TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[greenback44]

I was really hoping Joan would lawyer up and file the EEOC complaint. Or, hire her developer boyfriend's hitman. Joan was a well written character - assertive, strong, but also vulnerable too. I would've rather seen her go out fighting, but Mad Men isn't about giving you what you want. It's about giving you Don's 430th soul-searching, aimless voyage to California.

She would have been the Curt Flood of advertising. Maybe somebody names a law after her after she's dead, but she doesn't get her money. Now getting somebody from "waste management" to pay a visit to the M-E class would've been interesting.

I'll wager Joan shows up in the finale, but I have no idea in what capacity.

The waitress thing is great. Her ex-husband feels the way about her that probably everyone in Don's personal life feels about him--he leaves them worse off for having had him in their life. They're a match made in heaven.

Or made in the other place. The way they staged Don's driving scenes, repeatedly showing a car behind him, I can't be the only one who thought the waitress was following him from New York to Racine.


Also, I've met a few people like Jim Hobart, although not quite as evil. They're obsessed with control, to the point where they'd get aroused by the "I'm Don Draper with McCann Erickson" type of stuff. They're just vile people, so much so that it really struck a nerve when the Cubs did their control act with Kris Bryant.

[go birds]

LMOE finished strong and im actually looking forward to next season. Had quite an interesting ending.

I also saw an interesting theory regarding the show....everything is just a figment of phil's imagination

[Jocephus]

what is this show, newhart?

[MrSaigon]

LMOE got a lot better once Phil Miller showed up. Will Forte was on the Sklar's podcast last week, and made me feel--with additional experience running a show, and more security--that Season 2 will be stronger.

[ghostrunner]

I'm more disappointed in Joan settling for the d-bag geezer guy than settling with McCann. is Joan done for the series now?

enjoyed the episode last night.

Bruce Greenwood is a good looking man.

LMOE finished strong and im actually looking forward to next season. Had quite an interesting ending.

I also saw an interesting theory regarding the show....everything is just a figment of phil's imagination

This seems to be theorized about a lot of shows. St. Elsewhere turned out to be all in the head of an autistic kid. I've mentioned here before, but there's actually a whole website out there that details all the tv shows that take place in this kid's imagination, based on a bunch of crossover episodes that started with St. Elsewhere. All the Law and Order shows, Homicide, Cheers, X-Files, and hundred or so more. Some of it is direct connections like Munch from Homicide showing up on Law and Order and X-Files, others are what amount to homages like companies from one show being used on another.

https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com ... -lives-on/

Here's the grid that shows the connections

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B28oPRY ... lqQnM/edit

[Vidor]

I've never liked fan theories that make up things not shown on the screen. "The Last Man on Earth" is not in Phil Miller's head until they tell us it's in his head.

[Vidor]

This fellow

http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/si ... ypothesis/

makes a pretty interesting counterargument to the Tommy Westphall Hypothesis.

[go birds]

I'm more disappointed in Joan settling for the d-bag geezer guy than settling with McCann. is Joan done for the series now?

enjoyed the episode last night.

Bruce Greenwood is a good looking man.

LMOE finished strong and im actually looking forward to next season. Had quite an interesting ending.

I also saw an interesting theory regarding the show....everything is just a figment of phil's imagination

This seems to be theorized about a lot of shows. St. Elsewhere turned out to be all in the head of an autistic kid. I've mentioned here before, but there's actually a whole website out there that details all the tv shows that take place in this kid's imagination, based on a bunch of crossover episodes that started with St. Elsewhere. All the Law and Order shows, Homicide, Cheers, X-Files, and hundred or so more. Some of it is direct connections like Munch from Homicide showing up on Law and Order and X-Files, others are what amount to homages like companies from one show being used on another.

https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com ... -lives-on/

Here's the grid that shows the connections

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B28oPRY ... lqQnM/edit

that is bananas.

i think the whole the dream sequence thing is a huge cop-out and a really [expletive] way to end any show's run, but the title of the show IS Last Man On Earth, so who knows. I feel like it would make sense.

But yea, i hope that's not where this is going.

Edited to add: tho i wouldn't be surprised to find out everything after phil passed out on the billboard to be all in his head.

[ghostrunner]

This fellow

http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/si ... ypothesis/

makes a pretty interesting counterargument to the Tommy Westphall Hypothesis.

The big flaw there is that the hypothesis is a lot more fun.

[go birds]

Louie was especially dark last night.

I lost it when he draped the blanket over the crying mom