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I can't at all figure out how next week will be the season finale.
There's been nothing that's even inched towards a resolution this year. I feel like the season should only be halfway done at this point. And I don't care if you call me a filthy homo, I like Bob Benson dammit. He's a bizarre queen, but he's a likeable dude that will probably cut someone's throat for you if you're on his good side. Lusty manservant or no, Bob's good people. He's also the most 'jump the shark' kind of character the show's ever seen. He's outwardly soap operaish and that's a sign that Mad Men probably has run its course. The fact that the pace has seemingly fallen off the face of the earth suggests the same. There won't be a bow put on this show and I think that's all there is to it. This season just hasn't come far enough.
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Personally, I liked the parallels between Don Draper/Dick Whitman and Bob Benson/?. Bob, however, seems hell bent on power and has a little more determination and "evil" behind his rise to power, whereas Don was always surprised that he was able to ascend in the business world so quickly. Once again, the direction of the program appears to be setting up a death. Ken wasn't killed but Pete was seen cleaning a gun. Don & Megan ran into Ted & Peggy at Rosemary's Baby and later re-enacted that disturbing scene (for the time, especially), with Don as Satan's baby. There just seems to be an ominous air about the direction of the series this season. The transformation of Sally is nearly complete. She didn't like her mother and adored her father, until she saw who her father really was in last week's episode ("Monster!"). She's finally given in and become like her mother, sharing a cigarette while insulting Don ("He's never given me anything"). Finally, Don in the fetal position to start the show and Don in a the fetal position to end the show. The two women he most respected (Peggy & Sally) now seem him for who he really is: A shallow, empty, shell of a man. Considering that Weiner isn't prone to redemption, I can only assume that Don's downward spiral will continue until the final episode. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I think Don kills himself, or at least attempts to kill himself, in the series finale. Watching Don fall from the top of a building in the opening credits for the past six years, IMO, isn't a coincidence. |
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And I think Weiner puts those scenes with Pete and his gun in there for no other reason than he hates the maxim about 'if you show a gun it must go off.'
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That episode would have been way more awesome if they just offed Ken like that.
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I wondered if that scene existed in Weiner's mind at any point prior to Cheney's whoopsie.
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