Don was whistling I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Megan said to him, I thought you hated that song - to which he said something like the melody is catchy. Like an earworm. I don't think he likes the Beatles.
Let's all just enjoy the show and leave the Plath implications to those computer hooligans, looking for trouble. Oh wait. The show was named with purpose. Never mind.
It was during the Beatles song. Meagan was the only one who was letting go and floating downstream in her acting class studies. No death for that gal except for when she eventually lets Don go to hang out with people her own age who 'get' her.
Uh, I forgot to mention my point which was, occasionally it's fine to let those things slip out, because they seem real. What Peggy says to Joan, I've had that reaction and said that to various handsome folks when they've told me about their losses in the love department. That Joan, or anyone admits out loud that he/she thinks Don is handsome or are jealous of his looks is no stretch to anyone's imagination.
The show would be really boring if that office ran like a normal one. People would constantly be talking about how handsome Don was and how hot Joan was. I wouldn't be surprised if the Joan character wasn't bombarded and over other coworker chicks asking her for chick advice on a daily basis. I think it's why it took her so long to finally ask Peggy if she wanted to close the door.
Not to mention, in terms of their icky, violent arguments, remember when Don pushed Betty (pretty hard too) into a wall, when they were fighting and he says something like - You want me to put you through a window? Granted, I can't remember the words, but it was something terrifying like that. Don shouldn't be allowed to marry.
Yeah, Meaghan was asking for it. Kidding. How old is Don supposed to be? 40? He married a 26 year old. Don was asking for it. Regardless of how smart Meaghan is, she doesn't have the life experience that Don has and he uses that against her constantly (especially so in regards to her new status at work), maybe not on purpose, but it's there.
Also, I'm not any kind of expert, but that being said, a few things about Joan:
She got made fun of at work by fellow women for being older (32, I believe. gasp!).
The boss she was in love with and had been having an affair with for years went and married his early twenty-something secretary, when it should have been Joanie.
This prompted her to go for that doctor husband because she had nothing else and no future at work to work towards.
(Remember when she helped with advertising, because they lost someone, and she was good at it, but the minute the firm hired a man, they condescendingly sent her back to her woman's job?)
(Remember her maternity leave party? Ouch.)
That gal had nothing and was hoping she could salvage some kind of life she wanted somehow. Dude lying to her about staying enlisted killed that last hope and brought back the reality of her bad choice.
Joan's the one that's gotten the shit end of the stick out of all the characters.
Kelly, the characters never seem to grow or change because back in the fifties they were expected not to and to keep any interesting feelings bottled up - except for rich guys, who were livin' the high life (wives n ho-s, amirite?) All that repression leads to a great show, if the writers do it well. Women had to get married, have babies, be awesome housewives who had to deal with mean, drunk, boring, etc. guys and pretend like it was awesome. The only time Don gets interesting is when he goes to California where nobody knows him and the world is his Romney etchasketch. Don was actually super interesting until we all learned about his past and the fact that he continually runs away from it and can't handle intimacy. Then he became boring, because he can't change. Maybe it might happen now that his gal told him about her need to be meaningful at work and not just his plaything, but that is not likely to happen unless he experiences the same thing Harrison Ford did in Regarding Henry, which was a gem of a film. Now the sixties are happening and all these poor old people who were taught the one and only way the world works are raising children who are all like, hell no! Now you are gonna see changes in the old fogies, whether they like it or not. Tangent: Roger's wife looked like Liz Taylor and she was hot. Double Tangent: I want to get high with Roger. An imaginary character.
I think that in the cab Don actually inferred that (paraphrase) 'I was where you are now, yet I thought you were all good and your wife is solid and don't throw that away, I currently love my life because my wife is hot and does not make me miserable and want to cheat.'
Pete has no social skills and he is not aware of that fact. Dude is stiff. I swear his character thinks he is just like Don, and maybe Roger, and is clueless. Maybe because he's a partner and thinks Don is his friend that others will magically think he is awesome. (sad trombone noise)
I'm hoping that all the fancy camera stunts were Slattery's homage to the revolutionary filmmakers of the 60s. Also, it was a little refreshing change from a traditionally shot MM episode.
