Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Ah, thx.

Don tells Peggy at the movies that when you help someone they succeed and move on. I thought Don was disappointed with Megan and falling out of love with her, but now I see him afraid of losing her to her career.

this is totally otm by the way. didn't occur to me that Don's feeling about Megan trying to find career success apart from him would also be wrapped up in his ... loneliness? ... after Peggy left the company

Don says something to Peggy like, "I knew you'd succeed, I just thought it would be with me." He could almost deliver the exact same line to Megan.

well, Megan IS succeeding with Don - without him she was failing!

remember that in the middle of megan's tantrum she basically just called her mother a failure.

Children being cruel to their parents is WAY more forgivable than the other way round.

well yeah but she broke up Team Don & Megan that Don was so hyped about after they saved the Heinz account (xpost)

it'd be a pretty massive coincidence guys

It was good enough for SMASH, I'll have you know.

great. Smash spoilers

unlike other spoilers the problem with Smash spoilers is that you have to hear more about Smash

what a great last couple eps guys!

they're totally doing the sopranos thing - climax in the penultimate ep, last one is for the comedown.

i didn't really think about it before, are they putting the new stairway where lane's office used to be?

No it's coming into where the conference room is now, I think.

what if the next season picked up at exactly the moment the last scene cut to black

"...no I am happily married."

/end series

"...she's working on the soundstage attached to the bar. she should be done shooting in about two hours if you want hang around for a few drinks and then get freaky."

i mean, that's what *i* would say at least.

Maybe she was asking "Are you alone?" cos she only had enough acid for one other person and wanted to offer it to him.

nah, they're gonna drug him and steal his wallet. It keeps happening to him.

Matthew Weiner: Alan, if you really want to know what the season's about, listen to the words to "You Only Live Twice."

Smash spoilers?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1355000/images/_1357091_smash150.jpg

while we're on the subject, that's an amazing song

http://video.vulture.com/video/A-Death-Foretold-Foreshadowing

some parts of that video are a stretch but the compilation of all the shots of characters "lying in state" throughout the season is neat

hmm yeah some of that is grasping a bit, but the lying-in-state thing at the end is v interesting

thinking back, i think the only thing that didnt really satisfy me about the way this wrapped up was the pete/gilmore girl storyline. it was just such a romance-novel melodramatic situation... one last night before she forgets me forever... i dunno

I sort of didn't care about it myself

altho it led to the fight on the train, which was A+ awesome

ya and pete campbell getting socked twice in the season was great

thinking back, i think the only thing that didnt really satisfy me about the way this wrapped up was the pete/gilmore girl storyline. it was just such a romance-novel melodramatic situation... one last night before she forgets me forever... i dunno

― brony ver (s1ocki)

i think if they'd actually made it out to be a "romance" that it would annoy me, but as it was just a way to display how much of a miserable, void pete is i sort of enjoyed it. tho found it somewhat contrived.

-xpost-

And tripping into the support column in his office.

http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PETE-CAMPBELL-TRIPS.gif

re: Pete/girl, I thought it's point was to introduce the idea into Pete's head that ~he~ might be depressed?

that seemed like part of it to me too yeah

Vincent kartheiser for the Emmy btw

how was he in that death clock movie

Kartheiser has always been good at playing whiny and creepy.

still bummed i was wrong about the JJ cancer thing, was convinced it was in the card

my gf thought that gilmore girl was pretending she didn't remember him, to put it in the past.

yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Does electroshock therapy actually work that way?

That's possible, but it doesn't matter a whole lot since she'll probably never be seen again and Pete is getting his city fuck pad.

the irony of trudy acceding to his desire for an apartment in the city is that he no longer wants it. i don't think we're going to see him turning into don.

yeah, I was wondering about that myself. Does electroshock therapy actually work that way?

― silverfish, Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

memory loss is a possible side effect of ECT it seems, yes. Less so nowadays; the techniques for administering ECT have changed a lot.

According To Wikipedia™ anyway

the techniques for administering ECT have changed a lot.

still barbaric tho

is it?

It turned Lou Reed staight(ish).

for a little while

yes.

the irony of trudy acceding to his desire for an apartment in the city is that he no longer wants it. i don't think we're going to see him turning into don.

Doesn't he though?

he wants it - it's not like he loves the burbs now. finding out what he does with it should be interesting.

Howdy Doody fan club.

He's gonna turn into a real pimp now--call him "The Camp".

the original Petey Wheatstraw