quester, Bomer doesn't ping me in that special way, since my taste runs to the eccentric, but I can look at him as an empirical example of oh holy mother, lovely, lovely man! much in the way of Paul Newman.

'Cept Paul pinged me.

And Bomer's eyes are fairly magical.

I don't know why, but he doesn't do anything for me.

It's not that I don't appreciate a good looking guy, but there is something kind of...meh about him. Maybe I'm getting old. Or tired of just looking. Or something.

So while I'm finally starting to dig the plot, the whole structure of the show just confuses me.

The thing that gets me is how shocked, shocked these guys are when they find out that someone is bugging them. I mean, they're intelligence analysts who look at video feeds from a wedding halfway around the world, and they're surprised that someone is bugging them in their own offices and homes? Makes no sense. Didn't they ever see The Conversation?

No shit. I'm entertained by "Rubicon", but the show is not making sense to me. I think Will's boss is awesome and I want to see more of him (the gay man not the awkward man with the wife). I can't keep characters name straight (see previous sentence) and I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of a grand conspiracy would be.

It's almost like the main actions described by this show could be initiated through much more direct means.

Hey Roger, if you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it.

Ha! I loved Sally when she was being a little grown up. Poor Don for not knowing how to deal with his children.

Also, I was amused/disgusted by Betty's "I missed you". It was totally for the audience of women.

Anyone else think that Sally's going to run away for good this time?

I doubt she'll run away (that would lose her as a character), but I do think she's about to discover drugs and boys in a big way.

Kind of scary to me that I had the "This is not a negotiation / Do I have to pick you up and carry you out of here?" conversation with Dylan just yesterday. Apparently this is something I'm going to be repeating for another decade? Yeesh.

(the gay man not the awkward man with the wife)

His name is Kale, but I think of him as Not!Sloane.

Oh. My. God. I felt terrible but I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at any episode before as I did over last night's Mad Men. I love farce. Poor Mrs Blankenship.

One major point of fail - in an episode where racism and civil rights are addressed explicitly, could we have not made the only POC onscreen be a mugger? Please?

I get that we're being set up for Peggy's Big Activist Awakening and Joan to be the conservative mirror to that*, but SERIOUSLY SHOW, STOP IT.

[*Okay, I hope that's where we're going, anyway.]

His name is Kale, but I think of him as Not!Sloane

Thank you. I had forgotten the name of the main character and if you hadn't mentioned it was "Will" in your post, I wouldn't have remembered that.

He's named for a leafy green vegetable.

Will?