Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


DavidS - May 10, 2012 6:03:18 pm PDT #9506 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, this whole season he seems to be trying to be Don or what Don was, and he's just failing at it so miserably.

Oooh, good point. He's having trouble integrating Dick Whitman with Don Draper. He's more successful being totally fake Don Draper with secrets and living with fear to drive him.


sj - May 10, 2012 6:05:32 pm PDT #9507 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Oooh, good point. He's having trouble integrating Dick Whitman with Don Draper. He's more successful being totally fake Don Draper with secrets and living with fear to drive him.

When I said he I actually meant Pete. Pete seems to be trying to be what Don used to be.


Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2012 6:05:55 pm PDT #9508 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oooh, good point. He's having trouble integrating Dick Whitman with Don Draper. He's more successful being totally fake Don Draper with secrets and living with fear to drive him.

Huh - I thought sj was saying Pete was trying to be Don and failing, but both ideas are interesting.


Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2012 6:07:04 pm PDT #9509 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Classic x-post


le nubian - May 11, 2012 2:11:52 am PDT #9510 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have been thinking about Mad Men lately - especially some of the tv critics opinions on the show. For example, there is a lot of discussion about how Don has lost his groove and that he seems out of sorts at work.

But it seems to me that Don has not been "Don" at work for a long while. Last season, he was out of sorts the whole season - culminating in his best friend dying out in California. I think what he was looking for in Megan is someone to replace her.

Even when "Don" was great at work, he was still leaving in the middle of the day watching artsy films and trying to find meaning.


DavidS - May 11, 2012 4:49:18 am PDT #9511 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yeah, it's been a while since he's done the Kodak Carousel pitch.

I wonder if they'll bring him back in a loop doing a memorable pitch to end the season.

Right now all the good campaigns are coming from Peggy and Ginsberg.


Jesse - May 11, 2012 4:54:47 am PDT #9512 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

He's such a dinosaur now -- like he said, as a kid his aspiration was indoor plumbing.


Vortex - May 11, 2012 2:02:19 pm PDT #9513 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

But that's the point isn't it? You get to be the boss and let your underlings do the work. That's certainly my ambition at some point.


Jesse - May 11, 2012 3:50:44 pm PDT #9514 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, that's just why I don't think he's going to be coming up with the magical pitches from now on.


Jon B. - May 11, 2012 4:53:01 pm PDT #9515 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Hasn't Don's talent always been to figure out which are the good pitches and which aren't? That was his argument to Peggy when she complained about not getting credit for the award Don won last(?) season. In fact, have we known him to come up with his own ideas anytime in the past few seasons?