get him back--she said there was no dinner, and he gets no dinner. Though there might have been an implication that she was going to cook dinner later, but I didn't quite get that.
Scrappy - Oct 25, 2009 8:08:45 pm PDT #3476 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I hear ya on MM, Le Nubian. At the end of the show, the DH turned to me and said "Well, that was harrowing."
Vortex - Oct 25, 2009 8:39:48 pm PDT #3477 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Great work by Jon Hamm. I'm not surprised that he shaded the truth about what happened, and I'm glad that Betty called him out on his fib about the date of the divorce.
Theodosia - Oct 26, 2009 3:11:39 am PDT #3478 of 11998
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yep, harrowed -- and well-deserved harrowing, too. And with the Suzanne situation, not all the chickens are home to roost.
Loved the Roger portions, too. So much backstory so well portrayed/alluded, illuminating the character present.
Jessica - Oct 26, 2009 4:17:34 am PDT #3479 of 11998
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Last night was the first time MM has ever made me cry. The Don/Betty scenes were nothing short of amazing.
I think seeing Don so utterly vulnerable took all the wind out of Betty's sails. She'd prepared herself for a long fight, but the minute he dropped that cigarette I think she realized she'd already taken him out with the first punch. And after that, it wasn't fun for her any more.
I loved her little throwaway comment about how it's obvious Don didn't grow up with money because he has no idea what to do with it. I guess his "cover" has never been quite as perfect as he's wanted it to be.
I wonder if Betty realizes at this point that Don loves her more than she loves him. I wonder if Don knows it.