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Mad Men Season 5 Premiere: March 25, 2012
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Good morning! You must be exhausted after your party. Wish I could have been there. What an episide. Betty fell to the bottom of the barrel didn't she? I loved the chaos at SC when they realized the principals were gone. "We've been robbed!" The finale was upbeat and hopeful – I loved that.
Betty's plane??? Shades of Pete's Dad? "A thing like that…."
Take it as a compliment – so much traffic after the finale! For anyone still having probs, trying clearing your cache and come back.
Betty's plane–Will not happen if writers retain connections with real life events. No domestic airline crash/fatalities in November/December 1963 unless an unrealistic return/connecting flight via Baltimore. However, not to say a deus ex machina auto accident, hotel (Hilton) fire in Reno, etc. Morbid thought- a solution to Don's marital/baby Eugene problem; Don gets Sally/Bobby;one less loose thread re his background,etc.
Alternate universe–while in Reno, Betty makes a side trip ti San pedro, sees Anna and gets a more foregiving picture of Don and returns to reconcile.
Question, one way or the other, does January return in July?
[i]Question, one way or the other, does January return in July?[/i]
I hope she doesn't.
I was an advocator for Don and Betty reconciling for a long time, but after what happened in the last two episodes, I just don't see it anymore.
And without them getting back together, I don't know how January Jones can be considered a main actress instead of Alison Brie.
I really hope we'll still see the children, so we'll get few special appearances by January Jones for sure.
But her still being there as a main character would only make sense if she and Don got back together. And that – after all that happened – would scream "HELLO THIS A TV SHOW. WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE OUR POPULAR ACTORS" to me. I hope this won't happen.
Betty's trip to Reno brings to mind the second act of The Women (the Clare Booth play/movie, not the awful remake). Mary Haynes goes to Reno when her husband Stephen cheats on her with Crystal Allen. While in Reno, she meets a variety of potential divorcees, one of whom is a friend from home. The friend discovers she is pregs, and decides not to go through with her divorce. Mary waffles but before she can talk to Stephen, their decree comes through and he marries Crystal the same day. Their daughter, Little Mary, never takes to Crystal.
So. Will Betty waffle? Will Sally hate Henry? Will Henry adopt baby Gene, who will have no memories of Daddy Don?
Thanks to the Lipp sisters, my fellow Basketcases, the folks from LegendsNYC and the delightful Mr. Gladis for the entertaining party. Thanks to Weiner and company for the amazing season finale.
Is it Summer 2010 yet?!
I also wonder about the actors playing Ken, Paul and Sal.
SCDP won't get Sal back because of Lucky Strike and it would also be very tv-esque to see them hire Ken and Paul.
Maybe we'll get to see the old Sterling Cooper as well? Beefed up with Sal and Duck, that would certainly be interesting.
Well, what do I know, I'm sure Matthew Weiner will find just the perfect stories to tell next season and will surprise us all again.
Whew! Thought *I* did it! Came on at 11PM because I was too jazzed to drift off to sleep…and the site was down…glad it wasn't me…was it?
#5 Brenda, I too thought of The Women. LOVE that movie. Considering I'm an 80's baby I had NO IDEA why the character was going to Reno, but I get it now. Very curious to see how this all gets picked back up in S4. I can't believe S3 is over! It just FLEW by it seems!
Not only could I not go to the party, but I had nowhere to share my ramblings — somebody hold me!
#10 – that was painful, no? I missed the motley crew here.
My thought was "We've been robbed!" And later, "…they didn't even leave a note!" And finally, "Dammit!"
Congratulations on blowing out the internet! I'm kind of grateful I couldn't get on last night–it would have kept me up even later than the second rerun.
#10, I know. This episode was so rich!
I see lawsuits next season. In the early 80's I worked for the Atlanta branch of a large marketing research company. Our branch manager got sick of the "suits" and decided to start his own firm and take everyone with him. There were many flashbacks last night.
It was awful not being able to commune with you all last night. Yet, it was kinda cool, too. Breaking the internet couldn't happen to a nicer pair of gals.
So jealous I missed the party. More pics!
I understand it's easy to get swept up in all the fun, merriment and libations,
But just some advice; when they tell you to tip your server, they don't mean it literally.
There I lay
Laptop in bed
hoping to blog
but the website was dead.
#13:
Oh the horror! I waited and waited in front of the monitor and said "ADM (Ay Dios Mio!)…the internets…we broke her!"
#18–love it!
My wife would KILL me if I brought the laptop to bed w/me…she can barely stand that I disappear to the computer for an hour after the show is done. So imagine the roaring laughter that ensued when I said that we had crashed the site!
I was so worried that somehow the site had vanished – that it had all been one big glorious dream that you all existed and now it was gone! Glad to have woken up to find that it wasn't a dream at all……
Roy Orbison : Shahdaroba Lyrics
Songwriters: Walker, Cindy;
Where the Nile flows
And the moon glows
On the silent sand
Of an ancient land
When a dream dies
And the heart cries
Shahadaroba
Is the word they whisper low
Shahadaroba, Shahadaroba
Means the future
Is much better than the past
Shahadaroba, Shahadaroba
In the future
You will find a love that lasts
So when tears flow
And you don't know
What on earth to do
And your world is blue
When your dream dies
And your heart cries
Shahadaroba
Fate knows what's best for you
Shahadaroba, Shahadaroba
Face the future
And forget about the past
Shahadaroba, Shahadaroba
In the future
You will find a love that lasts
Shahadaroba
Cindy Walker has become known as one of the greatest 'unknown' lyricists in music history, and it is quite appropriate to finish up this phenomenal season of a broadcast story of our generation with this gem of a song.
Congratulations and glad to hear the party was a blast!
Got a riff about Betty I might as well post here €:•) Just been rewatching S2's 'Maidenform' and "The Gold Violin', and it struck me how much the character of Betty has developed. Through the Jimmie Barrett story, and the Veterans' bikini dinner thing, Don treats Betty exactly as a child, and a much less favoured one than Sally at that – and Betty puts up with it. We see Sal's wife Kitty performing the same decorative wife part, then berating Sal for excluding her from his and Ken's rapport (though she doesn't suspect Sal's motives). Betty never openly stands up to Don – when Jimmie Barrett points out what a heel Don is being, Betty is shocked and offended – sick in the Caddy, remember? I wonder if this inhibited victim mentality is what has put some people off Betty – and why Henry treating her as a grown-up was why she so quickly went off Don. When you're rewatching through the long winter months, see if you don't agree that Betty's quietly and slowly been outgrowing Don – which makes the writing and acting even more marvellous. Maybe in S4 she will treat *him* like a naughty child.