Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

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

well the train rides are going to be very awkward from now on...

time to find a new seat. seriously, how did they always have the same seats!

It's not uncommon on commuter trains. If you always make the same train, and tend to sit in the same car because it's close to your entrance or where you want to exit, you start to see the same people quite a bit. He'll probably just take a different time train from now on!

Oh no, what if the other guy has the same idea and they STILL wind up on the same train?

next season is all Pete getting punched out at irregular hours every morning.

its true i guess, i'm a v. irregular train commuter and i still see ppl i recognize.

the techniques for administering ECT have changed a lot.

still barbaric tho

― indian rope trick (remy bean)

it works.

best friend's mother is a nurse, she does it, there are many people who it's the only thing that works for, and who otherwise couldn't live an even vaguely normal life.

trying to shift your neurochemistry with some current doesn't seem morally different from doing same with drugs or exercise or sunshine or talking or anything else

yeah seems to me its purported creepiness is more an extension of it being forced on people involuntarily and, perhaps earlier on, due to its crudity as a method

also scientology has really exploited it to try and discredit psychiatry

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dj-jaffe/fda-considers-caving-to-s_b_346741.html

This last episode was pretty much perfection, I think. Far surpassed any film I've seen in the last... 3 years or so. Just... really great.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/06/mad_men_memories_ghosts_doppel.html#more

that's good.

watched this again last night - my opinion of Megan's mother is unchanged. when she comes in to find Megan in bed she's the one who starts going on about how the world can't fulfill all the dreams of little girls, that she's being lazy. Megan lashes back with the "is that what you tell yourself" comment but then her mom calls her "an ungrateful little bitch".

this is shitty parenting.

Tough love

megan got to marry a cool rich guy instead of a pissy communist

...and she's never had to blow Roger!

to complicate things further, am i the only on who got a sense that the chemistry between don and marie was somehow livelier than with megan?

uh they hate each other...?

yes but

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