Bowie’s Major Tom. One of the best choices of songs for the end. The idea of the tin can.
Was never a Bowie fan but did like his lil stint of his band Tin Machine, had both those albums.
Sterling Coo has always been nothing but a tin machine even as much as they talk about, for example, Bethlehem Steel being the backbone of America. But whatever incarnation of the company, it’s always been tin as opposed to long lasting steel.
The deal falls apart, they’re all splitting apart, the rivets popping out of the Titanic as the funeral continues. The steel of McCann Erickson has swallowed the tin of SC. Joan has continued this season’s idea of travel, her travelling forward only led her to the past. Peggy is not travelling, stuck on the launch pad, Don literally travels in his Caddy, but in this scenario he and it are nothing other than a fake tin can as the husband points out.
Death in space with a tin machine is the topic of Major Tom. Joan is the next character to die from a tin machine that was supposed to rocket her up. She compromises in her death, accepting death. That’s what accepting death is, a compromise that to end the fight and get relief you in exchange give up the fight. Roger/Peggy in the remnants of that desolate dead machine and the funeral organ, almost like the last two at a wake. The set didn’t look like a piece of real estate being emptied as the tenant has moved up and on, it looked like the scene of an accident or tragedy where people died. Philosophizing about life and moving, telling stories of the past like post-funeral and lines like, “how are you going to remember this”. Then a great shot of that dissolving into the…bright white light… of Don’s headlight.
The beginning you had Don look at, what I thought (?) was Anna’s ring Stephanie gave to him before. That’s what you do when someone dies; receive things, keep things.
It felt like a last goodbye to Betty, the way there was a tease of sexual tension but quickly dissolved like the last throes of a relationship in it’s finality; when you realize neither of you wants to do anything again in that regard in a situation where it’d be so easy. It’s that ease of no and goodbye where you know it’s really dead.
Peggy and the office issues, the Miller meeting with Don, Don disappearing again, the Joan issues and the back and forth with that, the Don ruse in Racine….“your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong, can you hear me”…. was all over tonight.
Then we find, Diana, in both her life and experience with Don, was a façade for him that he bought into. Ironic given his occupation and everything with that. She wasn’t what he thought she was.
Interesting that Diana was nothing but tin after all...
Don Draper and killing identities. They made him state his new identity: Don Draper of McCann Erickson. After that, by virtue of walking out on the meeting which is really walking out on who he now newest is (as he in circular unending round and around and around fashion keeps doing in his life) kills his newest identity. To me that’s what the sight of the Empire State building, the individual in a crowd rising above all and being different than all, the rocket about to… just leave this place and these people, was about. He was crowded in the meeting with the great photography of the pens all going, the covers all opening, the mannequins all seated around him.
It’s kinda like how when you spin a wheel and it lands on a prize, that’s what you get. But he doesn’t want the wheel (yes pun intended) to stop spinning though because it will land on what most lost people would find as a prize: an identity. But he wants that always destroyed, he destroys every identity; for accepting an identity will mean the wheel has stopped spinning.
He just wants to be spinning around and around, in an orbit, “floating in a most peculiar way”…
Take the tie off and keep driving. Pick up another who wants nothing but around and around. Don has to keep the wheel spinning or it will stop, making him commit. Commitment is death to him, spinning keeps life going as an endless wheel does.
Is this our answer, was the carousel right? Is he going to drive and drive and drive and just encounter whatever may come, is this going to be two episodes from now our answer? It kinda makes sense if in the end he just keeps driving and driving and driving….
Blasting off and dying. We’ve been watching the death of SC for more than one season. The term death throes is about in your final minutes how you die, live, die again and live again and finally the steel of death takes the tin that is you. Isn’t that what has been happening with SC? They die as a company, come back briefly, die again, come back briefly, then finally is/are gone for good now apparently.
Cooper talked about Blankenship calling her an astronaut. Then his death when it was. The moon and Connie Hilton. Pete had a line about the tiny Earth one time also. The Right Guard pitch meeting was about an astronaut, going back to season one. Isn’t being in orbit the idea of travelling around and around like a child travels?
Don picks up a hitchhiker who presumably travels around and around with no beginning and no end. Then you’re reminded of the hobo giving young Don some thoughts back on the farm. Farms are usually in the middle of nowhere. Space is literally nowhere. Don here on the road picking the guy up is in the middle of nowhere. Don, inside, is always in the middle of nowhere…
I haven’t bought into the ideas on how the show will end about Don is actually already dead etc. However what’s interesting is, isn’t purgatory basically a no man’s land, driving around and around, in the middle of nowhere? Purgatory, life or death… any of those, is Don going to orbit the Earth, just by the roads instead of the normal definition of orbit? It fits with the hobo/gypsy motif and it fits with the preoccupation the series has had with breaking boundaries and leaving etc…..
