Feb 212008
Episode 5.
5G.
5 thousand dollars.
In addition, here’s a conversation from 5G about Ken getting his story published:
Roger: “I guarantee it”in the bottom drawer of every desk in this place is the first ten pages of a novel.”
Don: “Five.”
Everyone laughs. Then Peggy comes in with the note. Right after Don said “five.”
Jesus Christ, this show is amazing.
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I know it's a stretch, but it comes right after the '5-G' apartment number is shown (though there's a commercial break in between).
Ken Cosgrove is telling five girls about his short story in the break room.
Cool.
Watched this ep again last night … funny how Pete's story, the little we're told of it, concerns a bear's thoughts and a hunter – or more precisely, what the hunter imagines the bear to be thinking.
Combined with the fantasy he reveals to Peggy about the hunter and the woman cooking him dinner, it's an interesting reveal, no?
Oh, BTW, for the first time I actually paid close attention to the performance of Jay Paulson, who plays Adam.
Whoa – must say for a brief role he really gets into it as the yearning, lost Adam. Knowing how he would end up the season, I found it tremendously poignant and well done. You can really see his adulation of Dick, and how disillusioned he was with Dick's reaction to him.
It was evident that Adam couldn't conceive why Dick, even upon changing identities, would have to cut out his past so completely and harshly.
You're right about the fantasy, Dan, it sounds like the same thing.
Yeah I was really moved by his performance as well this round.
What a tragedy. All Don sees in Adam is a threat to his secret, to his life. That is all he reacts to.
And in Don's defense, Adam is not exactly a force of subtlety or discretion. I found myself trying to get him to keep his voice down.
Remember, we never find out if Pete actually pays the $40 fee and gets it published. His dismissal of Trudy would lead us to believe he lets it go. Naturally, the purpose of the plot here was to reveal something about Pete & Trudy's relationship, and how he places his own pride miles ahead of his wife or her dignity.
I don't know if they're the same exact story – but just the basic elements of the hunter and an animal seem to be running through Pete's arrested thought process.
Re, the story… it must somehow be two different things in his mind, (though certainly from the same calling) or else he would have alluded to the published story. This fantasy came from the pure source; his story, I’m guessing, has been storified and stylized to the point where he doesn’t see it as this at all.
Somewhere I saw a calendar with a house on a lake… maybe Peggy had it… that I felt related. I can’t remember which episode. or like, anything. But I’ll figure it out.
Washn't the calendar on the gynecologist's wall in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes? That's where Peggy sort of "went" while being examined.
YES.
Thank you.
It struck me that maybe it was already her happy place.