Shut the door. Have a seat.

MrMonroe

well, I thought this was great

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I loved watching Don's face in the few moments where he looked at Megan dealing with the kids

he's just so confused to be involved with someone who's not terrible

also I had not realized that Joan kept Cooper's baby

Mystral721

MrMonroe wrote: »

well, I thought this was great

Spoiler:

I loved watching Don's face in the few moments where he looked at Megan dealing with the kids

he's just so confused to be involved with someone who's not terrible

also I had not realized that Joan kept Cooper's baby

Spoiler:

I'll bet Don's more in love with the idea of having a nuclear family again and is desperately convincing himself that he's in love with Megan. He's been chasing the dream of a stable, loving family since his own fucked up childhood.
He's been so lost since the divorce and not because he misses Betty. Who could miss that childish bitch?

I was so hoping that Carla would slap the shit out of her when she fired her. I don't think she even got a chance to say goodbye to the kids that she raised since birth.

MrMonroe

also,

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did Bert Cooper really bail? Because that would have dissolved the partnership and there would have to be a huge fucking legal fight over where the assets go.

So many interesting legal issues

edit:

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yes, I also wish anyone would slap Betty. Her husband looked very near to doing it himself when he confronted her about the firing.

Meissnerd

I'm more unhappy with the way don was acting in this episode than the actual twist. It felt like they forgot this was the last show of the season so they just jammed a bunch of stuff in.

buh buh I was looking at you lying there in tha bed and you looked so nice. I can't stop thinking of you duh duh duh I'm don

I miss Walter white

Meissnerd

that being said, the Joan/Peggy scene right after was really cathartic, to the point where Weiner must know what he's doing

Draper

Meissnerd wrote: »

I'm more unhappy with the way don was acting in this episode than the actual twist. It felt like they forgot this was the last show of the season so they just jammed a bunch of stuff in.

buh buh I was looking at you lying there in tha bed and you looked so nice. I can't stop thinking of you duh duh duh I'm don

I miss Walter white

When he said "I'm in love with you and I want to marry you" I was basically 100 percent sure it was a dream sequence, and when it turned out it wasn't I couldn't stop laughing and giggling for like 30 seconds. And then after that I got pissed off thinking about how good I expected the episode to be when it turned out being the worst Mad Men episode of all time.

Meissnerd

that's because you only have baby science

Meissnerd

I just don't buy that don is all of a sudden 13 and listening to pink Floyd for the first time

Draper

Same. I'm just eager to see what Season 5 is going to be about.

Sars_Boy

god this is all going to go so horribly

DeliciousTacos

Man

It is like the writers overheard me a few weeks ago trying to convince my parents that the glance Don gave Megan didn't mean they were going to hook up

and they just wanted to absolutely pound into the ground the point of how wrong I was

BlackDove

Don's fucked in season 5.

Meissnerd

i guess engaged doesn't mean getting married

and even if they do get married, don will sleep around, guaranteed.

risumon

Ugh, I did not like where this episode went...

Curious how long of a break there will be between this and the next season.

Javen

On the surface, I'd love to believe Don is so infatuated with Megan because she represents the stable, happy family setting he has recently discovered he wants. Or, at least, wants because he's supposed to want it.

Anyway, now that the season is over, let's talk about The Walking Dead

Langly

I just love how much shit don gave sterling over jane and he just did the same dang thing

Javen

Langly wrote: »

I just love how much shit don gave sterling over jane and he just did the same dang thing

I think it's kinda different, though. Actually what Roger did with Jane is closer to what Betty did with Henry. And Don didn't really give Roger shit because she was Don's secretary, but rather he was pissed at Roger for breaking up his family, which despite his utter debauchery, Don is vehemently against.

satansfingers

remember though that don has historically been pretty opposed to guys getting with their secretaries in general. he yelled at pete in the pilot for hitting on peggy, and that and roger/jane are hardly the only instances of it coming up. it definitely represents a shift in character for him.

Javen

Well, not just secretaries, since he didn't want to let it known that he was seeing Faye while she was working for SCDP. He just doesn't like mixing business with pleasure. I'm certain that'll come up in some fashion eventually if they actually get married. Either he'll just want her to stop working at that particular agency, or he'll want her to be a stay at home wife.

YoSoyTheWalrus

Well, not just secretaries, since he didn't want to let it known that he was seeing Faye while she was working for SCDP

This isn't a moral (use that word loosely) thing like it is with the secretaries though. They would have both been well and truly fucked professionally - at least Faye would've - if they had gone public with that.

World as Myth

I started making vector silhouettes of other mad men characters to print out big and put up in my house, I'm going to remake don in vector and also do peggy, betty, bert, and lane

Sars_Boy

are you going to make prints of them?

is there anyway i could pay you to make copies?

Langly

Sterling was on 30 Rock by the way, if anyone missed it. He was awesome.

World as Myth

yeah of course! I won't charge you for it but you can pay for whatever the printing costs

I haven't figured out where to get them printed

Sars_Boy

yesss! let me know!

World as Myth

CrossBuster

Probably kind of late, but I just found out that Rubicon got canceled.

Langly

haha, that makes the ending to the series really, really awesome.

risumon

Did anything ever happen? I wanted to like it, but the episodes were just so damn slow I lost interest. Think I made it to 6 or 7.

Langly

It just ended very well, I thought.

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Will unravels the conspiracy, which was a pretty believable and good plot, as those go. It at least wasn't, like business men controlling the world so much as a small group of people controlling intelligence to their own gain. So anyway he finds out, but fails to stop the imminent act, but does get evidence tying the main guy to the crime. It ends with him being fired, Grant being promoted, Tatiana quits, Miles falls in love with the NSA girl and they are happy. But on the whole, there wasn't a clean "we won and are awesome" ending. The last moment had the antagonist saying "who's going to give a shit, we're going to war with Iran now, whooooooops"

I just really, really liked the tone of the series and the story they wanted to tell. It wasn't action packed and it didn't make you feel good, it was just a well told mystery, with some nice things to say about intelligence work.

So but anyway, I like that ending, with a sort of un-satisfaction in terms of making everything end succinctly, than more seasons which might dilute that.

YoSoyTheWalrus

World as Myth wrote: »

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

World as Myth

yesss that's my favorite too, even if it doesn't work all that well in silhouette

two more

simo

oh man the cooper one is excellent