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I'm not so sure McCann is actually going to put everyone on the accounts Jim pointed out to them. Those guys are tricky as hell -- case in point, the absorption of SC&P. He could've just been baiting them with the dream accounts he knows they can't resist. I think Don is the only one they have any use for, and this is just a ruse to get him onboard. The rest of the crew are completely disposable to McCann.
Yes. I also agree with that. Hobart singling them out one by one with a major account(cept for Joan) was nothing more than Nick Saban laying his championship rings out on the table in front of recruit. Just serves to reinforce that you're joining the top of the top, and you'll have world class facilities and structure to work on massive accounts.
But as we all know. McCann is just a machine, and this certainly worries many of the partners.
Joan clearly knows she's just going to be inter-office tabloid fodder, never respected.
Roger is just another gray hair in the office, and as you can see from his attempts at the final scene speech to the company, he's just a figurehead, increasingly more worthless
Pete will be another account man in a company with tons of accounts. All the work he has ever done and built for himself all the sudden looks basic and ordinary at Mccann.
Ted is all about it. Less responsibility, just put him in an office and let him work advertising, which is all he's wanted.
Don may or may not be enticed with the white whale(Coca Cola), as it was hard to gauge his true reaction to it so far.
But in the end, they are now part of a machine, and not
the machine.