He's written to be shown as being crazy miserable in the suburbs. He loves the traffic noise at Don's birthday party, he complains about his wife not caring about her looks anymore. He was laughing at the traffic school movie that showed real photographs of dead people at traffic accidents, they have referred to the gun he keeps in his office more than once this season, Don says that spending a weekend night in the suburbs is just as good as shooting oneself, Pete hits on a teenager who thinks of him as some nice old guy in her class and she gets shebanged a few seats away from him by "Handsome", he gets beat up by Lane in a fight that most people would have bet on Lane to lose - in front of his buisiness partners, some of whom he mistakenly thinks are his actual friends, oh - and his wife wears the pants in that house. So much so, that he goes to a whorehouse and has the girl call him her king.
I think the writers have been incredibly elaborate.
Thank god. There are only a few people out there who cannot concentrate on anything but Meagan's teeth when she is onscreen. I think that and because she has a body like Twiggy, the producers make her wear all of those bright bad ass clothes to distract me. There is like a David Letterman gap between every single one of her teeth. I don't know why, but it makes me crazy. I love Letterman's gap. I wish they would dedicate some place in a national park to it.
This is the one time I have to disagree with Gabe. Mad Men has been slow paced all along. This is a soap opera where you follow it and either like it and the characters, or you don't. Gabe clearly doesn't. A small example: Joan talking about Don's handsomeness - she's a career girl who's been stuck on maternity leave with a husband several thousand miles away. She's bored and alone and is gossiping with Lane; not to mention in an earlier season, she wonders aloud to another secretary why it is that Don has never hit on her. The gal who married Rodger is really young and was looking to marry a rich guy. You don't tell the rich guy who marries you that you wish he looked like Don Draper until that ring is on your finger and he is being a verbal dink to you at an office party. This show is great and this two hour episode was an apology to fans who had to wait a year and a half to watch it. It gave fans an accountance for what happened to who, how the times have continued to change at a rapid pace and how Don and his buddies are quickly becoming old guys while Pete and Peggy have become like Don in his first two or three seasons - as ad men who are primed and ready to make a name for themselves. Also, I liked how they just slip in that Don told Meagan about his past. That was a crazy revelation and will it change anything?
Maybe I haven't had enough coffee, but isn't the joke supposed to be ironic because Michelle has been the only non-white First Lady ever? Smack me if that's obvious to everyone but Newt.
Baaaaawl! Seriously, it really chafes my chaps when a really physically beautiful person tries to play too humble, when facts are facts. Regardless of how you feel about your looks, if almost everyone you've ever met tells you how gorgeous you are, them's the breaks - you is hot; deal with it. And don't be a stranger.
When George Clooney signs up, I will finally believe in that whole end of days crap. It'd be cool if they could just leave Ashton there to plug up the hole he leaves in the doh-zone.
Not only is it a few miles away, but we can safely say these folks are all from around Atlanta and I'm pretty sure that at least Rick and Shane, if not all of the adults knew exactly where that maximum security f**ker was.
Why were they mad? They've all been trying fairly hard to survive, yet retain some humanity....so - let's say you're out with Lori, huntin' fer truffles or some rocks in a stream so you can beat the stains out of Rick's speedos - one of you gets killed and ye olde survivor thinks it would be nice to take yer warshin' buddy home for a real nice ceremony, oh wait, but you never make it, because buddy ate your brains, when you had yer back turned and was all emotional, with some truffles and a nice chianti. Worse yet, you just get bit, so it takes a while to turn and you make it back to the farm with this news to make sure everyone else knows this vital info and Rick just looks at you and says, "Duh." Then they bury you in an 'I'm With Stupid' (arrow pointing at remainder of head) and you become the punchline of all their post-apocalyptic campfire jokes.
Sean needs to do a little research. This car bullcrap was intensely discussed in that particular episode's comment threads. Slightly sure Gabe says Honda Fit on purpose, because who gives a rat's ass about not zombies?
Um, and how in Atlanta they had to cover themselves with zombie juice to walk around zombies, but on that highway they could just hide under cars. That's some weak writin'.
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