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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
The only character I need anymore closure on is Peggy. She's the stand-in for the audience. In order for me to feel satisfied with the ending, it'll have to come through Peggy.
I'd like to see Joan one more time, but I won't cry if we don't.
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I guess I just don't understand what kind of closure people are after.
She's locked in and geared up. We know Peggy has designs on taking over the world. We know she's going to spend a few years at McCann to build up some recognition and cache before blasting off on her own or as creative director at an up and comer.
What mechanism could there possibly be to provide greater closure than that other than Dane's 'voiceover' idea? And as there has never been a narrator in Mad Men, wouldn't that just be hackneyed as hell? Alternatively it could jump forward 5-10 years to give a true epilogue but I don't know that I'd love that idea either because it's simply been done to death.
I guess I just quibble with some folks definition of closure. With Peggy, I feel like we have it already. Do we need to know if she marries and has kids? How old she is when she dies? I don't think so. I mean heck, if we're willing to concede 'closure' with Pete, it would seem to me that Peggie's re-energized, cocksure swagger into McCann with the Octo-Porn ready for the wall provides the same level of finality. She knows who she is and what she wants, now she's going to go make it happen.