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Am I the only one who didn’t get this reference? I’d heard that Matt wanted the Draper residence to have a red door; that was important to him. So is this why?
I just can’t wait to see how the assassination is dealt with. It’s one of the biggest mysteries in television history, but it’s a true fourth wall mystery.
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#48 Suzanne — good explanation of red church doors and what they symbolize, thanks.
Re Don and first-born son, etc., MM has been parallelling the Kennedy story all season, and Basketcases have been picking up clues — the four chairs and the AquaNet commercial, Joan's blood-stained dress, Don at the dais making his speech while Betty looks on in a same set-up as the speech JFK gave in Fort Worth before the assassination, etc.
Weiner has said he doesn't want to deal with the assassination directly. He gives us all kinds of whiffs of that moment, though, so I was just wondering out loud about Roberta's question about what we might make of that red door, and tying that first-born son, passover idea to the JFK assassination and how Don has been a stand-in (at least in Basketcases' minds) for JFK and the coming assassination.
Something convoluted like that. Maybe it's day-after-Halloween sugar plunge. :>
Ok, I finally wrote my Ibsen post on Mad Men. I'm ready for my peer review now, no pun intended.
Mad Men: Three Ibsen Plays
#51 Good Sally. Totally agree. Lots of hints this entire season as to what is coming: JFK's assassination. However, based on Matt Weiner's statements, I am not expecting a head on episode about the MM characters' reactions to JFK's assassination. But something, more subtle. I also love "the thinking out loud" component of this blog. I've never been a blogger before this site, which I think is fabulous b/c of all the intelligent, insightful and "thinking out loud" remarks. My "Elizabeth Arden" comment was exactly that – a thinking out loud remark. As much of a stretch as some of our thinking out loud comments might be- it makes this whole blogging experience for me, which most of the time is simply reading other people's blogs, truly fun. It is a credit to the Lipp Sisters & this fabulous (and in my opinion the best I have ever seen on TV) show that we all come here & try to pick apart Matt Weiner & his writers' intentions. Bravo Lipp Sisters, Bravo Basketcases & bravo Matt Weiner & team Mad Men!
well, lom, I think that geekgasm (lol) indicates that live blogging not-mad men without an "open thread" just for the purpose of "tangential to a particular topic"might not be the best idea.
we all live and learn.
the comment on the Don Draper thread was excellent, tho.
you gave up the musical game.
I was alone in the digital wilderness, I had to amuse myself as a self-actualized androgynous cyber-identity.
Virtual selves have needs too.
oh riverdaughter, I'm perusing the dissertation via the zip drive now.
yes, I got sidetracked and couldn't really stick with flesh-eating zombies. and I now have to get sidetracked again, or, rather, attend to my real existence.
in some ways, it will be a good thing when this season is over because I have a lot of work to catch up on.
I wanted to amend my #41 post (not that it matters!) so it has the proper names/attibution:
"When President Kennedy was killed, my friend Mary McGrory said to Pat Moynihan, "We'll never laugh again."
And Moynihan, who later became a U.S. senator, replied, "Mary, we'll laugh again, but we'll never be young again." "
from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename…
Sorry if I missed it – but a red door for homeowners means the house has been paid for. http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/07/red_door_a_…
The house in American Beauty has a red door, too.