While they may be showing us how they think it was, not every single male was a skirt-chasing letch bent on female subjugation.
Yeah, just like the fact that not everybody smoked. That drives me up a wall.
My food is problematic.
River ,'The Message'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
megan walker - Jul 20, 2008 6:35:25 pm PDT #988 of 11998
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
le nubian - Jul 20, 2008 6:39:00 pm PDT #989 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I don't want to spoil for quester in case quester hasn't seen last season's finale, but I was okay with Peggy until the season finale. I will not get over "what happened to" Peggy in the end.
Man, that just took me out of the show out of the moment and I'm still shaking my head months later.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2008 6:41:04 pm PDT #990 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, I can see that, Sail. Just like everyone in West Baltimore isn't really in the drug trade, though. A show is like a window. ETA: My grandfather might have, if he wasn't so busy being the Tragic...uh, Half-Breed or something like that. Megan hasn't seen "The Wire" Bubbs is pathetic sometimes, but he's never an asshat.
quester - Jul 22, 2008 4:07:34 pm PDT #991 of 11998
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
le nubian was it her finding out she was pregnant by going into labor!? or was it something else? I did happen to catch part of that episode if it's the one you mean.
Jon B. - Jul 22, 2008 4:54:59 pm PDT #992 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Quester, please don't use <font color="white"> for spoilers. Instead, use <span class="spoiler"> or use the s quickedit. With the css flexibility we've given users, not everyone is using a white background anymore.
Scrappy - Jul 22, 2008 5:11:24 pm PDT #993 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I found them unlikable, but the writing was so sharp and the casting so brilliant that I stuck with it. I think you see as the series goes on that though the women may be hurting more obviously, EVERYONE is suffering because of the rigid social mores of the era.
le nubian - Jul 22, 2008 5:20:25 pm PDT #994 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester, yes. I couldn't get over the fact that Peggy went into labor and didn't know she was pregnant. What the fuck did she think was the baby kicking? I just don't get it. Yes, people have talked about women they know not realizing they were pregnant, but come on.
erikaj - Jul 22, 2008 7:25:05 pm PDT #995 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, Scrappy, it does seem that Don suffers from having to be The Man all the time. And it's heartbreakingly easy for him to be a total fake because nobody's supposed to get close to him anyway... or is that too "Behind Blue Eyes?"
Frankenbuddha - Jul 23, 2008 2:46:10 am PDT #996 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My take on that, le nubian, was that I think people in that era thought the pill was infallible, so the pregnancy might have seemed inconceivable (no pun intended - ok, maybe a little) to Peggy. That with a heavy dose of denial, and a ton of conflicting feelings about Pete, makes it a twist I can deal with.
le nubian - Jul 23, 2008 3:28:18 am PDT #997 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Franken,
yes, I think that was what we were to conclude as an audience, but I'm still not very happy with that.