tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post5422698734313865301..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Mad Men, "Meditations in an Emergency": Truth in advertisingAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-51868052846282080952010-08-01T04:33:32.008-04:002010-08-01T04:33:32.008-04:00Thanks so much for all the analyses. I'm catch...Thanks so much for all the analyses. I'm catching up on Mad Men (borrowing the boxes from friends) and I like to read what you thought about it. Also fun is reading the comments and see how other people agree or disagree. Keep up the good work. Today I'm starting on season 3, so I'll keep reading you!Justinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365055049541399302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-5576055161387444442009-05-06T08:10:00.000-04:002009-05-06T08:10:00.000-04:00Thanks for writing this blog: have been mostly lur...Thanks for writing this blog: have been mostly lurking since season 1 (as MM is released a bit later in the UK) but I've always enjoyed reading this blog and the comments. <br /><br />One thing that strikes me though is that I think people are being a little harsh to Fr Gill: I saw his actions/words as those of a man who is afraid in his own way and in that fear is compelled to 'wrap up the loose ends', because he may, like everyone else, be vaporised tomorrow. Hence the force behind what he said to Peggy. <br /><br />I'd say a lot about the compelling nature of fear in this episode, from Pete's need to tell Peggy he loves her, to Peggy's need to confess to Pete, to Duck's (embarrassing) outburst in the boardroom and so on.<br /><br />It'd be interesting to see how the next season begins!laBiscuitnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07085674629106780182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-73476799081277457762009-03-29T11:12:00.000-04:002009-03-29T11:12:00.000-04:00-I'm glad that Peggy told Pete about the baby. May...<I>-I'm glad that Peggy told Pete about the baby. Maybe, now Pete can get on with his life and not pine for Peggy. This will hopefully create some great tension between the two characters.</I><BR/><BR/>It also leaves a lot of room for that baby to grow up and search its parents; Pete to look for it to adopt; stress of hiding the fact that their adopted child is actually his natural child; etc...<BR/><BR/>That is, assuming that Mad Men goes on for another 5+ years! [and it looks like it just might do that]Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04848943618000191234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-50824517490201991262008-11-21T11:13:00.000-05:002008-11-21T11:13:00.000-05:00Oh my. Peggy,Peggy...what have you DONE? I hope th...Oh my. Peggy,Peggy...what have you <BR/>DONE? I hope they don't skip MM too<BR/>far ahead into the future for the <BR/>3rd season. I think the aftermath <BR/>of Peggy's revelation to Pete (in<BR/>light of Trudy's infertility) will <BR/>be VERY interesting. <BR/><BR/>I was proud of Pete for telling his<BR/>F-in-L to go ahead and pull Clearasil. I thought he would use<BR/>the 'up for review' time to work <BR/>some scheme. Go ON with your bad <BR/>self Pete Campbell! <BR/><BR/>I have to echo everyone else here,<BR/>DO NOT get rid of Duck! Mark Moses<BR/>is amazing. Obviously the credit <BR/>goes to the writers first,but he <BR/>(Moses) sure can knock it out of<BR/>the park. <BR/><BR/>As always,January Jones and John<BR/>Hamm were terrific. <BR/><BR/>I loved how Betty was so correct <BR/>and ladylike "Thank you for the<BR/>drink..now I would just like to<BR/>enjoy it" before going carnal with<BR/>the man at the bar. PERFECT! <BR/><BR/>I couldn't figure Don/Dick out in<BR/>this episode. I might have to see<BR/>it again.(hardship!) The "real" Mrs<BR/>Draper had cornered him earlier but<BR/>over time they were old and fast<BR/>friends..got it..he can be honest<BR/>with her,etc. But I don't know who<BR/>he IS with her. Conudrum! <BR/><BR/>Was the scene where Don had the <BR/>groceries and was talking to the<BR/>men working on the cars 1962 or<BR/>earlier? I couldn't tell by the<BR/>clothes or the dialog. Maybe I <BR/>missed a key moment by being <BR/>distracted. <BR/><BR/>Joan Holloway! Are they setting up<BR/>an arc where she becomes liberated<BR/>or will she always be repressed and<BR/>a second class citizen? She is so<BR/>sure of herself and powerful as the<BR/>Queen of The Steno Pool. Will she<BR/>start taking power elsewhere? <BR/><BR/>PLEASE more Lois! I love how she<BR/>always sees to be on the verge of<BR/>crying becasue she wants to please<BR/>and do her job well but is SOOOOO<BR/>far out of her depth! Hilarious.