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Topic subjectI mean, i get it, but I didn't love it
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83181, I mean, i get it, but I didn't love it
Posted by mrhood75, Mon May-18-15 01:23 AM
The ideas were fine, the execution just seemed a bit... off.

And honestly, though I was fine with most of the "endings" the characters received, I feel like most got better endings in other episode.

I would have been great with the final shot of Peggy have been with the sunglasses and the cigarette and the octopus porn, rather than her finding true love as a copy writer with Stan. She should have joined with Joan.

I was fine with Joan striking off on her own. Her sugar daddy wasn't shit, although the scene with both of them high on blow was hilarious. I also liked her accurate appraisal of her exes' character.

I can live with Roger's end, though I really never needed to see any member of the Calvett family ever again.

Everything we saw with Pete was redundant with what we saw last week.

The final Betty and Sally shot was great, but also sort of redundant. I guess if they decided not to do a time jump, a convo with Betty and Don was sort of necessary.

And Don was... Don. I guess him finally achieving inner-peace (and then possibly turning it into a Coke commercial) was good. But, again, I would have been just as happy with the last we see of him sitting on the bus bench having given up his car. I will say that the one essential thing that this episode provided was a final conversation with Don and Peggy. That whole scene was great.

Finally, I like Brett Gellman as an actor a lot, but we didn't need that much of him. Particularly him naked sitting on a lawnchair.

Otherwise... eh, I guess it was fine. If I'm being honest, this last half a season wasn't really necessary, and the whole thing could have ended with Bert's ghost singing to Don that money doesn't matter, or even Don and Peggy slow dancing. Got some good drama for seven more episodes of a great show, but nothing essential.