That other post had gotten kind of long, so I decided to leave out some other short thoughts I had for a separate post.
First of all, I do not like Peggy with Duck. For one thing, I never liked Duck, he always seemed like a smarmy little prick to me. For another, this whole thing with Peggy seeking out the comforts of an older man bugs me. I liked it better when she was like "one of the guys" and she just picked up some young college guy who thought she was a secretary then ditched him in the middle of the night. Though I did think it was funny when Peggy's roommate assumed that Duck was married. Because an older married man sleeping with a younger woman is standard for that world, a single older man dating a younger woman apparently seems strange.
I liked that part at the end, when Peggy decided to work through her mourning by actually working. She really is the hardest, most devoted worker at Sterling, Price, and Cooper.
How the hell is Salvatore "gone"? Where did he go? Was he fired for not letting that asshole molest him in the editing room? Did he move on to another job? While this is kind of par for the course with the show and how they deal with some people leaving, they usually provide us with more than one casual, throw-away line.
Finally, that whiny bitch Pete Campbell might have something valid to complain about this time. He just approaches dealing with his clients differently than Cosgrove, favoring their opinions of how their money's being spent as opposed to convincing them to like how their money's being spent. So, Cosgrove is the new boss, and Pete gets a new title for his door. Wonder if he'll even bother staying now, especially if the place gets sold?
Oh, that reminds me, was buying, cutting up, and/or re-selling businesses that common in the 60s? I know it is now, but I don't really know that much about business practices of the time.
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First off, Betty is always looking for someone to protect her, be it her Dad or Don, who she pretty much went to sraight from her Dad's house. The offer would be a big consideration for her, especially since she can ditch the kids with Don (especially the two older ones, who she barely even seems to notice anymore, besides telling them to go watch TV) and go off on adventures with her new man, no longer tied down by responsiblities. Remeber how much she enjoyed Italy? Good try by Don to become the loving husband now, but it is to little to late I am afarid. Also, of course you root for Don, even though he deserves most of the crap that is heaped on him, because he is the star of the show and they set it up that way. Much like I always rooted for Vince Mackey on The Shield, despite all the crap that he did, and now root for Sons of Anarchy, even though they are gun runners and murderers. On, Peggy, she is always looking for a father figure, and now that Don is disappointing her, she has moved on to Duck. Of course, she will be disappointed by him to in the end, because she will never find what she is looking for, the idealized older man/mentor that she thinks her Dad was. Finally, yes Salavatore was fired by Roger (who you are right about being the kind of WASP who always tries to put a smile and a laugh on top of everything, even to the point of masking his own pain. He does it so automatically now I bet he barely even notices anymore) and will probably never be seen again. Weird how this show just drops people and moves, much like their writers in real life, but that is a story for another day
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