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[Officer Pete Malloy]

I do think flash-forwarding is a good way of showing closure or putting a bow on it or whatever without being "inorganic" or forced. This season's finale of Girls did this pretty well. One quick scene at the end that was like six months later, fairly inconsequential on its own, but it kind of shows you where things ended up.

Six Feet Under did that well. It was appropriate in that case, though, because the show was about death.

I was actually thinking about that earlier. I didn't even really like 6 Feet Under but I thought that ending was pretty great. Like you said...the show was about death.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I really don't think they're going to do some sort of "American Graffiti" style ending. I can't think of any way that could be done without it coming off as cheap, cliched, and lame.

 

[John Bender]

I get the feeling some of you would only be satisfied by the entire firm being held hostage by Russian terrorists during the company Christmas party only to be foiled and killed off by Don turned into John McClain.

I get the feeling you haven't read half the posts in here.

Why?For years in this thread there's been some people always complaining that nothing is happening. It's pretty standard. And "some" means just that, some of you.

I never had a problem with the pace of the show - it's been great storytelling. I do have a problem investing in a story for 7 years with no semblance of closure. It's a disservice to people who invested time into the characters and their stories.

I never said you did. I wasn't singling you or anyone out.Maybe "American Pickers" is more your speed.

How is "And "some" means just that, some of you." not singling people out? I get that you're trolling but at least be consistent.

Sorry...I really wasn't "trolling" more so than making a hyperbolic joke. I guess maybe that is trolling.

Wasn't meant to offend or directed at any one in particular.

I'm way into the show and probably guilty of viewing it through rose colored glasses.

 

[Jack White]

I do remember Weiner stating that sometime in these final few episodes, we will see Don in the current day, when he is around 80

I have to call BS on that. Weiner would never offer a spoiler like that.

 

[John Bender]

I do remember Weiner stating that sometime in these final few episodes, we will see Don in the current day, when he is around 80

I have to call BS on that. Weiner would never offer a spoiler like that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/mad-men-will-end-in-prese_n_1094473.html

 

[Capella]

The idea of him introducing himself to somebody as **** Whitman to end the series is pretty great.

 

[nittanylion]

How about his final 'Draperesque Pitch' having him standing in for Roger and delivering that upcoming speech?

 

[Jack White]

I do remember Weiner stating that sometime in these final few episodes, we will see Don in the current day, when he is around 80

I have to call BS on that. Weiner would never offer a spoiler like that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/mad-men-will-end-in-prese_n_1094473.html

I stand corrected.

Though he does say, ". . . how I hope to end the show."

 

[Hang 10]

The idea of him introducing himself to somebody as **** Whitman to end the series is pretty great.

It sorta feels like that ship has sailed though. He basically tells everyone that matters the whole story at the end of season 6 and that was pretty much the end of it. It would have been a very fitting way to go out but the tension Don used to have about his secret seems to be gone.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

**** goes back to Korea...and this time it's personal.

Agree on 6FU, and with each death scene IIRC, it kind of gave some clues as to how the rest of their life went. It's a smart way of doing it imo.

 

[kupcho1]

'closure'

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

**** goes back to Korea...and this time it's personal.

Agree on 6FU, and with each death scene IIRC, it kind of gave some clues as to how the rest of their life went. It's a smart way of doing it imo.

He comes back from Korea again and opens up "Whitman and Draper's Dirt Farm, Whorehouse, Used Cars, and Furs".

 

[Ray Karpis]

How about his final 'Draperesque Pitch' having him standing in for Roger and delivering that upcoming speech?

This could happen...especially if Roger's farewell to the series is another heart attack.

 

[Ray Karpis]

I do remember Weiner stating that sometime in these final few episodes, we will see Don in the current day, when he is around 80

I have to call BS on that. Weiner would never offer a spoiler like that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/mad-men-will-end-in-prese_n_1094473.html

You take that, along with Weiner recently saying he envisioned the end of the series a few years ago, and I think it's probably 85% chance we see an ending that includes Don in his golden years.

