Anyone want to talk a little MAD MEN as we approach the end?

[TeamPooka]

The whole show, this season, how you think it's going to end and how you want it to end. Let dish on all of it.
First topic, before I get into Don Draper and his never ending journey for identity, is Peggy.
I love Peggy but I want Stan and Peggy to get together as more than work husband and wife.
but that last sho of her as she walked into McCann was awesome.
If I never saw her again in the series I'd be Okay.
My lesson from last week was that after spending all those years as Don's protege it only took an afternoon with Roger for Peggy to become the coolest person in NYC.

Random thoughts on the last few episodes.
* SC&P is the Best roller rink in New York.
* Harry Crane just sold the Cinzano Vermouth Presents: A Roller Skating & Organ Music Extravaganza starring Joe Namath.
* Why do I know that Jim Hobart is going to wind up one of Ronald Reagan's most trusted advisers?
* The way Jim Hobart says ‘Coca Cola’ makes it seem like there’s still cocaine in the stuff.
* “Every copywriter thinks they're Shakespeare.” Another quote for Sterling’s Gold.
* I’m waiting for the internet to “discover” the lost failed anime style TV pilot of SCOUT’S HONOR. Executive Produced by Daniel J. Siegel.
* Every novelist with a day job is still pissed at Ken Cosgrove for taking that job with Dow when he could be living the dream of every writer in the country on a farm in Maine.
* Was I the only person screaming at the TV for Stan and Peggy to kiss?
* Pete Campbell tells Trudy she’s “ageless.” Because bougie is forever.
* Now everyone’s going to want Chateau Margaux 1953 and they won’t have it in stock at the Von’s anymore.
* Office safety has improved over time at Sterling Cooper. We’ve gone from running over feet with a lawnmower to a stapled finger. Thumbs up OSHA!
* Adios Lou Avery. “Sayonara my friend. Enjoy the rest of your miserable life!” will be my new email signature.
* Next time anyone accuses me of something, I’m going to shout, “The King ordered it!”
I'm going to miss this show.
"But that’s life. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute some secretary’s running you over with a lawn mower." - Joan Harris

[CBGLuthier]

1. My Thoughts and predictions

Peggy will never find anyone.

Don will leave advertising.

Roger will die.

Sally will be bitter.

Betty will be happy but only after divorcing again.

Joan and her new guy may just find happiness, for a brief time.

Pete will continue to be a decent person with horrible impulses and climb the corporate ladder.

Harry is a jerk.

And no one, I repeat no one, will fall from a building as referenced in the opening titles.

Now lets just hope I can still delete this post in 9 days.

[Phentex]

2. I don't want Peggy and Stan together...

I think they have been too good as friends and they know too much about each other.

You may be right about not seeing much of Peggy again after that last scene.

I still wonder if they might have Joan walk away with Roger.

Can't figure out why Don gives two craps about the waitress.

They haven't wrapped up anything with Pete. So something has to happen with him soon.

[TeamPooka]

3. I'm rooting for Pete big time. Roger had his chance with Joan. It's over

Don like Diana because she's like him, able to walk away from one life to start another.
I'm not expecting Stan and Peggy to wind up together but I would like it.

[blogslut]

4. My hope for Don.

He tells McCann they can stuff it and hauls off to California to open a store specializing IBM office machines named: Whitman's.

[TeamPooka]

5. Don will never go back to McCann. He escaped. That's why Ted was smiling as he left.

His destiny is in CA though.
Is he going to walk into the ocean like ad for the Hawaiian hotel?
In an interview a couple years ago Matt Weiner talked about how the perfect ending for Don hit him in the shower, as good ideas tend to do.
I keep thinking "what does Matt think is a perfect ending?"

[whistler162]

6. Is this a new show?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. I like the theory going round that they're setting Don up to be DB Cooper.

