Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha. Someone on the comment thread for the AV Club MM discussion wanted to know whether it isn't ridiculously unrealistic and dumbassy to have Don sign some random paperwork without looking at it closely.
Really? Out of all the jacked-up high stakes high tension depending-on-layers-of-improbabilities plot threads the show has offered up over the past 4 seasons, that's what you stick at? Because I swear I've never had a single boss who wouldn't have blithely, obliviously signed away anything from his/her citizenship to a kidney to you-name-it if it came on a nicely typed form with one of those "Sign here" arrow stickies.
The second most eyerolly comment came from the person who wanted to know why Don/Dick is so scared even now, all these years later, because, c'mon, it's only desertion.
And the scariest is the person who felt that Lane's father had a valid point about getting him to man up and face his family back in London, though of course he could have chosen a more diplomatic method to get the point across.
Ooh, having Sal back would be great.
having Sal back would be great.
But he would have to get payback for "you people". That was Don. And I don't think the kind of apology Don made to Pete would be enough.
They're not going to get Sal back. That's wishful fandom thinking, not anything like the show's universe.
And Don certainly wouldn't apologize.
Life or death on Mad Men is losing your job. That's the high, dramatic consequence.
Then again, Joss brought Angel back from hell without explanation...
Actually I could see Sal showing up when they go to San Francisco in '67. He's working for some version of Hal Riney.
Btw, who was singing along over the closing credits.
"Listen ..../ do you want to know a secret / do you promise not to tell / Ooooh Waaaaah Ooooh / I'm in love with you." - as Don looks at Megan!
I never considered that Joan didn't have an abortion, but I will say that this line that Joan says to Roger:
"We avoided a tragedy. Life goes on."
Suggests otherwise.
There's so much to get into a season's worth of episodes!
This ep made me dizzy with the number of land mines people stepped on. Wow! Can this agency be saved?
I'm afraid that Don confiding to Dr. Faye is not a step forward in intimacy for him, but rather the death knell for that relationship.
That's how I viewed that last shot of his glance at Megan.
He doesn't want a romance with a woman who knows that secret. With Anna it was a friendship, and with Peggy it could be a friendship, and I could see him confiding in her.
But he doesn't want a love interest to see him as that vulnerable, to see him as he sees himself when he's Dick Whitman. Literally, unlovable. That's his confession to Anna about Betty. And really, that's the reason why he became Don Draper.
When you think about it he didn't have a hugely compelling reason to become Draper. He still had to earn his success under that name. He was already wounded and going to leave Korea. What it offered was a chance to leave Dick Whitman behind.
Holy moley, they're all in deep shit. They need a big account quick, and Don's going to have to really pull out some Draper magic pixie dust to sprinkle all over it.
Things I'm wondering:
If Joan is still pregnant.
If Conrad Hilton will be the White Knight account.
How long until Don breaks up with Faye. And how big a dick he'll be when he does it.
What's going to happen with Glenn before the end of the season.
How Lane will come back. Or if. I'd hate to lose him.
Also, what's up with Harry so eager to be in LA? Is he having an affair? Being courted to work in Hollywood?
