Mad Men through the end
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icepixieStan/Peggy was endgame? Really? That...I...huh. Good for them. (But didn't he kind of say they don't actually work face to face, only over the phone? Perhaps their relationship will be conducted via phone call.) I guess I might've expected it after she told him her big secret and he reacted like an actual adult. Their utter failure at babysitting was super cute.
OH EM GEE, we almost had the Peggy-Joan-Ken business of my dreams! Arrrggghhh, Stan, why did you talk Peggy out of it?! She could've brought you! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GLORIOUS AND YOU KNOW IT! At least Joan started her own business, yay. Though I would've enjoyed her marshaling the EEOC, ACLU, and NOW against Jim Hobart.
I've felt Betty's days were numbered since the cancer scare in season five. Since they didn't show the other end of the phone call saying the tumor was benign, I always kind of wondered if she'd just been hiding cancer from everyone. I guess not, but the end result was the same.
(I am a horrible person, but: At least this means she won't ever be a therapist. I cheer for her going for a master's and following her dreams, but you know that would have been A COMPLETE DISASTER. Albeit a hilarious one.)
On the other hand, I was sure basically from the pilot that Don would end up jumping out a window (the credits, c'mon!), and the fact that he didn't is...nice? I am astonished to find him happy at a hippie retreat in California, though. (He then creates the Coke ad, right?)
Perhaps the most surprising development was Pete and Trudy reconciling and moving to Wichita. Okay then. When's the next divorce? You know that's going to crash and burn. I absolutely do not buy that Pete has changed enough to make that work.
Dawn became the new Joan (until they were absorbed by McCann)! Good for Dawn! Although she doesn't strike me as someone who "doesn't care if people hate her." Maybe she can grow some armor. Hopefully she still had a job after the merger.
HIGH FIVE TO SALLY for telling Don he and Betty are Lechy McLechersons and she doesn't want to grow up to be like either of them.
Ahahahaha, Ken is the client. I guess he found the idea of screwing everyone over more satisfying than writing his novel. I can't blame him.
Lord, there is so much facial hair and long, shaggy sideburns on this show now. So much hair, period. I guess that's to be expected in 1970. That said, Stan's beard is a much better look on him than beardless. He looked far too much like a jerky frat boy football player before.
(Speaking of hair and fashion, my god, am I ever getting some late nineties flashbacks with the seventies clothing. My mother really wasn't kidding when she said those years felt like the seventies had come back to life. I think I owned some of those flared jeans in high school. And too many of those peasant tops.)
Completely unrelated except for the fact that both are/were on AMC: Lee Pace has a new show about computers set in the early eighties? How did I not know this?
OH EM GEE, we almost had the Peggy-Joan-Ken business of my dreams! Arrrggghhh, Stan, why did you talk Peggy out of it?! She could've brought you! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GLORIOUS AND YOU KNOW IT! At least Joan started her own business, yay. Though I would've enjoyed her marshaling the EEOC, ACLU, and NOW against Jim Hobart.
I've felt Betty's days were numbered since the cancer scare in season five. Since they didn't show the other end of the phone call saying the tumor was benign, I always kind of wondered if she'd just been hiding cancer from everyone. I guess not, but the end result was the same.
(I am a horrible person, but: At least this means she won't ever be a therapist. I cheer for her going for a master's and following her dreams, but you know that would have been A COMPLETE DISASTER. Albeit a hilarious one.)
On the other hand, I was sure basically from the pilot that Don would end up jumping out a window (the credits, c'mon!), and the fact that he didn't is...nice? I am astonished to find him happy at a hippie retreat in California, though. (He then creates the Coke ad, right?)
Perhaps the most surprising development was Pete and Trudy reconciling and moving to Wichita. Okay then. When's the next divorce? You know that's going to crash and burn. I absolutely do not buy that Pete has changed enough to make that work.
Dawn became the new Joan (until they were absorbed by McCann)! Good for Dawn! Although she doesn't strike me as someone who "doesn't care if people hate her." Maybe she can grow some armor. Hopefully she still had a job after the merger.
HIGH FIVE TO SALLY for telling Don he and Betty are Lechy McLechersons and she doesn't want to grow up to be like either of them.
Ahahahaha, Ken is the client. I guess he found the idea of screwing everyone over more satisfying than writing his novel. I can't blame him.
Lord, there is so much facial hair and long, shaggy sideburns on this show now. So much hair, period. I guess that's to be expected in 1970. That said, Stan's beard is a much better look on him than beardless. He looked far too much like a jerky frat boy football player before.
(Speaking of hair and fashion, my god, am I ever getting some late nineties flashbacks with the seventies clothing. My mother really wasn't kidding when she said those years felt like the seventies had come back to life. I think I owned some of those flared jeans in high school. And too many of those peasant tops.)
Completely unrelated except for the fact that both are/were on AMC: Lee Pace has a new show about computers set in the early eighties? How did I not know this?
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Date: 2015-06-24 07:32 am (UTC)As for the "Lee Pace" show--it's not, really. He's in it, but he's by no means the most interesting character in it. I've watched it from the beginning, but the second season is much better than the first. I say try it!
-J
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Date: 2015-06-26 08:33 pm (UTC)Ha! Yeah, I...did not expect that. To be honest, I have to agree with those who found it a little too sitcommy/rom-commy. Employing one of two small changes would've fixed that for me:
Option 1: Build it up a little better. I think I mentioned that they strongly reminded me of McMurphy and Richard from China Beach (which you should totally watch, you'd love it!), who had a similar poking and prodding kind of friendship that I couldn't ship at first. But they had a lot of moments over a couple seasons where it gradually became obvious that they were falling in love. I think 2-3 more scenes like the one where Peggy tells Stan about her baby, spread over the seventh season, would've done wonders.
Option 2: Leave it like it is, but introduce some ambiguity after they get together. They kind of went there with Stan saying they annoy each other face-to-face, so showing that, letting that shadow come over their happiness at the end, would also have worked for me.
As for the "Lee Pace" show--it's not, really. He's in it, but he's by no means the most interesting character in it.
Awww, really? That's too bad.
I've watched it from the beginning, but the second season is much better than the first. I say try it!
Hmmm. I have to admit that Lee was pretty much the sole attraction of the show for me, though...
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Date: 2015-08-17 02:02 pm (UTC)Aw, come on, that wasn't what it sounded like when you were enthusing about the idea behind it. Give it a shot.
Who IS Lee Pace to you, anyway? This is actually the first thing I've seen him in, believe it or not.
-J
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Date: 2015-08-22 07:15 pm (UTC)