the other space in shipping
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.
