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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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jtb

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maharg said:
Yep, I do expect Mad Men to skip the moon landing. And Woodstock.

But then I subscribe to the idea that Mad Men is about the end of the (or a) world, and those two events are more hopeful than apocalyptic.

Also I think reducing Mad Men to being nothing more than a 60s travelogue is kind of cruel. Mad Men doesn't *have* to include any particular event because it's actually a pretty damn good story regardless of when it was set.
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agreed. the way the show handled RFK's assassination was excellent and refreshing precisely because it wasn't the show being super self-conscious about the fact that, yes, a lot of shit went down in the 60s and feeling obligated to write around these big milestones.
 
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maharg said:
Yep, I do expect Mad Men to skip the moon landing. And Woodstock.

But then I subscribe to the idea that Mad Men is about the end of the (or a) world, and those two events are more hopeful than apocalyptic.

Also I think reducing Mad Men to being nothing more than a 60s travelogue is kind of cruel. Mad Men doesn't *have* to include any particular event because it's actually a pretty damn good story regardless of when it was set.
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Oh sure, I didn't mean for there to be an entire episode devoted to moon landing, but the setting is an incredibly important part of the show. I liked how they handled RFK's assassination too, but I can't fathom them glossing over moon landing, it's such a monumental event that I don't think they would skip it.
 
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CassSept said:
Oh sure, I didn't mean for there to be an entire episode devoted to moon landing, but the setting is an incredibly important part of the show. I liked how they handled RFK's assassination too, but I can't fathom them glossing over moon landing, it's such a monumental event that I don't think they would skip it.
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Its consequences can be felt without an episode being set during it.
 
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Cornballer

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- NY Mag: Watch a Supercut of Pete Campbell, Mad Men Ranter Extraordinaire
Mad Men's Pete Campbell has always been a great ranter: haughty, aggrieved apoplexy is the longest arrow in his quiver. But this season, faced with obstructions from Don, his mother, and Bob Benson, he really turned the dials up to eleven. Foiled IPO? He'll get so heated he falls down the stairs, literally stumbling over his livid words. Mom disappeared from a cruise ship? He'll ream out the "Panamanian criminals" and the "Spanish fly" that might've had any hand in it. Secretary not quite getting office politics? He'll make sure she feels like she's worth less than the notepad on which she scribbled his missed phone calls. (Though it is a sign of his patrician aspirations that he stops short of actually foaming at the mouth.) Watch this supercut of Pete Campbell's epic, head-shaking, face-reddening season-six rants. It'll make you want to suck on an empathetic lozenge for Vincent Kartheiser.
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jtb

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Shortt Sirket said:
Call me crazy, but I don't think it is too far-fetched. He lays out some great clues that fit his theory and I think it would be quite a stunner to end the show on.
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the reason the theory doesn't seem as far fetched as it should is because we know next to nothing about DB Cooper. he's a blank slate, so it's always going to be easy to mold any character into a theory like that.
 
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xenist said:
What.
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Hello?
 
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Wool

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Just watched the finale. Didn't enjoy it as much as episode 12 but it was still good.

-I've never liked Peggy, Bob, or Ted. All of them are "moving up". God Dammit.

-The ending was great. Glad to see all of the flashbacks finally surfaced in the current Don's life.

-That Hershey meeting made me cringe so hard.

-I really like Pete's secretary.



Predictions about next season? Don starts being way too honest about his past, nobody accepts him for it. Peggy gets a studly young male secretary; dates him. Bert Cooper dies. Roger retires. Pete becomes the new Duck.
 
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That theory is a lot of fun, but is just a notch less crazy than time-travelling Bob Benson. jtb is right, the only reason it fits is because DB Cooper case is for all intents and purposes a blank.
 
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jtb

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the DB Cooper thing would be an absolutely terrible way to end the series but luckily it's obvious that the writers aren't going to pull a stunt like that anyways
 
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Vyer

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Funny theory.

It must suck to be ending a successful show and have a million different Internet theories out there that risk intersecting what you come up with.
 
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Salvor.Hardin

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So I finally caught the finale and I think it might be as good as the season 3 finale for me. It did a great job at tying up some of the ongoing themes in the season and the final scene was really wonderful. For a second, Weiner transported me into Sally's mind as she stared at the house and everything just clicked.

Vyer said:
Funny theory.

It must suck to be ending a successful show and have a million different Internet theories out there that risk intersecting what you come up with.
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Unless you're Lindelof and no one is capable of coming up with a final season as terrible as you can.
 
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Wool

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Do you think season 7 is going to start with Don's return to the agency, or is it going to take place during his "break"?
 