<BR/>You KNOW none of the 'chipmunks'<BR/>are going to tap her to be their<BR/>secretary. <BR/><BR/>I was behind the curve on this one<BR/>and saw both seasons in about a <BR/>week's time. EXCELLENT. AMAZING.<BR/><BR/>Can't wait for Season 3. That<BR/>stupid People agazine got it so<BR/>wrong. John Hamm should have been<BR/>named "Sexiest Man Alive".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-73965084333325380072008-11-14T00:35:00.000-05:002008-11-14T00:35:00.000-05:00Also, looks like Pete made the right choice. You c...<I>Also, looks like Pete made the right choice. You could tell he was uncomfortable with Duck, and that he respects Don. The key point is that Pete wants to succeed, but on his own merits, and not as Duck's sycophant.</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Pete has just become Don's sycophant. Which is what he has always wanted to be since the series began.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-30870538240352311922008-11-05T18:16:00.000-05:002008-11-05T18:16:00.000-05:00as i rewatched last night with the brother, i *hea...as i rewatched last night with the brother, i *heard* the word(s) toy box.<BR/><BR/>yay! i'm not nuts!<BR/><BR/>thank you Alan - and all - for the fascinating reading, this season and last.Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-34888398657287493392008-11-02T23:55:00.000-05:002008-11-02T23:55:00.000-05:00I've just been thru parts of the last two episodes...I've just been thru parts of the last two episodes - trying to see what made me think of my old toy box - and there's nothing. Sally got boots, kids watched TV. No toy box.<BR/><BR/>I thought it was Mad Men cause it keeps making me think of when I was a kid. In 62, I was three.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I was thinking about it - how I couldn't even remember what it looked like.<BR/>Today, at the flea market, I saw it.<BR/>It was $5. It's in the living room now.<BR/><BR/>It looks like <A HREF="http://www.intelligentdesignantiques.com/images/GaytimeToyChest.jpg" REL="nofollow">this</A> only faded.Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-6341727810515607482008-11-02T15:34:00.000-05:002008-11-02T15:34:00.000-05:00My sister's getting on board with Mad Men late. S...My sister's getting on board with Mad Men late. She is watching the first season on DVD right now and cannot believe Jon Hamm didn't win the Emmy for best actor. <BR/><BR/>I will miss this show more than I can express with words, and I sincerely hope the negotiations with Matt Weiner are successful. He MUST be involved for this show to continue at the same level of quality. <BR/><BR/>Thanks, Alan, for the best recaps/analyses on the net and this place for intelligent comment/discussion. This space has enhanced my Mad Men experience exponentially.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-12258790646929950102008-11-02T01:23:00.000-04:002008-11-02T01:23:00.000-04:00@cgeye, I disagree about Peggy. Weiner didn't say ...@cgeye, I disagree about Peggy. Weiner didn't say *he* thought she was crazy, merely that NYS did. And in 1962, a young, unmarried woman who delivered a child she didn't expect, who then said "no thanks, keep it," would have been considered crazy. Just because Peggy didn't know she was pregnant doesn't mean she didn't incorporate that information afterward.<BR/><BR/>In retrospect, I suspect that "whatever they want to hear" was something more akin to, "I'm not fit to raise a baby...it'll hurt, but it's in the baby's best interests to give it up," rather than what I now believe she said, a very cold, rational: "take it away, I have no use for that."<BR/><BR/>I have no trouble believing Peggy would have said the latter.R.A. Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851961356321735388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-90600533132284032872008-11-01T22:48:00.000-04:002008-11-01T22:48:00.000-04:00I know I'm way too late for this, but my TV barely...I know I'm way too late for this, but my TV barely cooperated:<BR/><BR/>Wow.<BR/><BR/>This episode could serve as a series finale, if necessary, because it opened and closed on the Draper marriage with a fine symmetry. I had a feeling that events were being squeezed into that package with the Palm Springs sojourn, because it took such manhandling of Don's psyche to bring him back in line.