Mad Men finale! (Spoilers, of course)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But, but...how can he hear that guy go on about the refridgerator and how people loved him all along but just didn't show it exactly the way he wanted - and then NOT go home to his daughter?

He needs to help his daughter. It's crap that he doesn't.

I think he did go home, and then he made that Coke ad. But Don had to wait until people were leaving, at the end of the week, to get back home, and during that time, he found peace. At least that's what I'd like to believe.

Or at least got sober enough for long enough to develop another creative idea.

[Anonymous]

Loved how everything ended BUT would have been happier if it just faded to black with Don ommmmmm-ing. No coke ad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loved how everything ended BUT would have been happier if it just faded to black with Don ommmmmm-ing. No coke ad.

But then we wouldn't understand that he goes back!

[Anonymous]

Stan: "HE always does this. He always bounces back. He is a survivor."

[Anonymous]

I liked that Wiener left it just a bit ambiguous as to whether Don goes back and whether he wrote the Coke ad. It certainly seems likely, but not knowing lets us play with it in our imaginations just enough to be interesting. Contrast this with the Sopranos ending which was just so ambiguous that it was frustrating. This was better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked that Wiener left it just a bit ambiguous as to whether Don goes back and whether he wrote the Coke ad. It certainly seems likely, but not knowing lets us play with it in our imaginations just enough to be interesting. Contrast this with the Sopranos ending which was just so ambiguous that it was frustrating. This was better.

Let me amend what I wrote. Actually, Sopranos wasn't so much ambiguous as a deliberate and frustrating cliffhanger. It felt manipulative to viewers, whereas this ending for Don didn't hit me the same way at all. Enough closure to be satisfying without everything neat and tidy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loved how everything ended BUT would have been happier if it just faded to black with Don ommmmmm-ing. No coke ad.

But then we wouldn't understand that he goes back!

I know. I would have been okay with him leaving it all behind

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loved how everything ended BUT would have been happier if it just faded to black with Don ommmmmm-ing. No coke ad.

But then we wouldn't understand that he goes back!

I know. I would have been okay with him leaving it all behind

I think he was saying home, not ommmmmmm

[Anonymous]

Who is "Holloway"in "Holloway-Harris"

It was going to be "Olsen-Harris" (or vice versa)

Glad Joan dumped the guy, he wasn't good for her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is "Holloway"in "Holloway-Harris"

It was going to be "Olsen-Harris" (or vice versa)

Glad Joan dumped the guy, he wasn't good for her!

Joan's old name

[Anonymous]

Wished Peggy had joined Joan. Also wish Don would have came home to Peggy.

[Anonymous]

Girl at the desk at the retreat had the same braids as a girl in the coke ad. Don went back to NYC and created the coke ad based on the retreat. Don wants to run away, but something always pulls him back.

[Anonymous]

Don did the Coke ad. The receptionist at the retreat--girl with red ribbon on pigtails-- is in the Coke commercial. Not ambiguous.

[Anonymous]

I thought Peggy was typing frantically and said " don't you want to work on coke?"
I think she did the come as-but the braids make me wonder. I didnt catch that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Peggy was typing frantically and said " don't you want to work on coke?"
I think she did the come as-but the braids make me wonder. I didnt catch that

She's moonlighting for Joan and trying to move up at the office.
Coke was all Don baby