Anonymous
05/09/2015 07:31
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is this Sunday it then?
There's two more episodes, no? Please tell me it's not just one more ... I'm having enough difficulty dealing with the end of this show.
Sadly, no. This sunday is the last episode.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 22:12
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It would be so sad if Don pursues a nomadic life - he has 3 kids (although at least Betty has grown up a bit).
It would be sad but I think it would complete the Don's life circle perfectly, as hinted by the flashback given in "The Hobo Code". As summed up well in Mad Men Wiki.com:
"We flashback to Don as young "Dick." He's outside of a farmhouse digging as his father Archibald Whitman is working on a truck and Abigail Whitman is hanging laundry. A hobo approaches and asks if he could work to earn a meal. Abigail obliges and at dinner discovers that the hobo has especially good manners and actually hails from New York. That night, Dick brings him some blankets, and they begin to talk. Dick reveals that he's "a whore-child," and the hobo admits he's actually a traveler who gave up the conventional life to be free. He even shares the chalk codes, a symbol for good food or a nasty dog, that hobos write on the houses they pass. Though the hobo was promised a quarter for work by Abigail, Archie simply tells him to be on his way. After the hobo leaves, Dick sees that on the gate is a picture of a knife: a dishonest man lives here. "
Oh this is very cool and very apt. Thanks for putting it in here.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 20:16
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
*link to above summary: http://madmen.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hobo_Code
Anonymous
05/08/2015 20:06
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:It would be so sad if Don pursues a nomadic life - he has 3 kids (although at least Betty has grown up a bit).
It would be sad but I think it would complete the Don's life circle perfectly, as hinted by the flashback given in "The Hobo Code". As summed up well in Mad Men Wiki.com:
"We flashback to Don as young "Dick." He's outside of a farmhouse digging as his father Archibald Whitman is working on a truck and Abigail Whitman is hanging laundry. A hobo approaches and asks if he could work to earn a meal. Abigail obliges and at dinner discovers that the hobo has especially good manners and actually hails from New York. That night, Dick brings him some blankets, and they begin to talk. Dick reveals that he's "a whore-child," and the hobo admits he's actually a traveler who gave up the conventional life to be free. He even shares the chalk codes, a symbol for good food or a nasty dog, that hobos write on the houses they pass. Though the hobo was promised a quarter for work by Abigail, Archie simply tells him to be on his way. After the hobo leaves, Dick sees that on the gate is a picture of a knife: a dishonest man lives here. "
Anonymous
05/08/2015 19:54
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
It would be so sad if Don pursues a nomadic life - he has 3 kids (although at least Betty has grown up a bit).
Anonymous
05/08/2015 18:23
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:D B Cooper PP here. I predict the series will end with Don on a plane, handing the stewardess a note. Not my idea (I read it) but I think it would be BRILLIANT.
This is do silly. I thought this theory would lose steam over the years but some people just aren't deep thinkers I guess.
I'm so impressed you can type clearly with that huge stick up your a**!
Play nicely girls. This is a good thread without unnecessary spats.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 18:21
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:D B Cooper PP here. I predict the series will end with Don on a plane, handing the stewardess a note. Not my idea (I read it) but I think it would be BRILLIANT.
This is do silly. I thought this theory would lose steam over the years but some people just aren't deep thinkers I guess.
I'm so impressed you can type clearly with that huge stick up your a**!
Anonymous
05/08/2015 17:07
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Question...Why did Don leave the meeting? Was it because he saw the plane and immediately thought of Diane and wanted to see her, or was it something else that I missed?
I think he left because he realized he was one of many on the campaign, no longer unique. Business is more rigid there, everyone had notebooks and pens. It was completely different than where he came from, where he was top dog and could speak off the cuff.
there's more to it than that. The guy's approach--McCann's approach--is just what Don has always hated--research-based, bringing people down to their consumer choices. Don has always seen people as the products of their hpopes and dreams, and advertising as tapping into what people don't know or can't admit they want. ("Finally, something beautiful you can truly own") His pitches have never, ever, been about what other things the target audience owns.
No, it WAS the approach that Don has always used. The way the guy was pitching it was just like Don would. He was talking about who this beer drinker was, what he feels, what he wants. The guy was telling a story like Don would. That was classic Don. And Don realized he was looking at another version of himself. There were even more clones of him sitting around the table, all taking notes in sync.
Read PP's link about DB Cooper. Fascinating stuff.
pp here. You really don't get the show. Go back and watch again. It was not at all like what Don would have done. The cadence of the voice made you think it was headed that way at first, and that we have only ever really seen Don in that role in the show. But then the guy droned on and on and Don started looking out the window. He kept providing factoid after factoid about this man who lives in another state. Every single one of Don's pitches is him talking about himself, one way or another. He didn't leave bc he realized he was identical to everyone there, but because he didn't fit in.
http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/05/mad-style-lost-horizon/ it's even in the costuming. They refute your exact position in there, too.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 16:10
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
I think Diana, like the schoolteacher, represents a woman that Don feels can be his authentic self with. She also is unmoored and living with regrets, like him. He'll chase after her only to have her reject him again. I see him living a lonely, hobo-like existence at the end.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 15:44
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Is this Sunday it then?
There's two more episodes, no? Please tell me it's not just one more ... I'm having enough difficulty dealing with the end of this show.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 13:42
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:Just caught up. I think I'm leaning toward Don being DB Cooper, which is an obscure but longstanding known theory in Mad Men fan circles.
In a recent interview with Matthew Wiener this was refuted 100%. He is NOT DB Cooper.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 12:23
Subject: Re:Mad Men - the final count down
Is this Sunday it then?
Anonymous
05/08/2015 12:13
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
lol
Anonymous
05/08/2015 12:12
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:D B Cooper PP here. I predict the series will end with Don on a plane, handing the stewardess a note. Not my idea (I read it) but I think it would be BRILLIANT.
Why would that be brilliant? That would be a real eye-roller. Might as well end with everyone doing the Peppermint Twist.
Anonymous
05/08/2015 10:35
Subject: Mad Men - the final count down
Anonymous wrote:D B Cooper PP here. I predict the series will end with Don on a plane, handing the stewardess a note. Not my idea (I read it) but I think it would be BRILLIANT.
This is do silly. I thought this theory would lose steam over the years but some people just aren't deep thinkers I guess.