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?
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
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."
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.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2007 7:08:43 pm PDT #694 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, except for the part where I kept waiting for Betty to kill herself.
Jon B. - Oct 20, 2007 10:43:55 am PDT #695 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Damages: So, the other attorney is also working for Frobisher? Or is he working for Patty and hopes to get the tape back w/o freeing Ellen.
It could be a fake out and they're just keeping an eye on Ellen to protect her. The show did that fake out once already.
Wolfram - Oct 24, 2007 4:48:19 am PDT #696 of 11998
Visilurking
No comments on Damages? I'm still processing the ending and where it looks like they're going next season. First impression is that I liked the way they went, but I wish they would have staggered the reveals a little more and not squeezed most of them in this week.
le nubian - Oct 24, 2007 4:57:27 am PDT #697 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I agree with you, Wolfram. The thing that really got up my nose is (SPOILER ALERT)...
Patty ordering a hit on Ellen. Yes, I understand why Patty did it, but it doesn't really make sense to me that Patty Hewes would take this action. This seems a little reckless and unnecessary. Seems to be a big step to take without knowing for sure you'd need to take it.