Sour Times: A Pete/Peggy fanvid

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Title: Sour Times
Song/Artist: 'Sour Times' by Portishead
Fandom: Mad Men
Description: A study and celebration of the intense passive aggressive mess that is Pete/Peggy. This video includes scenes of rough wild couch sex, inappropriate touching, unexpected childbirth, food fetishes and shotguns representing male sex organs. Plus a LOT of awkward

Comments

[millari]

Well, I thought I'd be able to follow things better than I could, but I still enjoyed this anyway, and I'll totally have to go back and watch this again when I've seen more of the clips in context.

But that being said, I can see that you do really get across the stylish world of Mad Men here, and also the angst I can already see developing between Peggy and Pete. They both carry around such simmering longing and ambition in them, and you really show that here. Even when they are in each other's arms, it seems like it's not quite just sexual desire, it's something more intense even, like there's a unspoken battle for dominance going on between them, and they both *really* want to win.

I like how you parallel their vulnerable sides too, though. Especially memorable were the moments when Peggy is dancing and trying to hold back tears, and at 2:25 when Pete looks out at all the secretaries and then settles on Peggy off in the distance. I haven't seen the moment yet where he mock points that rifle at Peggy across the room, but out of context, it has such a interesting creepy vibe!

Oh, and great music choice, btw, as I'm sure everybody else has been saying. The perfect mix of angst, retro, love of exotica that really says MM.

Oh, and on a totally shallow note: That shot of Peggy at 2:49 in that blue dress? Wow, what a revelation! I haven't seen her dressed up like that yet, just in her sort of frumpy office garb. She's totally sultry! l

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Even when they are in each other's arms, it seems like it's not quite just sexual desire, it's something more intense even, like there's a unspoken battle for dominance going on between them, and they both *really* want to win.

That is a very good early perception! Very accurate. There is the sexual magnitism between Pete and Peggy but they are also two social misfits and professional rivals. Given the peroid it is very juicy to see a working class girl rivalling an upper class boy in their careers. There is a great tension between Pete resenting Peggy for her successes (because it makes him feel threatened and emasculated) and really admiring her strength and ability.

And yes, they both want to win. It is going to be pistols at dawn in S3. But in vulnerable moments they are often drawn to each other. They have become like soul mates.

Peggy in the blue dress is a shot from S2. She goes through some pretty big changes in 26 episodes. She's one of my many MM girl crushes.

I haven't seen the moment yet where he mock points that rifle at Peggy across the room, but out of context, it has such a interesting creepy vibe!

Hehe. Guns in the work place. Don't mind Pete. He's just a psycho. The rifle comes from a very funny storyline in ep7. I think eps7 & 8 were when I seriously started loving Pete/Peggy.

Glad you liked it! I have one other MM vid, which is ensemble, but again - warnings for possible spoilers!