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Live Blogging Mad Men: “And you, sir, are no John Galt”

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

Who is Don Draper, besides being Dick Whitman?
On the one hand he is a self-made man who has ably demonstrated GaltÃÂ¢Ã¢âÂ¬Ã¢âÂ¢s creed: ÃÂ¢Ã¢âÂ¬ÃâI swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never liv ... Continue reading »

35 comments

Tom Watson
1 year ago

Starting off with Robert Morse is never a bad move in this show...

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

I like how the kids wait til Dad's gone to play. :)

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steverino
1 year ago

What are the odds they put a twist on it and Nixon wins?

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

The Sterling Cooper crowd reminds me of the Kerry-Edwards bunch early on election night three years ago...

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steverino
1 year ago

He DOES look like Orson Welles

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M.A. Peel
1 year ago

Signs of real life in this episode--it's nice

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

All he cares about is the glasses?!

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M.A. Peel
1 year ago

there hasn't been a commerical yet

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Blue Girl
1 year ago

Yeah, there are hardly any commercials in this show! Makes running up to read comments hard.

Tom, he was preoccupied with those glasses so he didn't have to look at, ahem, other things.

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

Ah, the myth of the stolen '60 election - which Nixon kept alive over Eisenhower's objections.

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steverino
1 year ago

Well, so much for my alternate universe-Nixon wins '60 election scenario...was thinking this might be alternate universe where the life forms - while looking human - are really unemoting androids.

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

I don't think DeNiro put on weight that quick for his Raging Bull role.

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Blue Girl
1 year ago

She was *too much* coming in with that coat and hat on.

I was glad though that she's gonna report them for the three bucks!

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

I really hope that Don doesn't fall for Pete's blackmail. He's such a little twerp.

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Blue Girl
1 year ago

Why am I all initial capped all of a sudden?

It's so formal.

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

Secrets can only hurt you if you keep them in the dark.

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Blue Girl
1 year ago

HeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s such a little twerp.

Say it, sister. He is the twerpiest of twerps.

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

Where's Hawkeye and Trapper?

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steverino
1 year ago

Hey - it's Hawkeye!

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steverino
1 year ago

Bite me, Tom.

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steverino
1 year ago

What a wimpy jerk. Sheesh.

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

Amen, Steverino. Don needs to grow a pair.

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

Man he really is a whore-child!

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steverino
1 year ago

Ah, Tom, but aren't we all? And isn't that the point of this subtle masterpiece of tv?

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

Well, Draper is a Randian paragon in one aspect - his pure selfishness.

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

HA!!! "And what a deep lack of character you have."

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Claire Helene
1 year ago

Good call Tom.

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steverino
1 year ago

Indeed. Who cares?

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Tom Watson
1 year ago

I've heard that line before

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M.A. Peel
1 year ago

Well quite a reveal.

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James S.
1 year ago

I knew that Don wouldn't fold under pressure. He is a classic American. Jay Gatsby the ubermensch.

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Karen
1 year ago

What I can't understand is why Don thought Cooper would even care. Wouldn't an Onjectivist only care about the man in front of him, rather than his past? I was praying that Don would call Pete's bluff, which Cooper handled exactly the way I assumed he would. Pete really is an idiot. Don had no reason to look so nervous.

Kudos to Rachel, by the way. Nice to see a woman with balls on this show. Even more than Joan.

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cgeye
1 year ago

"One never knows how loyalty is born."

HUH?

What the?

IDGI.

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Steve Paradis
1 year ago

Ã¢â‚¬Å“One never knows how loyalty is born.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Pete finds out how the Alpha dog alphas. Even if he doesn't, it's another great cryptic line for Cooper. I swear they cast the show around Robert Morse.
Saddest orgy ever. I wanted so to see Edith Prickley Jr. get lucky: "I believe in MIRACLES . . . "
And WEHT Kristen Schaal? Did she quit to follow the Conchords full time?

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cgeye
1 year ago

"Galt is a bug, from the wrong side of the tracks. You don't want to be Galt."

How did I miss this? It's what Paul said when Sal complained about playing the lead.

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