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Not a book reader, but I’ve seen the creators say in interviews they aren’t being strict about each season aligning perfectly with a single book – they’ll let events/characters appear “early” or “late” if it fits better. Next season is supposedly set to only cover the first half of book 3.
We’ve had almost two full seasons of Don really struggling to maintain his self-assuredness, his aura of invincibility taking hit after hit in every relationship around him. But watching Don Draper begin to suck(?!) at advertising had been the strangest thing for me.
Not just a string of weak ideas (though Peggy’s cold streak from Heinz onward is starting to worry me), but his first attempt at getting back in the game after year-long honeymoon is plain embarrassing to watch, the rest of creative eyeing each other nervously to see if they’re crazy for secretly thinking his idea is bad. It’s like watch Pujols play for the Angels.
Actually, Roger totally had a face to face with a rival too – the son of the Jewish client who caught Jane’s eye immediately. That was very much a catalyst for his getting Jane into bed at her new apartment, though, interestingly enough, he seemed the most remorseful of any character for letting his ego hurt someone.
Yeah, 90% sure they made overt references to the two orphans working on the farm (that Bran sent there a few weeks ago I think in that scene where the farmer asked for assistance?)
So not THAT fucked up – Theon just murdered and mutilated some other children we never met! It was horrible, though, to see the old guy (sorry, I can only remember 20 characters’ names at a time) react.
ugh, pretty sure “close your italics tags” is somewhere in Levitical law.
Yeah, this idea that we just need to “wait for the older generation to die” has never been the true solution to societal breakthroughs. A factor, maybe, but suffrage, civil rights, etc didn’t only go through once all the sexists/racists were dead. Just enough people elected enough forward thinking government representatives. Plus, as you pointed out, minds/hearts can be changes. There are few more fascinating stats than the Gallop polling swing on gay marriage in just a few years (28% approval in ’05, 50% now).
And, if you’re vengeful sort, it’s much more rewarding to imagine the most ardent anti-gay leaders (who tastefully celebrated stripping away civil liberties last night with wedding cake?) being around to witness their children and grandchildren utterly reject their views on the matter.
A name that, along with the “+358″ tattoo he got on his right thumb to commemorate, is now IRREVERSIBLY OUTDATED.
As a kid I probably watched ’94 live-action version a hundred times. All I really remember now is that it was really violent for a kids movie. Like, in an Indiana Jones kind of way, but still the last half was basically Mowgli luring evil Imperialist Brits toward increasingly horrific jungle deaths via quicksand, animal maulings, etc. Which, I guess, is why 7-year-old me liked it so much, but 25-year-old me thinks maybe this time they can lean back toward the “Bear Necessities” take on things?
This is a great breakdown of the “Next Time” clips from Season 3, plus a few parodies.
Some parents use the Baby Einstein program; others go the Baby Camus route.
As he fails again and again to lift the melon, one must imagine the baby as happy.
Just a couple plane tickets to Indonesia and a two-second shot of him running through a shoe factory away from actually being subversive!
I imagine this will be the only time Seth MacFarlane is asked to give a TED talk.
When you click the link, wait a second – Gawker site videos load on top of where you see the main image.
I completely agree, Gabe.
One of the things this Zimmerman-Martin story keeps bringing to my mind is the whole “Minuteman” border patrol type of stuff. It all feeds from this whole mentality of “exercising our right” to arm up, and “take back control” of our neighborhood/border/country. Taking charge where they think the government has gone too soft. All of it very tangled up with racial views of the people doing this voluntary policing, all stemming from what is generally a conservative view on self-protection.
So it is sad and ironic to see Spike (whose grievances are obviously legitimate), also resort to attempts at using vigilate justice to fill in where the government appears to have failed. Obviously tweeting an address is many steps removed from shooting an unarmed kid. But it played out similarly in that taking it upon yourself to dole out retribution is more likely to end in innocent people hurt as opposed to a safer neighborhood or a murderer being held accountable.
In Busey heaven, everything is not fine.
I’m looking at you, Cracked:
Small thought: what with Don living, commuting and working with Megan, they spend almost no time apart – and Don seems to like it that way? She leaves work early, he leaves work early. It seem like as part of this latest “married man” reinvention he might be trying to hold to being monogamous? Granted this will likely last all of 3 episodes, but I do think there is an awareness on Don’s part to move away from his womanizing image – to try to be the contented husband who puts everything, including his work, second to her.
Rango’d again!
YES. Thought it was just my end too.
1) Glad to see A Seperation win.
2) HOLY SHIT a movie about the Holocaust (In Darkness) lost Best Foreign Film.
Lou Dobbs’ grandkids must love visiting grandpa’s house.
“You want to watch what, sweetie? Wall-E? More like Comm-E. How about that DVD over there.”
“Awww, not Atlas Shrugged again.”
He’s a Truffala® Man.
Well, he has two approaches for what to do with whatever money he currently has:
1) start paying back the $12 million
2) buy a lot of Ron Paul bumper stickers
Probably my favorite write-ups on the show this year have been by Andy Greenwald on Grantland:
http://es.pn/KCVvl4
Anyway, he mirrored my thoughts this week in pointing out that you can hardly enjoy these warmer moments because the correlation between like-ability and longevity on this show is rarely favorable.