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Am I the only one posting from the throne right now after holding it in for GoT and Mad Men?
Nope
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Am I the only one posting from the throne right now after holding it in for GoT and Mad Men?
quote:Disagree. He might have changed. Depending on your interpretation of the character and the man, it's possible his "moment of clarity" was in the therapy session when he realized he'd been searching for love from others but when they offer it, he doesn't recognize it. In my view, that's his salvation.quote:
Don wasn't smiling because he found himself or finally got to start anew. Don was smiling because - on a hippie retreat, while in his "meditation" - he just came up with the Coke ad.
That's ******* genius.
Peggy saying "They'll take you back" wasn't an accident.
I will love this show forever.
Yeah I think you're exactly right. He's never gonna change. This is who he is.
Every minute it becomes more and more brilliant...
But I'm really bummed right now
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that ad may be iconic but the only reason i know about it is because of this thread
quote:Exactly. My guess is that those who don't like the ending just wanted something to explode.quote:
That is the single biggest commercial in advertising history. It's iconic.
quote:quote:Disagree. He might have changed. Depending on your interpretation of the character and the man, it's possible his "moment of clarity" was in the therapy session when he realized he'd been searching for love from others but when they offer it, he doesn't recognize it. In my view, that's his salvation.quote:
Don wasn't smiling because he found himself or finally got to start anew. Don was smiling because - on a hippie retreat, while in his "meditation" - he just came up with the Coke ad.
That's ******* genius.
Peggy saying "They'll take you back" wasn't an accident.
I will love this show forever.
Yeah I think you're exactly right. He's never gonna change. This is who he is.
Every minute it becomes more and more brilliant...
But I'm really bummed right now
The meditation at the end, however, is his moment of realizing the ad. He creates the Coke ad. He'll have a different outlook on life, but he's still Don Draper. And Don Draper is a creative machine.
quote:quote:Maybe. He DID have a shi*t eating grin on his face....
So Don goes back to McCann and writes the sappy Coke ad?
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anyone claiming the episode was a fitting ending is a moron.
quote:Blue star for this.
All I really wanted was Don to find some peace whatever that meant. He's one of the most tortured souls in tv history and that's all I wanted and feel that's what happened.
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I thought I saw earlier in this thread where it was mentioned that Matthew Weiner said that they wrote unique ads for Don, rather than ads that were used during that era, so as to not disrespect the creative people that actually came up with the real-life campaigns. Doesn't this fly in the face of that (despite that the campaign came from McCann-Erickson)?
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Throwing the Coke ad in there was a brilliant end, because it is just as ambiguous as the Sopranos ending. We have nothing but our own hopes for Don (or Peggy) to have created an iconic ad. Maybe Don smiled because he thought up the Coke ad. Maybe Don smiled because he finally found peace. Maybe Stan helped Peggy channel that ad while she was typing furiously in her office. Maybe the Coke ad was shown to represent a new era in advertising and had nothing to do with Don or Peggy. There are plenty if interpretations, and none are directly supported.
quote:especially Jim Hobart whispering "Coca Cola" at Don.
That's said, there are clues planted everywhere.
quote:I don't see that as brilliance, though. I see that as creating negative space wherein the viewer can fill that space in with whatever they think it means (see modern politics). They fill in that space with their own ideas, and think that it's brilliant as a result. Which, at the end of the day, I guess is the point of Don's style of advertising.
That's the brilliance of it. That they're only hinting at it, not outright saying it. If someone wants to interpret it as Don simply
finding himself/starting anew, they could. That's said, there are clues
planted everywhere.
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I don't see that as brilliance, though. I see that as creating negative space wherein the viewer can fill that space in with whatever they think it means (see modern politics)
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I see that as creating negative space wherein the viewer can fill that space in with whatever they think it means (see modern politics). They fill in that space with their own ideas...
quote:Oh, I'm well aware that most "art" is no more than what people BS themselves that it is. Doesn't mean I have to buy into everyone else's interpretation
Dude, that's what art is.