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maharg

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Salvor.Hardin said:
So I finally caught the finale and I think it might be as good as the season 3 finale for me. It did a great job at tying up some of the ongoing themes in the season and the final scene was really wonderful. For a second, Weiner transported me into Sally's mind as she stared at the house and everything just clicked.



Unless you're Lindelof and no one is capable of coming up with a final season as terrible as you can.
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Ronald D. Moore would like a word with you.
 
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Wool said:
Do you think season 7 is going to start with Don's return to the agency, or is it going to take place during his "break"?
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I think it'll explore Don's character away from the firm. Or at least I hope it does. Seems like an interesting turn for the show. I love love all of the different dynamics of the office that the show has explored, but Don without the firm is always interesting to me (like when he went out to California to see Anna in one of the earlier seasons).
 
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Wool

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Salvor.Hardin said:
No man. No. BSG's 4th season has its issues but it was still a far better series end than Lost's 6th season. Cavill's monologue alone was better than everything Lost had to offer in the end.
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I don't want to take this too far off topic, but Freaks and Geeks has the worst ending of all time.


Edit: Caveat - I haven't watched Lost or Battlestar Gallatica.
 
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maharg

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Salvor.Hardin said:
No man. No. BSG's 4th season has its issues but it was still a far better series end than Lost's 6th season. Cavill's monologue alone was better than everything Lost had to offer in the end.
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Cavill's
suicide was the worst betrayal of a fundamental character trait I've ever seen on television
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Dany M said:
Series finale is the moon landing as Don finally falls to his death ala the opening of the show.
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No way is the show ending with Don's suicide after this last season's finale. Anyways, the moon landing being at the end of the show would make next season ridiculously compressed.
 
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Mackenzie 92

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finally got around to watching the finale. aside from the meth episode and the final 2 episodes, I thought it was the worst season by far. hope it rebounds next year.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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maharg said:
Cavill's
suicide was the worst betrayal of a fundamental character trait I've ever seen on television
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No way is the show ending with Don's suicide after this last season's finale. Anyways, the moon landing being at the end of the show would make next season ridiculously compressed.
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What? No it isn't. Cavil is a spoiled, petulant, tantrum-throwing little shit. Doing what he did made perfect sense. What made it hilarious was HOW he did it.

Anyway: Totally wouldn't be surprised if Mad Men ends before the 70s ever happen. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends the day of the moon landing, honestly.
 
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BobbyRoberts said:
What? No it isn't. Cavil is a spoiled, petulant, tantrum-throwing little shit. Doing what he did made perfect sense. What made it hilarious was HOW he did it.
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He was also
obsessed with immortality.

Anyways, this isn't the thread for this and I'd honestly rather eat my own leg off than even think about the dog shit that was the BSG finale.
 
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Salsa

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I love how everyone has these super intense and insane theories with every turn and the show always has answers that are way more grounded. Yet the crazy theories get crazier and crazier

people love their pointless tricks and twists apparently, show is better than that, stop trying for it to be Lost or something
 
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SalsaShark said:
I love how everyone has these super intense and insane theories with every turn and the show always has answers that are way more grounded. Yet the crazy theories get crazier and crazier

people love their pointless tricks and twists apparently, show is better than that, stop trying for it to be Lost or something
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To be fair, there was something behind the Bob Benson veil and it was pretty big time (although not as epic as being Peggy's time traveling son lol).

Yeah people didn't guess exactly what it was, but people called out that there was something about Bob that wasn't adding up and they were right.
 
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Salsa

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don't get me wrong I enjoy reading them, I just also appreciate that the show never goes on a direction similar to any of the crazy twist theories
 
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ari said:
That goes to Bryan cranston losing last year.
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it's stuff like that which makes the emmys lose credibility. You know the only reason he didn't win is because he already won 3 times and they wanted to give it to the newcomer, but Cranston was never more deserving that time and it's the one time he didn't win lol.
 
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jtb

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homeland s1 is top-tier television, and easily holds its own (if not surpasses) s5 of Mad Men imo.

and which cranston performance got nominated last year? was it for s4 or 5.1? I forget.
 
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jtb

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Frost_Ace said:
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ah, makes sense. the weird release schedule + emmy eligibility period throws me off. I love Cranston but since I think crawl space is hilariously overrated and I actually like(d) Homeland before it went off the rails... yay Damian Lewis.
 
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jtb said:
ah, makes sense. the weird release schedule + emmy eligibility period throws me off. I love Cranston but since I think crawl space is hilariously overrated and I actually like(d) Homeland before it went off the rails... yay Damian Lewis.
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If you talk about the episode itself I agree but the actual crawl space scene is just amazing in every aspect.
 
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