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Don is a loathsome character.
I so agreee with this blog. When Don first knew that Sal was gay, he seemed cool about it and just told Sal to hide it. That is not something that would have happened in that time period. Heck, Blacks were just getting their civil rights, no one was thinking about gays. I took that as sloppy writing when Don seemed to cool with Sal. Now Don really showed his true colors. He’s already stressed and can’t sleep so he didn’t have time to pretend to be cool with Sal’s lifestyle. Look at how he hates Roger because he left his wife for a younger woman, so we are suppose to believe he would be cool with Sal lying to his wife about being gay? I liked this episode a lot. I really miss the office though. This season is really boring because they are not showing the other people in the office. Although I must say I love Betty and Henry. I just feel sorry that the whole thing with Henry didn’t turn out to be the fantasy Betty wanted.
Ken, you have totally missed the point. Connie wasn’t crazy at all.
Connie’s story mirrored Sal’s story. Both stories were about powerful men who reveal vulnerabilities out of the blue but don’t get the reaction that they want from the people they see as similar to them. Connie wanted a son that could relate to his own rags-to-riches-to-isolation story, while the Lucky Strike guy wanted an affair with Sal. Both Don and Sal responded poorly; Don gave a guy who was practically in tears nothing more than an awkward “thank you” followed by an “I mean it” that shows just how insincere the “thank you” was , while Sal reacted in complete horror and denial. Connie and the Lucky Strike guy then both respond vindictively by putting Don and Sal in their respective places.
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Originally, I was hoping that Sal was simply fired from that particular contract, but I’m guessing that final scene meant he lost his job. Man, that seems harsh.
i feel like this season is building up to a mass exodus from sterling cooper. sal and joan are gone, peggy and pete most likely to follow, harry is in trouble, and now so is don. it will be interesting to see what happens. i do feel like there has been too much focus on conrad hilton and betty…getting pretty tired of those two.
While I really enjoy Mad Men the show is can be so cold, it doesn’t have any heart. Even The Sopranos, where the characters were even more morally compromised, still had the family dynamic that was the heart and soul of the show.
This show is more nihilistic than anything I’ve seen on TV.
I was bored to tears last night. Wasn’t really sure where things were going and thought the firing of Sal seemed out of left field and random. I get that some things will be eventually answered, but am a little removed from the goings-on of this season overall. Best episode remains the John Deere accident.
Everything seems to be burning all around Don and all he can do is runaway to another woman. Obviously what Don did to Sal was wrong on a human level, but I wonder if Hilton had not pushed him so much in the episode if he would have attempted at least to save Sal. Full review of the episode.
http://th3tvobsessed.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-mad-men-season-3-episode-9-wee.html
Someone’s probably already gotten around to saying this, but: I think your earlier read of Don’s “tolerance” for Sal’s homosexuality was just off. I think he has respect for people’s secrets, and that’s why he was happy enough to look the other way for Sal despite his own feelings regarding gays (which I believe were conveyed – if not explicitly – by the look on his face after seeing Sal through the hotel window.) In this episode, in this instance, it was the fact that the secret caught up with Sal – and interfered with all of their work – that flipped the switch on Don’s disgust. The bigger sin in Don’s eyes was that Sal couldn’t keep his desires compartmentalized. And once Sal failed at that, it became open season for Don on the rest of Sal’s “faults.” I love the way this story has played out, but I hope like hell Sal isn’t gone for good, even though bringing him back would lower the stakes on his being fired in the first place. Maybe Duck will scoop him up?
I’m not disappointed in Don because my expectations of him as a human being are not high. He acts as if he considers himself a man of moral standards, shunning Roger for getting divorced, railing against Stirling Cooper for dropping a smaller client for a chance at a bigger one, but his own actions aren’t ethical. Sleeping around with your daughter’s teacher is just a slimy thing to do. {I’m just as disgusted with Miss Farrell for succumbing to his advances when she knows exactly what’s she’s getting into.} And then he fires Sal based on nothing more than a spoiled client’s vengeful whim. He’s not a nice guy; he’s not even a decent human being. It’s amazing how much we’re willing to forgive a handsome, charismatic, type-A personality.
I don’t care if Don has affairs. Almost all men did back then. I do expect him to show a measure of taste, and in the case of Miss Farrell, he has not. I cannot stand her!
I don’t think that “you people” necessarily refers to homosexuals. Don could quite as well have been talking about the ineptitude of his lower-rung collaborators. He does not fire Sal because he is a homosexual but because his run-in with the client endangers a 25 million dollar account, one that if the agency loses it could “turn the company’s lights out”, as Don phrases it. It’s strictly a business decision, and Don tells Sal as much. Don is much too aloof to hold socially conservative views. He is not the kind of character who would tell other people what to do with their lives. For that, he would have to care more.
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