Mad Men - the final count down

[Anonymous]

Interesting prediction.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

[Anonymous]

I wonder if there are clues to the ending in the books Don was reading. Godfather, Andromeda Strain, Hawaii. Remember the Hawaii campaign Don came up with where a man swam out into the ocean and didn't come back? Andromeda Strain is apocalyptic and includes suicides and people going crazy. Not sure what The Godfather might suggest. But I predict some kind of flame-out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting prediction.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

I could see this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting prediction.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

I could see this!

I LOVE this.

[Anonymous]

there is just one catch you guys. It is too on the nose for Weiner. He does not want the characters to be involved with creating famous taglines because it takes away from the people who did. Also, looking at the story of how the idea for the ad came about, I think we have already seen the connection:

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-hilltop-story

It's much more like mad men for don to maybe come back to close up shop post-Betty and have the head of McCann offer to forgive everything and offer him the coke campaign--as to say "I wasn't blowing smoke up your ass like you thought in that meeting, I really will give it to you." (he'd have to nt just say "I was gonna give it you you but you left!" because that's the sort of doublecross we all think he'd pull, so we have to find out he was sincere and don really did blow the chance at the ad of the century because he doesn't care anymore.) At this point in the show he'd have to turn it down--he WAS in advertising, remember? So it goes to some other McCann flak, who [insert story from link here].

[Anonymous]

I would love for him to drift off, to California in a vaguely unidentified way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there is just one catch you guys. It is too on the nose for Weiner. He does not want the characters to be involved with creating famous taglines because it takes away from the people who did. Also, looking at the story of how the idea for the ad came about, I think we have already seen the connection:

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-hilltop-story

It's much more like mad men for don to maybe come back to close up shop post-Betty and have the head of McCann offer to forgive everything and offer him the coke campaign--as to say "I wasn't blowing smoke up your ass like you thought in that meeting, I really will give it to you." (he'd have to nt just say "I was gonna give it you you but you left!" because that's the sort of doublecross we all think he'd pull, so we have to find out he was sincere and don really did blow the chance at the ad of the century because he doesn't care anymore.) At this point in the show he'd have to turn it down--he WAS in advertising, remember? So it goes to some other McCann flak, who [insert story from link here].

I didn't mean literally Coke. Just some great pitch. Don will always be up and down. That's it. Just because he got his job back doesn't mean he will keep it. He will just go through these cycles and get himself out of it.

[Anonymous]

I want to see what Don does when he finds out about Betty.

I want Peggy and Stan together!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is just one catch you guys. It is too on the nose for Weiner. He does not want the characters to be involved with creating famous taglines because it takes away from the people who did. Also, looking at the story of how the idea for the ad came about, I think we have already seen the connection:

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-hilltop-story

It's much more like mad men for don to maybe come back to close up shop post-Betty and have the head of McCann offer to forgive everything and offer him the coke campaign--as to say "I wasn't blowing smoke up your ass like you thought in that meeting, I really will give it to you." (he'd have to nt just say "I was gonna give it you you but you left!" because that's the sort of doublecross we all think he'd pull, so we have to find out he was sincere and don really did blow the chance at the ad of the century because he doesn't care anymore.) At this point in the show he'd have to turn it down--he WAS in advertising, remember? So it goes to some other McCann flak, who [insert story from link here].

I didn't mean literally Coke. Just some great pitch. Don will always be up and down. That's it. Just because he got his job back doesn't mean he will keep it. He will just go through these cycles and get himself out of it.

You may not have but the writer of that article did mean Coke.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that Pete ends up at LearJet when his dad died in a plane crash.

A few years ago I think Don would not have hesitated to seduce the woman by the pool despite the presence of husband/children. I think he has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to see what Don does when he finds out about Betty.

I want Peggy and Stan together!

I don't think we will ever see Don react to Betty's cancer or death.

The final episode is called Person to Person so in some way he will end up as either living as Dick or as a new person. The title could mean "person to person" as in "ashes to ashes"- started and ended the same- or it could mean in a leapfrog way- he jumps from being person to person.

It won't be a neat tie up of all loose strings in any case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting prediction.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

I hope not, so hackneyed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to see what Don does when he finds out about Betty.

I want Peggy and Stan together!

I don't think we will ever see Don react to Betty's cancer or death.

The final episode is called Person to Person so in some way he will end up as either living as Dick or as a new person. The title could mean "person to person" as in "ashes to ashes"- started and ended the same- or it could mean in a leapfrog way- he jumps from being person to person.

It won't be a neat tie up of all loose strings in any case.

Person to Person also could refer to the old term for telephone calls. When you'd call long distance you could specify "person to person" or "station to station." Maybe Don doesn't come home at all, or maybe he discovers the news about Betty while still on the road?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting prediction.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

I hope not, so hackneyed.

+1

It would be a lame ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to see what Don does when he finds out about Betty.

I want Peggy and Stan together!

I don't think we will ever see Don react to Betty's cancer or death.

The final episode is called Person to Person so in some way he will end up as either living as Dick or as a new person. The title could mean "person to person" as in "ashes to ashes"- started and ended the same- or it could mean in a leapfrog way- he jumps from being person to person.

It won't be a neat tie up of all loose strings in any case.

Person to Person also could refer to the old term for telephone calls. When you'd call long distance you could specify "person to person" or "station to station." Maybe Don doesn't come home at all, or maybe he discovers the news about Betty while still on the road?

I agree the reference in the episode title is most likely to person-to-person telephone calls.