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.

Classic x-post

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

In fact, have we known him to come up with his own ideas anytime in the past few seasons?

Well, he argued with Peggy about who deserved credit on the dogfood commercial that won the Clio.

Did you read the two sentences before the one you quoted, David??? He told Peggy that she had pitched a ton of ideas, good and bad, but he could recognize which was the best one.