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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I'm happy with the series finale. Maybe the bar is so low from so many disappointing finales?
Expected no closure for Don. He has always been adrift.
Peggy deserves happiness if they are going to give it to Pete.
Roger is where he should be.
everyone thinks its Don that does the Coca-Cola ad? I thought it was maybe Peggy? Not really important though.
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I really don't understand how you saw Peggy being responsible for that ad. I can't think of a single filmic way that the episode pointed to that.
For that matter, I think the show gave us plenty of closure on Don. He is who he is. He makes the same mistakes and follows the same patterns, over and over and over. All throughout the show he's been a man who needs to wander off and lose himself in order to move forward. He's a man who can have a legitimate emotional revelation at the hippie new-age camp AND use that as inspiration for an ad campaign.
It's a cynical ending, not an ambiguous one. The closure comes in Don's seeming acceptance, finally, of who he is (no matter the name used). Though that acceptance, like any of Don's big life choices, will probably be short lived. But he'll always land on his feet. And he'll always find in his experiences a way to sell something. It's who he is.