 

[TenTimes]

**** Hitman. Monologue then bang.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

**** Titman. Relocates to the San Fernando Valley. Actor/Director.

 

[Christo]

Such a great scene

BALLS

 

[zamboni]

It's been a long day -- significance of the Roberta Flack song at the end?

Haven't read all the posts yet for this episode, but I thought that the writers go to painstaking length to ensure pop culture accuracy.

Flack released the tune in 1972 - this episode was 1970, no?

 

[gump]

Great illustration of what Dons charisma can do, and how much harder it is without it.

 

[zamboni]

Should've saved the Bert Cooper song-and-dance number for the end end.

Inside a snow globe with an autistic kid watching from the outside.

 

[RUSF18]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

 

[Jack White]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

It's been a long day -- significance of the Roberta Flack song at the end?

Haven't read all the posts yet for this episode, but I thought that the writers go to painstaking length to ensure pop culture accuracy.

Flack released the tune in 1972 - this episode was 1970, no?

The song was popularized by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer. The song first appeared on Flack's 1969 album First Take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face#Roberta_Flack_version

**EDIT** As for the 1972 version being used in an episode that takes place in 1970: remember, the song is not playing in the story.

 

[shadyridr]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

It's been a long day -- significance of the Roberta Flack song at the end?

Haven't read all the posts yet for this episode, but I thought that the writers go to painstaking length to ensure pop culture accuracy.

Flack released the tune in 1972 - this episode was 1970, no?

The song was popularized by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer. The song first appeared on Flack's 1969 album First Take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face#Roberta_Flack_version

**EDIT** As for the 1972 version being used in an episode that takes place in 1970: remember, the song is not playing in the story.

Exactly

Back in Season 2 they used "The Infanta" by The Decemberists which was released in 2005.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

Actually Gene and Abel are played by the same set of twins.

 

[McGarnicle]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

Or better yet, the whole cast takes a bus trip to Florida and the bus goes off a cliff, killing everyone. Then in the final scene they show Don's couch which has been sold to a brothel.

 

[TenTimes]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

Or better yet, the whole cast takes a bus trip to Florida and the bus goes off a cliff, killing everyone. Then in the final scene they show Don's couch which has been sold to a brothel.

The look on Pete's sideburns as that bus went down would be worth it. I'm in.

 

[zamboni]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

It's been a long day -- significance of the Roberta Flack song at the end?

Haven't read all the posts yet for this episode, but I thought that the writers go to painstaking length to ensure pop culture accuracy.

Flack released the tune in 1972 - this episode was 1970, no?

The song was popularized by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer. The song first appeared on Flack's 1969 album First Take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face#Roberta_Flack_version

**EDIT** As for the 1972 version being used in an episode that takes place in 1970: remember, the song is not playing in the story.

Good to hear re: 1969. My faith in the MM writers is restored.

Understood that the songs are not playing in the story, but for a show that prides itself on historical moments/accuracy, I can't imagine that is hard to find period pieces as they have done throughout.

 

[jhib]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

Or better yet, the whole cast takes a bus trip to Florida and the bus goes off a cliff, killing everyone. Then in the final scene they show Don's couch which has been sold to a brothel.

The whole cast except for Glen, who is returning from Korea just at that same time, and who is next seen introducing himself to someone as Don Draper.

 

[nittanylion]

**** Whitman comes out of a coma in a V.A. Hospital where he's been convalescing after being injured in the battle that supposedly killed Don Draper...except Don is alive and he and his wife are at ****'s bedside as **** comes to...

...in the minutes leading up to this, some sort of tragedy or trauma forces **** (Don) in his dream (which is the whole series) to jump off a building to his death, but before he hits the ground,,,he wakes up, just like most people do when they're about to die in their dreams...

?

(Someone please prove me wrong here from what we already know - I just pulled this out of my ###...I would very much like to be incorrect about this)!

 

[nittanylion]

Oh cripes...I had to go look: according to wikipedia: Don Draper, **** Whitman's birth year is estimated to be late 1925 - early 1926...in his early 20's he runs away and enlists in the Army and is almost immediately sent to Korea, etc., etc., so we're talking late early 50's...he marries Betty in 1953...although Wizard of Oz originally released in 1939, it exploded into popularity in 1956 with the TV release, and featured a revolutionary ending with Dorothy waking from a dream where the real life people around her resembled characters from the dream she awoke from...