Here's more info: http://boingboing.net/2015/05/07/mad-men-endgame-theory-don-dr.html

[valerief]

27. Now, that's interesting! nt

[LeftInTX]

8. Remember Bob Benson?

He got his own show

I'm gonna miss Mad Men too

[TeamPooka]

24. My MadMen sequel? Don Draper and Henry Francis star in MY TWO 70'S DADS as unlikely roommates ...

raising Sally, Bobby, and Gene together.

[blue neen]

9. Haha! I love this thought:

"* Why do I know that Jim Hobart is going to wind up one of Ronald Reagan's most trusted advisers?"

He was a real snake last week...certainly would fit in with the Reagan crowd! Maybe, just maybe, we'll see Joan get him in some way.

I'd also like to see Peggy and Stan end up together, but not Roger and Joan.

Don? Who knows? The D. B. Cooper thing is an interesting theory, but a little iffy.

[TeamPooka]

12. What did you think after tonight? nt

[blue neen]

15. I had such a feeling of doom for that entire episode.

That whole motel setting really seemed ominous. The guy who played "Andy"---is that the actor who played Don when he was a little kid? I forget what season that was, but it sure looked like that same guy.

The Betty lung cancer story was so sad and so poignant. Poor Sally. She finally gets some validation from her mom, but only when her mom is about to die.

I kept wanting to shout "Call Sally, Don!"

[TeamPooka]

16. As sad as the Betty story line made me I'm very happy for Pete and Trudy.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. "I want to burn this place down." - Joan

She got the biggest shaft after what she did for SCP.

Don's window was loose, they're playing with us.

Don't have much more to add, can't wait fir tonight!

[TeamPooka]

11. The unsealed window bit was Weiner trolling his own fan base big time. nt

[TeamPooka]

13. Holy crap that was a hell of an episode. Every episode this 1/2 season could have been the last one.

[Phentex]

14. Yes. We had full steam ahead last night...

people returning to old "new" lives?

Will Don return to Dick?

[TeamPooka]

17. The Campbells are moving to Wichita and Don is already in Kansas. Hmmmm.....

[bettyellen]

18. Oh I think he learned he was right to escape- and wanted that kid to

Get the clean start he did not. But yeah, I think he's going to go back and be a great Dad now that Betty is dying.

[TeamPooka]

19. No. I think his destiny is in California. Perhaps walking into the ocean like the Hawaii ad?

Like he did in that flashback episode with Anna?

[bettyellen]

20. I think that's a red herring. This journey solidified that leaving Kansas was the right thing....

But now he realizes that to redeem himself, he has to be the parent he never had. Henry can't do that, Don will have to step in. And I think he will want to.

[betsuni]

21. That sounds right.

Don is slowly "dying" -- all possessions gone now -- he'll reach California and walk into the ocean. But we won't see him come out of the water as a born-again Dick. The audience will yet again be left with an ambiguous ending that everyone obsesses about (dead or not?) and we'll never be privy to the writer's intention because somehow that is bad, and if you complain about it you get snarky comments about American audiences having to be spoon-fed everything when you just want to find out if your interpretation is the same as the writer's or not, dammit. I hope it's not "The Sopranos" all over again.

[TeamPooka]

22. Not to get too into Matt Weiner's head but....

LES BONNES FEMMES Dir. Claude Chabrol is a significant film to him.
It has a shock end and a startling coda at the finale.
I'm expecting something in this realm.

If you look at this list of his fave films he's used an aspect of all of them so far except Les Bonnes Femmes which is known for it's ending. Kind of like The Crying Game. That's it's thing.
http://www.slashfilm.com/10-movies-that-influenced-mad-men/

[betsuni]

23. Thanks for the link -- interesting!

I wonder if the shock ending could be an accident like dropping a cigarette lighter, simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now I'm obsessed with it and I never guess these things correctly. Oh well, only a week more.

[TeamPooka]

25. The every episode marathon starts on AMC today at 3pm PST. 24/7 until the last episode on Sund.

[valerief]

26. I want to see Don's defenestration in the final episode.

Something causes the building to blow up and everyone dies but Joan, who's been shit-canned?

Maybe there'll be no defenestration, but the credits are such a teaser.