<BR/><BR/>Don could have continued whoring around for years, but Roger's explosion of his marriage made him confront his own situation. Also, Betty went through her own dark time, but still dependent on others to tell her she had worth-- Glen, his mom, that Awesome stranger in the night. Their coming together -- would it have happened if the Cuban missile crisis didn't happen?<BR/><BR/>As for Pete, it feels like a trick to make his emotions sympathetic to us only to crush him through Peggy's selfish confession. When did she process her denial about her pregnancy, without anyone's help? When did that psychosis become reasoned sacrifice? That's a jump I can't make with her, sorry. Weiner can't characterize her as mentally ill according to NY State on one hand, then present her decision to give up her baby as rational, on the other. Of course, she could have made a rational choice, but Weiner did not portray her that way, and he let that impression of her mental fragility remain throughout the season. Would it have been beyond his skill to have given us a glimpse of that Peggy, with Pete -- "I almost went crazy. I denied I was even pregnant. But when they showed me the baby, I knew what I had to do and I went along with what they said"?<BR/><BR/>His version of Peggy -- the career woman at the top of her game, telling us what she nobly sacrificed, to get there -- is still a lie, according to the flashback we saw. In editing out her grief and madness, Peggy also edited out her pain -- her rejection by Pete, her loneliness -- and showed herself the one willing to be as inhuman as Pete portrayed himself. Not good, kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-75295112950140954242008-11-01T22:16:00.000-04:002008-11-01T22:16:00.000-04:00Why I Hate My Local Affliate, Part 23432:Tonight, ...Why I Hate My Local Affliate, Part 23432:<BR/><BR/>Tonight, instead of the rerun of the Jon Hamm SNL, guess what's playing?<BR/><BR/>A three-hour repeat of CINDERELLA MAN, to soak up the time between their wall-to-wall political ads. I cannot say what I think of the station managers in polite company.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-5908409969806129232008-11-01T14:22:00.000-04:002008-11-01T14:22:00.000-04:00following up on the Pete/Duck/Don triangle, as I r...following up on the Pete/Duck/Don triangle, as I replayed the episode in my head, I suspect that Pete could see that Duck was drunk. We've seen his strong reaction to drunkis, as opposed to just drinking--Freddy, his own father--maybe this is what tipped him off that Duck was not the man he wanted to folow into battle.<BR/>He may, of course, have also just been trying to play some skillful preservation politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-91011280880255835662008-10-31T00:10:00.000-04:002008-10-31T00:10:00.000-04:00Re: Pete's decision to tell Don. WPete's face as D...Re: Pete's decision to tell Don. WPete's face as Duck alerts him to the PPL merger, and Duck's vision of their future, it seemed to me that Peter was hearing something he didn't like. My guess is that, at the core of things, he respects Don. <BR/>This was a very moving episode.<BR/><BR/>The scene with Peggy and Pete was devastating. Last season I thought that Peggy was ambitious in a way that made her rapport with Pete appear a good match. Now I see them both very differently; Pete as a hollow man who knows he's hollow, and Peggy as someone who was hollow, but who is gaining the kind of self respect and self knowledge that produces compassion for others.<BR/><BR/>What a show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-37385668034434004132008-10-30T18:06:00.000-04:002008-10-30T18:06:00.000-04:00Duck's outburst when he found Don didn't have a co...Duck's outburst when he found Don didn't have a contract reminded me what Don had told Peggy in a previous episode: "They can't do what we do. And they hate us for it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-7290765770244895532008-10-29T18:48:00.000-04:002008-10-29T18:48:00.000-04:00Have you seen the Simpsons' parody of the Mad Men ...Have you seen the Simpsons' parody of the Mad Men intro... it is very cool.Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317568565085893849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-68702985846174426332008-10-29T16:03:00.000-04:002008-10-29T16:03:00.000-04:00just for a moment i thought i had seen a parody of...just for a moment i thought i had seen a parody of The Carousel speech (hey! remove thst L and you get "carouse") and then I remembered SNL.