...I have too much time on my hands today, obviously...

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Oh cripes...I had to go look: according to wikipedia: Don Draper, **** Whitman's birth year is estimated to be late 1925 - early 1926...in his early 20's he runs away and enlists in the Army and is almost immediately sent to Korea, etc., etc., so we're talking late early 50's...he marries Betty in 1953...although Wizard of Oz originally released in 1939, it exploded into popularity in 1956 with the TV release, and featured a revolutionary ending with Dorothy waking from a dream where the real life people around her resembled characters from the dream she awoke from...

...I have too much time on my hands today, obviously...

 

[Hang 10]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

Or better yet, the whole cast takes a bus trip to Florida and the bus goes off a cliff, killing everyone. Then in the final scene they show Don's couch which has been sold to a brothel.

The whole cast except for Glen, who is returning from Korea just at that same time, and who is next seen introducing himself to someone as Don Draper.

Or Glen steals **** Wittman's identity! Glen does have the look of someone who was raised in a whore house.

 

[nittanylion]

... yeah, you ain't kidding. I was like after I read my previous 2 posts. With time on my hands, I should be drinking, not posting.

...and the bolded should read: 'so we're talking early 50's' ... not that it helps matters any.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

... yeah, you ain't kidding. I was like after I read my previous 2 posts. With time on my hands, I should be drinking, not posting.

...and the bolded should read: 'so we're talking early 50's' ... not that it helps matters any.

What the hell are you waiting for? Hop to it.

 

[Michael Brown]

Has Don's youngest kid always been played by that demonic actor who also played Abel in SoA?

It's been a long day -- significance of the Roberta Flack song at the end?

Haven't read all the posts yet for this episode, but I thought that the writers go to painstaking length to ensure pop culture accuracy.

Flack released the tune in 1972 - this episode was 1970, no?

The song was popularized by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer. The song first appeared on Flack's 1969 album First Take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face#Roberta_Flack_version

**EDIT** As for the 1972 version being used in an episode that takes place in 1970: remember, the song is not playing in the story.

Good to hear re: 1969. My faith in the MM writers is restored.

Understood that the songs are not playing in the story, but for a show that prides itself on historical moments/accuracy, I can't imagine that is hard to find period pieces as they have done throughout.

Was at the Mad Men exhibit in Queens last month, and there was a section on the music of Mad Men. In the description, Weiner mentions how he wrote certain scenes to fit specific songs. He said that they knew that song wouldn't have been playing in that year, and furthermore wasn't a song that Don/**** would have even listened to as a 35-year-old man. But that the song fit what he was trying to accomplish in the scene in terms of audience reaction.

 

[Christo]

My outlandish prediction for the ending. Don realizes how unfulfilling and empty his whole life has been and kills himself by jumping off a building like in the opening credits.

Or better yet, the whole cast takes a bus trip to Florida and the bus goes off a cliff, killing everyone. Then in the final scene they show Don's couch which has been sold to a brothel.

It's been done.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

http://i.imgur.com/cD0ainN.gifv

 

[badmojo1006]

Trudy! In Curlers!

 

[Raider Nation]

So that's how it ends. No more agency. **** moves to California and drinks himself to death.

 

[badmojo1006]

Oh-Uh, Mcann pulled the plug

 

[badmojo1006]

Oh I thought Pete was going to kiss Peggy

 

[badmojo1006]

So, who will punch Harry Hamlin in the face?

 

[Raider Nation]

So that's how it ends. No more agency. **** moves to California and drinks himself to death.

 

[Capella]

That was a great scene but why would they ever send Roger and Pete in there to talk to Ken. Don would've flipped him.

 

[badmojo1006]

Another sucker punch from the Campbells

 

[Christo]

Scottish clan grudges?????????

 

[Raider Nation]

Can you imagine a scenario in which Pete Campbell punches you and then you don't punch him back kill him?

 

[badmojo1006]

Whispers "Coca-Cola"

 

[badmojo1006]

Where is Harry Hamlin?