There may be an element of Megan still being pissed off at throwing Don a surprise party and have him throw it back in her face and be a dick about the whole thing.
Basically they are both terrible at doing nice things for one another.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
I don’t think he was intentionally trying to be a dick, but (as mentioned above) he was treating her “well” in a way he was just accustomed to doing, particularly with Betty. Megan understandably resented being treated like a child and had every right to lash out, but Don’s intentions were at least good.
I think this nails it. Don only knows how to do things one way, it seems, and Megan lets her displeasure build instead of letting him know her feelings up front. So, while Don was doing things the wrong way this whole trip, he didn't become a dick until he left her behind at the Howard Johnson's. Megan wasn't being bratty at all. She was playing Betty's role until she could no longer take it, then she snapped and said the thing about Don's mother. Both parties are at fault, it was a bad day.
I'm most bothered by how they came into work together the next day, obviously moments after the chase around the apartment, smiling.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
i loled at Dawn: How was your trip?Don: Great!
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Megan wants a partnership, Don wants a young trophy wife. That seems reductive, but it really is how all this is playing out.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think Don wants a young trophy wife at all. I beleive he had a lot of genuine emotion for her that led to him proposing, but he's so damaged he doesn't know how to express it or how to be in a partnership. he's showing signs of changing, imo, and while not fucking whores is a small step, it is a step. plus he looked to be genuinely remorseful at not being able to find her, but he couldn't show that to her, so he chased her around the apartment first.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
I think Don THINKS he wants a partnership, but any time he's confronted with the actual partner aspect of it, he sulks or acts out.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
right, cause he's really damaged and has had very few healthy relationships
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's a bit reductive - Betty was the young trophy wife. I think Don also thinks of her as old-world and stuffy (look at her husband and where she's living) whereas he imagines Megan as closer to the double life he's been living all this time hanging out with cool art students and teenagers and disappearing to California and everything. I think he's pretty reliant on her at this point and has a lot of emotion invested in it even though it's patently going to be a disaster.
Also, she's not terrible around the children, which probably helps.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
The only time we've seen her with the kids this season everything seemed a bit awkward. Surely they felt more comfortable with her as a temporary nanny than as a stepmother.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
that would be true for anyone, though. awkwardness pretty much unavoidable when it comes to stepchildren/ parents.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
looking forward to Sally's "your not my REAL mom!" moment
Ginsberg + Peggy hooking up is too obvious. It won't happen.
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ginsberg Sr.'s comment about being the original was so cheesy and seeing Peggy do that little stoned giggle was great
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
what was he talking about with "building his case"?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
foreshadowing I guess
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
that's some old-school don-and-betty shit -- no matter what kind of shit you've been up to, you show up to the business function smiling and looking flawless.
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
besides, it's in don and megan's best interest not to give the office any grist for the "trouble in paradise" gossip mill.
actual location used for the hojo exteriors:
http://www.highwayhost.org/California/LosAngeles/BaldwinPark/baldwinpark1.html
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
interiors here:
http://dinerwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/rods-grill-back-off-arcadia-were.html
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone foresee, what with the ominous turning of hippie tides and ambient violence, Megan dying under mysterious circumstances and Don, as the primary suspect, breaking under scrutiny and being fully exposed? Just a feeling... I also think that Pete's gun is a total MacGuffin.
― viacom dios, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
I think that's just you.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
um yeah
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
it's a fool's game to try and predict this show afaic
Has anyone checked on Harry lately? I fear he may be locked in Pete's old office with no way out.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody's got to die, though, right? And who more fitting than the guileless positivist drowning amid the rotten cynics? Again, no idea. I just feel the show ramping up to something on that scale. Last 2 eps have been among the series' best.
― viacom dios, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ginsberg's dad's gonna out a main character as a Nazi war criminal.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't it a foregone conclusion that Joan's husband is going to die in Vietnam? (obv not a major character, but still)
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
why does anyone have to die?
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
everyone dies eventually
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
the orange sherbet is a chekhov's gun!!
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
confounding expectations is a point of pride for Wiener, I think it's safe to say that if something is "obvious" then that's a sign of misdirection
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
After Mrs. Blankenship's death, any other death on the show would be a letdown.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
No one has to die but it's tv, they do. And the show's pretty death obsessed at the moment.
― viacom dios, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
age-wise, aren't Cooper and his sister probably oldest?
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I hope this show never goes in this direction. The trip out to the HoJo and then her disappearing gave me horrible reminders of that Six Feet Under storyline.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
they should just kill off bobby draper so they won't have to keep re-casting him.
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― mh, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
i couldn't even remember bobby's name there for a minute, that's how inessential a character he is.
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Love the idea of offing Bobby. Always wished they'd done so to Baby Grace on Friday Night Lights.
― viacom dios, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
only if Landry did it
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Mad Men: SOMEBODY'S GOT TO DIE
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
No-Botty Got Ta Know That I Killed Yo Ass in the Ho...Jo
― viacom dios, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i think don violently chasing megan down in the summary encapsulates how he feels and how he chooses to act on those feelings. he's deeply invested in megan and desperately wants to make their relationship work -- compare his turning around the car and spending all day worrying about her to how he treated betty, who he'd remorselessly blow off at the drop of an emotional hat -- but he's emotionally immature and has no tact.
― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
oops. scratch "in the summary."
This show is the best it's ever been imho
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit @ so much of that episode but Ginsburg in particular, goddamn that was good. "Are there others like you?"
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Also can I just say it find it weird how much of this thread is dedicated to these super moralizing posts about how awful character [x] is
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
solitary posts etc
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
eh my loathing of Megan is more an aesthetic judgment than a moral one fwiw. those teeth! ugh
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
i totally fell for Megan when she made the comment about her teeth last season
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
looks-wise, mind. I've liked her character this season though.