Did Betty leave Don the day Kennedy was shot?
quote:no but it was soon after. So yeah don seeing the old newspaper would be a reminder of his divorce.
Did Betty leave Don the day Kennedy was shot?
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What happened to Lou?
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In the final seven episodes, will a "new" crisis now feel somewhat manufactured? Emotionally, where else can these characters and relationships possibly go? As for the '60s, we've still got Woodstock, the Mets winning the World Series, and various Vietnam occurrences left to go, but the moon landing is basically the last "major" event of the decade, as far as I can remember.
quote:either that or he was taunting don for signing the 5 year contract with McCann, something that Don has managed to avoid going back to year 1 and what would seem to be a major sign of defeat for Don's pride and independence.
That last number was a tribute to the actor rather than the character- a move that Mad Men rarely makes. It was so WTF and weird that I found it funny.
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Is Don/Dick still even an important issue any more? Betty knows, his kids know, Megan knows, Pete knows, Bert knew, Anna knew, and her niece knows. How much more reconciling can Don do in that regard? He's already accepted his past, as have many others. Seems he's already faced that challenge and come to terms. The only thing left would be to actually go by the name Dick Whitman now, but that just seems pointless.
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either that or he was taunting don for signing the 5 year contract with McCann, something that Don has managed to avoid going back to year 1 and what would seem to be a major sign of defeat for Don's pride and independence.
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History of Don vs McCann. They have always represented the big bad corporate agency that he despised.
Season 1: they tried to lure him by giving Betty a modeling gig
Season 3: they bought Sterling Cooper from the British but Don led the escape to form SCDP
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I think this is a bigger issue. From the government's standpoint, he's a deserter. That's an offense that could land him in prison.
From the personal standpoint, is the man Don or Dick? Is he the wealthy bourgeois Madison Ave. exec or is he the son of a ***** farm boy? He can't be both. At the end of season 6, he seemed to want to shed the Don Draper persona (via his pitch meltdown). By the end of this recent half season, he's back to being "Don." Which is he?
quote:in the short term I guess by agreeing to it he made amends with Joan and Pete and gave Roger a big power boost, while also getting rid of Lou and Cutler. But surely next season a main source of conflict will be don vs McCann.
So is Don finally embracing McCann a good thing or a bad thing? I wonder if the show will try and endorse his conformity, or if he'll try and rally against it one last time?
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I can certainly imagine a version of season 7.1 that picks up in August of '69 and takes us month-by-month through the rest of the year and a little bit into the new decade — seven episodes that would feature the satisfying comeuppance of Lou Avery (who has no place in an agency where Don is back in power and Ted is trying again), a glimpse of the benevolent rule of Roger Sterling, more metaphorical pratfalls by Harry and angry ranting by Pete, Peggy again trying to figure out if she can Have It All, etc. And based on these last couple of episodes, especially, I can imagine that version being very satisfying.
But I do wonder if Weiner might not be ready to pull a "China Beach" on us and use those final seven episodes to explore what happens to these characters over the next several decades: Bob Benson bumping into Sal at Studio 54, Joan adopting big shoulder pads and bigger hair in the '80s, Peggy being resentful of Apple's "1984" ad, and Don Draper somehow living to a ripe old age where he can feel annoyed about everything that's wrong in media and society — and maybe having a song of his own to deliver to the next generation on his way to slip the surly bonds of Earth.