as someone who's always harbored a cliched not-so-secret desire to drop everything and reinvent myself in california i will especially happy if that's how this turns out for don.
― ryan, Monday, 4 May 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again! i'm pleased for them like, but.. o_0
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
also, when did Diana give Don her address?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
She didn't. He was trial and erroring based on last name.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
ah got it.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
I guess the show will end without Don revealing to the others that he's not Don. I guess the argument can be made that it really doesn't matter, but I still feel cheated.
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
Has he been Don Draper at this point longer than he was Dick Whitman?
― ultimate american sock (mh), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
he kinda has in all but the most technical sense - everyone closest to him knows about the poor whorehouse-life thing
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
(xp)
xxp not quite. he's like 46/47 and has been draper since the end of korea (1953?)
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
do we think Roger knows who he is? there was all that stuff in episode 1 of 7b where he seemed to be referring to it while they were sat in a diner.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
roger knows he was poor and sad and unfortunate, as do most of the sc&p partners. I don't think he knows about dick whitman or anna draper
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure that when Pete revealed Don's identity to Cooper, Roger was in the room.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
nah he wasn't.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
i always just thought Coops would have.. mentioned it to Roger on the sly.
wild guesses at the closing song for the final ep?
going with g lightfoot's "if you could read my mind", peaked on billboard in feb 1971. tragic man wanting to break free from a long relationship he no longer understands, but the chords and strings give his quest to understand how it all went wrong a slice of nobility. last few eps have felt a little like that's what they're building to with don.
― dutch_justice, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 06:40 (nine years ago) link
A friend and I started working on a piece about this very thing a week ago. I've got lots of thoughts, but I'll hold off until that goes up (in a day or two, not sure where yet). "If You Could Read My Mind" is a great pick.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:16 (nine years ago) link
theme from shaft or wild world imo
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:41 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1971
think they need to get maggie may and it's too late in there somehow. don't think they can get away with "what's going on" - could imagine "my sweet lord" working but prob not with the stories they have left to tell.
a bearded don astride his cadillac in denim, wielding a guitar as "won't get fooled again" roars into life, and he nods to the camera and says "guess i'll see ya around some day"
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
richie havens here comes the sun has a decent chance?
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
no Sly Stone yet. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) might be tasty but i guess it's not Mad Men's style.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
andy williams "where do i begin" would be kind of cool
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
anachronistic possibilities can also not be ignored
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
agreed, they were strong at kempton
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:58 (nine years ago) link
Considering how much shitty quasi-lounge music (that was massively popular at the time) they've thrown at us, what makes you think Weiner's gonna close with some Canonical Boomer Rock Classic? It'll probably be the love theme from some movie no one's watched in 40 years, but which inexplicably swept the Oscars, or something like that.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link
i guess it's just a fun game - i don't really mind if that's the way it goes
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
what if Don gets a dog and meets a woman at the dog shelter and falls in love with the woman and the dog and the final song is me and you and a dog named boo
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
It's killing me not to jump in here, but I'll just end up prefacing everything with "As I wrote..." Someone's already named maybe my #1 pick.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
doesn't quite fit time wise but I'm thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxLxoyoCRI
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
I predict a Bread song for the finale...or "Take It Easy".
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Phil Abraham looks back at his final of 15 episodes at Sterling Cooper
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/mad-men-lost-horizon-director?mbid=social_twitter
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
https://41.media.tumblr.com/bcd7febbb6f2c71648aff3113031c39d/tumblr_nnuapdSIXH1qdbluio1_1280.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
i got so much secondhand embarrassment from Don's Racine adventure. He's such a putz!!! Like dude what are you even doing
also: Go Joan!!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
also i thought the Racine ex husband was Clark Gregg for a minute & got suuuuper excited
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again!
I took the swift change in their dynamic as a result of them both being swallowed up into the corporate behemoth of mccann. even though there was a fair amount of rancor between them at one time, they're still familiar faces to each other, which would be a rare and welcome sight in that hive. and besides, neither of them is otherwise making a smooth transition to the new office.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
also i have become very fond of meredith. she's easily the best secretary don's ever had.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Don Draper turning out not to be who he says he is would be a very handy pretext for McCann to get rid of him, as they're obviously dying to do already. I'd be amazed if that storyline didn't reappear in some pivotal fashion before the end.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
The Peggy scenes this week were complete classic through and through btw.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Wonder if that was the last scene with Don and Joan together.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Hey, maybe he could get out of the contract by proving (?) the name he signed is not his own--but: McCann could sue him (and maybe they'd snitch on him to the Feds, like I fan-fictioned Anna's niece doing upthread). But however he does it, suspect he and Joan will both go into some other business, where they've built up a stash of contacts--maybe he and Joan could be business partners---with some closing hint of non-business potential, wink-wink (last song: "If Dogs Run Free"). Not forgetting that the geezer (says he) knows a guy, so Don better watch it.
― dow, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
But Joan might be too much woman for Don (don't think he and the late, strong-minded businesswoman, or he and Dr. Faye, would have had a long-term relationship under any circumstances).
― dow, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
last song: "If Dogs Run Free"
WOAH
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
I am kinda wondering if Anna's gonna show up again.
Joan doesn't need the grief, she should just start her own agency - she has the money and the clients.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
there are only two episodes left, right?
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
she should just start her own agency - she has the money and the clients Yeah, but it's gotta be outside of advertising per se: can be related, but beyond that no-compete they all signed.
― dow, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
oh right. yeah that makes her rolodex kind of useless.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
...draper? as in her ghost? wouldn't be surprised given the hallucinatory direction in which don is trending
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
http://40.media.tumblr.com/d1ebf9afdf9a74736a4bc91a0c7e804a/tumblr_nnuas6pw7X1qdbluio1_500.jpg
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link