<BR/>and I see you've blogged that. when will I ever catch up? <BR/>:-)Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-6239660549177278342008-10-29T15:36:00.000-04:002008-10-29T15:36:00.000-04:00Sorry to be so late to the discussion (wife was aw...Sorry to be so late to the discussion (wife was away so we waiting until last night to watch) but did anyone catch or has anyone mentioned that Pete had a tear roll down his face when Peggy gets up to leave after their conversation on the coach (where the baby was likely conceived btw)? Pete didn't cry when his father died and the tear was yet another indication that this is the first real and human response we have seen him have.<BR/><BR/>Apologies if there were mentioned above, I only through about half the comments.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602973123922898103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-33204818076237617262008-10-29T15:34:00.000-04:002008-10-29T15:34:00.000-04:00i have not yet finished the comments (i juust fini...i have not yet finished the comments (i juust finished last week's today) but i'm curious - how did Don find a channel wiith no "breaking news" for the kids? <BR/>I was just 3 when this happened and my only experience with it is the Quantum Leap ep with the news bulletins interrupting cartoons, and kids freaking out - of course that ep was set in FL.<BR/>NY was no less a target. I don't think my parents (i mean my mother. my father never talked to me) ever mentioned the CMC to me. (and the HUAC took a little thought to decode).<BR/><BR/>didn't recognize Awesome either - the scene was a bit dark. <BR/><BR/>Cheers fot the loss of the Pretentious Cardigan.<BR/><BR/>-from FL with the heat onPamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-79486281827762349552008-10-29T12:27:00.000-04:002008-10-29T12:27:00.000-04:00Alan - Thanks so much for the blog! I used to rea...Alan - Thanks so much for the blog! I used to read your commentary on NYPD Blue back in the day, and was ecstatic when I discovered you were doing commentary on Mad Men.<BR/><BR/>The main issue I've been trying to wrap my mind around is the evolution of Don and Betty's marriage. In Carousel, the slides during the pitch meeting show all the touchstones of an idealized marriage: the New-Years kiss, the husband listening to the pregnant belly, the proud parents looking at the newborn. But knowing Don at that point, it's hard to believe that they're more than just images (although in the back of my mind I did wonder whether the problems with the Draper marriage had evolved later on). <BR/><BR/>With the information revealed in the flashback with Anna in which Dick/Don gushes like a schoolboy about Betty, it becomes apparent that those images really were idealized. Betty was an "idea" to Dick/Don, who didn't have the emotional maturity to either pick a partner he was compatible with or develop a true partnership with Betty at that time. <BR/><BR/>I have to admit that I really disliked Betty this season; she was manipulative, occasionally cruel, and seemed to ignore her kids more often than not. I actually was kind of hoping Don would leave her (although I didn't think he would) because of what she'd become. But perhaps her new found adulthood will allow her and Don to develop a real partnership. Of course this being Mad Men, something else entirely will probably happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-22157807557511556802008-10-29T12:08:00.000-04:002008-10-29T12:08:00.000-04:00Kennedy’s standoff with Cuba during the Cuban Miss...Kennedy’s standoff with Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the perfect metaphor for this episode, most obviously with the Duck and Don clash, but also with everyone looking out for their own interests, protecting themselves and their agendas. <BR/><BR/>All the characters focused on in this episode have a secret, and all of them want to reveal some of it, but only go so far with the truth. <BR/><BR/>Don finally admits he’s had affairs (or at least one), but doesn’t reveal the full details of his whoredom. But if he did, Betty might’ve truly risked a back-alley abortion. <BR/><BR/>Peggy finally tells Pete about the baby, which I was happy she did and didn’t think she was being cruel at all. She confessed because she needed to get on with her life. As this show evolves I see Peggy as the strongest character on the show. Like she said, she didn’t use the pregnancy to get Pete; she never wanted that, but instead to be successful in her career. And I think her non sequitur about losing a part of herself is grieving the compromises that she has had to make (like sitting by