Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent..."nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.
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Mad Men - Season 7, Part 2 - The End of an Era - AMC Sundays
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Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent..."nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.
sooperkool
Member
There is no wound yet
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
"I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean of me, huh!"
CharminUltra
Member
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Omg dons life cereal pitch
I just can't believe someone who clearly doesn't like a TV show keeps posting it its community thread....
Watching the old tv spots makes me sad.
crooked spin
Member
Hopefully I'm not the millionth person asking this but how soon does the new ep go up on iTunes (US version if it makes a difference)?
Not gonna watch live and I'm really worried about getting spoiled tomorrow morning.
Not gonna watch live and I'm really worried about getting spoiled tomorrow morning.
sooperkool
Member
I love mad Men enough to know and appreciate its flaws. My life is far too full to be crying over it or following other people around about it.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I'm willing to bet not a single person in this thread actually literally cried over the show ending...
BomberMouse
Member
Crazy speculation
time.
The episode starts with Jim Hobart walking into Roger's office with two men, he gives a monologue about how he bought a rotten apple and he needs to remove it before it rots the rest of them. We see Roger hitting the ground after falling from his window. Peggy gets demoted to a secretary.
Joan gets assaulted at her home and a man tries to shot her, her new boyfriends ends up saving her. Pete's new Job is a ruse and he planned it with help from Duck, Jim just wanted Pete out of the company. He puts Pete and Ted on a private jet with the intention of crashing it but Ted manages to land the plane.
We see Jim at a sauna, a men tells him that they found Don's car. It crashed and they can't recognize the body but it's his car. A men walks into the sauna, it's a henchman hired by Joan's boyfriend and shoots Jim.
We see Don talking with someone over the phone, he is in Atlanta now. Just like in the war, he put his superior/friends in danger. He changes his name one more time and starts working as a handyman on the coke factory.
fanfic
The episode starts with Jim Hobart walking into Roger's office with two men, he gives a monologue about how he bought a rotten apple and he needs to remove it before it rots the rest of them. We see Roger hitting the ground after falling from his window. Peggy gets demoted to a secretary.
Joan gets assaulted at her home and a man tries to shot her, her new boyfriends ends up saving her. Pete's new Job is a ruse and he planned it with help from Duck, Jim just wanted Pete out of the company. He puts Pete and Ted on a private jet with the intention of crashing it but Ted manages to land the plane.
We see Jim at a sauna, a men tells him that they found Don's car. It crashed and they can't recognize the body but it's his car. A men walks into the sauna, it's a henchman hired by Joan's boyfriend and shoots Jim.
We see Don talking with someone over the phone, he is in Atlanta now. Just like in the war, he put his superior/friends in danger. He changes his name one more time and starts working as a handyman on the coke factory.
You sound pretty petty and judgmental. People can feel a different way than you and not be pathetic.
Maybe he is referring to when I posted that the last episode made me cry(that ending with the letter...). I never said the show ending made me cry though, lol.
sooperkool
Member
if I had aid it was bad or negative then maybe iou have a point. Saying you don't understand something is the first step to penning conversation about it. Had I read somethinglike"mad men is ending and it always resonated with me and connected with me on s certain level and now it's ending and I was sad" well that's a conversion. Instead I read some hyperbole and did that I didn't understand it.
stop being so quick to be outraged that my opinion is different and that I'm willingly to discuss it.
sooperkool
Member
Circle Jerk
Member
Its not that you have a different opinion, its that youre being a dick about it.
sooperkool
Member
Ok. Enlighten me on how to say. I don't understand how yall are doing x because of y?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
You don't, basically.
If what you're going to be criticizing people for is having an emotional reaction to a thing they like, then usually the best choices are either a) try to shift the discussion back to the show itself, and aspects of the show that can be discussed somewhat objectively or b) just don't say anything.
"I can't believe people are crying over this show" can basically only go one way.
sooperkool
Member
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It could have, yeah, but it didn't. And it was much more likely that it wouldn't, honestly.
Not a single episode of Mad Men ever has made me cry, or even come near it, so far as I can remember. But it shouldn't be all that confusing/mysterious as to why it could (and does) affect others in that way. It's fairly obvious.
The only reason you ask the question is to suggest that the people having that reaction are weird for doing so. And people are going to react to that suggestion negatively.
sooperkool
Member
So we absurd potential duster that would have been perpetuated by everyone else. Great!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I don't know why everyone is avoiding the fact you asserted that your life was fuller for not caring as much about the show.
That ends the discussion as to why people thought you were being a jerk pretty succinctly.
umop_3pisdn
Member
Yeah. People with particularly full lives would probably feel their experiences cheapened looking at it like you do. If you have to overtly state it it's always going to look like bluster or indignation or something.
Dude Abides
Banned
My life is so full I don't watch TV.
Or post on message boards.
Or post on message boards.
lazybones18
Banned
Almost time for Waterloo 
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
"Narrative? Forced perspective? Are you sure Joey did this?"
Ninja Scooter
Member
So we're finally gonna find out what happened to Sal, right?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
He and The Russian opened an alterations specialty company called Dangling Threads.
BertramCooper
Banned
So many feels today.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
One last Mad Man
sooperkool
Member
LOL, I was on my phone and didn't even look at this post. Serves me right...
BertramCooper
Banned
I'm a cord cutter and purchase all of the eps off Google Play.
They're always up by the time I get up in the morning (typically around 5 a.m. EDT). I'd imagine it's up on iTunes by that point as well, if not earlier.
Dexter made me cry with laughter.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
mad man is ending dany hold me
lazybones18
Banned
the best things in life are free ;_;
tearsofash
Member
was on youtube watching watchmojo or whatever, the top 10 lists page, and there were a few Top 10 best Mad Men scenes, and Top Ten most shocking Mad Men scenes. After the last two seasons, I had completely forgotten how much balls, charisma, and wit this show really brought to the table.
Not saying it went downhill or anything, but it's lost that bright-eyed youthy charm. Though, I'd argue that's par for course given it's a fairly accurate period piece that really captures the time-specific moods of that era.
Not saying it went downhill or anything, but it's lost that bright-eyed youthy charm. Though, I'd argue that's par for course given it's a fairly accurate period piece that really captures the time-specific moods of that era.
StriKeVillain
Banned
One of my favorite scenes from the entire series. <3 Bert.
you hate buddy holly
Was talking to my parents about how it would end. I guess that Don is just about to get to California when he calls in and hears about Betty. This brings Don back to New York to actually be a damn parent to his kids. Ends with him being a stay at home dad.
I just thought of this now: He might see Ghost Anne or Ghost Betty and this indicates to him that he needs to stop running away.
I just thought of this now: He might see Ghost Anne or Ghost Betty and this indicates to him that he needs to stop running away.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Payoff?