So here we had the latest societal theme of merging with each other or killing each other. I thought one of the key lines in the whole episode actually was Ken talking to Pete about mutual destruction, that's why he doesn't worry about the bomb. I think that was the foundation for the theme of the episode. You have a time of the idea of warring factions. Everyone saw the old vs new motif. You had old Joan turning into new Joan: Hair down in doing business for the first time, talking back to Don, and Joan expressing emotion in the workplace and not being the "stick" Peggy accused her of way back in season 1. Peggy vs Abe. She wanted to go old school and work your way up to live in a place and have a life like Pete had in season 1. Abe wants new, bohemian. Peggy doesn't like it much. There's poop on the stairs. I thought that was one of the best lines because it shows ideal vs real; this overly-romanticized ideal of bohemian which unfortunatley still goes on today, vs what it actually really is: poop on the stairs. Roger still doing business the old way, yet it works. Pete doing business the old way in taking Bob Benson to the party house, and Bob Benson wanting to pay. Then of course running into other old business with his father in law. Old business in it's successes and failures. Old vs new in that Don usually would have done with Jaguar what Roger did with Chevy: closed. Roger closed on the shady and Don bailed on principle. Is Don becoming new? Last week in the somewhat soliloquy regarding Bobby and the movies, is Don now becoming not societal-new but a new Don. They did business contrary to each other in old vs new. At the airport, Roger line of the evening in referenceing the prison guard vernacular of being a screw, regarding his latest. And there were two great editing juxtopositions. You have Don with no interludes or opportunites with women, and very importantly no sign of the Dr's wife this episode, and Don being the doting husband with Megan, then cut to complete shadiness with Pete and his father in law in the party house. Then later, the idea of peace in seeing the two agencies coming together, cut to Pete and Trudy. Don closer to peace and Pete growing into chaos. How great was Megan's mom? One of the best scenes. The idea of the car pitch was important because it was about a new, unknown future. Something new vs what is old. The merge is new in that it's saying war is old, and out. Their pitch is going to be that the new Chevy model is in, and the old is now out. And it's the Chevy that brings two warring factions to realize a coming together. It was all about the idea of the future.
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So here we had the latest societal theme of merging with each other or killing each other.
I thought one of the key lines in the whole episode actually was Ken talking to Pete about mutual destruction, that's why he doesn't worry about the bomb. I think that was the foundation for the theme of the episode.
You have a time of the idea of warring factions. Everyone saw the old vs new motif.
You had old Joan turning into new Joan: Hair down in doing business for the first time, talking back to Don, and Joan expressing emotion in the workplace and not being the "stick" Peggy accused her of way back in season 1.
Peggy vs Abe. She wanted to go old school and work your way up to live in a place and have a life like Pete had in season 1. Abe wants new, bohemian. Peggy doesn't like it much. There's poop on the stairs.
I thought that was one of the best lines because it shows ideal vs real; this overly-romanticized ideal of bohemian which unfortunatley still goes on today, vs what it actually really is: poop on the stairs.
Roger still doing business the old way, yet it works. Pete doing business the old way in taking Bob Benson to the party house, and Bob Benson wanting to pay. Then of course running into other old business with his father in law. Old business in it's successes and failures.
Old vs new in that Don usually would have done with Jaguar what Roger did with Chevy: closed. Roger closed on the shady and Don bailed on principle. Is Don becoming new? Last week in the somewhat soliloquy regarding Bobby and the movies, is Don now becoming not societal-new but a new Don. They did business contrary to each other in old vs new.
At the airport, Roger line of the evening in referenceing the prison guard vernacular of being a screw, regarding his latest.
And there were two great editing juxtopositions. You have Don with no interludes or opportunites with women, and very importantly no sign of the Dr's wife this episode, and Don being the doting husband with Megan, then cut to complete shadiness with Pete and his father in law in the party house. Then later, the idea of peace in seeing the two agencies coming together, cut to Pete and Trudy. Don closer to peace and Pete growing into chaos.
How great was Megan's mom? One of the best scenes.
The idea of the car pitch was important because it was about a new, unknown future. Something new vs what is old. The merge is new in that it's saying war is old, and out. Their pitch is going to be that the new Chevy model is in, and the old is now out. And it's the Chevy that brings two warring factions to realize a coming together. It was all about the idea of the future.
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