So this episode didn’t have any (as they’ve seemingly been doing in my opinion) angels for Don, but there were words of wisdom yet again in angel form for Don at the end like twice with Diana before. The realtor says, “Now we have to find a place for you”. Travelling is finding a place.
The theme of suitcases and travel made it’s mark again tonight, minus the visual of the suitcase this time. Sally is travelling, Joan travels, her new man travels, Glenn is about to travel, Peggy speaks of travelling upward, Don’s assignment is about where forward is the agency travelling.
Don travels backward in that the young one takes a shine to him, yet the grown adult realtor even seeing him in bed in almost all his glory has no interest that way in him, not even a slight smile. She even turns away. That sex appeal aspect of him isn’t travelling forward here tonight, only backward.
Betty travels backward as she usually does in that she talks with Sally about her trip years ago, she travels back of sorts in another encounter with Glenn. She had at times in earlier seasons travelled back in time in talking about being an anthropology major and her time in Italy and her youth etc. She’s even going “back” to school. Betty isn’t travelling forward here either.
So you bring in the youth of Sally and Glenn, travelling forward while both Don and Betty generally travel backward in the face of forward travel; be it for good or bad.
Joan travels back to her days of being the belle of the ball and being courted but is forward single new modern woman etc. She’s travelling backward and forward at the same time. Harry Crane was always like that too, stuck between two social periods, half old school half new school. Joan is kinda like that here.
Don is asked to pitch about travelling and the future. Don is looking at literature that says ’70. And Peggy pitched to Don about her own future.
So you have just a hint, not much just a hint, of the idea of the Kodak carousel pitch about travelling backwards and forwards here. Was tonight laying groundwork? Kinda like how a plane has it’s engines start and warm up and the sound of them starts building and you have to buckle up knowing you’re about to move. Is that literarily what went on tonight, the end about to take off, (yes pun intended) in a variety of possibilities?
We all live on past memories, photographs, storytelling and re-live movies from the film in our heads from our best times. Conversely those who don’t do so live on the idea of a future, an unknown, dreams, hope, want etc. Which of those truly is living though? Think about that. Is relying on a future safe because it’s unknown and therefore there’s no bad, or is living and staying in the past safe because it’s real and concrete you can safely stand on?
What’s funny is that what aired right before tonight’s episode was Shawshank Redemption: “Get busy living, or get busy dying”
Sally’s line at the end regarding Don and Betty: Does going somewhere and coming back someone else make you therefor cause and affect a better person? Why is the initial response always.. yes? How many times does going off and travelling for the sake of being someone new…actually work? Honestly, rarely. Doesn’t, in reality, with a greater percentage a person actually in reality end up the opposite? One of those idea vs real life lessons.
Love how the realtor treats Don the way he usually treats his own clients.
When Don was talking to Peggy about the future, her future etc, didn’t it look like she was yet again being used for her unintentional ideas bc Don had to make a presentation on the idea of future; like she was used in basket of kisses? True she profited eventually from basket of kisses but still usery was the initial motive toward her. It felt like that here. We all know there’s a spot in his heart if he has one for her, but in that moment, he regressed back to using her because he could.
Don telling the young kid, “you have to make this right yourself”. Irony.
Theme of the 60s, youth blaming old. In the office, guy foul mouthing-blaming Don as a crutch for his own lack of accountability in his own failure. Nahh that’s not still going on today is it? Anyway. Sally arguing beyond the usual adolescence and arguing against old is her own motivation. Is she travelling forward, or is she just simply ungrateful? Lil bit of both I presume?
I also, regarding the interaction between Don and the realtor, found it interesting in that it was so symbolic that she didn’t want him around. He’s the MAN though… right? He shows up women swoon and men shake his hand. But she (and I thought it was great character development that she was probably roughly the same age/peer group) keeps kicking him out of his own life. Usually Don is who you bring around to seal the deal. Now Don, by his own attractive female peer, is being kicked out of a deal. He’s the kind of guy that should be living temporarily in a hotel but he keeps sleeping there, and no he has no yearn for Megan, but he keeps coming back there. Yet, here, things move on without Don even though he’s trying to keep coming back and however pushed out for his own good. Imagine that.
Great film in the shot at the end with Joan and her man, standing both in profile and the windows in the background draw a hard line between them.
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Travel: Get busy living or get busy dying.