and watching her friend Freddie get fired or going to a strip club to be seen as one of the guys), and she’s done it without moping, whining or even crying. Instead, she puts her head down and powers through. Now here’s hoping that Pete really has grown up as much as we’re all thinking he has and won’t punish Peggy for telling him the whole truth (remember her line to Don about him not to treat her badly because she reminds him of a bad situation). <BR/><BR/>Pete had his moment of having a secret, then gave it all up as soon as Don slathered him with fatherly words. But I also think the leak was as much about Pete sticking his feet in both pools just as much as it was about him finding a surrogate dad. He’s probably the most self-preserving character on the show.<BR/><BR/>Apparently Duck can’t hold his liquor or his secrets, and both flaws blew it for him. But I felt sorry for him when he exploded in the meeting and felt some of his frustration…can Don do absolutely no wrong at work? Can his charm melt steel? What’ll it take to rock Don enough so that he won’t land on his two feet, even just once? <BR/><BR/>And then there’s Betty who finally has a secret. Now I’m wondering whether she’s going to keep on accumulating secrets, or did that tryst satisfy her? I’m wondering what Betty’s state of mind was when she was having sex with a person other than Don for the first time in her life (I’m assuming she saved herself for marriage). Was she trying to get into Don’s head or just feeling pleasure? I’m inclined to think the former.<BR/><BR/>Also, it’s interesting that Don is all about love now; didn’t he tell Rachel that the reason why she had never fallen in love was because it didn’t exist, that it was created by guys like him to sell products? But I guess Don really is getting in touch with his inner Dick Whitman. The question now is, does Betty believe in love? Does she even have the capacity for love? I’ve not seen her display love or affection for really anyone yet…possibly giving the boots to Sally in the last episode could come the closest, but even that lacked real tenderness. If Betty has really been going through her adolescence this season, she’s turning out to be a bitter and cold adult. To use Peggy’s wisdom, perhaps Betty’s forever lost the part of herself that contains love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-19772628719307677462008-10-28T22:41:00.000-04:002008-10-28T22:41:00.000-04:00Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood is reporting: Lio...Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood is reporting: Lionsgate Must Be Staffed By Mad Men; Execs Look To Replace Creator Weiner<BR/>http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/<BR/><BR/>Keep us updated Alan!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-50028432005503183122008-10-28T21:28:00.000-04:002008-10-28T21:28:00.000-04:00My husband and I just finished watching the Mad Me...My husband and I just finished watching the Mad Men finale. We both yelled "Captain Awesome" simultaneously. Kind of crazy that in the midst of such sublime TV, we are giddy over a Captain Awesome siting, and I said to my husband, "I have to show you What's Alan Watching because he too will comment on Captain Awesome." And you did. You never let me down, Alan. Great work on all your Mad Men posts and insight. <BR/><BR/>I guess I am still sad/devestated by the Joan rape. I knew nothing would be said of it or resolved, but some tiny part of me was hoping he wouldn't get away with it. That's the one awful, sore spot of this season; me asking, did they really have to go there? It still kills me.<BR/><BR/>So much to think about and absorb now that I've seen the last episode. I'm going to miss this show! Hurry up Season Three.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-84887967502227809532008-10-28T19:05:00.000-04:002008-10-28T19:05:00.000-04:00http://brethenson.blogspot.com/2008/10/notes-on-se...http://brethenson.blogspot.com/2008/10/notes-on-season-finale-of-mad-men_27.html<BR/><BR/>The first thing worth mentioning about the season finale is the title: "Meditations in an Emergency", which refers back to the first episode when Don sent a book by that name to an unknown friend. Later it is revealed who he sent the book to. Meditations in an Emergency was written by the sixties American poet Frank O'Hara. The key passage is from the poem Mayakovksy, quoted by Don in a voice-over from the first episode:<BR/><BR/>Now I am quietly waiting for<BR/>the catastrophe of my personality<BR/>to seem beautiful again,<BR/>and interesting, and modern.