Mad Men - the final count down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is pretty telling that this thread's last post was 4/15 and no one posted anything after the last episode. Guess I'm not the only one that doesn't care what happens.

very telling indeed. i'm such a stan for mad men but god i never expected the past three eps to be this blah. this week was better than last week's though, i will say that.

[Anonymous]

I'm still way into it and I trust Matthew Weiner.

Here's my prediction for how it all ends…. Ted and Roger die in a plane crash (Ted piloting, of course). Don gets offered the job of President. He decides to walk away from it all but not before ensuring Peggy becomes creative director of the new agency. He heads out to San Francisco to find Diana. Finale ends with him finding her, and introducing himself as "Don Draper, but I was Dick Whitman before that. My mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth…"

It's not all neatly tied up with a bow. We don't know if Diana will accept Don into her life. The Joan/new guy situation is still undetermined. Peggy doesn't have a man. But I think it will be tied up appropriate to the tone and tenor of the show, and the characters.

[Anonymous]

My DH busted out laughing when Glen tried to kiss Betty. It was just too much.

I was not paying attention during much of it, it wasn't very good.

Why is Don selling the apartment?

[Anonymous]

I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sally is one of my favorite characters. her eye roll and comment during the dinner when her friend came on to Don was just priceless: "I just want to eat dinner."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sally is one of my favorite characters. her eye roll and comment during the dinner when her friend came on to Don was just priceless: "I just want to eat dinner."

Sally ended up being the best character in the entire series.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still way into it and I trust Matthew Weiner.

Here's my prediction for how it all ends…. Ted and Roger die in a plane crash (Ted piloting, of course). Don gets offered the job of President. He decides to walk away from it all but not before ensuring Peggy becomes creative director of the new agency. He heads out to San Francisco to find Diana. Finale ends with him finding her, and introducing himself as "Don Draper, but I was Dick Whitman before that. My mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth…"

It's not all neatly tied up with a bow. We don't know if Diana will accept Don into her life. The Joan/new guy situation is still undetermined. Peggy doesn't have a man. But I think it will be tied up appropriate to the tone and tenor of the show, and the characters.

That's just too boring. I agree only with the possibility of Don dying. Or rather, seeming to die and starting afresh with a new name in a new location, maybe...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sally is one of my favorite characters. her eye roll and comment during the dinner when her friend came on to Don was just priceless: "I just want to eat dinner."

Sally ended up being the best character in the entire series.

Sally is fantastic. Shame the other Draper children didn't manage to age remotely and just got recast over and over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sally is one of my favorite characters. her eye roll and comment during the dinner when her friend came on to Don was just priceless: "I just want to eat dinner."

Sally ended up being the best character in the entire series.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm still way into it and I trust Matthew Weiner.

Here's my prediction for how it all ends…. Ted and Roger die in a plane crash (Ted piloting, of course). Don gets offered the job of President. He decides to walk away from it all but not before ensuring Peggy becomes creative director of the new agency. He heads out to San Francisco to find Diana. Finale ends with him finding her, and introducing himself as "Don Draper, but I was Dick Whitman before that. My mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth…"

It's not all neatly tied up with a bow. We don't know if Diana will accept Don into her life. The Joan/new guy situation is still undetermined. Peggy doesn't have a man. But I think it will be tied up appropriate to the tone and tenor of the show, and the characters.

That's just too boring. I agree only with the possibility of Don dying. Or rather, seeming to die and starting afresh with a new name in a new location, maybe...

Might be boring, but I think Matt Weiner has tried to make this show realistic and true to the characters he's created.

[Anonymous]

I would love to see a "what happened to them" scene at the end. Like when they show their picture and describe how they turned out 20-30 years later. I would love that. I guess I am too invested in the characters and want to see what happens to them so we are not left hanging.

[Anonymous]

This last episode was choppy, uneven, and boring.

Question: was Joan really willing to send her child away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This last episode was choppy, uneven, and boring.

Question: was Joan really willing to send her child away?

She was being sarcastic -to mock the guy.

[Anonymous]

It will end with Don sad, still trying to find himself. I can't see it all "coming together" for him, since it hasn't come together for him the entire series.

The last episode, to me, seemed to be adults wanting to be kids and kids wanting to be adults: Lots of childhood imagery: Tinkerbell/Peter Pan, World's Fair, the Play Park, Don drinking root beer, eating donuts, getting candy out of the vending machine. Then there was Joan wanting to "run away" without responsibilities like her new boyfriend; Betty going back to college; Glen going into the Army, the girls going off on their mult-state trip.

The teenage girls all knew what they wanted to be when they grew up (translator, senator) but the adults still have no idea.

However, I have no idea how all of this ties into how this shit ends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will end with Don sad, still trying to find himself. I can't see it all "coming together" for him, since it hasn't come together for him the entire series.

The last episode, to me, seemed to be adults wanting to be kids and kids wanting to be adults: Lots of childhood imagery: Tinkerbell/Peter Pan, World's Fair, the Play Park, Don drinking root beer, eating donuts, getting candy out of the vending machine. Then there was Joan wanting to "run away" without responsibilities like her new boyfriend; Betty going back to college; Glen going into the Army, the girls going off on their mult-state trip.

The teenage girls all knew what they wanted to be when they grew up (translator, senator) but the adults still have no idea.

However, I have no idea how all of this ties into how this shit ends.

I love your analysis - I didn't see any of this until your interesting post!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sally is one of my favorite characters. her eye roll and comment during the dinner when her friend came on to Don was just priceless: "I just want to eat dinner."

Sally ended up being the best character in the entire series.

I agree. I love watching Sally, especially her take-downs of her parents.