Oh, very clearly -- hence the "playing".
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
amych - Oct 19, 2007 4:20:38 am PDT #684 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
le nubian - Oct 19, 2007 6:11:33 am PDT #685 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, so I really enjoyed the whole "Mad Men" ep last night, but the thing that really really bothered me is that Peggy didn't know she was pregnant. I think the reveal to the viewers could have been done differently. How the fuck didn't she know for nine freaking months? She mistook labor pains for a bad sandwich?
That whole thing didn't sit right with me.
sumi - Oct 19, 2007 6:27:06 am PDT #686 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
But that happens, right?
I mean, it hits the news about some teenager who didn't realize that she was pregnant.
And really, I'm sure that Peggy thought that having started the pill she was protected so she couldn't possibly be pregnant.
erikaj - Oct 19, 2007 7:52:27 am PDT #687 of 11998
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
People still think that. It takes a month, of course.
le nubian - Oct 19, 2007 8:00:31 am PDT #688 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi,
I guess I can see a teenager, but Peggy is not a young teenager. It just seems ludicrous to me that she wouldn't feel the baby KICK and dismiss it as...what?
Wolfram - Oct 19, 2007 9:23:09 am PDT #689 of 11998
Visilurking
I bought the pregnancy storyline, but I'm not sure they made it clear that she didn't suspect it at all. Not that they gave much indication that she did suspect something, but she was looking at her weight gain in the mirror in one scene and there was enough ambiguity that just maybe something was running through her head.
Or not. Fact is, people have been know to give birth on toilets totally unaware that they were pregnant.
Scrappy - Oct 19, 2007 9:45:07 am PDT #690 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Someone I work with didn't figure out she was pregnant until she was four months along--and she was TRYING to have a baby! And I have known people to be in denial longer than that.
Rick - Oct 19, 2007 11:51:13 am PDT #691 of 11998
For all of their obsessivness about every element of the Mad Men set being authentically 1960, they do make some odd choices elsewhere. The Dylan song won’t be released for several years, so it seems like a bit of a cheat to have it heralding change in the character's lives. And a few episodes back the head secretary was quoting a Marshall McLuhan piece from 1964.
Of course, the writers should be devouring McLuhan: Advertising, gender, and the modern workplace were his mainstay. There’s many an episode to be found there. McLuhan probably should be the "Grr Arrgh" guy of Mad Men. But prescient secretaries throw off my suspension of disbelief.
Bobbi - Oct 19, 2007 1:48:59 pm PDT #692 of 11998
Dog is my co-pilot.
When I was in nursing school, one of my classmates was having abdominal pain thought she had a gallstone. Her boyfriend the fire fighter took her to the ER. Imagine their surprise at their full term, 7-1/2 pound "gallstone." Oh, and we'd been studying obstetrics and doing clinicals in the OB department while she was pregnant. I always wondered how much of it was denial.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2007 5:29:12 pm PDT #693 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What amych said. Yeah, that's all I've got.