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shapinglightStill can't buy extra user pics. What on earth is going on?
:grumble, grumble:
Anyway, I realised that I haven't said a word as yet about the last episode of season 3 of Mad Men. Spoilers for that behind cut.
I hadn't thought there could be a better episode of the show than the penultimate one (the Kennedy assassination episode), but the final episode proved me wrong.
Don once again showed why he's one of the most fascinating characters on television, slipping seamlessly from complete s**t for the way he talked to Betty when she said she wanted a divorce, to the guy you want to root for when he conceives his plan for confounding the merger and sweeps Sterling, Cooper, Lane Price, Peter, Ken and Peggy along in his wake, with Joan making a very welcome addition. I wonder what Dr Killanything will say when he realises she's gone back to work, but perhaps she won't be forced to break another vase over his head if he gets shipped off to Vietnam? We'll see.
I like very much that Peggy played hard to get and that Don had to meet her terms. Good for her. I just hope she ditches the odious Duck in short order.
As for Betty, she really is the ice queen, isn't she? Not that I blame her for wanting a divorce after everything Don has done to her in the course of the series- the trip to Italy was her last attempt to save their marriage, and he didn't seem interested - and when he called her a whore I wanted her to slap him (but he might well have slapped her back and that would have been horrible), but she didn't. Instead, she stayed icily cool, and it's that determination to get what she wants when she decides she wants it that carried her through the horribly painful scene when Don told the kids he was leaving (I had tears in my eyes, I admit) and will probably carry her through the divorce and into remarriage with Wossisface. I suspect she'll only be disappointed again, but you never know. I quite like Wossisface and he does genuinely seem to be in love with her.
She's not an easy character to like, though.
Anyway, the series ended with the crumbling of the old order, or rather the old order crumbling itself and then reconstituting itself in a different form, and just when the 60s are about to get very, very interesting.
I can't wait to see what happens next.
:grumble, grumble:
Anyway, I realised that I haven't said a word as yet about the last episode of season 3 of Mad Men. Spoilers for that behind cut.
I hadn't thought there could be a better episode of the show than the penultimate one (the Kennedy assassination episode), but the final episode proved me wrong.
Don once again showed why he's one of the most fascinating characters on television, slipping seamlessly from complete s**t for the way he talked to Betty when she said she wanted a divorce, to the guy you want to root for when he conceives his plan for confounding the merger and sweeps Sterling, Cooper, Lane Price, Peter, Ken and Peggy along in his wake, with Joan making a very welcome addition. I wonder what Dr Killanything will say when he realises she's gone back to work, but perhaps she won't be forced to break another vase over his head if he gets shipped off to Vietnam? We'll see.
I like very much that Peggy played hard to get and that Don had to meet her terms. Good for her. I just hope she ditches the odious Duck in short order.
As for Betty, she really is the ice queen, isn't she? Not that I blame her for wanting a divorce after everything Don has done to her in the course of the series- the trip to Italy was her last attempt to save their marriage, and he didn't seem interested - and when he called her a whore I wanted her to slap him (but he might well have slapped her back and that would have been horrible), but she didn't. Instead, she stayed icily cool, and it's that determination to get what she wants when she decides she wants it that carried her through the horribly painful scene when Don told the kids he was leaving (I had tears in my eyes, I admit) and will probably carry her through the divorce and into remarriage with Wossisface. I suspect she'll only be disappointed again, but you never know. I quite like Wossisface and he does genuinely seem to be in love with her.
She's not an easy character to like, though.
Anyway, the series ended with the crumbling of the old order, or rather the old order crumbling itself and then reconstituting itself in a different form, and just when the 60s are about to get very, very interesting.
I can't wait to see what happens next.