<BR/><BR/>So the first and last episodes really bring home the overarching theme of Mad Men: Don's anomie, the erosion of societal and personal norms which he experiences. He is conscious of standing outside his life, trying to get in. He can't connect with society, or himself. To a lesser extent, the other characters also experience this, but Don is by far the most disconnected, obviously, due to the false identity he has assumed.<BR/><BR/>But Meditations in an Emergency also refers to the key theme of the episode: The Cuban Missile Crisis. We see everybody's reaction to the very real fear of a nuclear attack. All of the characters really are afraid they won't live to see the next day. Very true to life... the people who lived through that really did think they were going to die.<BR/><BR/>The first major plot point is Don's oblique, Clinton-esque confession of his infidelities. Betty seems to accept this, and we see that Don evidently made the right decision by coming up with some manner of confession. I think many in the blogosphere had debated whether he should confess or continue to stonewall. Now we know-- he wasn't getting anywhere by continuing to insult Betty's intelligence.<BR/><BR/>Later, we see the creepy Father Gill delivering a sermon exhorting his parishioners to prepare themselves, blah, blah. You have to wonder why Peggy keeps going to church, since she obviously doesn't buy into it. Later on, when he starts getting on her case, her reaction was basically the same as mine: Mind your own frikkin' business. Ugh.<BR/><BR/>Of course, Betty is pregnant. When she was bleeding in the previous episode, I kind of knew something like that was up. Typically, a tv show would foreshadow that by having someone throw up. That's too obvious for Mad Men.<BR/><BR/>Does Betty's 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' moment come as a big surprise? Probably not, although at first I thought it might be a flashback to when she first met Don. Given some of her previous flirtations, you could probably see that coming. And it doesn't seem like she has too much to feel guilty about, given Don's behavior. I have a feeling we might see more of this kind of thing from Betty when we jump two years ahead next season.<BR/><BR/>Possibly my favorite scene from the last two seasons: The meeting to confirm the merger, Duck's big moment. He will be president of Sterling Cooper, or so it appears. Seems like the alcohol made Duck a lot more assertive, and possibly a lot stupider. His main point is that a larger company will get better prices on advertising, making Creative irrelevant. And Don will have to find another profession if he doesn't like it. Oh, wait... Don doesn't have a contract? Oops! If Duck wasn't drinking so much, maybe he would have known that. I loved the way Saint John Powell just dismissed him--"He never could hold his liquor". I'm guessing that the merger will go through, and that Duck is history. But I just loved the way Don handled that. He didn't blink, just like Kennedy didn't blink during the missile crisis.<BR/><BR/>Also, looks like Pete made the right choice. You could tell he was uncomfortable with Duck, and that he respects Don. The key point is that Pete wants to succeed, but on his own merits, and not as Duck's sycophant.<BR/><BR/>Something else that you could see coming- Pete getting real with Peggy. But what she said in return will have a lot of implications for next season. My guess is that Pete will somehow manipulate it so that he and Trudy can adopt Peggy's illegitimate baby. But who knows?<BR/><BR/>No doubt it's sad that the season is over. But it was good while it lasted, and there is always next season to look forward to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-45828420092254523462008-10-28T16:31:00.000-04:002008-10-28T16:31:00.000-04:00r.a., I sit corrected!r.a., I sit corrected!justjoan123https://www.blogger.com/profile/03333328551629388436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-86514719754749052422008-10-28T16:16:00.000-04:002008-10-28T16:16:00.000-04:00@justjoan, I think her demotion came when she got ...@justjoan, I think her demotion came when she got engaged. That irritated Roger more than a little and any responsibilities he'd rewarded her with before weren't going to be coming anymore.<BR/><BR/>Also, you've got the name of the company wrong. It's World Wide Wickets, and they were talking to SC about a televised treasure hunt.R.A. Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851961356321735388noreply@blogger.com