So this episode didn’t have any (as they’ve seemingly been doing in my opinion) angels for Don, but there were words of wisdom yet again in angel form for Don at the end like twice with Diana before. The realtor says, “Now we have to find a place for you”. Travelling is finding a place.
The theme of suitcases and travel made it’s mark again tonight, minus the visual of the suitcase this time. Sally is travelling, Joan travels, her new man travels, Glenn is about to travel, Peggy speaks of travelling upward, Don’s assignment is about where forward is the agency travelling.
Don travels backward in that the young one takes a shine to him, yet the grown adult realtor even seeing him in bed in almost all his glory has no interest that way in him, not even a slight smile. She even turns away. That sex appeal aspect of him isn’t travelling forward here tonight, only backward.
Betty travels backward as she usually does in that she talks with Sally about her trip years ago, she travels back of sorts in another encounter with Glenn. She had at times in earlier seasons travelled back in time in talking about being an anthropology major and her time in Italy and her youth etc. She’s even going “back” to school. Betty isn’t travelling forward here either.
So you bring in the youth of Sally and Glenn, travelling forward while both Don and Betty generally travel backward in the face of forward travel; be it for good or bad.
Joan travels back to her days of being the belle of the ball and being courted but is forward single new modern woman etc. She’s travelling backward and forward at the same time. Harry Crane was always like that too, stuck between two social periods, half old school half new school. Joan is kinda like that here.
Don is asked to pitch about travelling and the future. Don is looking at literature that says ’70. And Peggy pitched to Don about her own future.
So you have just a hint, not much just a hint, of the idea of the Kodak carousel pitch about travelling backwards and forwards here. Was tonight laying groundwork? Kinda like how a plane has it’s engines start and warm up and the sound of them starts building and you have to buckle up knowing you’re about to move. Is that literarily what went on tonight, the end about to take off, (yes pun intended) in a variety of possibilities?
We all live on past memories, photographs, storytelling and re-live movies from the film in our heads from our best times. Conversely those who don’t do so live on the idea of a future, an unknown, dreams, hope, want etc. Which of those truly is living though? Think about that. Is relying on a future safe because it’s unknown and therefore there’s no bad, or is living and staying in the past safe because it’s real and concrete you can safely stand on?
What’s funny is that what aired right before tonight’s episode was Shawshank Redemption: “Get busy living, or get busy dying”
Random points this episode
Sally’s line at the end regarding Don and Betty:
Does going somewhere and coming back someone else make you therefor cause and affect a better person? Why is the initial response always.. yes? How many times does going off and travelling for the sake of being someone new…actually work? Honestly, rarely. Doesn’t, in reality, with a greater percentage a person actually in reality end up the opposite? One of those idea vs real life lessons.
Love how the realtor treats Don the way he usually treats his own clients.
When Don was talking to Peggy about the future, her future etc, didn’t it look like she was yet again being used for her unintentional ideas bc Don had to make a presentation on the idea of future; like she was used in basket of kisses? True she profited eventually from basket of kisses but still usery was the initial motive toward her. It felt like that here. We all know there’s a spot in his heart if he has one for her, but in that moment, he regressed back to using her because he could.
Don telling the young kid, “you have to make this right yourself”. Irony.
Theme of the 60s, youth blaming old. In the office, guy foul mouthing-blaming Don as a crutch for his own lack of accountability in his own failure. Nahh that’s not still going on today is it? Anyway. Sally arguing beyond the usual adolescence and arguing against old is her own motivation. Is she travelling forward, or is she just simply ungrateful? Lil bit of both I presume?
I also, regarding the interaction between Don and the realtor, found it interesting in that it was so symbolic that she didn’t want him around. He’s the MAN though… right? He shows up women swoon and men shake his hand. But she (and I thought it was great character development that she was probably roughly the same age/peer group) keeps kicking him out of his own life. Usually Don is who you bring around to seal the deal. Now Don, by his own attractive female peer, is being kicked out of a deal. He’s the kind of guy that should be living temporarily in a hotel but he keeps sleeping there, and no he has no yearn for Megan, but he keeps coming back there. Yet, here, things move on without Don even though he’s trying to keep coming back and however pushed out for his own good. Imagine that.
Great film in the shot at the end with Joan and her man, standing both in profile and the windows in the background draw a hard line between them.
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