TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[33anda3rd]

There's a fun Draper quote from the first episode: "You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one." And now he's a guy for whom it seems all there is is tomorrow.

[greenback44]

If Don Draper turns out to be D.B. Cooper--well, that would just be the stupidest ending ever.

It doesn't really fit the themes of Mad Men, themes that Weiner has been hitting for eight years now. There are plenty of theories like this that make decent fan fic, but really are too cute for the main course. I'll be disappointed if Draper/Whitman is presented as anything more than the third fan who chased Hank Aaron around the bases.

I'm worried that they'll fast forward thirty or forty years and put Jon Hamm in some hideously over-done makeup. That doesn't fit the look of Mad Men, so it won't feel right, but Weiner might see such an outcome as consistent with the storytelling.

[ghostrunner]

Yep. Can't help but feel like a DB Cooper ending makes a weird joke of what came before. The worst thing about the Sopranos ending is how discussed it is in contrast to the rest of the series. Seems like the same would go for that. It feels absurd even entertaining the thought. A time jump could work, but I hope it just leaves off with the characters still alive doing what they've been doing, more or less. This isn't the kind of show I'd want or expect to go out with a bang.

[Vidor]

If he were literally Cooper I might have to do violence to my TV.

Don't much care for a time skip finale with Old Don, either.

[ghostrunner]

Not sure it needs it's own thread, but if you're a fan of The Americans, this guy seems about as close to that as it gets. At least more so than that group they found a few years ago.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-kgb- ... 0-minutes/

[Vidor]

Well, I watched that Mad Men episode, and I think it's a stretch to imagine that Max Gail ate those dudes. There was a mention of having them dig their graves. Seemed like the implication was that they shot them rather than take them prisoner b/c they had no food for them.

BTW, he did mention the Hurtgen Forest, right? Because while it was great to see Wojo from Barney Miller, Max Gail was too old for that role. The actor IRL is 72, which for an episode set in 1970 would correspond to a veteran of WWI, not WWII.

[ghostrunner]

I think WW2 had a pretty wide range of ages in the draft, never mind career army guys. Tom Hanks' schoolteacher in Saving Private Ryan comes to mind.

[JL21]

All viewers of Mad Men have hated Pete Campbell from the jump because he's such a horrible person. And we've all wanted something bad to happen to him. But even I didn't envision something as terrible as having him move to Kansas.

[Vidor]

So the next season of "American Idol" will be its last. Good riddance. My mother is visiting, which means "American Idol" is on in my house. Never fails to astonish me how crappy the singers are.

[Jocephus]

uh oh, harry shearer may be leaving the simpsons