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Aug. 16th, 2010 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wishfulclickingFrom tonight's Mad Men, I really want to talk about what I mean when I talk about how I ship certain characters.
When I say Pete and Peggy are OTP for me, it's not that I could buy them married with children (because obv these are two people who are not prone to desiring parenthood), but it's more like they get each other on a level that no one else does, and there's a sense of mutual respect founded on their past shared events. That look at the end pretty much sums up all I find appealing between the two of them. And I still think they could run an excellent Ad business together: Pete understands that older money world/accounts but still has enough flexibility to consider the future and other markets, while Peggy has the vision. Pete and Peggy are still the ones I love to see on the screen.
Don and Joan are another pair that I think really get each other. Obviously, they know each other's games but I do think there is a shared respect and similarities between them that I almost don't want the show to go into more because I like all the stuff living in my head still being possible.
That moment when the woman says 'They don't want us, we're both old and married' just wow. I know that's where things are headed for Joan (and wow was that scene a callback to that infamous testing scene when Joan was one of the girls behind the glass putting on a show) but it still gives her character a heavier sadness than I'd like. I just really want her to ditch that husband though I don't actually see that happening.
The return of Pete's ~nemesis: I do love it when Ken shows up. He so effortlessly gets under Pete's skin, I just want him dropping by forever.
NGL, I was half way hoping Don would get hit in the face; I wouldn't mind him having some actual pain besides all his existential agony.
My Boarding School idea is still totally legit.
When I say Pete and Peggy are OTP for me, it's not that I could buy them married with children (because obv these are two people who are not prone to desiring parenthood), but it's more like they get each other on a level that no one else does, and there's a sense of mutual respect founded on their past shared events. That look at the end pretty much sums up all I find appealing between the two of them. And I still think they could run an excellent Ad business together: Pete understands that older money world/accounts but still has enough flexibility to consider the future and other markets, while Peggy has the vision. Pete and Peggy are still the ones I love to see on the screen.
Don and Joan are another pair that I think really get each other. Obviously, they know each other's games but I do think there is a shared respect and similarities between them that I almost don't want the show to go into more because I like all the stuff living in my head still being possible.
That moment when the woman says 'They don't want us, we're both old and married' just wow. I know that's where things are headed for Joan (and wow was that scene a callback to that infamous testing scene when Joan was one of the girls behind the glass putting on a show) but it still gives her character a heavier sadness than I'd like. I just really want her to ditch that husband though I don't actually see that happening.
The return of Pete's ~nemesis: I do love it when Ken shows up. He so effortlessly gets under Pete's skin, I just want him dropping by forever.
NGL, I was half way hoping Don would get hit in the face; I wouldn't mind him having some actual pain besides all his existential agony.
My Boarding School idea is still totally legit.
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Date: 2010-08-16 07:48 am (UTC)NGL, I was half way hoping Don would get hit in the face; I wouldn't mind him having some actual pain besides all his existential agony.
THIS. Freaking Don.
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Date: 2010-08-16 03:35 pm (UTC)Exactly.
It's odd reading other recaps/reviews that are moaning about Don being in the pits, but I've always thought this needed to happen. Like, yeah Don is down in the dumps, but I was sick of him always 'winning' while getting by with horrible behavior; and I always thought that Don valued having a family more than he would admit, so I'm glad they're following through with that. I still don't understand why he lives where he lives.
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Date: 2010-08-16 11:30 pm (UTC)A couple moments stuck out to me: the throwaway remark Ken had about toiling under Don, since Ken doesn't work for him anymore and didn't have to be nice to him, and how he put the picture of himself and Anna on his desk. It was nice seeing someone who wasn't kissing the ground Don walked on, and that Don is maybe learning from his experiences.
I still don't understand why he lives where he lives.
Me neither. His place is so drab and dark. Maybe it represents his state of mind? It'll probably be telling if he moves into a prettier place at any point.