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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone want to talk a little MAD MEN as we approach the end?
The whole show, this season, how you think it's going to end and how you want it to end. Let dish on all of it.
First topic, before I get into Don Draper and his never ending journey for identity, is Peggy.
I love Peggy but I want Stan and Peggy to get together as more than work husband and wife.
but that last sho of her as she walked into McCann was awesome.
If I never saw her again in the series I'd be Okay.
My lesson from last week was that after spending all those years as Don's protege it only took an afternoon with Roger for Peggy to become the coolest person in NYC.
Random thoughts on the last few episodes.
* SC&P is the Best roller rink in New York.
* Harry Crane just sold the Cinzano Vermouth Presents: A Roller Skating & Organ Music Extravaganza starring Joe Namath.
* Why do I know that Jim Hobart is going to wind up one of Ronald Reagan's most trusted advisers?
* The way Jim Hobart says Coca Cola makes it seem like theres still cocaine in the stuff.
* Every copywriter thinks they're Shakespeare. Another quote for Sterlings Gold.
* Im waiting for the internet to discover the lost failed anime style TV pilot of SCOUTS HONOR. Executive Produced by Daniel J. Siegel.
* Every novelist with a day job is still pissed at Ken Cosgrove for taking that job with Dow when he could be living the dream of every writer in the country on a farm in Maine.
* Was I the only person screaming at the TV for Stan and Peggy to kiss?
* Pete Campbell tells Trudy shes ageless. Because bougie is forever.
* Now everyones going to want Chateau Margaux 1953 and they wont have it in stock at the Vons anymore.
* Office safety has improved over time at Sterling Cooper. Weve gone from running over feet with a lawnmower to a stapled finger. Thumbs up OSHA!
* Adios Lou Avery. Sayonara my friend. Enjoy the rest of your miserable life! will be my new email signature.
* Next time anyone accuses me of something, Im going to shout, The King ordered it!
I'm going to miss this show.
"But thats life. One minute youre on top of the world, the next minute some secretarys running you over with a lawn mower." - Joan Harris
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Peggy will never find anyone.
Don will leave advertising.
Roger will die.
Sally will be bitter.
Betty will be happy but only after divorcing again.
Joan and her new guy may just find happiness, for a brief time.
Pete will continue to be a decent person with horrible impulses and climb the corporate ladder.
Harry is a jerk.
And no one, I repeat no one, will fall from a building as referenced in the opening titles.
Now lets just hope I can still delete this post in 9 days.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)I think they have been too good as friends and they know too much about each other.
You may be right about not seeing much of Peggy again after that last scene.
I still wonder if they might have Joan walk away with Roger.
Can't figure out why Don gives two craps about the waitress.
They haven't wrapped up anything with Pete. So something has to happen with him soon.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Don like Diana because she's like him, able to walk away from one life to start another.
I'm not expecting Stan and Peggy to wind up together but I would like it.
blogslut
(37,999 posts)He tells McCann they can stuff it and hauls off to California to open a store specializing IBM office machines named: Whitman's.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)His destiny is in CA though.
Is he going to walk into the ocean like ad for the Hawaiian hotel?
In an interview a couple years ago Matt Weiner talked about how the perfect ending for Don hit him in the shower, as good ideas tend to do.
I keep thinking "what does Matt think is a perfect ending?"
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)Here's more info: http://boingboing.net/2015/05/07/mad-men-endgame-theory-don-dr.html
valerief
(53,235 posts)LeftInTX
(25,259 posts)He got his own show
I'm gonna miss Mad Men too
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)raising Sally, Bobby, and Gene together.
blue neen
(12,319 posts)"* Why do I know that Jim Hobart is going to wind up one of Ronald Reagan's most trusted advisers?"
He was a real snake last week...certainly would fit in with the Reagan crowd! Maybe, just maybe, we'll see Joan get him in some way.
I'd also like to see Peggy and Stan end up together, but not Roger and Joan.
Don? Who knows? The D. B. Cooper thing is an interesting theory, but a little iffy.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)blue neen
(12,319 posts)That whole motel setting really seemed ominous. The guy who played "Andy"---is that the actor who played Don when he was a little kid? I forget what season that was, but it sure looked like that same guy.
The Betty lung cancer story was so sad and so poignant. Poor Sally. She finally gets some validation from her mom, but only when her mom is about to die.
I kept wanting to shout "Call Sally, Don!"
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)She got the biggest shaft after what she did for SCP.
Don's window was loose, they're playing with us.
Don't have much more to add, can't wait fir tonight!
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)people returning to old "new" lives?
Will Don return to Dick?
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Get the clean start he did not. But yeah, I think he's going to go back and be a great Dad now that Betty is dying.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Like he did in that flashback episode with Anna?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)But now he realizes that to redeem himself, he has to be the parent he never had. Henry can't do that, Don will have to step in. And I think he will want to.
betsuni
(25,472 posts)Don is slowly "dying" -- all possessions gone now -- he'll reach California and walk into the ocean. But we won't see him come out of the water as a born-again Dick. The audience will yet again be left with an ambiguous ending that everyone obsesses about (dead or not?) and we'll never be privy to the writer's intention because somehow that is bad, and if you complain about it you get snarky comments about American audiences having to be spoon-fed everything when you just want to find out if your interpretation is the same as the writer's or not, dammit. I hope it's not "The Sopranos" all over again.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)LES BONNES FEMMES Dir. Claude Chabrol is a significant film to him.
It has a shock end and a startling coda at the finale.
I'm expecting something in this realm.
If you look at this list of his fave films he's used an aspect of all of them so far except Les Bonnes Femmes which is known for it's ending. Kind of like The Crying Game. That's it's thing.
http://www.slashfilm.com/10-movies-that-influenced-mad-men/
betsuni
(25,472 posts)I wonder if the shock ending could be an accident like dropping a cigarette lighter, simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now I'm obsessed with it and I never guess these things correctly. Oh well, only a week more.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Something causes the building to blow up and everyone dies but Joan, who's been shit-canned?
Maybe there'll be no defenestration, but the credits are such a teaser.