Comments | sistermagpie: Mad Men: Pete and Beth Dawes

sistermagpie

Mad Men: Pete and Beth Dawes

Jul 08, 2012 21:23

So Season 5 of Mad Men is over which means I have a little bit of my life back where I'm not constantly obsessing, but there's still a lot to chew over. Especially with my boy, Campbell. Because I've read so many reviews that either ignored his story as concluded in the finale or dismissed it as confusing and meaningless. Which I do not get. Maybe ( Read more... )

pete campbell, meta, mad men, tv

Comments 7

lilacsigil July 9 2012, 04:26:20 UTC

I've stopped watching Mad Men precisely because I'm sick of the White Suburban Man story, but I'm still reading about it because I find the people who watch the show interesting!

It's pretty common for ECT to cause amnesia related to short-term memory, so, depending how long Beth had known Pete, forgetting him is quite possible.

sistermagpie July 10 2012, 02:16:48 UTC

I was totally ready to go with the short term amnesia. She'd known him for a few months, but she'd only actually been with him a couple of times. I could even read it as that she was somewhat faking it, so I was fine with it.

I'm glad reading about the show can be interesting! I've been like that about shows too. Sometimes even if you're not interested in what the show's doing, you can enjoy people talking about it.

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sistermagpie July 17 2012, 02:03:29 UTC

People really do like to see him as a 2D villain. It was amazing after The Other Women how quickly this different episode was created with Pete taking on all of the villain roles. Suddenly Lane didn't go to Joan and tell her all the partners agreed: Pete did. The partners didn't want to make Joan an offer to see if she could change her mind: Pete tricked them! I even saw someone saying that it added up to Pete coercing Joan into doing it. Yeah. It was so quick it totally colored my memory of the ep too. I was amazed when I happened to see the clip of Pete talking to the partners online and realized wait, he didn't mislead anybody. He gave them a totally accurate reporting of the situation. "She said we couldn't afford it" was clarification of the earlier "It's MY OPINION she could be convinced" or whatever ( ... )

kerosinkanister August 16 2012, 23:50:23 UTC

This is totally unrelated because I have sadly not yet watched season five. But I saw this and knew you needed to see it, too: http://sexybatman.com/

sistermagpie August 17 2012, 02:29:10 UTC

ROTFL! I was not expecting that. The music made it perfect, even if it made the dog bark.

kerosinkanister September 13 2012, 10:44:24 UTC

Even more Batman! Five hours! http://www.spaceavalanche.com/2012/09/11/the-dark-knight-rises/

Did you see Dark Knight Rises? Cause if not there could be considered minor spoilers for movie.

sistermagpie September 14 2012, 03:23:48 UTC

Believe it or not I have not seen DKR! But I will probably check it out anyway. I fear not spoilers!