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The Tin Machine, as the funeral continues.
Bowie’s Major Tom. One of the best choices of songs for the end. The idea of the tin can.
Was never a Bowie fan but did like his lil stint of his band Tin Machine, had both those albums.
Sterling Coo has always been nothing but a tin machine even as much as they talk about, for example, Bethlehem Steel being the backbone of America. But whatever incarnation of the company, it’s always been tin as opposed to long lasting steel.
The deal falls apart, they’re all splitting apart, the rivets popping out of the Titanic as the funeral continues. The steel of McCann Erickson has swallowed the tin of SC. Joan has continued this season’s idea of travel, her travelling forward only led her to the past. Peggy is not travelling, stuck on the launch pad, Don literally travels in his Caddy, but in this scenario he and it are nothing other than a fake tin can as the husband points out.
Death in space with a tin machine is the topic of Major Tom. Joan is the next character to die from a tin machine that was supposed to rocket her up. She compromises in her death, accepting death. That’s what accepting death is, a compromise that to end the fight and get relief you in exchange give up the fight. Roger/Peggy in the remnants of that desolate dead machine and the funeral organ, almost like the last two at a wake. The set didn’t look like a piece of real estate being emptied as the tenant has moved up and on, it looked like the scene of an accident or tragedy where people died. Philosophizing about life and moving, telling stories of the past like post-funeral and lines like, “how are you going to remember this”. Then a great shot of that dissolving into the…bright white light… of Don’s headlight.
The beginning you had Don look at, what I thought (?) was Anna’s ring Stephanie gave to him before. That’s what you do when someone dies; receive things, keep things.
It felt like a last goodbye to Betty, the way there was a tease of sexual tension but quickly dissolved like the last throes of a relationship in it’s finality; when you realize neither of you wants to do anything again in that regard in a situation where it’d be so easy. It’s that ease of no and goodbye where you know it’s really dead.
Peggy and the office issues, the Miller meeting with Don, Don disappearing again, the Joan issues and the back and forth with that, the Don ruse in Racine….“your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong, can you hear me”…. was all over tonight.
Then we find, Diana, in both her life and experience with Don, was a façade for him that he bought into. Ironic given his occupation and everything with that. She wasn’t what he thought she was.
Interesting that Diana was nothing but tin after all...
Don Draper and killing identities. They made him state his new identity: Don Draper of McCann Erickson. After that, by virtue of walking out on the meeting which is really walking out on who he now newest is (as he in circular unending round and around and around fashion keeps doing in his life) kills his newest identity. To me that’s what the sight of the Empire State building, the individual in a crowd rising above all and being different than all, the rocket about to… just leave this place and these people, was about. He was crowded in the meeting with the great photography of the pens all going, the covers all opening, the mannequins all seated around him.
It’s kinda like how when you spin a wheel and it lands on a prize, that’s what you get. But he doesn’t want the wheel (yes pun intended) to stop spinning though because it will land on what most lost people would find as a prize: an identity. But he wants that always destroyed, he destroys every identity; for accepting an identity will mean the wheel has stopped spinning.
He just wants to be spinning around and around, in an orbit, “floating in a most peculiar way”…
Take the tie off and keep driving. Pick up another who wants nothing but around and around. Don has to keep the wheel spinning or it will stop, making him commit. Commitment is death to him, spinning keeps life going as an endless wheel does.
Is this our answer, was the carousel right? Is he going to drive and drive and drive and just encounter whatever may come, is this going to be two episodes from now our answer? It kinda makes sense if in the end he just keeps driving and driving and driving….
Blasting off and dying. We’ve been watching the death of SC for more than one season. The term death throes is about in your final minutes how you die, live, die again and live again and finally the steel of death takes the tin that is you. Isn’t that what has been happening with SC? They die as a company, come back briefly, die again, come back briefly, then finally is/are gone for good now apparently.
Cooper talked about Blankenship calling her an astronaut. Then his death when it was. The moon and Connie Hilton. Pete had a line about the tiny Earth one time also. The Right Guard pitch meeting was about an astronaut, going back to season one. Isn’t being in orbit the idea of travelling around and around like a child travels?
Don picks up a hitchhiker who presumably travels around and around with no beginning and no end. Then you’re reminded of the hobo giving young Don some thoughts back on the farm. Farms are usually in the middle of nowhere. Space is literally nowhere. Don here on the road picking the guy up is in the middle of nowhere. Don, inside, is always in the middle of nowhere…
I haven’t bought into the ideas on how the show will end about Don is actually already dead etc. However what’s interesting is, isn’t purgatory basically a no man’s land, driving around and around, in the middle of nowhere? Purgatory, life or death… any of those, is Don going to orbit the Earth, just by the roads instead of the normal definition of orbit? It fits with the hobo/gypsy motif and it fits with the preoccupation the series has had with breaking boundaries and leaving etc…..
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